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My first attempt at mining in Borann. I flew all the way out there and forgot to take any limpets.
I collected some limpets then flew back to the rocks.
I'd forgot my refinery!
I have also done more than a few cargo missions where i left the cargo in the station before heading out
Yeah done it loads of times. I blame the UI, it's NOT intuitive.
My first attempt at mining in Borann. I flew all the way out there and forgot to take any limpets.
I collected some limpets then flew back to the rocks.
I’d forgot my refinery!
Been there, done that - don't drink and mine, kids.
I don't know there's something relaxing about a couple of cold beers and smashing some rocks!
Matt
Ah - there I agree. In that case, I amend my statement to don't drink, buy a ship and try and fit it out for mining, kids.
Just had a request to join a wing whilst mining at Borann. Accepted, then realised I really didn't have a clue what to do. After accidentally ramming him twice, then colliding with the astroid whilst trying to send him a message, I decided to leave him to it. What should I have been doing? And is it better than going it alone.
By my standards, that all sounds just fine. 🙂
Some people who may invite you to wing up at Borann might be looking to mine salt rather than LTD. Worth remembering that a wing beacon lets someone drop right on top of you!
Matt
I’m currently transporting a ship full of beer to an outpost 350000 Ls away from the jump point for 600,000 credits.
It’s like Smokey and the Bandit in Space.
You're doing well if you're onto the decent payouts after what, a week in the game?
Dropped off the beer and now taking food to the next system for 300k
Are you getting heat on these missions? Either they're above your pay grade or you're really good at this game.
Nah. It’s boom times though innit..
No heat and it probably helped that I ranked up in trading and combat and left the starter zone with as much Cobra as I could buy and 2 million quid
With all that beer and pizza, boom time is exactly what it is!
Matt
Well, that was pretty productive. 3 million in 2 hours doing simple delivery / courier mission and one “ go and find some beryllium from the next system”
Did get attacked by some hired killers on the way back with my 1.3 million of beryllium though.
Not ashamed to say that, like Brave Sir Robin, I legged it sharpish.
Yeah that's about what I got once my rep had gone up.
When are you giving in and going to Borann?
thats a Typpe-10 Defender fitted and ready in the hangar, better get some more mining done as i dont like having just 650mil.
going to try mine in this thing, go hit a belt and mine away while watching something on second monitor.
and yes, i also missed picking up the cargo on my first cargo mission, i transferred all but did not confirm it. only found out when i docked and the station to finish the mission. luckily was only 1 jump away lol
When are you giving in and going to Borann?
Don’t fancy mining. I’ll do some exploring and fighting first
Exploring's good and mellow, but just wait till you need moar guns or a bigger ship, you'll put up with a couple of hour's boredom for 200M. I think I'm about halfway to the Seagull nebula at the minute. Getting plenty of first discoveries, but nothing earthlike or terraformable yet.
Does anyone know if it's possible to take screenshots on the PS4, some holiday snaps might be in order?
Matt
just had the Type 10 out for a spin, im in love from the sound of it alone
Don’t fancy mining. I’ll do some exploring and fighting first
It is annoying, but you can't argue with the money or the Anaconda it bought me.
Does anyone know if it’s possible to take screenshots on the PS4, some holiday snaps might be in order?
Press the 'share' button and you can take screenshots, but you can only do limited things with them annoyingly.
Matt - use the share button on the top left of the centre pad on the controller
Bought an anaconda, it's like driving a yacht, slow to respond and bounces up and down. I feel majestic in it.
In the process of outfitting it for the trip to SagA. Why do loads of people outfit srvs for long range road trips?
Doesn't have a docking computer - it's a tricky fit to dock.
I think I’m about halfway to the Seagull nebula at the minute. Getting plenty of first discoveries, but nothing earthlike or terraformable yet.
Race you for first discoveries! (or probably not, you'll be faster than me) What way did you go? I headed anticlockwise then cut over.
Can see the shitehawk now, having to frequently detour to find fuel but she's getting closer.
Don’t fancy mining. I’ll do some exploring and fighting first
That'll change. 😉
Out of the bubble too - happened across a 12kLy passenger mission, so have fired up the AspX and enjoying the sights. I think this'll be the future for me - I aim for Elite in combat just because, but after that, well... I was born under a wandering star and all that. 🙂
@squirrelking I've gone the other way, I was doing some just outside the bubble surveying for mining sites and rare elements. I went out towards the outerspur, so now I'm going clockwise towards the nebula.
Sounds like you'll be there first, the Phantom (cannot recommend enough) has a good jump range, but I am still ~60 jumps away.
There are loads of first discoveries so far, but only ammonia, water, gas giants and metal rich.
12kLy is some trip, that's more than halfway to Colonia.
Matt
*Waves from the Holy Twins*. Exploring is definitely the future for me. 🙂 But I also need something with longer legs - it's a big old galaxy with c.25Ly hops.
In the STW tradition of recommending what you own, I would say Krait Phantom, simply excellent for exploring. I have a usable jump range of 47Ly, just with Farseer.
Can be fitted with everything you need with ease. After today I'm also going to recommend a double scarab hanger!
Matt
That would be sweet - 540-odd hops to get back, so it'll be another couple of days, I guess, than I might start seeing about this engineering business... 🙂
Waving from the Seagull nebula now, just landed on the nearest system!
It's well worth doing. If you have a destination in mind having a decent jump range really staves off the space madness. Saying that I saw some guy had done Colonia in a Corvette with 17Ly jump range!
The requirements for Farseer are pretty straightforward. Donate some meta alloys, which you can buy from Maia or collect out in Hyades sector. If you want to go down the collection route, let me know and I'll dig out the system name (I saw a Thargoid when I was there, so worth doing). Then for the engineering arsenic can be a limitation if you haven't already snagged some.
Matt
Avoiding interdiction in an Anaconda with zero agility and 180t of diamonds on board is bum clenching
160m CR short of Elite trading now. Couple more trips and I’ll be done with the grind and can go for an explore in the Krait
I love the excitement of the run to the sale point. As long as it's an NPC you are OK. Fortunately I have never been interdicted by a Cmdr when I have had a hold full of diamonds.
180t is a good haul, what did you get 250M?
Matt
200m. Could’ve got more but sold it at 1.1m a ton 5 jumps from Borann
Took 90 minutes all told. Easy money
The nice thing about the Anaconda is that you can fit it for mining and still have space for weapons to fight the pirates.
I don't really enjoy mining much but I need to do some more. I only have 105m in the bank.
I think I've got about 175M in cash, the rest is tied up in Lavian brandy and bromelite futures. TBH I have more in assests at the minute, after buying the Type 9.
Matt
I squeezed 394 tons into my 'Conda, nothing but a small fuel scoop, mining laser, limpets, refinery and cargo holds. I used EDDB to look where to sell, it had a port 15 or so hops away at a good price, but the data was three hours old - took the punt but by the time I got there, it'd dropped to 600k. That was the day I found out cargo follows you when you swap ships.... 🙁
There's also a mechanism that reduces the price according to the percentage of the 'demand' that you have in your hold. D2EA did a live stream on it, including on of his famous spreadsheets.
That's a brutal drop though. If it didn't follow you, you could just buy a cobra and come back when the price was better.
Matt
Just got interdicted just as I finished fuel scooping with 110t of diamonds. My escape route was into the sun, submitted and might have panicked just a bit...I died... It hurt.
Oh man - big "ouch".... 🙁
That's tough, about an Anaconda's worth!
Matt
Made it! Just landed on a planet at the Rosetta Nebula, the end of this trip, I'm about 5500Ly out. It's been pretty eventful.
Things I've found:
Half a dozen terraformable worlds (no ELW).
Three nebulae (Thor's Helmet, The Seagull Nebula and The Rosetta Nebula).
A crashed beacon, on a planet about 2000Ly out.
A permit area, 3/4 of the way to the seagull nebula.
A 'biological' technecium crystal forest; about 100 crystal spikes every one yielding technecium, where I lost my SVR when one of it's wheels got stuck in a spike.
I've found that the AFMU takes the most damage of any module!
Heading back tomorrow, but who knows how long it will take, I'm planning to return via Barnards Loop. This time hoping not to crash and lose my data.
Matt
Finally Elite trading! 850m in the bank and can base myself out of Jameson Memorial with access to pretty much everything
Now for an explore!
Great work, that kind of cash will keep you going for a while and Jameson Memorial has everything available for you to spend it on.
Reminds me I want to see his crash site at some point, I will take the Cobra of course.
Matt
Well poop - 30 hops before I got home last night, I buzzed a star which dropped the hull to 70%. Passenger says "let me off at the nearest station in half an hour or I'm ejecting" - cue a flat-out sprint and high speed-landing with four minutes to spare, mission failed and no cash for the 24kLyr/1100 hop round trip. 🙁 Really annoying - had a slightly beer-influenced misjudgement "landing" on a planet that cost 15% of the hull, without that I'd have 23 million credits off of Mr Grumpy in First Class.
It was very pretty, though, and I got 68 mill for the data, and I'm a level and a half shy of Elite in exploration. 🙂 Think I might have a crack at Engineer-related FSD upgrades, take another passenger on and do more exploring along the way (bet I only scanned 1% of the systems I transetted, and only mapped, mebbe 15 or 20 planets). Might have a day off today, though...
Apart from Kato's promotion to Elite, it's been a bit of a tough week for the STW Squadron!
Some of these passengers seem like knobs though. What would have happened if you had let him eject? Could you have just blasted him into space?
I think you can use hull limpets to repair your own hull, but not sure. I have an AFMU which is good for modules (although it is more fragile than any other module, go figure).
That's good exploring money though, deserved for such a long trip.
Matt
Almost got the Typ-10's FSD engineered for max range, already giving me much more station where its now possible to get to without a silly amount of Jumps. Next up the shield.
Could get to the over 1 million price in just 7 jumps and not at the max engineered level yet 🙂
I've been ok this week - not done a lot but I've been enjoying my Anaconda. I needed bounty vouchers to take to Todd McQuinn so I accepted a few massacre missions for Harmless pirates. It was rather one-sided I must admit - shredded some poor sod in literally a few seconds, very satisfying. The mission sent me to a location that had about four of them who all turned on me, but my turrets were set to fire at will so there were pew pews all over the place whilst I tried to bring my gimballed class 4 to bear. It was great fun, eventually cleared them up one by one and the last man standing got minced by all 8 hardpoints as he tried to flee. Poor guy - but then, he chose that path when he became a pirate. It's a tough galaxy.
I did lose shields at one point and went down to about 93% hull. That's the first time I've taken damage in that ship I think.
Almost got the Typ-10’s FSD engineered for max range
Where are you lot getting your materials for engineering? The rate I'm going it's going to take a while. I'm thinking I'll end up mining for some raw mats then find a materials trader for the harder to find stuff.
If you haven't got it already, trader Elite is just around the corner.
Matt
Chilled week not really doing much tbh - work is just ramping up to be mental for the next 6 weeks and I'm struggling to do much tbh. Potter around the web and laughing at the F365 forum demise.
Fitted out an Anaconda for exploration and mined a bit. I'm at Sewell dock and half the missions are data transfer to Colonia. 22k ly...
What kind of money do you get offered for data to Colonia? I will definitely do it one day, though I will probably learn how to use the neutron highway first.
Matt
i got my materials from just mining and salvaging the wrecks of ships i have blown up + Scanning wakes outside a station + mission rewards.
I used a material trader to swap Iron for Arsenic for the FSD stuff
Scanning outside the outside the station for wakes is such a low effort way of getting those materials it's unreal. I target the ships as well, which occasionally yields some data.
Typical, I set off for home looking to put some quick Ly in and the first system has 10 HMC planets, 1.7M Cr including first discovery and mapping. Ah well going to take a bot longer!
Matt
now a Lt Commander, edging closer to that Corvette.
18 jumps from Seagull sector boundary, finally hitting near constant fuel stars. In 2 minds about what to do next, probably back to Flic for some more magic on my FSD and DSS but also considering just steaming onwards to Rosette. Probably the former, it's been fun but my god it's a slog with only 28LY range.
That's tough, I've got 47Ly and I'm looking at 120 jumps back to the bubble from Rosetta. I would say it's visually better than the Seagull.
I'm still missing my SRV, typically I've found loads of places that would have been cool to land on.
@Molgrips landing on planets with geologicals and/or biological signals is good for the elements. The resources on the info tab in your galaxy map tell you what you will find.
Matt
:spooked:
I'm +2k ly from Sol and I should have bought a bigger fuel tank.
And have discovered the super cruise assist thingy too.
Not found anything undiscovered so far
Thanks Matt.
Just did another boring mining trip, got 248t of LTDs. I could have sold them for 1.6m each but only to the Empire, and **** the Empire. My in-game principles are apparently worth over 100mCr 🙂
Made my biggest haul ever yesterday in a newly outfitted Conda.
291T of LTDs sold for just of 1.5m a ton. 440 million credits! Ch-ching!
Nearly lost it all to an NPC pirate in a Mamba. I was feeling cocky and when he asked me to drop to 10T of cargo I tried to fight him. But in my haste to outfit the Conda I hadn't fitted any Chaff or Shield Boosters. He dropped my shields pretty quick and then started spamming me with missiles! He got my hull down to 60% and I legged it (well as fast as a Conda can manage)
Not sure what to make of the Anaconda, it feels like driving a bus - even compared to a Python. I really don't fancy using it for combat against anything remotely well armed and agile. I don't really fancy it for core mining either, might just stick to surface mining and trading.
I don't regret buying it, I made back the cost of the ship plus outfitting in one mining run, but I can't see it being a favourite either. I might call it "The Ship With No Name"
Two incredible hauls, the STW mining crew showing its credentials.
Loving the commitment to bringing down the Empire, are you ranking up it the Federation?
That's good pirating for an NPC! I might have dropped the 10t, cos I love that RPG part of the game (or try it on and drop 5 and run!). As I've said, the run to the station to sell is one of the things I look forward to, after the calm of the mining.
I get the feeling that for combat, an Anaconda needs to be 'tuned'. It can survive as you've shown, but to win you would need to use all of it's capability.
Matt
I'm already decent rank in the Federation but I forget what it is 🙂
Not sure what to make of the Anaconda, it feels like driving a bus – even compared to a Python. I really don’t fancy using it for combat against anything remotely well armed and agile.
I like flying mine, and I like having shitloads of space. My mining loadout has two class 5 collector limpet controllers for example and still space for 256t of limpets and hopefully LTDs; and also a huge pulse laser and two turreted large MCs for defence. And still hull and module reinforcement etc. I coudl swap one of those for a SLF even if I wanted more defence.
Top tip though - do all your mining and money making before you level up in combat 🙂 I only get Cobras and stuff for pirates, they don't last long. In fact, when I land in a ring now they just fly over and just leave without scanning me 🙂
388m in the bank, I think I'll buy myself an 8A power plant and some armour, and then the Anaconda will be mostly done bar the engineering. I know I can get lots of passengers in it, but I think I fancy a Beluga anyway 🙂
Or I could just keep the money and save up for a fleet carrier.
I don't dislike the Conda, it feels kind of cool seeing the bow away out in front of you and I like the fact you have to think ahead when docking. Its got a pretty reasonable yaw rate too which makes pointing it at rocks to fire off prospectors quite easy.
I think I need to play around with the loadout a bit more. I invested in the 8A power plant straight away so I can pretty much run whatever I want. I've got 3 medium mining lasers, 2 large beams, 2 small missile launchers a huge MC and 4 shield boosters and I'm not even close to capacity on the power plant!
I might just turret all the weapons and stack another 2 shield boosters and just fly through combat zones safe in the knowledge nothing can scratch me
I think I need to play around with the loadout a bit more.
Yeah it took me a fair few iterations and is still an open question. The placement of the hardpoints is quite important, they can't all fire on the same target unless it's in front of you.
I might just turret all the weapons and stack another 2 shield boosters and just fly through combat zones safe in the knowledge nothing can scratch me
That's what I've got, except for the huge HP which has a pulse laser on it. With the turrets set to 'fire at will' it's pretty cool - they focus on whatever is nearby whilst I try to bring the huge pulse laser to bear on a target. There are *a lot* of pew pews 🙂
My Big Pink 'Conda is just set for mining at the mo - if I don't need it to blag LTDs, it ain't there. Only one collector limpet, and a lower-rated shield (way too easy to bash into things in it!), no cruise, no docking computer, so running to sell is scarily manual. On the plus side, that means it'll hold 384 tons, plus another ten in the refinery - I was hoping to park it and wait for a RichMTB-like spike in the market, last time I filled her up, but that's when I found out cargo goes with you when you swap ships. 🙁
Explorers, are you filtering your route by star type?
For long trips I always filter out brown dwarfs and tauri stars, these aren't scoopable and never have anything but icy bodies orbiting them anyway. I sometimes filter out red-dwarves too, these are scoopable but they very rarely have anything interesting orbiting them so generally aren't the best for exploration data.
I leave in the non sequence stars as although there is never much orbiting them, the stars themselves are worth quite a bit in exploration data, and neutron stars and black holes are just cool anyway.
Explorers, are you filtering your route by star type?
Ooo, I hadn't been, but I will! 🙂
I filter out the same ones as you Rich. It also saves breaking the route when you get in a brown dwarf field and start panicking that you're going to run out of fuel.
Matt
No ED for me for a while, had to send the laptop back to PCS last week as it had countless issues, fans not working thus the cpu/gpu would sit at >85c without cooling, wifi/lan kept dropping, speaker jack working intermittently and had a serious crackle to the sound when it did. Not impressed so will be getting a refund and building an sffpc like I should have done. Missing my ships!
Oh, great - first day off furlough and the price of LTDs has spiked to a tidy 1.6 mill in a couple of places. What are the odds the market has tanked by the time I get online...? 🙁
Hmm... was going to not bother mining for a while as I've got 1.5bn but at that price I might change my mind.
I still need to get to Imperial rank "Outsider" so i can unlock the Laser engineer.
Finally after a few days playing i can understand more of this thread than I did before.
Having a great time. Currently on some mad exploration.
Which engineer is that? I'm not as anti-empire as molgrips, but I have no plans to help them at all.
Matt
@matt_bl Broo Tarquin sp? He is the only guy in the bubble that does G5 upgrades on Lasers. The alternative is a trip to Colonia to unlock the guy there. But even in an Aspx with a really good jump range its 2 nights of jumping to get to Colonia.
I'm nor sure I value my in game principles that highly.
If it makes it better I'll fly to an anarchy system after i've done it and only shoot Imperial ships!
Ah yep, I see it now. Damn he covers all lasers up to 5. At the minute Colonia would be 475 standard jumps in my Krait, that's nine days play time each way, if I scan as much as I have done on this trip.
Loving the karma payback, perhaps there's some kind of 'enemy of my enemy' trick I could pull? Or a rescue mission, that could sit ok.
Matt
There's an engineer based at Colonia? Rubbish business model.
There’s an engineer based at Colonia? Rubbish business model.
There’s several, covering quite a lot of stuff, apparently. Loooong way to go though 😳
Frontier Devs introduce Colonia engineers
Very jealous of your progress chaps 😏I’ve had hardly any personal time to dedicate to Elite over the last fortnight; still stuck in an AspX with ‘only’ about 30mil to my name. Should get some opportunity soon though; Sunday Monday and Tuesday evenings coming have been pencilled in for a bit of Elite and Dangerous fun. 😎😎😎😎
LTDs still 1.4 mill at Hrymonada, Schilling Enterprise space port, if you wanna mining-pimp a Cobra... 😉
When mining is it worth having multiple mining lasers?
Ooh, I could spend my cash on a T10 instead of a Beluga..!
I just got promoted to Surveyor.
That has tickled me way more than it should.
Yes, I think it speeds up the rate of fragment production. If I remember you have two class 5 collectors, so you want them to be fed.
Makes no difference for abrasion blasters.
Matt
Explorers, are you filtering your route by star type?
Ooo, I hadn’t been, but I will!
THIS! Dammit, I did wonder how everyone else managed. Game changer.
Got into Seagull this morning. Pootled about. Bored. 127 jumps back to Krull or wherever the other Engineer lives, no direct path to Flic. Gonna be a long trip.