What are you doing (ingame) now?

[Tifu]

A good series of mission runs at Azrael plus an OOM charity mission at Exioce that finally put me on allied status with the Order. About time.

[Black Rose]

Not sure why, after getting my beautiful trade Cutter and loving it, I got it in my head to give mining another go tonight.

I had a spare Anaconda, so why not? This is probably obvious, but the thing is a MUCH better mining ship than a Cobra.

I found rings with Pristine Metallic reserves, but I'm still pulling a lot of nearly worthless minerals. Not really expecting to make a huge profit either way, and I'm really just happy I'm able to put a lot of rocks in my cargo hold (as I struggled to do that in my Cobra last time), but I'm wondering what the trick is to getting gold, silver, palladium, painite, osmium, etc? Surely everyone isn't spending 3 hours hopping between rocks, and using 150 prospector limpets to find this stuff? I feel like I'm missing some trick.

Also, it's worth mentioning that when you are hunting down a place to mine, it helps to not make a typo in the system name, and end up 400ly out of your way. At least I'll probably make a ton of money on exploration data for my level 1 scans.

The magic way of making a HUGE profit mining is to gather as much Osmium, Painite and Platinum as you can. Those three are your primaries. Why you may ask? Well every missions for minerals in every station I have visited wants to pay insane amounts of money for those three items. I saw on last night on a payout for 2 tons of Painite at 373,000 cr.

Order of Value for mission running is as follows:
Painite
Platinum
Osmium

You load up with that and go station to station accepting and completing missions. You can start out with your station of origin but that will generate 1 NPC interdiction per mission. The NPC AI is retarded in that they interdict before you even have the rocks. lol

The order of value for the rocks if your plan is to simply sell them is:

Painite
Platinum
Palladium
Gold
Beryllium
Osmium
Indium
Gallium
Silver

I have been mining on and off in the Pristine Reserves on ringed planets in the HIP 16607 system and I have yet to find any Beryllium, Indium or Gallium.

The minerals that are there, are like the missions rewards, the NPC's ships and the NPC combat ratings; totally random which to me is a really poor way to set the random event tables.

[JohnLuke]

It's been a little while since I mined.But here goes.... If you are in the Azrael area, Jura is fairly close and has pristine metallic rings at 7A (IIRC). If a rock didn't have at least 10% of one of the three P's, I'd move on. If I didn't find a rock with 10% P after 8-10 prospector limpets, I'd jump out of the ring and farm a new spot. Limpets are cheap, so I'd leave home with 175 of them in a cargo hold with a max of 190. Just dump limpets as you go, if needed.

Let us know how it goes!

-JL

[Xebeth]

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[Jack Dunhill]

Traveling to Maia to see if ther's anything intreresting there...

https://community.elitedangerous.com/ga ... f430b4c9d4

[Trinity Star]

Went shopping....

Destiny Ascension



http://coriolis.io/outfit/imperial_cutt ... a%20Cutter

[Xebeth]

Went shopping....

Destiny Ascension

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http://coriolis.io/outfit/imperial_cutt ... a%20Cutter

Sweet! How does she handle with that spec?

[Trinity Star]

She's fast but slower to turn than a corvette, also an 8A power distributor would have been nice.

[JohnLuke]

Went shopping....

Destiny Ascension

http://coriolis.io/outfit/imperial_cutt ... a%20Cutter

WOW!!! That is by far the most expensive ship loadout that I've seen!

How do you like it so far?

[Schmobius]

It was relaxing, not that trading in Empire space is particularly tense. Much more so when I finally got to the right system.

Would be nice to turn a profit though. That will probably send me back to trading soon, but it's a nice diversion from grinding to Elite in trading. (at 15% Tycoon)