X4 v8.0 - Hoovering up Spacefly Eggs

[alt3rn1ty]

v8.0 of the game is currently in beta, but for the future when all can play it ..

Tips on getting Spacefly Eggs:

For Diplomacy you are going to need them. Spacefly caviar is needed for important tasks.

Best way I found is to get a decent L Miner (I used Boron Rorqual (Mineral))
Mod its mining beams with Digger (Basic mod), or better still Excavator (Exceptional mod), and set them to mining.

Setup your Container Magnet to be toggleable viewtopic.php?p=5125551#p5125551

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Documents/Egosoft/X4/[if on steam - bunch of numbers matching your Steam UID].
Right-click on the file inputmap.xml, and choose Edit
(use Notepad or text editor, dont use MS Word as it will put formatting codes in the file) 

Find the line:
<state id="INPUT_STATE_LOOTMAGNET" source="INPUT_SOURCE_KEYBOARD" code="INPUT_KEYCODE_O"/>
Edit it to read:
<state id="INPUT_STATE_LOOTMAGNET" source="INPUT_SOURCE_KEYBOARD" toggle="1" code="INPUT_KEYCODE_O"/>
Save and close the file.

Start X4. Your loot magnet should now be a toggle!

Now you can hit o and the Container Magnet will just keep going without holding o. Hit it again to switch it off.

Jump in the Pilot seat (so you can use the Container magnet and get Spacefly eggs straight into your Inventory) Drive around 40-60 m/s, slow enough to both mine all in range asteroids, and slow enough that your Container Magnet hoovers the drops up without leaving any behind because you were going too fast.

Now just steer the ship through an asteroid field, preferably one with a lot of bigger asteroids (Egosoft have set the random occurence of Spacefly Eggs to be a little bit more than it used to be, you sometimes get a drop of 3 x Spacefly Eggs from the big Asteroids) .. In the video below I was going through Holy Vision asteroid fields.
If you want to speed things up, engage SETA.

You can get Spacefly Eggs from the traders at 2-3 Independant Trade Stations throughout the X'verse, but this is much slower than mining them yourself.

I found I can mine about 130-140 per hour. Possibly more depends on RNGesus.
Bonus is your Mining drones will also be collecting ores to sell off later.

Chill out, Grab a coffee and adjust steering as required, and enjoy watching the Spacefly Eggs roll in

Video if you can be arsed watching - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1twiE1S ... sp=sharing
(Its an .mp4, better quality if you download it and view in your favourite media player, I use VLC)

[PersonyPerson]

I completely forgot that in-game mods for mining turrets existed.

Before I used the Erlking, putting all turrets onto "mining" mode, in which I could get 75 space eggs (the old requirement for 3x Spacefly Caviar for diplomatic Interference) in ~30 minutes. But now I do wonder if going back to an L miner with a fully modded set up might now be the play.

Good advice.

[alt3rn1ty]

I'm currently following the purple asteroid path in Second Contact II Flashpoint, and hoovering up quite a few more than mentioned in the first post. Its not been mentioned in the beta topics, but I think Ketraar may have tweaked the RNG on Spacefly eggs a little bit more than he did in the previous beta, the most you could get in the previous beta from one drop was 3 eggs, since the update to 8.0 beta 5 today I have had a drop which contained 4 eggs. Unless a 4 drop was possible in the previous beta and I just never got one
Anyway in the last couple of hours I got just over 500 eggs (I am using the purple mining mod to speed up digging for them).

I ran out earlier today doing loads of Diplomacy missions trying to find which Bribes work, nearly ready to go at it again.

Edit: Correction - Make that 622 in the last 2 and half hours https://i.imgur.com/8o2DRdg.png

[PersonyPerson]

I'm currently following the purple asteroid path in Second Contact II Flashpoint, and hoovering up quite a few more than mentioned in the first post. Its not been mentioned in the beta topics, but I think Ketraar may have tweaked the RNG on Spacefly eggs a little bit more than he did in the previous beta, the most you could get in the previous beta from one drop was 3 eggs, since the update to 8.0 beta 5 today I have had a drop which contained 4 eggs. Unless a 4 drop was possible in the previous beta and I just never got one
Anyway in the last couple of hours I got just over 500 eggs (I am using the purple mining mod to speed up digging for them).

I ran out earlier today doing loads of Diplomacy missions trying to find which Bribes work, nearly ready to go at it again.

Edit: Correction - Make that 622 in the last 2 and half hours https://i.imgur.com/8o2DRdg.png

I'm fairly sure the max amount of Spacefly Eggs per drop changed from 2 to 4 in 8.00 Beta 3. I got a few drops of 4 last beta. The maximum amount that can be dropped per drop was changed and nothing was done to the overall drop rate % of Spacefly Eggs.

Diplomacy is quite easy now because of it.

[alt3rn1ty]

Concur, I think I have just been luckier recently. Also had a couple more of those 4 x egg drops, they are rare and dont occur often enough to become overly abundant (like those Unstable Crystals you can often get 9 of per drop). Ketraar has done a good job on re-balancing the eggs.

[Elipsis]

Signing back in for the first time in ages to endorse and thank you for this very effective strategy.

[alt3rn1ty]

~ for this very effective strategy.

I just hope that holds true after v9 of the game hits the streets, lots of changes to mining resources and weapons going on.