What are you doing (ingame) now?

[TorTorden]

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.

The trick to mining and missions as I heard it is that each mission you take for say painite less likely to spawn.
I had one case where I wastand on to with a guy looking for painite for an hour straight.
I jump into the same belt and find some in less than 10 seconds.

Inow. Don't take missions for minerals and metals before heading out but when you come back with a load full.

[TorTorden]

On another note I went to Cubeo and tried my hand at the whole Base assault thing.

Almost lost my clipper three times at the least.
The best way I have come up on the Base so far is to pull aggro on the goliath.
Then run hide behind one of the external gun emplacements.

That makes the goliath hit the turrets and the turrets then respond in kind, killing off the goliath..
I then do whatever I need to and go get paid.

Dear FD.
About them bugs...

[Schmobius]

Point defense for goliath missiles, dumbfire missiles to take down the turrets in one shot (I had 5 missiles per shot), and beams to bring the goliath's shields down. In and out in 5 minutes.

[Tifu]

Just checked in ingame and decided to read Galnet News first. The headline :

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

Galactic News: Professor Ishmael Palin Missing

09 FEB 3302

Authorities in the Maia system have reported that Professor Ishmael Palin, the scientist conducting research into the Unknown Artefacts, has disappeared. The professor recently announced plans to set up an independent research outpost on the planet Maia b1ba, but it has now been confirmed that the ship carrying Palin and his team did not reach its destination. Seneca Toule, a security officer based in Maia, released a brief statement to the media:

"Professor Palin's ship transmitted a status report not long after it left Obsidian Orbital, but since then no further reports have been received. All attempts to contact the vessel have been unsuccessful. A search is underway, however, and I am confident we will soon find some indicator of what has happened to Professor Palin and his team."

[Schmobius]

As soon as I saw an article saying he was departing, I figured he'd run into bad luck.

[Schmobius]

I actually made about a million credits mining tonight. Not going to replace trading for profit any time soon, but I'd call it a victory, in light of my previous lackluster attempts. Only took one BB mission, which was for 3 tons of (Can't remember if it was painite, palladium, or osmium) for 270k. The rest was pure shiny rocks. I found a much better spot tonight, and it's really close to the bubble, if not just inside it.

I went on the opposite side of the planet in a ring with a RES site, and almost as soon as I dropped down, a Vulture and Eagle started poking around, and eventually attacked me when I only had limpets in the hold. I have 4 mining lasers (probably overkill, but why not?), and 4 big gimballed pulse lasers on my anaconda at the moment... I actually had some power priority issues, and my weapons wouldn't fire... only lost 1 ring of shields while being confused at why my guns wouldn't fire, and then going in and fixing it (I wasn't quick about this), and then just obliterated those fools. I was worried if I could defend myself with only 4 guns, but it worked just fine.

Nobody else bothered me after that.

I'll probably go back to trading tomorrow since I've only got about 67 million in cash, as opposed to around 350 million before I bought the Cutter, so I'd like to recover, and maybe upgrade the anaconda and cutter a bit... may be a couple modules I can upgrade without killing jump range too much.

Still, it's nice to have found a purpose for my Anaconda, and have a real alternative for when I get bored of trading. (Yes, there's always RES/CZ combat, but I tend to not make profit unless I'm in a wing and have backup with heavy combat.)

[Colin The Grey]

Just REZ hunting for now - 50% to Elite so a few more days - then I will prob start working on Fed and Empire rank - If I can be bothered lol - but the Corvette does look nice

Getting tired of being constantly rammed by NPC's trying to scan me - sooner they fix this bug the happier I will be lol

[blazingmaniac]

double post. Deleted.

[blazingmaniac]

Just REZ hunting for now - 50% to Elite so a few more days - then I will prob start working on Fed and Empire rank - If I can be bothered lol - but the Corvette does look nice

Getting tired of being constantly rammed by NPC's trying to scan me - sooner they fix this bug the happier I will be lol

Its really bad for ramming now, worse than ever. Last few days in RES sites and I would pop away to make a cuppa, 4 pips in shields and not actively engaging any enemy and carrying no cargo. Come back to find shields have lost 1.5 rings from Cobra's and the like ploughing into you at full speed while trying to supposedly scan you. Grrrrr.

[Jack Dunhill]

Doing missions for the Order and watching Netflix...