***ARCHIVED*** Discovery Mining Guide [4.88.5] ***ARCHIVED***

[Laz]

It might be worth sending screenshots of your ship loadout. Guns, ID & IFF.

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[St.Denis]

Much apriciated St.Denis. Though already youre results are way different then mine and i personaly have not seen those drops since long long time Sad What is wrong then... and why does this only happen to me un dublin gold ore field.

I have just done a test with the Clydesdale with only 3 Mining Turrets and filled up 5000 hold in 4 minutes and 36 seconds. I would suggest that there is something wrong with your set up. I haven't tried the Clydesdale with 4 Turrets, but I cannot see how it takes you anywhere near 15 minutes for a 5ker.

The Surveyor is still very good to fill up Transports, though.

EDIT: With 4 Mining Turrets and 5000 Units, done in 3 minutes 46 seconds.

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[Hammerhead]

I find that my Hege takes about the same amount of time to fill 2500 gold and I raced a Clydesdale who mined 10,000. Same area, same ID and IFF, same time.

Just a thought.

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[Starsunder]

Have y'all seen this? Could be related.

Very good guide! Kudos.

Perhaps you could include the topic of "double hits".

Therefore you need create loadouts which have mining lasers at the same distance to the rock that you shoot. The more lasers hit the rock at the same time, the higher the yield. This can easily make a difference of up to 20% in total drop rate.

Turret placement for Annapurna:

> Slot 1: missile
> Slot 2: gun
> all other slots: Mining lasers

For the Annapurna, it would even decrease your yield, if you had full mining laser loadout because the 2 "not same distance" lasers keep you from scoring multi-hits. It's even more extreme with some freighters that have up to 5 aligned guns.

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[Erik-Kieber]

Sory it took a bit but i reinstalled disco and tryt agian yet no difference in the times.

Ok se here are my ship layouts Clyesdale&Hegemon

From what i know these ships are as they should be for dublin mining how ever my times are way off when compared to everyone whom tested.
Thank you all for helping to figure this out, i hope things are getting clear now.

Friendly regards from,
Erik

[Laz]

Please, can you give me a screenshot of your IFFs? (The flashing bar in your reputation menu, at the bottom)

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[St.Denis]

Sory it took a bit but i reinstalled disco and tryt agian yet no difference in the times.

Ok se here are my ship layouts Clyesdale&Hegemon

From what i know these ships are as they should be for dublin mining how ever my times are way off when compared to everyone whom tested.
Thank you all for helping to figure this out, i hope things are getting clear now.

Friendly regards from,
Erik

For a start, you only need 4 Turrets on your Hegemon, to mine properly. These are at positions 1-4. Using any more will make things worse, not better.

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[Erik-Kieber]

*edit* So i tryt the 4 mining turret setup and it is solved. My what an tricky system it is *laughs* Agian much apriciated from all of you guys and thanks for sticking to it and get it solved.*bows*

Hmmzz sounds strange to me to be honest. But il give it a go. Thank you

Sory it took a bit but i reinstalled disco and tryt agian yet no difference in the times.

Ok se here are my ship layouts Clyesdale&Hegemon

From what i know these ships are as they should be for dublin mining how ever my times are way off when compared to everyone whom tested.
Thank you all for helping to figure this out, i hope things are getting clear now.

Friendly regards from,
Erik

For a start, you only need 4 Turrets on your Hegemon, to mine properly. These are at positions 1-4. Using any more will make things worse, not better.

[Vexykin]

I'm not sure if it's asked here or not, but who gets a mining bonus on Azurite gas?

[Lythrilux]

Core and Order have the highest from what I recall. Something like 4.0.

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