A small hint for mining

Fri Mar 14, 2003 3:44 pm by Idioteque

Some of you may have realised that you can get something for nothing in freelancer. Mining is cheap in costs, and can be big on rewards. (Okay scrap metal excluded here

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Anyway, the small hint (which is just for those you you who hadn't worked it out)

Use one weapon only, a fast projectile works best just for ease of targeting the rocks. Multiple weapons may destroy the mineral with the rock, single weapons leave the mineral nice and intact. I'm thinking same deal for shipwrecks as well, but haven't tried it.

Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to take this cargo hold full of gold to.... somewhere that will pay decent money for it (hehehe almost a spoiler).

Sun Mar 16, 2003 8:12 am by Mongbat

Oh my, thanks! i was begining to wonder why i could never get _ANYTHING_ out of rocks

Sun Mar 16, 2003 10:30 am by Easy Rhino

yeah, I finally mined some gold in dublin for the first time successfully. I found it easier to spray randomly rather than actually trying to target rocks.

Question re: the map, where is shows mining areas. Sometimes it shows a 'darker' area, and sometimes a 'brighter' area. Which is denser?

MINOR MINING SPOILER: In dublin, it looks like the center of one gold field is bright. But in the Von Rohr belt in Omega-whatever (radioactive diamond field) the brighter color is the outside ring.

huh?

ER

Edited by - Easy Rhino on 16-03-2003 10:33:36

Sun Mar 16, 2003 11:41 am by Chaldan

I tried some mining and I think the "rock rate" is too low (perhaps it differs in different areas, only tried it in Dublin). At times I had to wait around 30 seconds between rocks... I suggest an increase in the generation rate of the targettable rocks (to balance it you'd probably need to lower the chance of getting minerals, but then again mining seems to be the least profitable career in the game)

Sun Mar 16, 2003 1:49 pm by Easy Rhino

in the southeast BMM mining field in dublin, I was able to fairly quickly fill up the 40 capacity in my light fighter once I was in the "core" area and really got good at breaking rocks. Course, if you really wanna make a big profit, then you need to haul the gold somewhere far away. So mining is kind of like being a normal merchant. But you break rocks to increase your return on investment

ER

Tue Mar 18, 2003 12:46 pm by Norfleet

Buh, rocks? You people mine rocks? How barbaric.

Are you aware of those little ships which fly around, that can also be mined? The procedure is the same: Shoot them, they blow up, and you pick up the loot which falls out.

They also move and shoot back. That makes it more fun.

Trust me on this one. I've been mining ever since Elite. Just me, the open spaces of Riedquat, and my trusty 30MW mining laser. Great place for mining.

Tue Mar 18, 2003 3:44 pm by rhenan

uhm... Mining laser... those were the days

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Edited by - RHenan on 18-03-2003 15:45:24

Tue Mar 18, 2003 5:07 pm by winterblink

Using a turret is the best thing when mining... Hit H to switch to turret view then SPACE so you're in mouse-look mode... Sit in one spot and swivel around shooting rocks. The "rock rate" doesn't really apply then, since there's always swarms of them on other sides of your ship. Downside: getting dizzy spinning your turret in a single direction for too long.

Tue Mar 18, 2003 5:57 pm by -Timber

so can ALL rocks get mined or just the ones that make your crosshairs light up.

I was in the ice fields (I forget the system) and I tried shooting the big rocks and nothing. I saw a little star shaped one fly by my screen and it made my crosshairs light up....I shot it and got something.

Tue Mar 18, 2003 8:55 pm by winterblink

Well I guess you just answered your own question there, didn't ya?

Wed Mar 19, 2003 5:46 pm by -Timber

I just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something right.

Like the other day I thought I'd try my hand at priating......I stopped at a trade lane and shot at it, but the ships continued to go through. Later I found out from someone that you're supposed to be within 300 meters of the trade lane.

Thu Mar 20, 2003 1:29 am by Flak Cannon

well it would be terrible if u did something RIGHT eh?? lol anyway, yea, i fired a starkiller at one of the bigger ice chunks and nothing, so... imagine if u could tho... badlands here we come!!!!

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Thu Mar 20, 2003 8:21 am by Easy Rhino

I thought you had to shoot the trade lane to disable it.

Thu Mar 20, 2003 3:38 pm by -Timber

You do but you have to be within 300 meters or so.

Thu Mar 20, 2003 7:10 pm by Huffer

The best way to mine is to have a freighter and a couple of friends in fighters to help you. The cargo capacity of the freighter lets you haul in enough to make a run really worth it, and your friends can help you mine when they aren't fighting off all the people who hate you.
Whenever I try mining on my own, I spend 90% of my time fighting off pirates and never pick up enough stuff to pay for my sheild batteries and nanobots.

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