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BingBong

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Hi, I'm still totally not opening my wallet since the exploration stupidity, but now mining seems borked as well. I go to a painite hotspot *ss* 45 mins no painite, I'm in a minaconda with all the bits and pieces but non of the hotspots I go to contain said hotspot materials? I use the Pulse Wave Scanner and *shrugs* whats happening? Mining is exactly the same as before except the shooting probes into rings and then they don't mean nothing either?

I don't want to sound like complete whining but is this another ps4 only thing? PC commanders, hows the mining working for you?

Addendum: whilst traversing out of a station I clipped the station slightly and the game froze for around a minute, no rebuy and I was able to rescue the situation but that freeze :D

Addendum part 2: *s.n.i.g.g.e.r.s* is not allowed lol

Addendum part 3:bad spelling on my part
 
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Nick Sticks

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BingBong said:
Hi, I'm still ftotally not opening my wallet since the exploration stupidity, but now mining seems borked as well. I go to a painite hotspot *ss* 45 mins no painite, I'm in a minaconda with all the bits and pieces but non of the hotspots I go to contain said hotspot materials? I use the Pulse Wave Scanner and *shrugs* whats happening? Mining is exactly the same as before except the shooting probes into rings and then they don't mean nothing either?

I don't want to sound like complete whining but is this another ps4 only thing? PC commanders, hows the minging working for you?
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I've never had a problem with the minging, or so I am told.
 
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I just made 27M in 2 hours mining in my Krait Mk II.

See my recent thread, look at all the pictures. (They explain things better than anything I typed).

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/463534-Mining-Great-Job-FD!

You only want to crack the asteroids that have a yellow "core identified" text in the target panel, otherwise you are wasting your time. When you do crack them you should get 1T/fragment yield out of them. In the pristine rocky I was mining, I was getting about 20T from each core I found.
 
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777Driver said:
Well you pretty much are.. Hows it working for me? Pulling 70+ mill per load.

Regarding the hotspots, this was mentioned in Beta. someone will be along to explain. Personally am just going for the motherlodes.
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Check out the pics I posted, Driver. They explain more than anything I typed. The hot spots are highlighted in one. They are huge. You almost couldn't fly out of range of them if you wanted to.

When you get there, it's all about prospecting only the glowing roids that the pulse scanner identifies.

When you hit a motherlode, you will get orange/yellow "core" text on your target panel. Crack those, pick up the fragments, and scrape whatever surface stuff is exposed. You'll get 15T - 20T yield off of them, easy.

Roids that don't have the yellow text can be cracked, but it isn't worth it. Just surface mine them if they have good commodities, and move on.

Just fly in a straight line prospecting everything that shows up orange in your pulse scanner.
 
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777Driver

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vindelanos said:
Check out the pics I posted, Driver. They explain more than anything I typed. The hot spots are highlighted in one. They are huge. You almost couldn't fly out of range of them if you wanted to.

When you get there, it's all about prospecting only the glowing roids that the pulse scanner identifies.

When you hit a motherlode, you will get orange/yellow "core" text on your target panel. Crack those, pick up the fragments, and scrape whatever surface stuff is exposed. You'll get 15T - 20T yield off of them, easy.
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Cheers mate, yes I have been mothelode hunting through beta. I prefer the Ice fields though, very easy to spot the fissures without using the scanner.
 

BingBong

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Well I'm mining the planet closest to Ashby City, there are hotspots identified, in said hotspots there are not materials matching said hotspot. in total I would say 2 hours, because did some before I had to go out this morning. ok so could it be rng? I know rng is linked to computer time, maybe should add x,y,z position wise, when position changes new generation as an event handler? to keep it random lol
 
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IndigoWyrd

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Tried all the sexy mining in the beta. Profits per time spent was still higher with my mining lances.
But all the new toys ARE fun, and there is a certain satisfaction watching a big rock go boom I’ve not felt since the USG Ishimura popped the cork. (Kudos to those who get the reference).
 

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777Driver said:
Cheers mate, yes I have been mothelode hunting through beta. I prefer the Ice fields though, very easy to spot the fissures without using the scanner.
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I'll make a tutorial video tonight to help folks out.
 

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BingBong said:
Well I'm mining the planet closest to Ashby City, there are hotspots identified, in said hotspots there are not materials matching said hotspot. in total I would say 2 hours, because did some before I had to go out this morning. ok so could it be rng? I know rng is linked to computer time, maybe should add x,y,z as an event handler? to keep it random lol
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You just have to be patient and prospect those glowing asteroids. It takes a while to find them, but when you do, it's worth it.
 

BingBong

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Ah, yes, I'm too negative. I like the new mining, its more involved however I'm in a notspot but its described as an hotspot lol. Crikey.
 

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Weps said:
Sorry for the offtopic, but... holy inflation Batman!

Is this the average income these days, or did they design it so that everyone can strike it rich mining?
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It takes a bit of patience to bring in those big hauls. Maybe a little more patience than most folks have. You have to find them, crack them, scrape them.

But I don't see the problem. You can easily make a comparable amount in the same time running the right missions.
 

777Driver

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Weps said:
Sorry for the offtopic, but... holy inflation Batman!

Is this the average income these days, or did they design it so that everyone can strike it rich mining?
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I can make that in an hour hauling cargo on a bad day (Before the BGS got nuked) Motherlode hunting would require quite a few hours to fill up 400 tonns of cargo (at my rates)

Still the payouts are very good for mining now. 70 mill is also below galactic average for the payload.
 

BingBong

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OK, I get that said planet has only common reserves but an hotspot is an hotspot, except when its not :D. If the logic is going to be like this can we get an improbability drive because it would at least go with the flow. I'm not the only one with problems with mining, yet the FD fallating people don't help they just "I'm getting x squillions, so you suck!" *sigh* wipe yer mouths goddamnit!
 

AdagioKonrinzai

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Bing Bong... don't let the FDEV sycophants brow beat you down. I had the same experience you did, the 'yellow' only yielded crap ore for me no different than before. It's just RND and the planet/ring you choose that is deciding factor. I chose a pristine metallic and the 'hot spots' were colder than a witches .

O, and FDEV if you read this...I am still waaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttttiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnngggggg on the chance to engineer the mining lance. With this new update it runs even hotter than before and is still the only powerplay device restricted. All for the peanut gallery who say it's useless, well it still has twice the range on the mining laser, so stifle it.
 

Cliché

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I felt the same after my first several times with mining. I was about to post that I don't think FD don't knows what "hot spot" means. Because to me it meant that area should be full of the material, and I was maybe getting one instance every 2 hours. Then I learned to not just shoot prospectors at the super bright asteroids, but to learn the shape of those with fissures and only prospect them (after getting close and verifying they have fissures). Then mining really started paying off. Ok, just one trip so far, but I expect it to keep working. And with experience, I should be able to recognize the correct shape w/o needing to visually confirm the fissures. I'm still using the PWS to only look at high yield asteroids, but it may be even better to also check the low yield ones, because at 275K CR/T for some of this stuff it's still a good payout. Is that what you experienced pros are doing?
 
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