To mine, go into a asteriod field. In the field move you cursor over one of the small spinnings rocks. Your crosshairs should start spinning. Fire one gun and one gun only (too many guns and you blow up what you want to mine). If you've got a commodity a white square should appear in front of you. Push "B" to tractor it in. Not every rock will have something. If you want to make mining easier, go to you menu and turn off "background dust". That will make the minable rocks more obvious.

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Shoot anything flying by, it might drop something it might not. some area's produce more than others.

Eg in ICE fields shoot you guessed it the ice rocks floating by.

Just bumped the old topic, look there.

Just bear in mind that it is in most cases faster and earier to buy the commodity you're mining at the nearest base. Mining is only a real option if you are bored, very poor, or very cheap. There's always some mining company offering niobium or H-fuel at very low prices.

But hey, if you like mining, be my guest and go right ahead.

There is an interesting story. Read it if you're interested: I was mining Niobium in Tau-37 when 4 Outcast appaeared! They said: Drop your cargo (4 Oxygen I looted from other enemies). I decided to play with them a bit: I droppped my cargo, and waited for them to pick it up... Then I destoyed all 4 ship and tractorred in what was left of them.

Even this was more profitable than mining, but mine all you want.

---Everything is evolution---

Mining is 100% pure profit. But when you start mining in a freighter you better have a fast escape route. I usually mine gold in Dublin, then sell it at Battleship Hood. Not a high profit but still 100% profit.

Forget mining, when you see large Transport ships passing buy, scan their cargo to see if they have anything valuable and if they do, attack their escorts then blow the ship up and tractor in their goods.(The transport ship have a hell of a lot good stuff sometimes.

Except that mining doesn't hurt your rep and blowing up cargo ship does.

Also blowing up friendly ships is sort of called ... uh piracy, not mining.

I sometimes mine out of boredom or for target practice. The biggest money is from diamonds in the Dresden system. But you only get maybe one small asteroid containing something out of each 20 you blast.




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Edited by - Puke Barwalker on 22-07-2003 10:03:39