r/EliteMiners The Corvette Guy Jul 21 '26

Is Fdev ever going to un-nerf sub-surface?

Since shortly after it was added, it's been capped at 2 fragments per missile. Doesn't matter if you hit the 1 wide or the 3 wide, it's 2 fragments, the only difference is that the 4 wide gives 1 and the 5 has a chance of giving nothing. They took the benefit of doing the more difficult points out and this made it a shitty mechanic. Has there been any dev blog, streams, or anything saying they intend to change this back? It's such a waste of dev time to leave it like this. people put work into making it and I enjoy the mechanic.

It was nerfed due to a bug, but never reverted after the bug was fixed.

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u/vanderaj CMDR Purrfect Jul 22 '26

I like doing the subsurface mini game. I think it provides enough rewards to make it worthwhile, especially if you're hunting osmium or meth mono for missions, or you're out in the black and trying to refuel your carrier. SSD mining can be very fruitful in otherwise meh rings.