Fly into a mineable asteroid field and shoot the floating things and shoot em with 1 gun.

mining is useless basicaly unless you want to spend hours at it. takes a long time to fill up your entire cargo.

Good if you are in low levels. I went mining for silver in the asteroid field in Colorado, and turned up a 10k load.

Mining all depends on where you go as well. Some fields are rich in deposits, some are barren. The dimond field in Dresden had lots of dimonds when i went. Also, Copperton Asteroid Field has a good bit of copper you can sell at Peublo (20k away) for 400 a pop. Not bad when you're starting out.

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Every once in a while just do a little mining for taget practice. Use your weakest weapon and be careful not to go into zones that are not friendly to you. At the lower levels it can be a great way to make a few bucks if you don't want to take on the Bar missions and mess up your rep.

I earned enough in th Dresden system to get myself a better ship and some weapons. It kept me in Nano's until I could get the best shield for my ship and I also kept doing trade missions for the loot.

Choose wisely and you can make some coins choose poorly and you wind up dead!

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Mining is good only if your broke and don't want to do missions. Other then that you would make much more money from doing trade runs.

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Every once in a while just do a little mining for taget practice.

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that a good way to losen your boredom after winning the game

argh i'm never gonna get paid, Goddbye a million credits

Plus it's a good way to practise using the turret on the VHF.

A very popular rumour is that you need a low damage weapon to avoid blowing up the goods when you mine, but the fact is you DON'T. I have done quite a bit of mining and I haven't noticed any difference in yield between a cheap gun and a top end gun, so the more logical thing to do is to use your SLOWEST gun so you don't fire a second shot before you know it and blow up the goods. In my case that is a Nomad Energy Cannon.

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where can i do trade runs

Everywhere

About those things blowing up, I noticed that sometimes the yield is next to nothing while some other time you mine the same area and every other rock has resources.

I was mining diamonds in the Von Rohe belt and getting a 1 in 5 return. A level later I returned, but the mining fun was over. No more diamonds no matter how many rocks I blew up.
Same thing with that mining field in Leipzig behind Bautzen; I never got any resources from that field.

I just wonder if there are conditions for getting resources out of mining fields.

Mining Diamonds is an excercise in futility compared to Niobium. Up in Tau-37 right near the Tau-23 jump hole, you can mine niobium, and expect at least a 50% drop rate, though usually it is 100%. Then, going over the top of Sirius, its a small 20-30 minute trip down to Dresden to sell it for 1600 a pop. Diamonds sell for 1650 at their highest rate, and the length of the run to get to New Tokyo to sell it like that, isnt worth the 20% max drop rate you'll get in Van Rohe. Mining Niobium I've filled a Dromedary in 15 minutes, then another 25ish and im 400k richer. Then, since I'm going over the top area, which takes me through kusari, I buy cheap diamonds when i get to Dresden and sell them in New Tokyo to maximize my profits.




Edited by - Hellmaster on 07-05-2003 22:04:10

"dimond field in Dresden..."
Ohhh! The piss cloud! Nah, jk, i got 60k of diamonds in 20 min, kind of a long time, but it came out good new london+diamonds=chaching

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