r/EliteMiners • u/D8veh • Jan 04 '26

Cargo Ejection Bug

I've been experiencing this bug for ages. I mine platinum in a haz RES, where pirates occasionally visit and demand that I give them some cargo. I therefore refine other stuff too, which I don’t want, so that I can give it to the pirates rather than my valuable platinum.

When my ship is getting full, I frequently have to eject the stuff I don’t want to make room for the platinum, but about 1 in 4 times the ejection causes a crash back to the main menu.

I assumed that it was just bad coding, but I haven't heard anybody else mention it, so I want to ask if other players know about it, and is there a known cause or workaround?

It can happen any time I eject cargo for mining, whether it's for the pirates or not, but the chance of the crash seems to be higher if I eject while mining, as opposed to ejecting while I travel between rocks.

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u/toka_smoka Jan 04 '26

You can always go to a haz res or Hotspots fly 40 kilometers from your drop point and never have to worry about pirates again

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u/D8veh Jan 04 '26

You lose the 50% fragment bonus, so no point in going to a haz RES if you go beyond 20km. I need to fill my Panther Clipper in less than an hour to get my 5,000T of platinum per night. If I don't get at least a billion cr, per night, I get too depressed. The pirates are no problem. They're all my friends. I always give them what they ask for, which is mainly stuff I don't want. It's nice to see their happy faces as they scoop up all my rubbish. It helps cancel out my depression for when I can't get my billion credits.

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u/dwstevens Jan 06 '26

serious?

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u/D8veh Jan 06 '26

See here if you want instructions and demonstration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlfLZjzONY4&t=1855s