Premium scrap pricing.

[Lythrilux]

Pfft, don't make it out to be a mission, it took me 3 mins to mine myself a load just now (3.5kish ore by the way). Just get a proper mining load out and then it's easy. By this I mean make sure that you only use two mining turrets (You can get away with using 4 on the salvager), make sure the turrets are the exact same distance from each other, so for example on the Salvager one on the top of each wing (With this ship you can also get 2 on the bottom of each wing as well). This way you can end up hitting a single rock twice and get double the amount of p-scrap with it.

3 mins? Nah.
But if that absolutely is the case, then here the problem isn't with the price of the scrap, it's with the mining rate of that field. The New London scrap field should just have it's mining rate reduced in that case.

And ofc, you have arti's to take back which is a more profitable route back than those that are available to most lawful groups that mine.

Yes, but it's contraband. If I don't want to risk it I just take Deuterium back instead, which would be akin to what lawfuls trade back.

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