[Guide] Mining Ores

[Tenacity]

I'd like to post a little trick that I discovered tonight mining in Omicron lost for APM.

One problem that I've had during this event is being able to see the ore well. Omicron lost is a very dark system, and the ore that you're mining doesnt have the usual glow or trail fx that most mining field objects do. On top of that, you're looking at a background asteroid field that looks almost identical to the ore chunks you're shooting, and after a long period of time mining it can be very disorienting and headache-inducing trying to pick out the rocks from the background.
For reference, this is what the omicron lost mining field looks like:

Now, tonight I had done a pimpship light change on my rhino to match my other core| ships, and I've grown fond of using the LBlueCone lights for my headlights/docking lights (the docking light slots can be turned on/off with the lights command hotkey, and it's nice having spotlights that illuminate whatever you're aiming at and able to turn off and on at will, nice RP value).
Well, it turns out that those LBlueCone lights (light item # 130) do a very good job of illuminating the Iridium rock chunks in the omicron lost minefield. They have about a 800-1000m illumination range, so they'll highlight/reflect off of close ore chunks but not off of the background asteroids that are further away from you.
All of this ends up creating this effect:

As you can see, the iridium ore chunks are illuminated a cyan color, which makes them incredibly easy to spot and track against the background rocks/starsphere.

I plan to incorporate this into some mining RP that I'm already writing for Core| / APM, but for others who are having similar issues, possibly in other mining fields, I figured this would be a nice trick to pick up.

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