So If I am mining with a Cobra, are prospector limpets required or will they just take up precious cargo room?
Prospecter limpets are very, very strongly suggested. You don’t need them, but if you use a prospector on an asteroid, it increases the yield significantly. And honestly, they’re the same limpets as the collectors, just require the controller. As for running out of space, just fire prospectors at rocks, and you’ll clear out the space. I wrote up a thing about mining a while back. It’s here:
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Sweet. I just wasnt sure, a lot of things I have read said dont even bother mining unless you have 100 plus cargo hold.
I honestly think it depends on distance from mining ground to selling point. And honestly, it takes a while to fill 100 tons of cargo space full of mined materials- 50-60 tons can net you several hundred thousand credits, after all. Missions make a difference too, so I’d say look for a station you can get allied with quickly, that has pristine metallic planetary rings very close by. Don’t even bother with asteroids- you won’t get nearly as much yield from them.
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Anyone on this morning, running some mining ops in a nice little area where you don’t get pestered by pirates if anyone is interested.
Holy thread resurrections batman
I’m non-revving. I’d rather be doing just about anything other than this. 
Awwww beach… you need to let the inner miner out, you get to wear a hard hat with a little lamp on top and bang on rocks. You love it you know you do 
Well the call is out there, I am online now can do anything (as long as its not mining for Beach who is an anti rock elitist)
edit Beach, have you actually moved your ship yet… and have you taken up home in Skrippo ?
I haven’t launched Elite in a year probably. I have too many rabbit holes around here…lol…
While waiting for Westworld to come on (Pacific Time, damn you spherical planet!) had a spare couple of hours and decided to play Elite, as it had been a while.
Had some fun doing the ‘Sale of the Century’ Community Goal.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/310525-Sale-of-the-Century
I’ve never really seriously done ‘trading’ in the big ol Space Trucker style, so wanted to try something new. In this CG it seemed like the profits were really in the ‘tiers’ of stuff hauled rather than pure profit on the goods sold, so I bought for the first time a T-7 Transport, filled her up with Cargo holds for 264T of goods and then found a 2-hop route (the B class FSD could only manage 12ly fully laden. the T-7 needs large pads and supplies nearby ran dry quickly) and got trucking.
In VR it is really immersive etc, but it makes it harder to watch/read other stuff while trucking. I was tempted to play around with some helpers that put a browser in the VR view, but it was also nice just to drink a beer and look at the screen normally too. After about an hour of back and forth’s (plus a few interdictions, of which I used the ‘fearlessfrog manoeuvre’ of RunningLikeHell™) I had hauled about 3172 tons. That might put me in the top 25% which nets about 18.5 million ferengi credits. That is actually more than the entire T-7 cost to buy and kit out, so the CG’s do seem like the best way to make some cash, especially if you don’t play that often.
The CG looks close to finishing, but it is still probably worth delivering 1T of clothes or something and making a quick 1 million for nothing. Can buy a few sidewinders for that.
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Ships Names (on the outside of the hull) have been confirmed.
@80 minutes and 10 seconds…
IT’S HAPPENING!
Doing this Community Goal now. It has real prizes too (as in Frontier will award Secret Santa stuff dependent on end tier reached). It looks like it will over by maybe Wednesday, but hard to tell.
As Santa’s we have to deliver Gold, Frankincense (Mineral Oil) and Myrrh (Pyrophyllite) goods to North Ring (Pole). You’ll need either something to mine with or something transporty with a decent range, as local spots are pretty much dry.
Full info here:
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You might need your SR-71 again…
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I’ve currently delivered 4,656 tonnes for a potential reward of about (best guess) 35 million, so the Blackbird would do the distances fast but struggle with the cargoes 
Elite Dangerous is a bit of a grind, but these community events are more my style, in that they are drop-in and way to get enough cash that it’s fun to get a new ship to play around in with.
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That sounds like a good reason to buy a Type-9
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Yep. I’m doing this in a Type-7 but this is my cunning plan to be able to afford a Type-9 next. I once made a joke about Euro Truck Simulator being like watching paint dry, and here I am in the evenings sitting watching a timer go down to 7 seconds again and again for hours on end. 
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Netflix on a second monitor. That’s what I do.
Mmh… I’m not too sure about the T-9.
I just did 4 runs and got intercepted and destroyed by NPCs on 2 of them .
The first time I was bold and had a shieldless configuration to maximize cargo hold. I submitted to the interdiction knowing there was no way to win the minigame. Then I think I made a mistake: It might have been instinct or just a stupid idea but I tried to run (In the slowest vessel in the game - go figure). The NPC was armed with missiles. As it turned out, the armor is neglectable on the Type-9. I was turned into a big pile of debris within seconds.
Next time I had a shield and I started dropping cargo wildly as soon as I was pulled out from super cruise. NPC opened fire and demanded to get some of my cargo. My shields were preventing a similar disaster as before but the NPC was crying for more. I couldn’t eject cargo fast enough and probably chose “emergency jettison all cargo” too late. There went another 4 Mio Credits insurance cost.
What really makes me angry is the feeling that this gameplay feature is kind of broken. I was carrying 500 tons of mineral oil which are worth a whooping 180 Credits/ton. I mean if it was Gold or Palladium I could understand. But why would these pirates stop a truck with the next best thing next to “space poo”. It’s not the Mad Max kind of future we’re talking about.
Nevermind. I got into the 50% range of the CG with the other 2 successful runs (1032 tons delivered). The payout should be equal to my insurance costs.
I don’t think that I will keep the Type-9 though.
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Gameplay-wise Elite is a series of mini-games. Cookie Clicker in a huge play area.
For Interdictions against NPC’s in the Type 7 I have been doing this:
- Always submit, as it gives you the 5 second head-start.
- Once out of supercruise, point back at destination, 4 pips to Sys, 2 to Eng and hit boost.
- Drop a chaff. Let Point Defence do it’s thing too. Retract hardpoints. Immediately supercruise again.
- Have an ‘A’ shield and a decent powergen. It helps the FSD recharge and Shield restore very quickly.
I have always made it back to supercruise with maybe one ring of shield gone every time in about 20 interdictions or so. If see the message ‘this is a big haul’ or something piratey after the first interdiction then one tip is to overshoot the destination, i.e. don’t throttle down at 7 seconds and just loop back around, with 25% throttle once overshot. The NPC’s have a bad time trying to deal with that for some reason.
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Yes, I use the same tactics in all my other vessels. Won’t work in the Type-9 (especially shieldless 
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We’re speaking of 190 Vmax (boosted) …
Also NPCs are unusally aggressive, especially considering my payload.
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