' Wrote:Now, I'm not sure if it is all mining areas, but the Penny's Helium cloud and the Scrap Field behind Manhatten are dropping at vanilla rates for sure.
' Wrote:The really cool bit is that no matter what sort of guns you are using to mine with, it goes straight to your cargo hold.
Not such a cool thing if you're fighting in a minable field and your hold gets filled up with unwanted stuff rather than the contents of the holds of your dead enemies.
I try mining scrap metal in debris field in front of manhatten, and it has good droprate, but i got nothing when mining helium in penny
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Drops in the scrap field are not great, although I was just waiting for rogues to turn up and I shot a few 'rocks' to relieve the boredom, not like I was actually there mining.
Out of a half dozen or so 'rocks' I think I got 3 or 4 scrap.
The helium cloud behind Planet Erie seems to drop between 2-8 units a rock...when it drops, which seems to be 1 out of every 2 or so. I wasn't counting, I was just happy that it was working again.
Like I said, not great, but better than a kick in the teeth if you are an almost down and out trader looking for a way to make a few dollars to get back on your feet again.
Drop rates are actually at half vanilla - for ore types this typically means 1/8th or less of the drop rates corporations get. On places with huge drop rates, like water clouds, this allows you to get some spare cargo rather quickly - but only low value cargo really.
This was intentionally set so that escorts can assist in the mining process, albeit marginally.
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' Wrote:Drop rates are actually at half vanilla - for ore types this typically means 1/8th or less of the drop rates corporations get. On places with huge drop rates, like water clouds, this allows you to get some spare cargo rather quickly - but only low value cargo really.
Like I said, if you are a trader with a brand new ship, that has discovered that they have spent most of their money and they *still* don't have a full set of turrets and they have ended up selling all of their bots/bats to get a half a load of cargo (this is what happened to me when I got my Akageta recently), finding out that you can get FREE cargo of any sort just by flying to the nearest mining zone, is a gift from HER. (TAZ will know what I mean by 'HER')
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