Why low temperature diamonds hotspots.... don't have any low temperature diamonds.

Dozer.k.a.o.

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Hi commanders..
I have been long time out of elite.. now with the inminent launch of odissey i came back and check what it's new...and certanly there is a lot.
One of the things that i got bored when i played earlier.. a couple of years ago, was the difficulty of finding precise things i needed for engineers or other resources.. like mining.
Now i find there are a lot of useful tools.. like the pulses scanner.. lot of internet databases, guides, etc.. however.. after two hours of playing... i just don't get it.
I just don't understand if there are hotspot.. announcing what it's inside.. in this case.. diamonds.. i could't find a single one after more than two hours playing, i scanned.. launched prospector limpets... nothing..zero... nada.
Is the game broken as i remember or i'm missing something??
 

GraphiteGB

GraphiteGB
If its a hot spot it means that the Item has an increase chance it does not make it 100% every rock..
If the LTD is meant to be 1 rock out of 1million rocks a hot spot means that number is changed so it may be 2 out of a million rocks has LTD it is still higher than out side the hotspot that only has 1/1000000 chance...

Fdev have never announced how many KM the increase is per... 1000KM or 10000KM or 1MM...

FDEV have announced that each item IS effected different by hotspots as they also announced in june 2020 Each item in a ring is individually set ..
As they announced in the FC updates when adding tritium to Ice rings, ALL ICE high price ring content was as planned REDUCED in generation... The final ICE ring nuke was completed fully in JULY 2020 with the final preset number for generation...

All the FC and miners that paid attention to updates LEFT Ice rings for rocky rings mining...
In November the price balance nuked All Ice ring prices and boosted Rocky ring items...
 

lazyharpseal

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ive mined for 3 hours straight one day in these hot spots. for example, rhodplumsite hotspot. i never got these ores as surface or sub surface ores. but they appear in motherlode asteroids. in those 3 hours i found 3-4 of these asteroids. not sure if thats alot but its purely dependent on luck.

hotspot means its highly likely to have those specified ores. you could go for 3-4 hours of motherlode hunting and not end up with that asteroid. you could hunt for 1 hour and end up with 4 asteroids. its all about luck.

just a simple tip for finding motherlodes. when mining in hotspots it means you are looking for high value ores in your case diamonds. then you MUST bring a pulse wave scanner and propect limpets and seismic charges. then scan the the area. some asteroid will either be colored orange or yellow. now its all about distance to YELLOW brightness ratio. if you are far away and its bright yellow compared to others then its highly likely to be a motherlode. remember not all motherlodes are the specified ore you want.


i personally like mining in hotspots because i kinda know how to do identify motherlode asteroids. also theres less chance of meeting a pirate as opposed to haz res sites.
 

K Olley

K Olley
LTD's, your better off with an A rated prospector and lots of limpets, but you can probably earn more collecting Bromellite, 3 of these are worth as much as an LTD, easier to get top price and a lot easier to find:)
 

Quantis Trap

Quantis Trap
Frontier keeps changing and "balancing" things like this and in many cases breaking things for a while. At the same time player try to figure out what Frontier just did and how to react to it. Frontier and some crazy people think this qualifies as interesting "emergent gameplay".

The latest cool "emergent gameplay" thing in surface mining is "mapped mining". It's very lucrative, but very boring in my opinion! Google "elite dangerous mapped mining" if you care.
 

Dozer.k.a.o.

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OK, i have it more clear now.
In one hand i like this game is not that straight forward... hotspot.. go and you get rich...
However on the other hand it's bit strange the help is so limited.. still.. i would expect some success. in three hours..even if it's low... but nothing??? btw.. i went with the pulse scanner.. prospector limpets and all that.
Seems that the way to do mining is to do it in a more general way.. collecting other valuable minerals, and maybe you get lucky finding some LTDs.

Thanks to all.
 

Bantha

Bantha
I’m no expert on mining, but the current thinking seems to be laser mining for platinum or painite as the most profitable option right now, if that’s your thing.
LTD mining took a hit because people were making hundreds of millions an hour, and could go from zero to Fleet Carrier in a couple of days.
Frontier decided to nerf it, and I think that was fair enough - but opinions do vary!
On the other hand, combat got a buff, and in terms of balance, it does seem to be more even now - to the point where there is no real “get rich quick” scheme, and mining, passenger missions and massacre missions all seem to be paying around the same - roughly 60-100M each when maxed out - although YMMV.
In terms of your comment about in-game help bring limited, yes I’m afraid it is! Having to refer to a third party website to see the market prices, for example, or find a starport that sells a particular module. Well... that’s just utter rubbish!
 

Burstar1

Burstar1
There's a lot of information involved with the various types of mining and their merits. Up until say half a year ago LTD laser mining was one of, if not the, best way to mine for absolutely stupid levels of credits. FDev nerfed LTD hotspots around this time (particularly triple overlaps) so they no longer have such a crazy high amount of ore.
You really should look for up to date mining information because there is so much that has changed recently and consequently so much bad/old information still out there. I'll just point out that Hotspots:

For Laser Mining - while nerfed, still increase the percentage of said ore in their area. This effect increases with proximity to its centre. Finding overlaps, especially really close/strong overlaps, is needed to really see a difference though.
For Core Mining: Only increases the odds that an asteroid with a core will contain that ore. Does not affect core concentrations.

Also, they recently nerfed the ore markets so the prices and demand for LTDs and Painite has plummeted. It's so bad that the current meta is to now mine Platinum instead. Expect finding and selling your plunder to be cutthroat.
 

Fawkner

Fawkner
I've given up mining for anything, as not once after wasting my time actually mining then spending the same amount of time finding a station to sell them at a decent price listed as all third party selling tools will be out of date when you get there isn't worth my time and frustration.
All this balancing crap has gone out the window, delivery missions are a joke and the only thing that pays money now is pew pew missions!
The game is quite repetitive in many ways, and gets some what boring.
I just spent all day yesterday filling my fleet carrier with coal! oops I mean Tritium and now going to off into the black hopefully to find something new!
 

Navigare Necesse Est

Navigare Necesse Est
Crank Larson said:
Likewise. I just go into random places when mining. But, I do like that the asteroids are consistent. I just wish planetary scan missions were too (rather than a base suddenly appearing behind you at the end of the search). :)
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If you mine randomly, how would you know they are consistent? Or do you only go to belt clusters?
 

Navigare Necesse Est

Navigare Necesse Est
Crank Larson said:
Because it's been tested by others. There are some miners that do map out the asteroids and return to the same place. :) It's been reported on these forums several times.
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Yes, I know. But if you still go in randomly it doesn't matter that Asteroid 76401-D-3054 is the one with the mother lode since you have no idea where it is.
 
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