... with mining when there is obviously none to make?
I have been flying around for days going to rings and asteroid belts in various systems, and all places I have found and visited did not have any of the resource at all that was indicated by the hotspot. Either the game itself is broken, or all the surface scanners in different ships I used must be broken.
I have tried mining in COL 285 Sector CC-K A38-2, and that place seems an anomaly. I got no more 50t of LTDs in 2.5 hours of mining at a hotspot there, and slightly more when I accidentially dropped into the ring 300Mm away from the closest hotspot. I haven't been there since the last update and can only assume that the anomaly is gone, and someone in the squad mining there wondered where the diamonds are. As the place 400lys is away from my favourite base, I'm not inclined there again because it's just too time consuming to even go there. Even if I get a few diamonds, I'd have to go at least another 200lys just to sell them. The place is so remote and inaccessible that even with a fuel scoop, it's hard to reach, and I wouldn't go with an extra fuel tank.
It's also not possible to log out while mining because you end up somewhere outside the ring and get shot down by pirates when you try to go back.
All that makes mining only a nuisance and a total waste of time with nothing but disappointment to gain from it.
And do the math: It takes about 5 hours to mine and sell 50t LTDs which, if you're lucky and if you even get that much, sell for 75 million. Considering the prices of most ships and what it costs to equiq them, that's like nothing. Now with fleet carriers that, I think, cost 5 billion to begin with, you can calculate that it would take you over 40 days mining for 8 hours per day to be able to buy one.
But how wants to torture themselves like that?
Where is the fun in this game when you can't even try out various ships because you can't afford them anyway? And if you finally can buy one, the insurance you have to pay when you get shot down is so high you can't really do anything with your ship that could put you into any kind of danger. And flying around with anything but limpets in your cargo hold is sufficiently dangerous that you might end up having to pay the insurance.
Add to that the controls are extremely painful when you're using an xbox because you can't use your keyboard and your mouse and that you are stuck with either the xbox controller or a Thrustmuster HOTAS the latter of which doesn't improve anyhting in terms of key bindings, and I keep asking myself why I should play this at all. For example, I keep crashing into asteroids or stations because the key bindings require you to press something together with the B button and every so often, that doesn't work out and you boost instead. Why can't they let us at least use the keyboard? If I am suddenly attacked, I'm dead or almost dead before I finally figured out how to press the many button combinations required to switch the stuipd cockpit modes and to switch to the right firing group while trying to get up to speed and trying to figure out who might be shooting at me and while trying to point the ship at them which turns so awfully slow that it hurts not because of any g forces that might occur but just because it goes in slow motion. Why can't we just set, for example, the 1 key on your keyboard to fire group 1, 2 to fg 2, etc., and why doesn't the cockpit mode automatically switch depending on the mode you would set for it?
I have been flying around for days going to rings and asteroid belts in various systems, and all places I have found and visited did not have any of the resource at all that was indicated by the hotspot. Either the game itself is broken, or all the surface scanners in different ships I used must be broken.
I have tried mining in COL 285 Sector CC-K A38-2, and that place seems an anomaly. I got no more 50t of LTDs in 2.5 hours of mining at a hotspot there, and slightly more when I accidentially dropped into the ring 300Mm away from the closest hotspot. I haven't been there since the last update and can only assume that the anomaly is gone, and someone in the squad mining there wondered where the diamonds are. As the place 400lys is away from my favourite base, I'm not inclined there again because it's just too time consuming to even go there. Even if I get a few diamonds, I'd have to go at least another 200lys just to sell them. The place is so remote and inaccessible that even with a fuel scoop, it's hard to reach, and I wouldn't go with an extra fuel tank.
It's also not possible to log out while mining because you end up somewhere outside the ring and get shot down by pirates when you try to go back.
All that makes mining only a nuisance and a total waste of time with nothing but disappointment to gain from it.
And do the math: It takes about 5 hours to mine and sell 50t LTDs which, if you're lucky and if you even get that much, sell for 75 million. Considering the prices of most ships and what it costs to equiq them, that's like nothing. Now with fleet carriers that, I think, cost 5 billion to begin with, you can calculate that it would take you over 40 days mining for 8 hours per day to be able to buy one.
But how wants to torture themselves like that?
Where is the fun in this game when you can't even try out various ships because you can't afford them anyway? And if you finally can buy one, the insurance you have to pay when you get shot down is so high you can't really do anything with your ship that could put you into any kind of danger. And flying around with anything but limpets in your cargo hold is sufficiently dangerous that you might end up having to pay the insurance.
Add to that the controls are extremely painful when you're using an xbox because you can't use your keyboard and your mouse and that you are stuck with either the xbox controller or a Thrustmuster HOTAS the latter of which doesn't improve anyhting in terms of key bindings, and I keep asking myself why I should play this at all. For example, I keep crashing into asteroids or stations because the key bindings require you to press something together with the B button and every so often, that doesn't work out and you boost instead. Why can't they let us at least use the keyboard? If I am suddenly attacked, I'm dead or almost dead before I finally figured out how to press the many button combinations required to switch the stuipd cockpit modes and to switch to the right firing group while trying to get up to speed and trying to figure out who might be shooting at me and while trying to point the ship at them which turns so awfully slow that it hurts not because of any g forces that might occur but just because it goes in slow motion. Why can't we just set, for example, the 1 key on your keyboard to fire group 1, 2 to fg 2, etc., and why doesn't the cockpit mode automatically switch depending on the mode you would set for it?