Mineral mining

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So i bought a mineral miner one of the paranid ones, about medium loadout.

I decided to hop on but not control it myself so i thought right lets go mining and stayed in the map mostly and sent it off on a mining order. So it goes over to a red area and starts and after awhile i notice hmm its taking a while and the turrets seem to do most of the firing yet the front main big mining weapon does very little which i think to myself hmph i dont think ill bother with a front fixed mining weapon next time. So anyhow i see it fire at the roids and then they break up and they take ages getting 1 bit at a time, they manually fly to each one and have a weird pickup system where it goes near it and aims for it to be on the wrong side of the ship, the ship then rotates and the roid part goes through the hull i think and then after its done a 180 it goes in the door animation thing, im thinking hey i think the devs could tidy that pathing to collect a bit better i think as thats wasting about 5-10 seconds doing that all that flipping for each piece each time. Plus im thinking we need tractor beams to drag in the roid bits as this would speed things up because apparently ai ships dont know about pressing o on the keyboard and have all the bits get drawn into the ship. I think if they could do that it would make mining a bit more streamlined and quicker roll over times per trip.

Then i notice a adv mining thing in behaviour so i try that and i see i can pick nvidiium. Cool i hear u can make a bundle off that. So off it went and got some. Then it just sits flying around the spot wondering what to do as low and behold i dont think anywhere buys it so im forced to dump all that cargo. Grr that pees me right off. Then i set it to get ore and silicon instead as i know theres stations that buy it right near the red bit it mines it at. I get about 11k for that. Hmph and i thought 18k for ice at the start was a bit measly for the time it took to mine. Seriously why bother mining if thats all i get per trip. I hoped at least 50k or 100k per trip for something.

So yeah mining is a bit of a let down.

Im sure some will say just buy em set em up and forget em and get loads of em to add up the income but meh, i cba to mine with 1 ship to afford another ship. And i dont fancy doing any other things in the game right now i just fancied some mining and watching a ship do it for a bit.

Easier to just go crystal hunting but meh if i keep doing that its just basically cheating to get money quick and rather not rely on it. Dont fancy trading wares and dont wana get in trouble for stealing ships or damaging rep i like to live without ppl attacking me.

So i think yet again ill just shelve the game till dlc comes in hopes that brings me some fun with a plot to do or something. Its a shame ego has moved from a space adventure game to just concentrating on economy and trading as the big parts of the game instead of plot and missions and doing fun things in ur ship like the first few games. Oh and wars now, er thanks for that, something i never asked for.

[spankahontis]

So i bought a mineral miner one of the paranid ones, about medium loadout.

I decided to hop on but not control it myself so i thought right lets go mining and stayed in the map mostly and sent it off on a mining order. So it goes over to a red area and starts and after awhile i notice hmm its taking a while and the turrets seem to do most of the firing yet the front main big mining weapon does very little which i think to myself hmph i dont think ill bother with a front fixed mining weapon next time. So anyhow i see it fire at the roids and then they break up and they take ages getting 1 bit at a time, they manually fly to each one and have a weird pickup system where it goes near it and aims for it to be on the wrong side of the ship, the ship then rotates and the roid part goes through the hull i think and then after its done a 180 it goes in the door animation thing, im thinking hey i think the devs could tidy that pathing to collect a bit better i think as thats wasting about 5-10 seconds doing that all that flipping for each piece each time. Plus im thinking we need tractor beams to drag in the roid bits as this would speed things up because apparently ai ships dont know about pressing o on the keyboard and have all the bits get drawn into the ship. I think if they could do that it would make mining a bit more streamlined and quicker roll over times per trip.

Then i notice a adv mining thing in behaviour so i try that and i see i can pick nvidiium. Cool i hear u can make a bundle off that. So off it went and got some. Then it just sits flying around the spot wondering what to do as low and behold i dont think anywhere buys it so im forced to dump all that cargo. Grr that pees me right off. Then i set it to get ore and silicon instead as i know theres stations that buy it right near the red bit it mines it at. I get about 11k for that. Hmph and i thought 18k for ice at the start was a bit measly for the time it took to mine. Seriously why bother mining if thats all i get per trip. I hoped at least 50k or 100k per trip for something.

So yeah mining is a bit of a let down.

Im sure some will say just buy em set em up and forget em and get loads of em to add up the income but meh, i cba to mine with 1 ship to afford another ship. And i dont fancy doing any other things in the game right now i just fancied some mining and watching a ship do it for a bit.

Easier to just go crystal hunting but meh if i keep doing that its just basically cheating to get money quick and rather not rely on it. Dont fancy trading wares and dont wana get in trouble for stealing ships or damaging rep i like to live without ppl attacking me.

So i think yet again ill just shelve the game till dlc comes in hopes that brings me some fun with a plot to do or something. Its a shame ego has moved from a space adventure game to just concentrating on economy and trading as the big parts of the game instead of plot and missions and doing fun things in ur ship like the first few games. Oh and wars now, er thanks for that, something i never asked for.

Trade Stations buy Nvidium and is quite profitable.. The problem is there is no sinkhole by the looks of it.
I sold Nvidium to all the Trade Stations on the map and it seems that they are not consumed by people on the Stations so you can't replenish their stocks.
And you're absolutely right, no Station needs Nvidium as a requirement to build anything.

A pain in the arse when you complete a Trade Guild mission where you get a Miner or a Magnetar as a reward with 5000xNvidium in it's hold and you can't sell it.
Good job you can Jettison things now, or you would have a ship that is pretty much useless. Selling it would be your only option.
Another thing on Egosofts huge list of 'What to fix?'.

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Maybe nvidiium could be a resource to build experimental ships

[spankahontis]

Maybe nvidiium could be a resource to build experimental ships

According to the lore, Nvidium is now only used in the creation of jewelry. But you can't manufacture Majaglit either which I find confusing, as the Paranid are there in the game and you can build Maja Snail Factories, you'd think People (Especially Teladi) would love jewelry?

Maybe they intend to implement it in a future build?

[Skeeter]

Hopefully.