industrial-professions

[velvet totem]

Anything under 3k mass that isnt Quantanium

[rocky veldt]

anything under 3k ok

[clever adder]

Salvagers; why does the C2 yield RMC so much faster than say, an 890 jump?

[ivory gust]

Sounds like you may have been on a bad server. When you run into issues like that, switch servers by logging out and back in

[jovial matrix]

5.2k is the highest I’ve been able to break with a rental

[ivory gust]

You can also technically do Quant with a rental if you use gadgets, but I don't recommend that

[mighty orchid]

once i got quant with rental, but it was quite small rock
with no gadgets

[still sleet]

I've noticed that the Vulture only works properly the first time you take it out each day. The second trip, the cargo grids don't function. And the third trip the salvage beam won't collect salvage (SCUs) even though the laser shows it collecting. This has been a consistent bug across the last three patches. Anyone else noticed this?

[thin jacinth]

I had the cargo grid issue today, smashed my vulture into a rock and claimed it and it was good as new. Seems like an issue with persistence (selling while stored) or either selling/storing in general.

[velvet totem]

Im hoping CIG eventually comes out with ice mining as well for gas/liquid mining

With a different mining mechanic for them

[plain silo]

Can you do quantanium mining in a rented prospector

[still sleet]

Hi Enraged. Not sure why storing would be an issue since you need to do that in order to sell at TDD. Or am I mistaken?

[jovial matrix]

You don’t have to store your ship to sell cargo from it afaik, unless that’s changed in 3.18

[thin jacinth]

I'm just theorizing on where the disappearing cargo grid bug might be arising from based on what I did (store ship, sell cargo, retrieve ship).

[ivory gust]

Not reasonably, no

[ivory gust]

That sounds similar to the "selling gems from a backpack" bug in live

[still sleet]

Hi KFC. I tried selling the salvage without storing my ship. No luck. Had to store it. Other posts indicate (at least in 3.18) that you need to store your ship. About to head back out to sell if a second salvage run works as well as the first.

[jovial matrix]

Interesting ok

Could you maybe try it with normal commodity cargo? Like buying and selling some waste or something? Just in case it’s something to do with RMC specifically

[tidal dirge]

Is there a fix or something I could do to get the scanner to work trying to mine and its just not working?

[ivory gust]

If you're in the asteroid belt, just keep going, lots of asteroids are unscannable. You can see which are which from up to 12km away

If you're on a moon or ROC mining, switch servers

[obtuse granite]

Also try sometimes to EVA and reach far enough you drop from the ship channel, then come back (even that does not work every time but quite often).

[jovial iron]

Hey, if my roc is bugged (will no longer move or mine even when all systems are on), and I respawn it will it still have the minerals I mined?

[lofty hemlock]

it should. hop out, move to the rear of the ROC and access the cargo hold directly. you should be able to manually move your mined gems to your armor+backpack.

[narrow sundial]

Anyone use excel to keep track of their trades?

[old ingot]

no, claim spawns a brand new one with no inventory

it will only have the loadout you last saved

[old ingot]

yeah those were the people flying the derelect ships. Spent too much time in their Mobi-glass, didn't see the missiles xD

[rocky veldt]

where is the best place to mine with a rented prospector ?

[naive maple]

@rocky veldt yikes, that's tough ... cause it assumes that mining solo in a rented Prospector is even worth it... see, the disparity between Quantanium (#1 mineable) and the next 5 valuable resources (#2-#5) is SO vast that unless you can find ONLY Bexalite (which you won't cause it breaks up poorly)... Rented Prospector mining is only worth it mining with another player that is in a Prospector (even rented) or Mole ... so you can jointly crack open multiple Quantanium rocks

[rocky veldt]

ok. ive already tried in an a lagrange point and the first session it worked but this one just broke nothing to mine and i just exploded without warning

[naive maple]

mining Quantanium?... solo in a rented Prospector?

[rocky veldt]

no seems really too risky

i just mined for the fun of it

[naive maple]

it is EXTREMELY risky... no doubt ... but the payout is INCREDIBLE!

as you can see in that top left box in green... its roughly 260,000 aUEC profit for a full Prospector

as opposed to 100,000 aUEC profit for a Prospector full of Laranite and the like

[rocky veldt]

i see but mining a quantanium rock is extremely risky because it is really sensitive and im just not good with time limits

[naive maple]

In that case.. stick to Laranite until you've improved your mining skills... last I recall, Laranite was abundantly present on Aberdeen and Yela ... but you'll want to ask around cause its been a LONG time since I intentionally mined Laranite!

[rocky veldt]

ok

i will retry tomorrow

[naive maple]

if you look at that first chart i posted off of SC Trade tools, you'll see a resistance stat of 0.55 for Laranite ... SUPER easy to crack solo in a rented Prospector!

[rocky veldt]

okay will definitely try that

[naive maple]

@rocky veldt Best of Luck!... you'll be a Quantanium Miner in no time flat!

[karmic nimbus]

Is the mole still borked?

[ivory gust]

It's not bugged, it's broken down/overheated. Need to repair more often.

[jovial iron]

Oh cool thanks lol, I didn't repair or refuel at all

[idle delta]

what si the website that helps with your routes

[hollow sedge]

Curious if there's a way to smoothen the decreasing and increasing of the laser intensity when using your mouse wheel while mining, it makes it quite a bit harder to level the laser intensity when you scroll the tiniest bit and it decreases by like 10%

Same thing happens with Throttle

very snappy

[ivory gust]

!tradetools

[wary tusk]

SC Trade Tools

One-stop-shop for everything trade related in Star Citizen: best trade routes, best mining spots, etc.

[velvet totem]

In what way?

[karmic nimbus]

I thought I had heard it wasn’t working or had a bug in earlier 3.17 patches

[velvet totem]

Its not having any issues other than sometimes the QT drive HUD vanishes out of no where.

But still usable without it as it still has the sounds associated with it

[ivory gust]

The specific bug you're thinking of (where the MOLE had no ore cargo capacity, so it was unusable) has been fixed

I have heard there are still other bugs, notably that sometimes people in some mining turrets can't see details of the rock when other people can

[pastel flame]

Any of you hardcore miners been doing much in 3.18? How about salvage? Curious to know how it compares to the service beacon spam they're letting us do rn

[sick phoenix]

yknow looking at the trade tools site

i'm getting the impression that belt mining is shit

[ivory gust]

Ignore what the trade tools site says about mining. Belt mining is the second least shit mining currently available to us

[sick phoenix]

first being lyria right?

[ivory gust]

Correct

[sick phoenix]

and just to make sure belt mining is the aaron halo

and no other space mining source is as good at giving quant rocks?

[ivory gust]

In my experience, other space mining locations are too sparse

Only seeing 1-2 rocks in view at a time

So even if it's the same or better Quant rocks by percentage, you see so many fewer rocks that it's not as good

[sick phoenix]

fair enough

[sick phoenix]

alright

i really need to consider if going to lyria is just a no brainer

i do belt mining for safety

is lyria "unsafe"?

[jovial matrix]

its less safe than the belt, but I wouldnt say its unsafe

[sick phoenix]

yeah... the belt is like, super hard to find things at

[jovial matrix]

You're basically never going to be found in the belt, but on lyria theres only a certain amount of moon that you could be on, so if someone really wants to find you they could

but if you're smart about it, you can make it a lot harder for someone to find you

dont turn on your lights at night, dont warp to om-1 and then fly down (pirates will look there since its a common spot to start mining), avoid mining near any POI (point of interest), ping regularly to see if there are any far off signatures that are farther away from you than a rock would normally be

Warp from one place on lyria to another, break quantum when youre halfway to your destination, and then fly down

[sick phoenix]

yeah that sounds too risky for my like 💀

i'm probably gonna take a small moment halting my mining grind and do a little trading

mmmmaybe not

[vestal ravine]

I went back to Daymar Cave no one home.

[ivory gust]

You need a mission in order for there to be reliable spawns there

[still sleet]

I’ve only been shot at once on Lyria. That said I’ve had good mining in the belt. Fjord’s advice is good. Keep a low profile when on Lyria.

However, if they don’t end up nerfing salvage, I find that it is faster and generally more lucrative than mining at the moment. But a bit more boring. And less stressful. And more buggy.

[pliant matrix]

do we know if we'll keep buccaneer as a loaner once vulture is out?

[little stratus]

no

you lose any loaner ship once the concept ship is flyable

[pliant matrix]

depends. Some cargo ships have a fighter as loaner

caterpillar and corsair have bucc as loaner actually for example

[little stratus]

as far as i know all loaner ships for a certain ship are removed once that ship is flyable

[slow bay]

hey question about picking up cargo

got to the package, but its underground and i cant access it. What do i do?

[pliant matrix]

I guess it'll lose prospector loaner but logic would say it keeps bucc. I was just wondering if there was official announcement about it already or not
https://support.robertsspaceindustries.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003093114-Loaner-Ship-Matrix

[mighty orchid]

its loaner for AC, but you can fly them in PU

even hurricane got loaner (super hornet)

[pliant matrix]

fine by me. if I can get a free bucc as fighter to start it'll save me time and money

[rugged axle]

This is the correct answer. You get a fighter for AC with any "non combat" ship. However the fighter for AC can be flown in the PU as well.

Prospector gives you an arrow.

[pliant matrix]

what's best place for box missions? hurston doesn't seems to have them

[mighty orchid]

crusader have a lot

[pliant matrix]

will go check it then. thx

[sick phoenix]

why does my prospector keep beeping at me

[primal arch]

Where are people finding Idris I haven't seen one yet

I have only seen 890, c2, random wing looking thing and titain

[pliant matrix]

if you've quant in it then hurry back to station

oh just saw the time. you might have blown up already

[mighty orchid]

sometimes it keeps beeping even after you unload quant

[sick phoenix]

it beeps when i don't have quant

i'm just minding my own business in mining mode

and just "beebeep beebeep be-be-beep"

[pliant matrix]

🤔 weird. I'd that when they implement quant mining as a bug but it was long time ago

[ivory gust]

Sounds like Morse code while flying around the belt? Never figured out what it is

[sick phoenix]

yeah

[ivory gust]

I don't understand Morse code so I've never bothered trying to decode it. It seems to be a lot more noticeable when drifting decoupled

[sick phoenix]

i'm just moving towards a deposit and it starts doing it

[hollow sedge]

Im curious if theres a way to filter out so you only collect a certain kind of material?

I know about the FLTR modules but i've seen some people with a full cargo's worth of a single material while I keep heading home with like... 1% of what I actually want

[sick phoenix]

find the right rocks

i got told that anything below 20% quantanium is NOT worth mining

[hollow sedge]

oh mk...

thanks

[sick phoenix]

yuh

[vestal ravine]

I went to the Daymar Cave no enemies to loot mined a Hadanite stone yielded one gem and lost 50 k in armor guns later so 20 % Quant sounds pretty good!

[mental warren]

Newish to the game looking to have fun cargo running or mining hmu

[jovial matrix]

you should post in #looking-for-session , you're more likely to find someone there

[mental warren]

oh sorry thought thats where I was at my bad

[jovial matrix]

all good

[twin basin]

Did a smidge of ROC mining then the game 30k'd lol

ROC mining is pretty fun honestly. Though I couldn't tell if it was 30k or the game but can you not mix different crystals in the ROC? Hadanite and Aphorite for example?

[jovial matrix]

you can definitely put different gems into the rock at the same time

[twin basin]

Was just the 30k then, gotchu

I wish Wala wasn't so horrendously white though

[vestal ravine]

I favor the darkside of Daymar much easier of the eyes.

[twin basin]

Yeah but I was nearer to Wala lol

[jovial matrix]

this is my first time properly visiting the halo, and its really cool

[velvet totem]

Imagine the day all rocks are scannable

What a day that would be

[jovial matrix]

its very atmospheric

[supple heart]

the freelancer max, the only thing it seems to sacrifice based on on starcitizen.tools is some missle racks?

the RSI webpage doesn't have all stats listed so I don't know if it actually is also less mobile than the base variant

[mighty orchid]

its little bigger, got 1,5 times heavier and ~1,5 times less HP

and same missile loadout as base variant

[supple heart]

Ah I missed the width part

so it being heavier also makes it more unwieldy in-atmo I guess? @mighty orchid

[mighty orchid]

and you got slightly worse acceleration in space too

[supple heart]

I see, thanks mate, I think I might just splurge and buy the default and the max together instead of 1 of them

[warped stone]

Hey guys so I picked up some cargo and forget what it was called and now don’t know where to sell it 😅 it’s a bunch of blue barrels, anyone know what it is?

[mighty orchid]

You can check your cargo at any admin terminal

[nocturne rune]

How do i eject my minerals out of prospector?

[velvet totem]

Alt+J I believe

It's either ALT+J or CTRL+J

[pastel flame]

is your proximity warning on? haha

[sick phoenix]

not sure!

[cerulean lichen]

So the vulture, is it planned to do any other sorta salvaging or is it just designed for hull scraping forever

[velvet totem]

Its just a hull scraper

Reclaimer is for hull munching once it comes out

[cerulean lichen]

Ok. I’m really looking forward to salvage right now. I love mining but hunting quant deposits got a little boring, but scavenging wrecks that are more common just seems so fun

[pliant matrix]

I'm waiting for it either. my Vulture is kept warm in the hangar 😁

Don't want to try it in ptu to not spoil me the fun

[cerulean lichen]

Same. I only recently got a vulture thanks to a cool ccu I got but I have been excited to use the vulture ever since

[pliant matrix]

Quant might be a good income but I'm not found of having to wait hours before getting my paycheck. So roc mining and salvage will be a good road to me

[chrome stump]

anyone have a good cargo trade route they can give to a newer player?

[grave mango]

If I recall their is a website that does all that for you

Gives you best routes and such

[chrome stump]

ok ill look that up, thanks

[grave mango]

So I have some money on hand recently and I want to get into mining. I am planning on purchasing the prospector but I need a means of transporting my refined cargo. I am debating on getting the cutlass black for it multi role function or the Hull a which has more space but less multi role capability. Any of y’all have advice on either of the ships?

[pliant matrix]

if you can get a FL max it'll do all of that in better imo. More scu and huge space if you want to get into roc mining. It also can defend itself if needed

[grave mango]

Thank you!

[grave mango]

Would this still be the best choice if I just want to Mike with the prospector?

[cerulean lichen]

Once I have my vulture and c1 spirit I’m set for whatever trade or salvage I want to do

[little stratus]

!tradetools

[wary tusk]

SC Trade Tools

One-stop-shop for everything trade related in Star Citizen: best trade routes, best mining spots, etc.

[cerulean lichen]

Anyone got any idea how ship mounted tractor beams may work? Like my guess is it will be like a mounted multi tool with a camera and move stuff that way. I just didn’t know if there was any written info on what was planned

Especially with how many cargo ships have tractor beams

[mighty orchid]

This might work both like mining mode or remote turret. Furthermore, Taurus got manned tractor beam turret, so it shoud be just like regular turret, but with tractor beams

[alpine pumice]

So I am running a HOSAS system and I am wondering is there a way to use my sticks to fly and use turrets but switch to mouse just for mining?

[ivory gust]

Yes, they're separate, so you can use both. Why would you want to, though? You can mine with sticks, and using a joystick knob or slider or similar for mining power is much better than a mouse wheel

[alpine pumice]

The problem I am currently running into is I have the (up and down) set to my right sick and (left and right) run by my left sick. The only slider on my setup requires me to release my left joystick to control the power output

[ivory gust]

You generally only need to control power when stationary anyway

[mighty orchid]

but with mouse you release your joystick anyway
so what is the point?

[ivory gust]

Has both left/right and up/down on mouse I assume

[alpine pumice]

I would use my mouse with the scroll wheel to control mining all the time and leave gun turrets to be controlled by the joysticks

[ivory gust]

Again... Why though? You can control mining with sticks...

But yes, it's possible and that's how it is by default, unless you've intentionally removed the mouse bindings

[mighty orchid]

is it even possible to bind strafe to mouse?

[ivory gust]

Who said anything about strafe

I assume he's talking pitch and yaw

[mighty orchid]

up/down and left/right must be strafe

[ivory gust]

... No? Pitch and yaw.

[mighty orchid]

whoever bind pitch and yaw on different joysticks?

[ivory gust]

People who only have two axes on their right stick

[alpine pumice]

Currently I have all movement functions unbound from my mouse and it controls the look function, the sticks control flight movements. I want to be able to control the movement of the mining laser turret with the mouse

[ivory gust]

And want the second as roll

[ivory gust]

Roc, Mole or Prospector

[alpine pumice]

Mole

[ivory gust]

You can't have different bindings for gun turrets and mining turrets.

[alpine pumice]

Ok that was my question, the system is set up to just see turrets as turrets. Wish they had a button to switch between joystick control only and mouse control only. Would fix my issue

As for my setup, I actually have pitch and roll on my right stick so I can roll sharply and then pitch up or down for really sharp turns. My yaw is controlled on my left so I can bump it left and right for pivot turning. I don't like rotating a joystick I feel like it causes false inputs on the other axis.

[ivory gust]

Where are your strafe inputs? The whole point of hosas is to be able to get all six axes analog control right there

[alpine pumice]

I use my inboard thumb control stick to strafe

I have a Gladiator in my left hand so I have 3 control sticks I can control with my left thumb as needed. One is thrust limiting with a click to cruise control and the one next to it controls strafe

[ivory gust]

Also, these are spaceships, not aircraft, roll+pitch is not as fast as just directly yawing/pitching to the orientation you want

But if you like your setup, go for it

[alpine pumice]

Not sure the word when I stay control sticks I mean the small directional stick on the head of the actual joystick

[ivory gust]

Hat

Which doesn't give you anywhere near the precise control that the stick itself does

[alpine pumice]

Ah thank you, Just finished a day at work so little slow and tired

I honestly set it up this way because it was the quickest way to map it and get started, I need to remap everything and dedicate a day to getting used to the new control configurationg

I need to get used to space flight controls and being acclimated to turning using pedals

[ivory gust]

The standard way of doing hosas is right stick pitch yaw roll (either roll or yaw can be twist, your choice), left stick for forward/back, left/right translation, with up/down on twist

[alpine pumice]

re-acclimated excuse me

[ivory gust]

You're right that twist will result in some coupled input on an Axis you don't want, but that's something that goes away with practice, and I'd wager you get a lot less of it than you do by using the little analog hat

[alpine pumice]

I will give it a try. Nobody else from my group is on so tonight would be a good time to give it a try

[ivory gust]

Remember you can load into a solo Arena Commander session to test your controls without having to risk dying in the PU

I don't have twist on my right stick, so I have yaw on pedals. I know the spaceship pros would put yaw on right stick and roll on the pedals... I tried that for a bit but I've spent too much time in aircraft and normal flight sims to break that habit

[mighty orchid]

Gonna need to make some keybind remap too, but too lazy for that

[ivory gust]

One other thing you could do is put mining throttle on modifer+forward/back of left stick like he does here https://youtu.be/iIwhwo3aHGc

That allows you to keep both hands on your sticks while mining

I tried that for a bit but I think it would work better if you had an normal aircraft throttle instead of a centering stick for it, it was too much trouble to have to hold the stick in place for me

[alpine pumice]

And now I start rebinding.. Gross lol

[ivory gust]

Make sure you export your bindings when done!

Or at least write it down or take Screenshots of the settings

[exotic merlin]

Is the reclaimer the only ship with salvaging or is there others?

[thin jacinth]

Vulture

It's going to be pledge only on release, though.

[exotic merlin]

So reclaimer the only purchasable ship with uec for quite a while?

[thin jacinth]

Seems like it.

Which is a shame considering it takes 3-4 crew.

[exotic merlin]

Yea i wanna start doing salvaging but didn't know if there was any that only needed like 1-2 people to do but ig not.

[thin jacinth]

Vulture is 1, but I don't know what it's going to cost off hand.

[exotic merlin]

Well i might buy a reclaimer cause me and my friend play a lot and my other friend is getting it soon so it will be used eventually

[thin jacinth]

Ah, that could be a good fit, then

[exotic merlin]

Yea

Either way gonna go with salvaging or mining but yea.

[white dirge]

Any idea on what the reclaimer’s cost will be?

[exotic merlin]

Around 15mill i think

I think thats what i saw it as when i last checked

[white dirge]

Damn looks like I need to figure out how to make money then since my first 3 days I’ve made net 100k lol

[little stratus]

it also basically is a bitch to fly

[thin jacinth]

I thought it was more from memory, but I might be remembering the redeemer instead.

[white dirge]

Well I’m guessing it’s not gonna be cheap based on the sit

Size

[exotic merlin]

I fr bought a redeemer yesterday

But can't remember the cost ngl

[thin jacinth]

I was not remembering the redeemer. 🤣

[little stratus]

15M with ref to SC wiki

[thin jacinth]

Reclaimer is 15 mil on Erkul too.

Now that I'm back at my PC.

[exotic merlin]

Damn better start saving ngl

Might buy a dragonfly instead ngl

Its Cheaper

[velvet totem]

Im excited to see what CIG comes up with to make multicrew gameplay more worthwhile

[white dirge]

From gameplay a saw the reclaimer multi crew looks like a lot of fun especially if you switch up roles.

[velvet totem]

Will definitely be awesome once hull munching is implemented

[white dirge]

Yeah can’t wait to be a galactic garbage man as dumb as that sounds

[exotic merlin]

Same ngk

Ngl*

[vestal ravine]

I saw a video from Redditt a Vulture and a Caterpillar (Cat) working in tandem and I think this can be done with two people. Since I have a twin account and two PC's close by I might be able to run both person's chores by myself. Thoughts?

[exotic merlin]

Sounds good

Might be a bit of a knack to keep adjusting each ship but yk

[vestal ravine]

That true!!

[exotic merlin]

fr

[exotic merlin]

Should i buy a mole?

Im torn between mole and a reclaimer

[ivory gust]

In game or for real money?

[exotic merlin]

In game

[ivory gust]

Do you want to mine with other people? Get Mole.

Or do you want to own a large ship that doesn't actually have any use currently? Then get Reclaimer.

There will be a wipe for 3.18, so you won't be able to use the Reclaimer for salvage

[exotic merlin]

Fair enough

I just wanna test ships out for now to see how i am w em

But yea ill prob get mole then ty

[thin jacinth]

Or do you want to own a large ship that doesn't actually have any use currently?

I didn't, but now I do.

[velvet totem]

Sounds like me with my RAFT haha

Love how it looks.. wish it worked though haha

3.19 cant come soon eenough

[vestal ravine]

I was just viewing a Vice run in the PTU from Noobs Gaming YT channel and he said you cannot sell Vice in this case with other party members on the ship/part of the crew. Is this true? If so will it transfer over to the PU?

[exotic merlin]

How does one sell mined materials?

[vestal ravine]

You can sell directly at the Refinery location. Or, you can refine the ores then sell it at a TDD in a major city.

[north oyster]

3.19 will be a long time coming considering the progress of 3.18

[mighty orchid]

@exotic merlinbut for second option you need cargo ship, you cant transport refined ore with prospector

[exotic merlin]

I have a caterpilar

That fine?

I have a mole as the miner and i have a few cargo ships

[mighty orchid]

yeah, just any with enough cargo space

[exotic merlin]

Okk

[exotic merlin]

If i sell unrefined i can skip the cargo ship right?

Sell straight from the mole?

[mighty orchid]

Yep, but you got 2x price for refined

[exotic merlin]

But costs more right?

[mighty orchid]

You got, for example, 44 aUEC for 1 unit of raw quantanium and 88 aUEC for refined.

You need to pay for refinery and wait some time, but its way more profitable

[exotic merlin]

U can get refinery ships right?

[mighty orchid]

Especially when you have large cargo ship, so you can stack multiple refinery orders

[exotic merlin]

So if my friend got one of those itd be better that way?

Or no

[mighty orchid]

Not yes

But its planned for future

[exotic merlin]

Ah ok

Fair enough

[mighty orchid]

Personally, i use following scheme:
One day for mining, refinery(i use "ferron exchange" method), then sell when all of the refinery jobs done

[exotic merlin]

Fair enough

[grave mango]

If you used a freelancer max to run a full qountanium load how much money is that

And how much would I need to mine time wise to fill it up

[mighty orchid]

Lets see. 88 per unit, 8800 per SCU, so something like 1 mil for a full Freelancer MAX.
As for time - depend of how lucky you are. Sometimes the first rock you scan is good to mine, sometimes you can waste like half an hour to find one you should mine. So, in general, id say like 1 prospector per 45-60 minutes.

And you need 4 full prospectors of raw material to load fully freelancer max

But again, if you're lucky - you can do it faster. The main thing - to find rock, which cam give you full prospector load.

[exotic merlin]

Is microtech a good rock?

[mighty orchid]

For quant its mostly lyria or asteroid belt

[sick token]

could sb help me with trading? i just dont know what to get and the Trade tools arent working

[grave mango]

Thanks for doing the calculations for me lol

[merry river]

Best trade route atm for c2?

[west tide]

Lyria Is best, the belt is trash

Anyone who says so just wants to fly there to pretend they are role-playing the Expanse

Which is fine but don't tell people it's better than lyria it's not

[ivory gust]

It does have some advantages over Lyria, along with some disadvantages.

[nocturne rose]

best places to mine hadanite in a prospector? or do i have to use the roc?

like are they asteroid belts to mine hadanite?

[jovial matrix]

Hadanite can’t be mined with a prospector, gotta use a ROC

Best place to mine hadanite is on Aberdeen

[nocturne rose]

damn, cuz i left my roc on a planet and now its gone from my fleet manager

[jovial matrix]

You’re looking at a vehicle retrieval terminal and not a ship retrieval terminal, right?

[nocturne rose]

asop terminal, do i have to go to a mining facility to get it back?

[jovial matrix]

Where are you right now

[nocturne rose]

i guess cuz i assumed i could pull out my dragonfly i could also get my roc

cru l1 dream station

[jovial matrix]

That’s why

[nocturne rose]

gotcha

[jovial matrix]

You’d have to go to a mining outpost for it to appear on the ASOP terminal

[nocturne rose]

ok thank you

[ivory gust]

Not just mining outposts, any ground ASOP -- New Babbage and Lorville also have them

Your dragonfly appears on stations since it can fly in space, the roc...can't

[grave mango]

Is Lyria the best place to mine qountanium?

[ivory gust]

Lyria or the Aaron Halo (asteroid belt). Each has advantages and disadvantages

[grave mango]

Ok thank you

[shut vine]

is eclipse good for pvp bounty hunting?

[little stratus]

#flight-combat-racing

[shut vine]

oops

[grave mango]

It’s good only because it has essentially a torpedo that can destroy anything in one shot

Bad because of that torpedo fails and your opponent gets close your as good as dead

And from what I’ve heard the stealth on it doesn’t really work

And the missiles are hard to find and bugged out sometimes

This is also the wrong chat for the question so probably ask some guys in the combat channel

[obtuse turret]

What's a good entry-level cargo hauler, and what should I be trading at first? Is it still drugs? 🤔 Can I keep trading nonstop?

[jovial matrix]

A freelancer max or a connie taurus are the two entry level cargo haulers

[hollow sedge]

I love my MAX. It's just a good ship. Connie is solid though.

[pliant matrix]

if only max (and all FL) had a cockpit update...

[little stratus]

FL max is phat

[pliant matrix]

I honestly like their global shape but I just don't like the feeling on the seat. Like if you were driving a very uncomfortable and un-ergonomical SUV or van

[grave mango]

I just bought the max and from what I hear it is a very capable ship

Lots of space and capability to defend itself a little

[hollow sedge]

I mean that's part of why I like the Max. Feels like I'm in some old VW bus that's been overhauled to haul more random crap.

[vestal ravine]

I took the Max into a Bounty fight against two live players. End of story...

[daring horizon]

i gots the taurus. to me very capable for almost any thing i do. holds more SCU and pretty good size ramp to get some ground vehicles. I cant really speak on Max's internal room obviously lol.

[vestal ravine]

I love the blue lights on that ship!! Nice one.

[velvet totem]

Sounds like you need yourself an ARGOnomic chair 😉

ARGO > MISC in all ways

Look at these fine comfortable chairs

plushie and curved for your body for those long flights

[pliant matrix]

lool if only argo had more multirole ships

[velvet totem]

Agreed. WE WANT MORE ARGO SHIPS CIG!!

[twin basin]

ARGO MPUV-M (Mining) would be hella pogged up

A flying ROC, thats all it needs to be.

2SCU storage for the minerals, ezpz

It'd be actually so good though. Think about it. The most annoying part of ROC mining is getting the damn thing in and out of the ship.

[mighty orchid]

The most annoying part of ROC mining is ROC mining

[twin basin]

ROC mining is fun, I dunno. Scooping up the gems enmasse after blowing up smol rocks is nice.

[pliant matrix]

you're free to just take your roc and drive from nods to nods too

[floral violet]

Roc mining would be nice if it didnt take so long. Cant trust to load a ship with cargo like that without a crash/disconnect.
If i could actually trust the persistence of my ship, id be willing to advanture more

[pliant matrix]

well it's not a lot of time lost to go sell half way for example

usually it's just a qt to nearest base

[fringe girder]

Yea, until you 30K and the entire load poofs.

[wraith ice]

Hey guys did 3.18 drop yet?

[ivory gust]

No

[pliant matrix]

that's the only risk with roc mining. Same thing with trade. BH you can get destroyed. I guess it add some spice to it xD

[swift flint]

Back to the old days where 30k's took people's cargo into the abyss.

[pastel flame]

Hello darkness my old friend

[pastel flame]

Hadanite and dolivine back to normal price on 3.18

[pliant matrix]

normal price?

[chrome pasture]

Hey guys, right now there are only 2 ships and 1 land vehicle to mine right? And the ships are "medium/big" right?

[jovial matrix]

Yes, although there are technically two ground mining vehicles

The ROC and the ROC-DS, which is just the ROC but bigger and for two people instead of one

[chrome pasture]

And the less expensive ship is the prospector correct? As being in italy the price after taxes is high ehehe, as i think the difference between paying real money or using credits in game is that if you buy it with real money you'll keep it forever right?

[jovial matrix]

Yes and yes. If you buy a ship ingame then it’s yours to keep until there is a wipe, in which case all your ingame progress gets reset. However, the prospector is a relatively cheap ship to buy ingame, so I would honestly reccomend buying a cheap starter ship IRL and getting enough money ingame to buy a prospector

[chrome pasture]

alright, and there is a wipe like in march for the 3.18 right? After the wipe i'll try to farm it, thanks!

[jovial matrix]

Yeah, there’s a wipe whenever 3.18 releases, which will be sometime soon

Could be two weeks, could be two month, nobody knows

[chrome pasture]

Alright thanks! And yes, i saw its farely cheap to buy, i'm just sad that now i'm my country the ships from SC had their prices increased 22% more

[jovial matrix]

Yikes, that sucks

[chrome pasture]

sorry if i ask this here, last question i promised, will there be an expo next update?

[jovial matrix]

In it is launch week is is in a few months I think

I don’t know the date, but that’ll have an expo and it should be happening relatively soon

[pliant matrix]

next expo is alien week and it's around june usually

[ivory gust]

ILW in May is before Alien Week

Alien Week also doesn't have an associated expo

[ancient birch]

So I've got about 7 million and I'd like to try mining

What's the most profitable way I can do this

[little stratus]

buy a prospector

[pliant matrix]

oh right! forgot about that one. when is it then?

[ivory gust]

May

[pliant matrix]

oof can't even read xD thx

[ancient birch]

Does it come kitted out with everything I'll need?

[bold bloom]

hello all im brand new and trying to learn the game if anyone is able to spare some time and teach me dm me

[little stratus]

#looking-for-session

[little stratus]

no, you need to upgrade the mining gear to mine quantainium

upgrade the mining laser to a Lancet I

[grave mango]

I thought MH1 was best

[little stratus]

lancet is the most stable i think

[ancient birch]

Which do I get

[ivory gust]

...yes, the Lancet MH1

[ivory gust]

Lancet MH1

[hollow sedge]

what stations can i spawn the reclaimer at, stations i used to be able to spawn it at arent letting me

[jovial matrix]

Grim hex is the only station, otherwise you gotta spawn it planetside

[misty coyote]

Grim Hex

[storm stump]

why is that?

[weary loom]

me and a buddy just bought cargo and its not showing in our ship, did we do something wrong or is that a bug

[mighty orchid]

it sometimes not showing

you can check it again at admin

[weary loom]

admin is the trading terminal right

[mighty orchid]

yep

[weary loom]

Thanks

[grave mango]

so I stored my prospector but all my qountanium disappeared

if it goes to the red light does your load disappear?

[north oyster]

Did you stow your ship as soon as you got to the lobby? If you land and it goes critical, you'll only have inert left. If you can store the ship before that, you're good

The red light indicates you've got but a minute or two before boom

[grave mango]

I think it went critical bc all I had was inert

thats enoying

I stayed to get as much as possible on lyria

now I know

Ill have to go mining with one of yall so I can actually be succesful

[little stratus]

you can always jump back to ROC mining, slightly lower profits but you're not racing against the clock

[ivory gust]

Did you land in a hangar? If so, you hit that bug.

Don't land in a hangar. Always impound.

[jovial matrix]

You are racing the 30k gods though

[grave mango]

I did land in the hanger

I didn’t know that was a bug

So you can’t ever land in a hanger if you have qountanium

[ivory gust]

You can but it's risky. Might work twenty times just fine but then fail the next

[thorn spindle]

Anyone got a updated resource list for profitable mineables?

[thorn spindle]

actually the 30k gods have not forsaken the roc, if a 30k occurs you can just pull out your roc in any location with its inventory intact

[vestal ravine]

30 K is the best crash to get...The triple red error boxes are the worst. Take heed and take a 15 minute break before starting a new game session.

[ivory gust]

False. ROCs don't get 30k protection. You'll be able to pull them out anywhere, but they won't have their inventory. Also, you'll often get the 30k while in the ship, in which case you'll be able to retrieve the ship and the ROC will still be inside...but the ROC's inventory will be gone.

[thorn spindle]

i gotta test this again then because i remember experiencing alot of 30ks during SOO release and still having all my sweet sweet hadanite

ill update when i get the chance

[ivory gust]

Hmmm, maybe there are some circumstances where it works but it's less reliable than ships? I know what a lot of people do is transfer all the gems to their ship since it's safer there

[twin basin]

Ain't nobody got the time nor the RSI-proof-wrist for that

next update do have a transfer all button though

[grave mango]

I just got back from another mining run and my qountanium has seemingly been tuned into inert material

this is like the 3rd time this has happened

I even made sure to get it impounded

I haven't gotten a single mining run done and ive been trying for two days

am I doing something wrong?

[ivory gust]

How

If you just waited outside a hangar door to get impounded, that's the first time I've heard of it going inert that way

If you go into a hangar, it can turn inert

[swift flint]

did you land when you got it impounded?

you shouldn't land because the landing itself is what might turn it inert

[chrome pasture]

Hey guys, do you have a favorite video that talks about and make you learn mining?

[shy stag]

heres a rule of thumb i go by

[shy stag]

i personally believe being intoduced to a mining crew is better than any video. theirs great guides out their to use as reference materials but its very subject to change at times

[cerulean lichen]

Any other good stuff to mine besides quant If maximizing profit isn’t the goal? Like right now I want to just mine but don’t need to make a tone of money and hunting down quant rocks is just a bit annoying. Any decent minerals out there that could be ok-ish?

[shy stag]

https://vngd.net/mining-guide/#SMG Heres a relatively Up to date profit guide for mining but if your not looking for max cash just mining to mine works

[cerulean lichen]

Ahh ok didn’t know if there was like a common mineral that could be profitable if mined in bulk like titanium or something

[ivory gust]

The problem is that quantanium is both 2x more valuable than the next most valuable ore, and much easier to find in large quantities than other ores

[cerulean lichen]

Ahh ok. I know I should stick to quant mining but I always thought bulk mining other stuff would be more interesting. Maybe one day with a dynamic economy it could be but if quant is the only thing worth it so be it. At least I’ll soon be able to use my vulture for doing bulk stuff

[shy stag]

grabing a few buddys and a mole and just filling it up with no time crunch is always enjoyable i suggest that. i dont mess with quant cause it likes to go boom

[chrome pasture]

Hi guys! Where can i read more about salvaging? As i'm curious about the Reclaimer

[shy stag]

since its still PTU their isnt much documentation. it is however VERY easy compared to mining. as a reclaimer shill who dropped the cash on it (its my 2nd ship) i recommend if playing solo you use the vulture.

that said Salvage is very simular to the process of mining where you have a salvage head, its fairly point and click.

here is a guide based off what is expected/ implemented at this time.

dont know why it weirdly cropped the image

[chrome pasture]

Thanks! And no, i won't be solo, as i was looking for a ship that could do "many" contracts and a ship that could host some friends. Wanted to ask: the reclaimer says its for 4-5 people but i saw there are 6 remote turret: are there the ""chairs"" for 6 players to use these turrets?

[shy stag]

i will be when 3.18 goes live be avalable on the guide system to teach and bring people into salvage.

the reclaimer can be ran with a 3 man crew efficently and 2 man semi efficently its got 3 control points for turrets the remote turrets are slaved if i recall but they are bugged to only fire one. hoping its fixed by live

[chrome pasture]

What do you mean by "slaved"?

[shy stag]

the remote turrets on the nose and the rear are respectively bound to the mirrored side. they move together but they dont fire together currently

[chrome pasture]

but that shouldn't happen correct?

every turrent should move indipendent?

[shy stag]

it has 2 remote stations covering 6 turrets 3 each. one has the two nose guns and a top gun and the second has the two rear and another turret. they are ment to all be able to fire if in the proper arch range on the target. IF I RECALL i may just be wrong

[chrome pasture]

So its a ship that could potentially host 5/6 people? Like 1 pilot, 3 gunners and 2 for salvaging?

[shy stag]

i personally would crew it like so

the pilot and co-pilot run the beams

a crewman in the hold stacking boxes

and a gunner on the main gun

this leaves the two turrets and two sensor suites unmanned that if need be co-pilot and box man can manage

it does have 2 more manable stations which i might have an engineer (when component health and repair is in place)

but unless im expecting to be salvageing in the middle of a war zone id only run 4-5 but if you ran double bunking you could run it with 9 men taking up every station.

BUT BUT BUT you can theoretically running triple bunk run all stations with 12-13 men

now you say theirs 4 beds but in navys and space ships that run 24/7 its not uncommon to share bunks and sleep in shifts but the average size youd probly normally run is 4-7

[chrome pasture]

Thanks! As sorry if i say this here, but i'm looking for a 5-6 crew ship, as i have many friends going to buy SC, but i saw that the CO-PILOT doesn't do anything (in the constellation andromeda i couldn't do anything) so i would like to see if i can find a ship that can satisfay us, mainly turrets and pilot

[shy stag]

in the future the co pilot controls the big honking massive extending claw. the reclaimer is a well based multi crew ship for a lot of the game play arcs but their are great single arc multi crew ships to.

[chrome pasture]

and it can mainly do salvaging? Or can be used for other thingies?

[ivory stream]

how much can you make mining with a prospector vs with a mining buggy

[shy stag]

you COULD use it as a slow moving fortress, you could use it for cargo hauling but is designed for salvage

[chrome pasture]

Thanks! I love his interiors

[ivory gust]

That was the original intent but they couldn't figure out how to make it work so they nerfed it so only one turret can be controlled at a time

[shy stag]

REALLY!! they better shift the turret access to the other two stations on the console colum

[ivory gust]

Each station will be able to switch between a couple of turrets. It's super dumb but they said it was too hard to have a single person controlling multiple turrets

Thread was https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/3/thread/reclaimer-remote-turrets

the functionality that multiple remote turrets would slave to the same aim point in full remote view was not intended gameplay and only accidently possible. When you are in remote turret view or sitting in a manned turret you're only supposed to have control over that one turret, nothing else.

[shy stag]

Thats really annoying i was under the assumption that being slaved was intentional. that severely limits the defensibility of the reclaimer

[ivory stream]

so I fell into a bunch of ingame money last night. I went from 20k to 3million. So would a prospector be a good investment? like how much more can I earn with that versus a mining buggy

[ivory gust]

Prospector will get 300-500k/hr with skill and some luck. ROC will be 100-200k/hr

[ivory stream]

is that mining quantum or the other stuff?

[ivory gust]

Quantanium is the only thing worth mining if you want to make good money

[ivory stream]

doesn't it explode in your cargo?

[ivory gust]

Only if you're slow or make the mistake of landing in a hangar

[ivory stream]

so where do I land

[ivory gust]

That's the neat part: you don't

Don't call ATC. Float up to a closed hangar door and wait to get impounded

[ivory stream]

how are you intended to do it

[ivory gust]

I literally just said: #industrial-professions message

[ivory stream]

I mean I saw that, was just wondering how the game intends you to. I get how thats faster. but is that what your like.. "designed" to do

[ivory gust]

You're intended to be able to land, but there are several bugs around landing in hangars with quantanium currently

[marble crater]

SC is full of weird bugs that require "Creative" solutions

[thin escarp]

I'll be pushing out a new mining guide for 3.18 aswell as a salvage guide for crews and solo.

https://tenor.com/view/im-not-dead-i-survived-its-not-over-not-the-end-comeback-gif-14693671

[shy stag]

will be amazing for giving new players when i guide them into salvage LMK once its ready!

[little stratus]

can't tell the difference between widebeam and narrowbeam salvage lasers

[thin escarp]

@shy stag Just been sitting in wait for 3.18. Its been a few patches since i've put out a mining guide so its due

[potent dew]

i've enjoyed cargo hauling, but always have trouble finding the unmarked outposts. the secret ones

[cerulean lichen]

The wait to 3.18 is killing me. I want to go out and use the vulture I own so badly, go move modes around and trade stuff.

[shy stag]

ive been in nothing but my reclaimer all PTU

gonna be cool to softdeath a ship and while they are in it start scraping its hull

[ivory stream]

so softdeath, how does it work

[shy stag]

in essence you disabled the ship past the point of function but not to the point of detonation. i dont know the specifics as so far ive only seen it in video cause im not a PvP focused player. but they lose shields gravity and power mostly. so it just sits their with or without the crew inside living.

[ivory stream]

neat. guessing that opens up some gameplay options from looting, rescue, or boarding them

[shy stag]

mainly boarding and or pirating. imagine softdeathing a fully loaded cat or C2 thats a nice payday

for me i just want to deconstruct your working ship and all i need is to break your sheild

[cerulean lichen]

Would full detonation destroy the cargo then?

[karmic heron]

ok so a few questions,

1. My quantanium turns into inert materials as I mine it, and sometimes gets registered at the refinery as inert materials. How do I prevent this? I’ve lost a few loads because of this.

2. It won’t let me empty my prospector at the refinery right now and set up a work order, although I do have 4 work orders ready to go and be shipped, is there a maximum capacity to sitting work orders?

[nocturne rose]

best planet for quantum mining?

[velvet totem]

Ice mining, when?

[velvet totem]

Lyria

[shy stag]

their may still be some floating around but most of it yes

[vestal ravine]

You mean backspace?

[cerulean lichen]

Ahh so if one wants to steal cargo they must disable and board. Looks like I’m going to be wearing heavy armor and carrying a lmg when doing my trade routes😅

[pastel flame]

Nice to know! Just had an amazing hour in the vulture on 3.18

[thin escarp]

@karmic heron theres no max limit for workorders

you cannot load a completed workorder back on your prospector.

its gotta be a cargo ship

[ivory gust]

Grenades too

[cerulean lichen]

Aren’t grenades broken? I have never used them since one person told me they just stick to you and to only use the grenade launcher

[jovial matrix]

They work afaik

[vocal hill]

any tips for making money hauling and mining in this game?

[shy stag]

Haul and mine

[vocal hill]

any hotspots for mining or ways to track what buys and sells where withough actually being there

[vestal ravine]

I can send you info on the vice routes.

[vocal hill]

!tradetools

[wary tusk]

SC Trade Tools

One-stop-shop for everything trade related in Star Citizen: best trade routes, best mining spots, etc.

[vocal hill]

lets hear it

[vestal ravine]

It's a word 97 document.

[crystal marlin]

Hey everyone, I'm looking at starting salvage on the PTU where's the best place to start?

[vestal ravine]

Let me know if you want it sent to you please...Happy vice running.

[coral tusk]

I think people be finding 890 jump hulls around Lagrange points, though you may have the occasional NPC pirate to deal with.

[shy stag]

Like with astroids the Lagrange points hold different hulls depending on the points. Around arc corp has the 890s and some other larger hulls

[misty coyote]

What would be your choice or cargo ship to pair with a Reclaimer... If you didn't want to land on surface, and didn't mind a bit of manual labour transferring boxes across....

[pliant matrix]

MSR imo. fast, agile and lot of space

you can easily put hundred boxes in the back I think

[misty coyote]

OK ok....i like that... Its a big ol ship though.... Expensive...

I'll need to start with a Lancer, then move on.

Was thinking Taurus... But I always choose that.

[pliant matrix]

grab a FL max then. it's slower but also lot of space. and cheaper

[misty coyote]

Get the cargo lifts aligned

Or an Andromeda.... Because snub ship and missiles

[pliant matrix]

Vulture can get 12SCU iirc. Any idea how much money it represent? Some people say it's better to go duo with a cutlass or another cargo ship to make it worth it?

[misty coyote]

It's about 7k each scu

[pliant matrix]

oh... not much then. probably a 200k/hour ratio I guess. 3 rotations

Seems it's filling pretty fast

[ivory gust]

Hull A. External cargo racks make it easy to load

[misty coyote]

Oooooh!

Ding ding ding... Love me some Hull A

[ivory gust]

Not sure how useful it'd be though, since Hull A only has 64 SCU and Reclaimer itself has 180

But for pairing with a Vulture maybe pretty good

[pliant matrix]

Nomad would do for vulture. Fast, outside cargo space and even tho it's only 24SCU it can do many travels quite fast

[vestal ravine]

Some are using the Caterpillar...

[pliant matrix]

woow for a very long session eventually xD

[safe flint]

Why is the sell cap for so many stations so low

I don't see how trading is supposed to be profitable to offset the risk of carrying like 300k auec cargo when going around

[ivory gust]

Because the trading system isn't fleshed out and they forgot that this is supposed to be an MMO

[safe flint]

I tried to run asta and med between shubin mining and rayari anvik, but the rates are so LOW

[ivory gust]

if you want to trade large amounts of cargo, you need to choose items that have high limits

[safe flint]

So it's more profitable

[midnight nymph]

What the mining and salvage hot spots?

[safe flint]

to run like titanium and fill instead of running laranite or asta or med or something?

Also is there a fast way to get to trade terminals in cities?

Since the big stock sells are all cities, but I have to run all through the subway

[ivory gust]

Go to place that sells laranite and titanium. Buy all of the laranite that's available, fill the rest of your hold with titanium.

Similar for other commodities--buy all of the low-stock high-value that's available, fill the rest with low-value high-stock

[ivory gust]

New Babbage you can land right at the Commons entrance and go in that way. Other cities, unfortunately no

[safe flint]

Ah ok, does the commons terminal count my ship if I land it outside?

Like if I park my freelancer on the ice lake can I sell from it

[ivory gust]

It should yes

[safe flint]

Oh nice

[vestal ravine]

You can spend more trips getting the higher value items - store out and back store - then when you start to chicken out finish off the load and sell.

[safe flint]

Maybe I'll run like an asta and med around mt for the fast terminal

[vestal ravine]

Lorville has a garage entrance...

[safe flint]

Oh nice maybe I'll go there then

[vestal ravine]

Scope it out first...

[ivory gust]

Still need to ride the tram to get to the business district

[cerulean lichen]

Wait it has a garage entrance?

[jovial matrix]

yeah

[ivory gust]

It has several, around the exterior of the city. Unlike the New Babbage one, going there with a ship doesn't give you immediate access to useful things like shops and the TDD

also I've heard that the restricted flight area extends quite a ways past that so you can't land super close anyway

[cerulean lichen]

Are those the gates I see the trams take you to?

[rose cove]

Is selling minerals bugged?

Have Dolvine at arcL1 and it's not taking it.

[shy stag]

7.7k a box

[pliant matrix]

that makes 92.4k/run... not that bad if it takes less than 30mins

[shy stag]

you could definingly do it in under 30 mins a relcaimer with minimum crew fills in 60-90 minutes

[pliant matrix]

chill 200k/hour. Like roc but without much luck involved

[vestal ravine]

Lorville is opening up the cityscape post 3.18.

[carmine coral]

Hey guys so i tried mining and i wasnt really paying attention and as i did the refining i ended up with this, is there any way to split the load so i can actully transport it becuse i dont have any other ships besides a rental Prospector 😦

[pliant matrix]

you wouldn't be able to transport it in prospector anyway. My guess is go rent a cargo ship and come back with it. cutlass can be rent at refinery if I'm not mistaking

[hollow sedge]

Yes I believe so

But someone had sent me like 20 mill and I bought the Hercules

A while back

[carmine coral]

Ok thanks i rented it see if i can move it now 🙂

It worked i had to relog first but when i came back ingame the ship was available on the display thanks again!

[rose cove]

Will a ROC-DS fit in a Cutty Black?

[pliant matrix]

nope

[rose cove]

Poo

Thanks

[ivory gust]

Dolovine isn't a mineral, it's gems. It's sold at the admin terminal (galleria level, look for the yellow walls), not the refinery

[rose bridge]

What ground vehicle has the most space in it?

[pliant matrix]

Ursa I think has 4scu

[ivory gust]

What kind of space?

Space for people? Is standing room okay?
Space for delivery boxes?
Actual cargo space?

[rose bridge]

boxes

[ivory gust]

Delivery boxes?

STV has two dedicated spots for those. Cyclone could probably fit several on its back truck bed

[rose bridge]

yeah alright, i looked it up earlier probably just gonna get hte cyclone

[ivory gust]

Ursa would be a bad choice here, delivery boxes tend to fall through the floor

What are you wanting this for? There's very little reason to need to use a ground vehicle for packages

[rose bridge]

those drug missions wher eyou gotta destroy them, was gonna sell them

[formal falcon]

Anyone wanna tag along with me im doing mining for the first time an have no idea what I'm doing

[acoustic garnet]

what are you using

[formal falcon]

A mole

[boreal vine]

For some reason I cant fit my dominator 2's and thunderbolt 3's on my gladius, anyone has a clue why?

[little stratus]

#flight-combat-racing

[boreal vine]

Already fixed thanks

wrong channel mb didnt notice

[vestal ravine]

I found one of the aberdeen caves had a find client mission plus there were gem stones. I shot the guard by accident and got a bad crime Stat. Going out a bounty hunter shot me dead.

[acoustic garnet]

anyone mining

[formal falcon]

we are

[acoustic garnet]

are you in the discord

[formal falcon]

in the new or chill chat

[boreal vine]

Im trying to get back into minimg but due to me not doing it alot previously mostly forgot everything

So the 2 ships I need would ofc be a prospector, but what other ship should I buy to transfer the ores properly?

[mighty orchid]

Depends on how often you wanna transfer refined ore. Freelancee max can transfer 4 full prospector loads. Cutty black(even rented) is good for 1 load

[torn mulch]

They’re worth basically nothing, it’s a waste of time if you’re trying to earn money.

[boreal vine]

How long does it take to refine a full load of that good stuff again I forgot the name

The ore that makes you rich

[ivory gust]

Quantanium

For a full Prospector (32 SCU) it's 36 hours if you use the slowest/cheapest method (Dinyx) or 12 hours if you use the next one up (Ferron)

[toxic citrus]

Dinyx and ferron have the same refining efficiency, except ferron costs a bit more and is 3 times faster

Which honestly makes it a million times better

[ivory gust]

2x cost for 3x speed

[toxic citrus]

The cost is still basically non existent

Compared to what one load sell for

[boreal vine]

Alright and i can refine a 2nd load while 1 is busy?

[toxic citrus]

You can, yes

[boreal vine]

Perfect

So freelancer max is good enough

How bout trading is that still a nice thing if I for example get one of those bigger cargo ships,m

For making money

[north oyster]

PTU IS NOW OPEN TO ALL BACKER

Go Salvage

[north oyster]

The MAX is one of my favorite ships for both ROC mining escort and also for carrying Quantainium to the Market. As for other trade, that won't be too good. Trade, as it stands, only favors the largest of ships (C2, CAT, etc). Small trade profit hasn't returned yet

[misty coyote]

I've been favouring the Taurus for ROC sitting.... The footprint is smaller than it looks and the trip down to the ROC is really easy...

I swear the scanner is better on it too....

[pliant matrix]

well elevator kinda adjust to the ground so even if it's not really flat it makes it easy to land next to cutlass

Imo Nomad also is underrated for roc carrier. it's ramp is making it very easy to land on not flat areas

[pastel flame]

yet...

[north oyster]

MAX has been the optimal carrier because of size and easy RORO. I have the Taurus but I always default to the MAX for ROC duty.

[mighty orchid]

the only thing stopping me from getting any freelancer - cockpit

i hate it so much

[boreal vine]

Got it, thanks.

So I buy the Prospecor for quantanium mining, what else do I need to get situated and where do I look for quantanium?

[pastel flame]

A lancet head, whichever modules you want I only suggest Surge to start with to pop up your heat on the rock but lots of opinions.

Most search on Lyria but there's some great guides out there to aaron halo too

[boreal vine]

Lacent MH-1

?

https://gyazo.com/f20c4fe79a66480dba965c60f0458944

Lets say this one.

[boreal vine]

I have the ability to buy myself a C2 right now, the C2 Hercules Starlifter, if I'd buy it for trade runs what is the best trade run I could do atm?

Or a Caterpillar, can also buy that.

[pastel flame]

It depends what you want to risk. The most profit I've made in a C2 was running laranite/titanium and it's a pretty big risk for a pretty low profit. Stims are less risky and still pay out okay in comparison.

[boreal vine]

As long as there is a decent profit in it I am fine by doing it I can gather a escort group rather quickly heh.

[little stratus]

!tradetools

[wary tusk]

SC Trade Tools

One-stop-shop for everything trade related in Star Citizen: best trade routes, best mining spots, etc.

[pastel flame]

Relatively speaking, cargo is in a bad place, but how much fun you have is far more important than how much you can make.

[pliant matrix]

profits are too low to justify splitting it with an escort group tbh

[little stratus]

cargo makes shit profits for the risk involved

[pastel flame]

Even without the risk it would be bad is the thing

[little stratus]

entire C2 of titanium (highest bulk buyable ore) pays about 100k profit, which is just pathetic

[pliant matrix]

with a full C2 of laranite/Titanium if you get 100k/run it's a lucky day

[pastel flame]

I usually risk somewhere in the mid 900k range and make about 160k back? Don't know exactly but it takes forever to go planetside and back as well.

[little stratus]

time needed as well

[boreal vine]

Alright then thats definitly not worth it.

[pastel flame]

I was pretty sure with cargo refactor they'd buff cargo, but to my surprise and awe they have just left it bad.

[boreal vine]

Lets hope they fix it in 3.18 so the hull A or whatever Hull would be nice playing.

[pastel flame]

Not in 3.18, maybe beyond

[little stratus]

they buffed the ability to fuck traders harder though

[pastel flame]

Oh yeah.

Not to mention the new QED scorp

[little stratus]

so in 3.18 cargo's profit is as low as now, but MUCH MUCH more risky

[pliant matrix]

their schedule is fix flight model and weapons balance then work on trading iirc

[pastel flame]

It can be fun to do a little cargo, sorry if this is disheartening - SC is fluid.

Cargo was once the big bux

[little stratus]

hoping they introduce smth like freight contracts with the hull C's series

[boreal vine]

Yeah I remember those days heh

[boreal vine]

Exactly.

[pastel flame]

Ah ok cool 🙂

Sorry to assume

[boreal vine]

We'll see but for now its a no.

[little stratus]

because realistically no bloke with a Hull C will buy his own cargo

[pastel flame]

Even if they upped demand for contraband high value small concentration stuff

[little stratus]

he would be flying for space Fedex

[boreal vine]

D3Coupled, for the Prospector I need to buy the Lacent MH-1?

[little stratus]

yes

[pastel flame]

Yeah, Lancet is not the most expensive or powerful, but it has a better tolerance for unstable materials - particularly quantanium

[little stratus]

less likely to kaplode the quant rock

[pastel flame]

Until Q is not the hard meta and vastly better than any other mineral(sad) that's the laser for you

I hope the data shows a lot of miners swapping over to the much more chill salvage, it's very reminiscent of old style prospector mining

[boreal vine]

Aye, I am going to watch YT for a bit, go on shopping again and then I should be good.

Do I need to do anything with the Prospector's systems like Quantum Drive or anything to give me the range I need to go to where I must refine?

[pliant matrix]

faster qt could be nice yeah. I used rush on mine some month ago iir

[pliant matrix]

at least old style mining was about 3-4 types of minerals and you could fill up without having to go back asap
Those was good days

I'd either buff non Q minerals or eventually nerf Q to make mining fun again tbh

[boreal vine]

Is the Prospector's QT really slow, will it make a huge difference or is it just a luxury?

[acoustic garnet]

but a XL-1 QT drive for speed

[misty coyote]

They might make QT party of the mining missions. Buying a claim. The rest is available at any time

[boreal vine]

Do I need any other systems so my ship doesnt dies internally with that?

[acoustic garnet]

the industrial modules that the MISC Prospector comes with supply enough power

[little stratus]

XL-1 gives your prospector the QT range of a baby though

[acoustic garnet]

but the speed is hard to beat

[boreal vine]

Dont see it evenly on ergul.

I will use the Rush most likely.

[acoustic garnet]

besides most on the time any mining location you go to is at most 10 Mill

so you will be fine

and speed is Key when you quant mine

[pliant matrix]

it's useful to have fast QT when you've quant and you have your ship screaming to go back to refinery

[pastel flame]

I liked that "drift around the black" aspect, and I also liked the odd time it being worth getting out to hand mine a bunch of hadanite on an asteroid. Vulture brings both those things back in its own way.

And I don't have to deal with broken ass, RNG scanning

[pastel flame]

WRong size

You're thinking VK

[pastel flame]

Wouldn't bother upgrading any systems besides the mining head personally.

[boreal vine]

Yeah prob saves me on time I can use for mining going all the way to PO or A18

[pastel flame]

No doubt. I would however suggest watching an updated scanning video, which will save you the most frustrating part of prospector mining IMO

[boreal vine]

Do you mind linking? I tried finding it but no success

[pastel flame]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7bVXJPEawc From pins in this channel

@thin escarp says he's doing an updated guide very soon 🙂

[acoustic garnet]

or use the Class B Military Siren if you want the bit extra range with a bit less speed its the second best in my mind

[boreal vine]

Thanks pal

[acoustic garnet]

this is filtered for speed not efficiency

[pastel flame]

Onward and upward

[boreal vine]

I will take a look how this goes and see further after

[acoustic garnet]

if you wanna look at module performance look at DPS calculator https://www.erkul.games/live/calculator

[boreal vine]

Depends a bit how far I have to rtavel to a proper refinery

[pliant matrix]

can't wait to have dll the 13Gb update and try salvage on ptu... it'll take most of the night tho 😑

[boreal vine]

Yeah got that up right now.

[pastel flame]

Enjoy. It's seriously really nice.

[pliant matrix]

I felt it would be so I pledged (or re-used store credit actually) for vulture during iae

[pastel flame]

Soon this will be you Thea XD

[boreal vine]

Very nice.

[pliant matrix]

I must learn how to use multitool first maybe...

[pastel flame]

It's very easy. And you can pick them up at more places now.

Hold left click to use beam on targeted object(target by looking at it), mouse wheel to move it away/toward you, release left click to drop.

Just make sure when you pick up the multitool you buy the associated tractor attachment and equip it on your person.

[acoustic garnet]

planet side mining with ROC-DS or Mole if interested

[pliant matrix]

Thx will check that later. I equipped it and tried to lift people in everus couple days ago (it obviously failed) but didn't had opportunity to actually use it so far

[pliant matrix]

better send that in #looking-for-session

[acoustic garnet]

i did

[boreal vine]

Dont I also need Stampede and Surge modules?

[pastel flame]

You don't need any modules to get the job done in most cases, but both of those can make your job easier. I'd just start with Surge, and use it right at the beginning of your laser heat on a rock to boost up to the green zone faster

There are some advanced techniques but it's a lot of extra when getting started

[boreal vine]

Alright, then I will also buy those rq at PO I believe.

[pliant matrix]

I just used passives and was able to mine almost anything

[pastel flame]

Same. I just like Surge because it really cuts down on the time you sit there watching your rock heat.

[boreal vine]

What does Stampede do then?

[pastel flame]

It sends pulses of energy into the rock that increase charge rate, but also instability

You can flick it on and off the rock in a way that really speeds things up, but it's dodgy

[thin escarp]

yes for mining and salvage

[boreal vine]

Alright, well I am looking some videos right now and I will get shopping.

[pastel flame]

Just pointing out your vids to another prospector miner 🙂

[thin escarp]

@pastel flame bless

[pastel flame]

Yep

[boreal vine]

How does drug running works?

[pastel flame]

Well the idea is you buy a small amount and sell it in small amounts for big profit at the risk of being caught, but...

[boreal vine]

People in chat right now say you can make a million in a hour.

[pliant matrix]

well mining quant is all about luck. Like mining in general

chain big quant rocks and you'll make fast money

or get nothing for half an hour and it'll be a loss

nvm just noticed you were talking about drug trading xD

[boreal vine]

xD

[pastel flame]

Doing drug running? Would love to see any proof of it.

[boreal vine]

Heh yeah, I do want to give it a try though I just want to experience as much content as I can imo.

Whats a good base of operations if mining?

Ay Lyria

[vestal ravine]

I have a lot of good results with Vice running and later will be around for a training run so dm me if you want. Also have summaries in a Word .doc.

[boreal vine]

I've DMed ya

[thin escarp]

drug running during xeno maybe or jt

but not normal

[boreal vine]

Smugling is crap yeah but we'll see with st lou

did vice, slam and neon, 30k profit with a freelancer max

Where do I buy stampede modules?

[ivory gust]

!itemfinder

[wary tusk]

Universal Item Finder

Use the website to search for any item (and where to buy them) in-game.

[boreal vine]

That exists as well? Damn

[tight latch]

wasn't the galaxy ship in the standalone store of the pledge shop recently

[ivory gust]

Yes, it was removed.

[blissful flume]

And good mining method

[vestal ravine]

Is Salvage in the PU?

[last cape]

its in the PTU which just opened up to everyone today

[zenith crag]

How profitable is salvaging compared to mining Quantanium?

[tight latch]

why was it removed

[ivory gust]

Because it was an initial concept sale. Those only stay on the store for about a month.

[tight latch]

So when are we supposed to be getting something like that for real

[little stratus]

not a damn clue

that sale was the first concept sale of the galaxy

be prepared to wait 10 years for the release lol

[tight latch]

I mean I would have ordered the refining one but I was not sure about at the time it was in the store

I m still waiting for my orion

[ivory gust]

As in, actually flyable? Yeah, not for a few years, likely.

[misty coyote]

Would anyone consider renting a ship from a player?

What sort of pitfalls are there about opening up ship rentals?

Just thinking of a bit of a model....

Rent for an hour or so.... Put a claim in at the end of that time if its not delivered.

Would require trust to not put the claim in earlier.

[mighty orchid]

IMO, kinda pointless at the moment without game mechanics
AFAIK, you cant refine mined goods or sell stuff if you are not the owner, so renting for mining and cargo is not the option.
Renting for combat kinda pointless, in case you may lost a ship(because good fighter pilot gonna own his own and renting might be an option for starter) or get the repair/rearm bug, so you need at some point store/claim, but you cant.
For other use cases, you good to go with basically any ship or ingame rented ones

[ivory gust]

Also only the owner of the ship can call ATC in my experience

[mighty orchid]

personally, called and landed successfully

might be the case me and owner were in party (but still at different locations)

[ivory gust]

Hmmm, when I've borrowed my dad's ships he has to call ATC

Maybe it's just that the right hand seat in Constellation takes over comms which would be dumb but believable

[mighty orchid]

maybe the way you call it
i use hotkey, so maybe that works

[ivory gust]

I tried both hotkey and through the mfd

[mighty orchid]

land or take-off?

mb that is the point

[ivory gust]

Both

[mighty orchid]

ahhh

so, yeah
with that in mind, renting from player is even more pointless

[open plaza]

Is it possible to move the salvage crates out of the vulture into another ship?

[jovial matrix]

yes, you can move them with the handheld tractorbeam

[open plaza]

So I could salvage with a friend standing by with a cargo ship to increase the amount of scrap

damn thats really cool

Would be awesome if that would work with mining ships

[mighty orchid]

Are there any restriction now? Like only the person who own the salvage and cargo ship can actually operate salvage beam and sell recycled materials?

[torn mulch]

It’s broken but you’re supposed to be able to yes

[open plaza]

in what way is it broken?

[shrewd hamlet]

It worked fine for me

[torn mulch]

Oh nice! Lots of testers reporting boxes are stuck on the grids. Good to know it’s working for some.

[hasty stump]

So... How does one find stuff to salvage?

Ah, disregard. Googled it

[vestal ravine]

Will the Vulture be a pledge ship in 3.18? Right now it's pledge/concept only.

[pliant matrix]

it'll be release for 3.18 so yeah so far it's still concept

[chrome pasture]

Hey guys! For people who tried with a Reclaimer, do you like salvaging with it? How much money did you made with it?

[pliant matrix]

first salvage! yaaay

[pliant matrix]

can I sell scrap anywhere or it's refinery only?

[solid edge]

that's an avenger titan right ?

[pliant matrix]

what was left of it yeah

[solid edge]

ok

[pliant matrix]

Also salvaged an inferno earlier too

[solid edge]

cool

(me crying behind my screen rn because i can't even launch the game)

[pliant matrix]

found another one

[silk ridge]

All TDDs and the Junkyard. ... TDDs are safer tho. ^^

[pliant matrix]

seems PO doesn't take it. I guess it's big cities only for TDD

[silk ridge]

Only major Cities have a TDD. ... They'll probably add refineries as selling places at some point (wouldn't be surprised), but for now it's just the TDDs in A18, Orison, NB and Lorville ... and the junkyard

[pliant matrix]

thx. that's a huge loss of time but well it was fun and surprisingly relaxing tbh

[silk ridge]

Not really. less than 10 minutes in and out. Could be worse.

Good time invest for over 100K ^^

[pliant matrix]

yeah. could do more if I put boxes next to cargo spots

I like the new screen btw

[hasty stump]

I don't need to have a box already set in my Vulture to start salvaging, do I? I'm scraping a hull right now and my cargo isn't changing at all

Extraction rate 0

[pliant matrix]

weird

you don't need anything set except to move boxes to not block the extractor

[hasty stump]

Yeah, I've tried two different wrecks now and just nothing

Hmm

[jovial matrix]

Are you salvaging prt of the wreck that’s able to be salvaged?

Cause like thrusters and other parts of the ship will fill the two circled at the bottom, but you wont be able to extract anything from it

[hasty stump]

Am, yeah. Found a C2 wreck, was pointed at the big flat bit on the top

Long stretch of hull

According to Spectrum the no extraction thing is a known bug

So that's that answered. That sucks though

[hasty stump]

Well, got my keybinds set properly, and discovered that putting the lasers on gimballed mode lets me move them around with my EYES

Go Tobii tracker go

[jovial matrix]

That’s pretty cool

[pliant matrix]

can I find wreck on moons too or it's space only?

[pastel flame]

There's surface wrecks as well.

[pliant matrix]

nice! time to go salvage on yela 😁

[pastel flame]

Best way is just to do low risk beacons or bounties

Make your own wrecks 🙂

[pliant matrix]

no way! that works?

[pastel flame]

Oh yeah. It's all I do in the vulture. Pirate-free out in the black.

[pliant matrix]

nice! will try that right now. gotta have certification first tho

also what's the difference between abrade and cinch modules?

[pastel flame]

Not for the beacons, just keep an eye out. If they don't pop in your sector do a few bounties to trigger

[pastel flame]

Abrade is bigger and I much prefer it but i'm no expert salvager

[pliant matrix]

I see. thx for the tip. I guess abrade is for larger plates. Might gather slower but wider idk

[pastel flame]

[shadow trail]

Any other Bad Batch nerds in here catch Omega hand mining in this weeks episode?

[pliant matrix]

found your ship @pastel flame 🤣

[pastel flame]

LOL nice... I have left a few infernos out there to rot this past week.

My last one is drifting around Crusader after a dirty 30

[pliant matrix]

that's what i tho. Abrade is larger but gather slower when cinch is more precise

jackpot

[jovial matrix]

Abrade is for big wrecks, cinch is for small wrecks

Abrade affects a larger area at once but extracts slower, cinch is the opposite

[pliant matrix]

do I risk to blow up if I fill this not cargo space?

[jovial matrix]

Physics might get fucky and blow the ship up

[pliant matrix]

yeah

boxes move by themselves and compactor refuse to do another box

[kindred orchid]

hey guys learning to mine on planets, im on aberdeen as it was recommended to look for bexalite/taranite/laranite but I've been searching for about 2 hours and yet to find a rock over 10% of these minerals

is there a tip or something I can use to check the rock before flying 10km to each one to find its 90+ crap

[ivory gust]

That's what happens when mining anything other than quantanium--you're not going to find them in large quantities.

[kindred orchid]

What would you recommend for starting to get into mining via renting as I only have a small amount of credits

[pliant matrix]

I would start with roc mining. Rent a cutlass (30k a day iirc) and a roc (mining car kinda) and go hunt for Hadanite. You'll make some money that'll let you buy a proper prospector

tho I don't recommend doing that now since 3.18 is around the corner and it'll come with a full wipe. better do big farm after that

you can try roc mining and get experience with it to be ready tho

[kindred orchid]

What about for now with my rented proc while I have it rented

[pliant matrix]

unfortunately rent prospector is doomed to gather basic stuff. and as Winter said you wont find big quantity of it. and so make good money of it

[kindred orchid]

damn is there any tips to finding more favourable rocks, even if the basic stuff?

like gems is seeing stuff pop up under 4k

[pliant matrix]

nothing but luck I guess

out of quant prospector mining is in a dark spot atm

[kindred orchid]

aw thats sad to hear I love mining

Any changes planned for .18?

[north oyster]

You can earn with it but it's greatest asset is a trainer

[velvet totem]

Once 3.18 drops imma be doing MOLE mining all day every day

you can join me on that and split the profits

[kindred orchid]

Whatcha mean trainer sorry

[pliant matrix]

Rent prospector is a good introduction to prospector mining

which mean quant mining basically

[mighty orchid]

best intro to mining is jail

at least worked for me

[ivory gust]

But you can't mine Quant with rented Prospector so it's not a good introduction at all

[north oyster]

No Quantainium mining but you can learn and earn

[pliant matrix]

Quant is the step up. You'll just have to learn quick come back and bug management xD

[ivory gust]

Except you can't earn much

[pliant matrix]

deffo not a money maker no

that's why I oriented him to roc mining which is also a mining introduction but you can make money of it

[velvet totem]

Or just do group mining and make way more money without having to rent crap

[kindred orchid]

I will try roc mining tomorrow when my rent runs out, where do I go with it?

[ivory gust]

Aberdeen, Arial, or Daymar.

Watch a ROC mining tutorial on YouTube first

[pliant matrix]

I usually go on magda too since It doesn't need a pembroke armor

had some successful run there

[kindred orchid]

ty guys I'll have a look

its hard sometimes to watch vids cause you get mixed information since they're years apart but at least I know which 3 planets to aim for

[pliant matrix]

I only look at -6months 1year vid.

[ivory gust]

Just make sure you watch a video from 3.17 or newer, so within the last year

[pastel flame]

I usually stop at 4 extra

[thin escarp]

mining is 3.18 is heavily improved

scouting and all.

it's gonna be huge again dont stress yall

at least quant miners

I'll be back doing huge mining operations 25-45 deep and training weekly. keep a look out for my guides coming in the next couple weeks. I got a bunch of people workin ptu.

[boreal vine]

anyone able to tell me for what type of quantanium rocks I am looking for before I mine a shitty patch and am forced back with barely anything.

And while mining Quantanium with the prospector, is it mine and when the batch of rocks is finished directly go back?

[ivory gust]

Rocks with lots of Quantanium.

[boreal vine]

yeah that I understood just was confused with the mass and yield sht

but its sorted

[graceful lake]

Best moon on hurston for mining?

[ivory gust]

For ROC mining, Aberdeen or Arial are good.

For Prospector or MOLE mining, none. Go to Lyria.

[graceful lake]

Thanks

[graceful lake]

Found a gem

I got 30ked

Awesome

[mighty orchid]

Like 4k 40% give you full cargo hold. Bigger mass - less %. But harder to crack

[boreal vine]

Yeah I figured heh, before the bits came flying into my prospector killing me it took a long while to do a 41% quant 5k mass rock

[hollow sedge]

Seems like the C band of the belt is pretty poor for salvage. I assume it's because of how dense the field is there's simply no room for salvage to spawn

Only saw one RS signature > 4000

[hasty stump]

Brilliant...

Salvage up a full hold, fly to New Babbage, land, head out to the TDD, open a terminal, and... Nothing

Oh, there we go

[torn mulch]

You got a discord for organised mining events mate? DM me if so plz

[thin escarp]

@torn mulch sure do

even have a website for tracking mining contracts and payouts.

[twin basin]

Man that might be tolerable if it wasn't a goddamn ladder, jeez

and the dang sloooow doooors

[jovial matrix]

Did a tiny bit of testing today. Selling 12SCU of RMC at new babbage nets you 96k (or 92k I can’t remember which). Selling 12SCU at brio’s breaker yard nets you 65k, and selling 12SCU at grimhex nets you 75k. I assume that the other scrapyards and TDD’s are the same as brio’s and new babbage, meaning it’s best to sell salvage at a TDD

[mighty orchid]

Or salvage some destroyed pirates at grimHEX and sell RMC at the place

[hasty stump]

Oh, there's the "can't put things on the cargo grid" bug

Also, can corroborate the 92k thing at New Babbage for RMC

[pliant matrix]

you can get 30k more by putting boxes on the side. 3-4 max or you might blow up

[chrome pasture]

Hey guys, is salvaging soloable? As i noticed that with the Vulture, after destroy an enemy fighter, i only get debris as salvage.

[hasty stump]

it definitely is

check out Lagrange points, they're usually littered with wrecks

gotta use your scanner and pings

[chrome pasture]

for lagrange points you mean the becon called L1/L2 etc?

[frank eagle]

arc L1 has a bunch of 890J wrecks

[hasty stump]

yeah

[hasty stump]

I am a little bummed the engine nacelles on the Vulture don't rotate like the Cutter's

[pastel flame]

I normally get my salvage from ships I destroy, no issues.

No worries about pirates and no scanning or long flights

[chrome pasture]

And for now we can only salvage the hull? Or is there a way i can take like the "Manuver Thruster" i'm watching

[hasty stump]

Not yet

Tier 0 is just hull scraping. Eventually they'll put component collection and ship munching

I'm most excited for the latter. Want to see my Vulture grind up some wrecks

[chrome pasture]

Thanks! Btw i've noticed that, first time trying salvaging, when i need to move away the box from the filler station in a Vulture, the "road" from the cockpit to the station make me drops my fps from more than 60 to 20

maybe its the cargo fault?

[hasty stump]

That's more likely a server issue. I have it happen occasionally too

random stutters are fuuun

[chrome pasture]

alright, thanks!

[chrome pasture]

And where i can sell the salvage? Example; right now i'm at ARC L1.

[swift flint]

ehh, I was stupid not to try salvage when I could.

[hasty stump]

TDD at main planets, or Grimhex

[swift flint]

I am away for the weekend and will have no access to the game

[hasty stump]

PTU is sure to be up until March

You got time

[swift flint]

hopefully yeah. will definitely give it a go when I can

[chrome pasture]

Wait so can't in stations?

[hasty stump]

Nopers, except G-G-G-G-GRIM HEX-AAAHHHH

[chrome pasture]

Alright, so i can just fly there, leave my ship in the hangar and go to the TDD?

[swift flint]

hmm, I think you have to store it

not sure

I definitely store my ships when I sell cargo

[hasty stump]

I have had to store mine, yeah, but others say don't do that? And still others say get purposely impounded

I dunno, I've had to store mine

[swift flint]

not sure about salvage

but with the bugs it has now, everything will change probably

or go back to normal