Elite Dangerous Odyssey: Trying to Surface Mine from Ship
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- I hate surface mining. The SRV constantly get stuck, or the engine races for no reason, or it just randomly explodes. Ok well there might be reasons why it explodes but it's still horrible. Why not mine from a ship? Well there's reasons for that too. Mining from ships is reportedly common on the brain tree worlds, but this is on regular planets in the bubble, where you don't have the ridiculous concentrations of stuff the brain trees have.
The limpets explode a lot. To minimize this, I try to mine on flat surfaces, or cliff faces- places where the mineral chunk isn't likely to end up in some little cavity the limpet can't get to without destroying itself.
I try to do it on low gravity worlds, so the mineral chunks have some hang time, in which the limpet can grab them before they fall back towards the treacherous ground.
It's easier in daylight. It's best to do it from directly above the target, looking down. I mainly go after the crystals not the metals. The crystals are worth more and they seem to fly a little better than dog turd looking metal deposits. I use Inara to find worlds with geyers. You can see the geysers from low altitude, and they often have deposits. This is the only way to find stuff from a ship, where modern technology is apparently incapable of installing a scanner like what a SRV has.
I tried using a couple different weapons to dislodge deposits with. Apparently in brain tree land they like to use rockets or mines. I skipped that, as rockets have limited ammo and in regular mining you don't have big concentrations of stuff like that. I'm using a fixed beam laser. A mining laser works too.
In summary, I'd say it ends up being slightly less horrible than mining from a SRV. Not by much, but I'm taking it.
Ngl i miss UT3 videos
i do to. i had like 14 or 15 years in that game. i was just getting the hang of it and wham, epic pulls the plug. i should get a refund.
LOL I'm trying this :D
When I tried this (on a low-G moon) my limpets continuously impacted the ground and died :[
it's definitely tricky and i have to play around some to find a spot where i can get it to work at all
How do you find the deposits? Visual ID?
yes it has to be visual, ship has no scanner. i used inara to find a moon with major geyser volcanism and high incidence of selenium, a grade 4 material. the materials commonly spawn on the geysers, so i check the geysers i can see for the crystals. you have to get pretty close to actually see the crystals, like within 100 m. i don't know how well this will work with other grade 4 materials- selenium seems to be more common than some of the others. not every moon that looks good in inara works out well for this also. you really need big concentrations of geysers, on fairly flat surfaces, in low gravity.