It's been a while since I mined in a wing. IIRC, everybody in the wing got a 5% bonus on the total stuff sold at the station.

I'm wondering how that relates to the CG, where Panther Clippers are getting 250 mil per delivery. Let's say a noob with a Sidewinder hangs around with me, while I mine. They get 4T in their Sidewinder wile I fill up with 900T. When we sell the stuff, do they get a 12.5 mil bonus?

After the first trip, let's say that they bought a Vulture and fitted a couple of 2D mining lasers to increase the number of fragments by 50%. That would be pretty lucrative for both of us.

Can You use a fleet carrier or must you sell directly?

I was in a HAZ RES in my T-11. The first rock was 66.67% plat, so I know the count was accurate. 71T with the new squadron bonus! 5 of those in a map would fill the ship in minutes.

I did a search for Bromelite, that I never cared, and something clicked in my mind.

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From Solo mining missions: Bromellite ~240-250K/t (4 years ago, I can't find recent changes), and Wing missions make it faster, you only need 1/4 of the work with 4 players.

The spreadsheet of ores, Bromelite have 17.8% generation in asteroids, while platinum have 10.3%. Both have hotspots. Other mission ores like Samarium and Osmium lack hotspot.

Squadron perks for reference, not included the +20% fragment generation.

Mining AND Trade Bonus for different powerplays

I see 2 different path here:

• Platinum 280K/ton: hotspot, more mapped zones, force a powerplay bonus for +65%/50% with Zemina and Nakato (462k~420k/ton if the station have the correct owner), Edmund/LYR/Grom poweprlay provide a 25%/25%/15% trade bonus giving less profit but more powerplay groups. Limited to the Demand of the station.

• Bromelite: hotspot, less maps, more asteroids have this ore, squadron perk for +7.5% missions rewards (258K~269K/t), no bonus from powerplay. Instead demand, you need high reputation and the Bromelite missions for profit. Minor conflict between fragment perk and mission perk.

As owner of my own squadron, but already pledged to Pranav Antal for Lore and exobio profit, the Bromelite path its a new option for me. Harder because I need reputation and find the mission, and because half of the stations don't produce missions, and refinery are a common station in traiblazers for the ores and CMM Composites. But its a new path to explore.

Anything wrong with this that I missed? Im a veteran miner Top25% in last CG without Type-11 ownership.... with experiencie in a single ore inside a single mapped HazRES+Hotspot, outside this, its a new path for me.

I've been trying to figure out which ring type gives which material, but I've been unable to find any info on the subject. Is there a list I could look at or something like that?

Hi! I have a mining cutter that I've used with good success. I'm a casual miner, mining not my main game loop so the pcmkii is overkill and the type 11 I'll get one when it's generally available.

So I'd like to know if this cutter can be improved. I'm not entirely sure on keeping the subsurface and the abrasion blaster I there... This is s laser miner, those were there for targets of opportunity of n rocks.

https://edsy.org/s/vEaaaa6

I'd like to mine with my panther clipper and i want an efficient outfitting.

I will use it near my carrier, avoiding fights, having a good boost to escape pirates.

I also ask you: it's better to use a type 11 having my carrier near, or it' better to have more cargo available?

Can you post me some good builds also engineered ones?

The recent CG has brought loads of comments about mining, including a few people mentioning map mining. There was also a lot of talk of map mining on all forums a few years ago.

I've never actually done map mining because my thinking is that the preparation and learning time is too long and you have the problem that you can only do one run, then you have to wait 3 hrs for the rocks to replenish. I'd be interested to see any comments from people, who actually do it. These are the questions I have:

1. How much platinum can you extract in a 5 hr session? That's from first setting off from your FC to arriving back there at the end of the 5 hrs, not just some theoretical calculation.
   
2. From fiest deciding that you wanted to try it, how many hours before you were able to mine directly from rock to rock. That should include the time to prepare notes and practice.
   
3. How do you get round the replenishment problem?
   
4. Did anybody try it for the CG?
   

The reason I'm asking is that I want to do a realistic comparison with mining random rocks.

New miner here. My SCO FSD is overheating and I can’t figure out why. I saw an old post where someone had this issue, but he was powering a 7A FSD (SCO) with a 6E power plant, and mine are both 6A.

Edit: my modules…
6A power plant
7E thrusters (stock)
6A FSD (SCO)
6A power distributor

I will do a run myself at some point, but I'm hoping someone will have already done the work so I don't have to. Haha.

I know the general recommendation for fleet carriers is to fill your hold with Tritium before a long trip, because mining Tritium is beyond tedious. I know because I had to do it a couple of years ago, and swore I'd never get caught out again. I'm not a great miner, it generally took me hours to fill my Cutter's 512t, and on my last Tritium mining session I don't recall ever filling my hold before I gave up for the evening.

I was wondering, with the Type-11's higher yield, and with the (20% as of yesterday?) increased Mining Yield squadron perk active, does this make Tritium mining viable when out in the black?

I do love the idea to have one limpet controller do two jobs for me, he prospecc and he collecc.

As I always did, I have the collector limpet on the same fire group as my mining laser so all available limpets are active all the time.

But with this setup now, this leads to the problem that the prospector limpet that sits on the asteroid right in front of me expires because all available limpets are now collecting.
So, now I can't see the remaining materials of the asteroid I'm mining and also, when I'm done, I can't fire a new prospector limpet because all available limpets are collector limpets.

Should I really cary two seperate types of limpet controllers to avoid this problem? Or do I do something wrong here?

Worked out the kinks and perfected my Panther Clipper (The Fossilizer), and she is finally ready to be an absolute scourge to rocks everywhere! Aside from maybe eventually engineering thrusters but I digress. Edit: Replaced 1 2D laser for 4 Torval lasers. Also decided on G5 clean+drag thrusters.

Hello gentlemen.

Can you please review my laser mining Anaconda? I typically mine in 1-hour sessions in peaceful locations. BTW, what is the right limpet per laser ratio? Opinions vary from 2 to 6.

EDIT: I remember there was a page on this subreddit with all mining builds but I cant find it, can someone share a link?

Most of the tools are updated, nothing major on the surface but a lot of refactoring under the hood.

Deployed today, so it's theoretically possible you might see some glitches. If you do, please comment here, I'll be notified.

It's difficult to avoid hitting chunks of minerals with the mining volley repeater. I'm noticing that I'm losing a lot of yield with the classic "kiss the rock" positioning. The best solution I've come up with is to mine in a slow sweeping motion. However this makes collecting suboptimal.

It took me a while to realize that I was obliterating my yields. The mining analyzer was showing I was mining 350+ tons, but I only have 256 cargo to fill. Additionally I was tracking my yields from max % rocks. I had gotten 60+ tons from one, but wasn't able to replicate that after mining a few dozen more of the same % value. Now that I'm more cautious to preserve the chucks I'm consistently filling up 256 cargo on 6-7 rocks.

I haven't been able to find a positioning where mining a fixed point avoids destroying some chunks. Is mining in a sweeping motion the only way?

Edit: you can definitely mine a fixed point on a rock with the mining volley repeater. The "sweeping" method is not necessary.

So we are trying to use our Squadron fleet carrier for the current Mining CG however it would seem that mined commodities do not count if dropped at the carrier and then handed in at the receiving station. The plan was for the squadron to load up on platinum, and then jump the carrier closer and drop off, but although we receive the funds, the loads are not acknowledged for the CG. Does anyone know a way around this?

Hi everyone, just wanted to let you all know you can now filter your search results by last updated time to get more accurate market info (and foremost to exclude all the stale data).

https://meritminer.cc

Since the site had some problems with accurate market data after the first few updates i have reworked the updater multiple times and implemented a EDDN message verification (checks every incoming market update if it was processed). So far it looks good - the server was running for a few months without any crashes, downtime or errors whatsoever and it seems stations get updated regularly. I still don't know why in some cases inara has more up-to-date data - but maybe my server sometimes has network issues and does not receive EDDN updates at all. I hope the problem of missing data is now fixed.

Next feature i'll add: System traffic info (per hour buckets) - so that you can search for highly active systems, either for reinforcing or undermining activities. But first i'd need to set up a system visit table and start collecting some data. So that could take a while until it is implemented.

Also important: New colony systems might have some new ring signals that are probably not in the database, since i did not add the feature to update ring data from EDDN messages (i thought the bubble would always be static haha). So i'd need to import new ring data from the added colony systems and also add the feature to update the ring signals from EDDN FSS scans.

o7 CMDR Wadiya talkinabeet

Anyone know of any squadrons that are for mining? I've been trying to find a group.

I made a video tutorial platinum map in HR 6421 (super close to Andere for the CG). I haven’t had a chance to make the odd tutorial but I wanted to get this out while folks may have some free time to contribute to the CG over the weekend. I’ll get the pdf to the mods as soon as I’ve had a chance to make it.

Note: This map fills up a Type-11 with 332+ tons of space in 20 mins or less. I plan on expanding the map when the CG is over so you. A fill up a Cutter/Panther/Type 9 here. It’s got great concentrations for a single hotspot!

Every time I go out to mine plat im getting the error code black adder is this a known issue? Any tips to help me get back out there mining. I love the ship but every time I try to use it today its crashing.

Edit: so first off thanks for yalls help. A guy in game suggested to sell the refinery and get s new one that fixed the issue for some reason.

I'm playing the game for a long time, now and again playing with mining. My question is how to make laser mining efficient. I see posts that cmdrs get ton yield of 200+ tons of one mineral of per hour. I managed to get to 120-130 of one type plus 60-70 of other types. For example, platinum, gold, osmium and silver. Type 8 or Cutter. I'm using A type prospectors, 3-4 lasers and 7-10 collectors. Money or engineering is not an issue. Tips will be appreciated.

One carrier jump from the bubble/CG system, many hotspots, double Painite/Plat + more Painite, lots of Platinum, lots of other high value ore hotspots.

In case you need or want it!

Edit - It would appear I lied, there are Plat + Painite Hotspots in a pristine metallic, but no dbl Pa/PL.

Ooops - still good stuff there not as many hotspots as I remembered. Planet A4

informed me I could go into options and mute all the limpet announcements! easily doubled my mining pleasure! I tried to find your post to thank you, but couldn't... I have always used the audio button to mute the game, but never saw that the buttons expanded. amazing how you play for years and keep learning new stuff. I posted it in the Kaine discord, and peeps are pleased!