What's your take on this.
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Today I also learned something new...Base game is endgame.
Marked in To-Do list to visit Asteroid Belts!
Thank you - I've never dropped into a belt either, just rings!
I saw a post some time back, can't remember when or who.Today I also learned something new...
Marked in To-Do list to visit Asteroid Belts!
Thank you - I've never dropped into a belt either, just rings!
It said something along the lines that certain belt clusters had a core and that they were persistent, they made a note and every so often they just flew around and cracked these cores.
I have just for a laugh tried a few and yes one or two had cores, and asteroid rocks have more chunks than ring rocks, but as I wander all over the place and the total output from each cluster is not that great, I did not think that belt mining was a viable option compared with rings.
For those that mine back in civilisation and like to pop a few NPC's every other rock, this may be for them a fun way of mining
To the OP: no, the game does not track your progress and make things harder for you as you go along. Well, not with Engineering mats, anyway. (It does in other aspects; for example, it will gradually make the NPC enemies that come against you harder and harder as you level up, for instance).
It cannot change the ring compositions; they are constant and the same for every player. If I go to a ring and find lots of phosphorus there, then you or anyone else can go to that exact same ring and also find lots of phosphorus. But phosphorus is present in some rings and not in others. If phosphorus is present, there's usually lots of it. So if you aren't finding phosphorus in a specific ring, go to another ring. Try different ring types, I'm not sure which are more likely to hold phosphorus.
Eschewing the SRV is a perfectly valid playstyle (I personally use it as little as possible, but I do use it for mats harvesting from bio and geo sites), but as others have said, it is sub-optimal. As stated above by others, the current meta and optimal method for filling up your mats bins is farming the crystal shards in the SRV and down-trading. You can get an awful lot of phosphorus in exchange for just one top-tier raw material.
It cannot change the ring compositions; they are constant and the same for every player. If I go to a ring and find lots of phosphorus there, then you or anyone else can go to that exact same ring and also find lots of phosphorus. But phosphorus is present in some rings and not in others. If phosphorus is present, there's usually lots of it. So if you aren't finding phosphorus in a specific ring, go to another ring. Try different ring types, I'm not sure which are more likely to hold phosphorus.
Eschewing the SRV is a perfectly valid playstyle (I personally use it as little as possible, but I do use it for mats harvesting from bio and geo sites), but as others have said, it is sub-optimal. As stated above by others, the current meta and optimal method for filling up your mats bins is farming the crystal shards in the SRV and down-trading. You can get an awful lot of phosphorus in exchange for just one top-tier raw material.
It's random. No matter how hard you try, random is going to spoil the day for you. Put in the effort - random decides you get nothing. Randomness if overdone is the single most frustrating thing when playing. Games usually follow a set of rules with random factor for "chance" outcomes. There is no chances in ED. You don't get told what your odds are. All you can do is gamble blindly or increase the number of chances per time so you get more rolls.
The thing you do in other games weigh your chances and risk - ED got rid of that for raw event grinding.
The thing you do in other games weigh your chances and risk - ED got rid of that for raw event grinding.
I saw a post some time back, can't remember when or who.
It said something along the lines that certain belt clusters had a core and that they were persistent, they made a note and every so often they just flew around and cracked these cores.
I have just for a laugh tried a few and yes one or two had cores, and asteroid rocks have more chunks than ring rocks, but as I wander all over the place and the total output from each cluster is not that great, I did not think that belt mining was a viable option compared with rings.
For those that mine back in civilisation and like to pop a few NPC's every other rock, this may be for them a fun way of mining
It is when you know a belt that yields exceptional mats or commodities. That's how it used to be. Can't say if it's still worth it with the price nerfs. And no, I don't know any place. Just used to know players who knew.