Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. Usually there are no issues seeing the chat but few reports tells us that for no apparent reason very rarely some CMDRs cant see chat, restarting Elite client and/or checking connection issues usually has fixed this. pristine, depleted, common) doesn't change the number of cores found, for core mining. Since the mining nerfs of LTDs the graphs are not relevant anymore. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. 2020-06-06 Few days out from fleet carriers release and everyone seems to be in LTD laser mining frenzy on Borann system A 2 ring. As you earn more money, you can think about upgrading into a medium-sized ship, something like the Python. For Optional Internals, youll need a Refinery, atleast 2 collector limpet modules, a prospector limpet controller, detailed surface scanner and more than 200 cargo space. There is a tonne of different ores in the game, such as Painite, Platinum, Palladium, Osmium, and on and on. This lets you attach more sophisticated mining gear that in turn allows you to collect more valuable ore. A lot of what I found today were between 40-50%. These are the sorts of details that you will learn over time. Good resources for new Elite Dangerous players include some of the fan-run websites, such as edtools.cc and eddb.io. When you arrive to the mining system, fuel scoop tanks full because you have one problem less to worry when you start hyper jumping towards selling station with full cargo of expensive minerals. Thanks for everyone who commented. Painite can be found in metallic rings, low temperature diamonds (LTD) and tritium (also void opals?) No pirate around and near the ltd 4 spot system. You don't just mine and sell whatever you find to your nearest space station. There is another Serendibite hotspot overlap in the same ring. Collector Limpets are also fired out of your ship, and they'll hover around the area and collect any chunks of ore that are floating around. A detailed surface scanner so you can locate the double hotspots within the ring, and more than 200 cargo space so you have more room for limpets and so you have alot of storage for your Painite. This website has no affiliation or direct endorsement from Frontier Development or Elite Dangerous. The Pulse Wave Analyser will highlight asteroids with minerals inside, and also where the minerals are, which you can then blast apart with a Seismic Charge Launcher. As this is a Haz Res, you should expect to be attacked and you need to be capable of managing multiple attackers. (like 5 asteroids per "cluster" if there's more than one cluster, and none of which usually have any painite Or you can place an order with the Trading Post of EIC. Same goes to sub surface deposit drill missiles. Delkar system. Overlapping hotspots does not matter when it comes to void opals. If you mine and sell minerals directly to carrier it will take far less time, you dock, sell and jump / super cruise right back to the rings to mine some more. If you get scanned by a pirate and have cargo on board, get ready to high wake jump out of there because the pirate will attack you. When you see overlapping hotspots of same type minerals, painite, LTD, tritium etc, then you have found something good. This is not an overlap of same material, but rather an opportunist overlap of Void Opals and LTDs. My python is equipped for laser or core mining I just want the 10 painite for the engineer unlock. All rights reserved. I recommend you get a 2D fixed Mining laser and fit, Elite Dangerous: Double Painite Mining Guide. It is one of the favorite Mining spots from the YouTuber Hawkes gaming. At average, you can sell Painite for 122,749, and with a maximum sell at 797,150 per canister. On a double painite hotspot, wasted like 60 prospectors and did not find a single asteroid with painite. Mining is shooting a laser to an asteroid which gives fragments, collector limpets grab these fragments and bring them to your ship where refinery will process them into minerals which are placed in your cargo hold. Your choice of ship is only the first part of a mining expedition. Yeah Delkar is good. Harry Alston is a lead specialist writer at TheGamer. Check out thefull rundown of the best mining ships in Elite Dangerous for more information. In my experience mining Painite, the best spot I can give is Omicron Capricorni B B1 Ring. Here is a list of the overlapping high-value Minerals (OHVM): If they are duplicated below it is because there is more than one of the exact same overlap. Even if your cargo hold is full you can still store stuff in the refinery bins, once you are in station and sell your cargo, refinery will automatically process the fragments in the bins and place minerals into cargo hold. I have ran into this problem once. In this guide, I will give you some tips and details on Mining Painite, Giving you the best spot to mine, etc. Now it's time to refine and sell your ore. Minerals are automatically deposited into your ship's refiner and you can refine them onboard. Make some quick money with this handy guide to mining in Elite Dangerous. Double overlap of Tritium with a very, very tight pattern. These two are very important to take with you on a mining expedition. Overlapping Tritium Hotspot. Just simply fly in and youll be finding Painite everywhere you go. It is pointless to write numbers into this page as these numbers most likely have changed after 24hrs, but lets just say that a very rough ballbark would be that miner should not sell LTDs with less than 1 million per ton. This is a great mining spot for all sorts of materials. https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Painite. If that's the case, then yeah, it can be a pain to find ore rocks. Deep core requires seismic charges and complex "dance" to blow up asteroid in spectacular manner. Of course this depends on time of day, UTC morning to noon is a bit more quiet, but even then if there is more than 10 minutes of silence, your chat or Elite server connection (port forwarding?) It has pretty good storage space and is large enough to carry everything you need for a successful mining expedition. The more collector limpet controllers you have means youll be collecting the resource you mined faster. is not working properly. I recommend you check out this link to find the nearest system to you with the double hotspots. I found a good load of Painite, platinum there. You want to be close, but not too close, and fire away at asteroids with minerals inside. Choosing an asteroid: shoot prospector limpet to it and target the limpet. Below is the very tight overlap of HIP 4351. with LTDs I have no such issue, do I need to be more precise? Basic three types of mining are: laser mining, sub surface deposit mining and deep core mining. Popular community spot. All asteroids in the. After detailed surface scanning check visually the orange/yellow hotspots in the rings and look left side panel navigation tab for lockable locations for these hotspots. I have tried mining painite a couple of times in 2 different hotspots as shown in the miners tool, but I don;t seem to find a single rock with painite in it. For carrier CMDRs tritium while it can be used as fuel is far less valuable as LTDs, if you are wondering what to donate then simply donating/selling a few LTDs is just fine, that will cover the costs for fuel it takes to taxi you. If only it was that simple. Note: 2020-07-15 fleet carriers patch 3 totally ruined overlapping hotspots, for example Col 285 Sector Cc-k a38-2 triple hotspot has basically no LTD in it. If there are no such announcements you can just ask "Any carrier leaving to selling system?" In the case the information is from another source, I try very hard to give proper credit to the CMDR and/or website. Either is fine. I recommend mining at the double musgravite overlap. If you own a carrier you can park it nearby the low demand high paying station, then just do several LTD hauling trips with your ship selling only specific amount of tons to get the maximum price, right? For Deep Core Mining you need a Seismic Charge Launcher, for Surface Mining youshould always attach an Abrasion Blaster, and you should probably carry as many prospecting limpets as you can, regardless. The below information is a combination of personal discovery, as well as collected from other resources and websites. In one run, I was able to make atleast 156M credits. Notice that painite has much higher percentage content than lets say LTDs. I know this post is old, but I just wanted to let anyone that gets to this post know that this was exactly my problem. The More Painite, the better. Painite is mostly laser surface mining and some subsurface. Unless the AI ship is some pimp engineered up to the gills garbage, you should be able to escape. Shields beginner commanders should definitely use shields because it is very easy to fly into asteroids or have them clip your ship while you are not even moving (asteroid slowly rotates and "long" part hits your ship). Seems to be some misinformation flying around. The 2 Tritium spots are so close together there is less than 5Ls between them. Selling directly to carriers is good for mining CMDRs and the carrier CMDRs as well. Piracy is perfectly fine, its great in fact, but killing other players for "fun" is not. If you need or want to mine both, this is a good spot. 3. This updated guide will cover everything you need to know about mining, collecting valuable ores, and how to turn a profit. I found quite a bit today. If that's all a bit much to take in at once, fair enough. Additionally, asteroids in RES sites take longer to deplete and spit out more chunks than 'wild' asteroids do. Press J to jump to the feed. Elite Dangerous is a simulator in every sense of the word. Classe cristalline et groupe despace: pyramid This is where two or more high paying DIFFERENT materials overlap. All the latest gaming news, game reviews and trailers. For Core internals, I can recommend getting A power plant, distributor, thrusters. Regarding the double hotspot in Omicron Capricorni B, there is a bug where it doesnt show the hotspot after scanning the Ring. quick question, do i only find painite in prismarine planets *are there even prismarine rings? Always check demand vs your cargo capacity (amount of minerals). This gives them proper credit and promotes your journey of discovery.
These taxi rides do not have a technical method of payment, but most CMDRs donate either tritium or LTDs. Double overlapping hotspots are very nice and triple overlapping hotspots are like you really struck gold now. Mining is the number-one way to make money in Elite Dangerous. So far mining has been alright, hoping to find lots of high percentage rocks. We can calculate 25% by demand/4 so 1450/4 == 362.5, then you'll be paid only reduced price, sometimes as down as 500-900k per ton. Or you could just re-login to the game and immediately hyper jump away off towards the selling station. Quadruple LTD hotspot. "Elite: Dangerous PvE" was created using assets and imagery from. It's like I was in a dead are but still in the hotspot. LTDs overlapping hotspots mining is still the best in a large ship with many collector limpets. Swoilz PK-R b20-0 1. Remember, there is a living, thriving market in Elite Dangerous that is impacted by player sales: try and find a system where your ore is selling for a good price.
Also, not all locations are necessarily Pristine Rings, so be sure to check that. Pristine is hard to find in center of colonized space, whats your location ? Covering the hottest movie and TV topics that fans want. or similar. Mining, like pretty much everything else in Elite Dangerous, is a bit complicated for the uninformed. Yes, painite can only be obtained by mining. There is no other activity that comes close to the potential profits of a long mining session, so buckle up, get your mining lasers ready, and start blasting those asteroids. It has 42 hotspots: 5 Alexandrite, 4 Bromellite, 9 Grandidierite, 6 Low Temperature Diamonds, 8 Void Opals and 10 Trition.
You can sell these minerals in many stations. Double overlapping Low Temperature Diamonds. Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga Tips and Tricks, Labyrinthine Solution for Lights Out Puzzle. Can someone send me a, The following information is from https://www.reddit.com/user/vanderaj/ on the referenced Reddit post. Text below taken from this url -> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1okp9xLc_TsSleibSONaK1q8oGXxMMUm4wJmRm2ZbyPM/edit This is a Platinum mining map for Lalande 34968 AB 8, drop into the Resource Extraction Site at the Platinum Hotspot. I kept at it. If you have one of the larger ships, such as the Imperial Cutter, you probably have some weapons on board. Now, however, that has changed, and according to good sources, the ring level (i.e. Shot was taken in the shadow for better examination. In general its not worth your time to search these missions. It seems I am doing everything as you say, for LTDs I have no issues, unless the metallic rings are different in some thing like others mention dead zones etc.. They come in different shapes and sizes, but generally for most mining missions you want at least two to three medium lasers equipped on your ship. There were no other CMDR's present to help us out as everyone was on another system with high demand. Searching for carrier NAME in systemp map or navigation panel is horror, there are no alphabetical order and the lists (at least in Col 285 Sector Cc-k a38-2) are very long. Collecting involves scooping up the ore like pick and mix or using the collector limpets that we mentioned earlier. Power plant and distributor for better weapons and engine capacity and thrusters for better maneuverability around asteroids (or even escaping bandits trying to steal your resource). In v3.7 fleet carriers patch 2 there is a bug that prevents CMDRs to sell into a carrier if the buy order is maxed out against carriers credit balance. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. After that, head to a system where you want to sell your ores. Never tried to mine in a HazRES, but I imagine it's similarly rewarding. WRONG, trust me on this on 2020-07-09 we sold 14,300t of LTDs in station that only accepted 360t per trip to avoid bulk tax and we spend ALL DAY hauling diamonds. A lump of Indite is not worth as much as a pile of Void Opals, and a handful of Low-Temperature Diamonds are worth a lot more than Gallite. The Python also handles smoothly and can take a few shots from pirates. This spot doesnt have any same material overlaps, but does have a lot of different materials. I'll get the most chunks from an asteroid in a HIRES, followed by Low and Regular. It happened to me as well, when I was getting the required amount for the engineer. Try not to get involved in such conversations, just ignore them. Elite Dangerous also receives various balance patches, and some ores have been nerfed recently to bring their profit margins more in line with other variations. Even experienced Triple Elite commanders often return from a mining trip with hull damaged some ways :). This might take a bit of investigation but is worth it for all your hard work. I didnt know (Im a noob still in this game) that planets had multiple rings so I had to send more surface scan drones to detect the inner ring. If the scan shows the miner ship has anything on it other than the base limpets, then they will attack. No need for the pulse scanner. Elite Dangerous is a complex game, especially when it comes to collecting resources, selling them on, and running profitable mining expeditions that cover the overheads of operating expensive ships and mining gear. theres a lot of highly quality panite in the ngalia system. This is just for the basic asteroid mining, but Elite Dangerous gets a lot more complicated than that. AI ships?
I don't like shields all they do is take good cargo space, but its a compromise you have to decide by yourself, more cargo or very vulnerable for attacks. When Mining there you have great visibility, there is almost no fog. We did say it was complicated. Thanks for the reply, I have tried both GCRV 1568 and I have also tried Hyades Sector DB-X d1-112, but I have tried more the GCRV because its closer to my home system, I will give it another go to the Hyades one.
Got pristine metallic rings. 1 good double overlapping Bromellite hostspot. Asteroid belts are not worth mining, go to planet rings instead. At a price of just under 90 thousand credits, it's not too difficult to acquire and is one of the first ships that comes with a Class 2 Hardpoint. You do get some pirate harassment tho LOL, This.great location for Painite (I mine in a cutter and have mined a lot of Pristine Rings but seem to always return to Delkar). At the time of writing, one of the most successful mining expeditions you can undertake is Platinum mining. Once you activated system chat you should immediately start to see a rich chatter in the comms panel. Some people are trying to figure out ways around the issues, like flying FAO in reverse to pulse but it is still badly broken even using these stopgap workarounds. Worth mining out if youre on an expedition in the Vulcans Gate Region. What could be bamboozling you is that painite, afaik, exists as a core material and also as a surface material. No shields for maximum cargo space, yup I get that, did that myself many times unfortunately your chances of survival an interdiction is dramatically reduced without shields. Double Void Opal Overlap. GCRV 1568 AB 1, which is where I was trying to mine, has two rings with painite, but only the inner one can be mined with lasers.
Thanks, UPDATE: I found them !! Not only rings but hotspots of specific mineral you want to mine. Word of warning; often times the system chat gets trolls or just otherwise players who think they are anonymous and can say any offensive thing that comes to their mind. Formule chimique: CaZrAl9O15(BO3) Note that in metallic rings, Painite is only present on asteroid surfaces and must be mined with Mining Lasers, while in metal-rich rings, it is only present in deep core deposits and must be mined with Seismic Charge Launchers. When you watch the chat you most likely very soon see carrier CMDRs announcing LTD buying or departures to highest selling system.
I will try again. [Edit] Alternatively, it could be that where you're entering an overlapped hotspot isn't precise enough, and you're falling outside of the more productive, strong overlapped areas into the areas where hotspot yields starts to drop off.[/e]. Activate system chat by going to your comms panel (top left of your ship HUD), switch to the right most TAB which is settings "cog wheel" icon, in there setup system as "MAIN", now all the system chat across all the game-modes; open and solo, will be shown in the comms panel and you can chat with everybody when you use TAB key to switch into LOCAL to SYSTEM mode. The short answer to the question: "Where to Mine In Elite Dangerous?" You should use some of the largest slots in your ship for cargo while saving some room for limpets and a fuel scoop. Pristine reserves. Mainly for Fleet Carriers near the center of the galaxy. I moved more into what I believed was the center of the hotspot which helped. But apparently, it does play a role in laser mining. For the refinery, you choose what you want to get. Overlapping Hotspot 2x Serendebite very close to 3x Benitoide overlapping Hostpot at 11 oclock position Overlapping Hotspot Musgravite/Benitoide (close to the body) and 2 x Musgravite overlapping Hotspot at 1 oclock position Found in Ring Dumbae DK-I d9-2101 A 2 unfortunately 22,784.92 ly away from Sol and 3,117.17ly away from Sagittarius A*. $1,000 per carat.Densit: 4.01-4.03 Monazite 2x overlap Musgravite/Monazite overlap Musgravite/Alexandrite overlap Alexandrite/Benitoite/Musgravite overlap Monazite/Serendibite overlap Monazite/Serendibite overlap. This will store ore in chunks and convert it into cargo. Donating assumes carrier CMDR has put really low price on LTD buy order, like carrier is bying LTDs for 2000 credits that clearly means this carrier wants LTD donations as taxi fee. Ring around a beautiful purple/blue gas giant to look at if you get bored. Sometimes this can be avoided by selling a very low amounts, 10, 5 or even 1 ton at once which obviously is terrible experience if you have to sell hundreds of tons. See notes above about patch 3. used to be in Pristine rings with overlapping Hotspots of valuable material. The mining process works like this: During the probing session, your Detailed Surface Scanner will highlight ring systems to find areas where there are lots of minerals.
These taxi rides do not have a technical method of payment, but most CMDRs donate either tritium or LTDs. Double overlapping hotspots are very nice and triple overlapping hotspots are like you really struck gold now. Mining is the number-one way to make money in Elite Dangerous. So far mining has been alright, hoping to find lots of high percentage rocks. We can calculate 25% by demand/4 so 1450/4 == 362.5, then you'll be paid only reduced price, sometimes as down as 500-900k per ton. Or you could just re-login to the game and immediately hyper jump away off towards the selling station. Quadruple LTD hotspot. "Elite: Dangerous PvE" was created using assets and imagery from. It's like I was in a dead are but still in the hotspot. LTDs overlapping hotspots mining is still the best in a large ship with many collector limpets. Swoilz PK-R b20-0 1. Remember, there is a living, thriving market in Elite Dangerous that is impacted by player sales: try and find a system where your ore is selling for a good price.
Also, not all locations are necessarily Pristine Rings, so be sure to check that. Pristine is hard to find in center of colonized space, whats your location ? Covering the hottest movie and TV topics that fans want. or similar. Mining, like pretty much everything else in Elite Dangerous, is a bit complicated for the uninformed. Yes, painite can only be obtained by mining. There is no other activity that comes close to the potential profits of a long mining session, so buckle up, get your mining lasers ready, and start blasting those asteroids. It has 42 hotspots: 5 Alexandrite, 4 Bromellite, 9 Grandidierite, 6 Low Temperature Diamonds, 8 Void Opals and 10 Trition.
You can sell these minerals in many stations. Double overlapping Low Temperature Diamonds. Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga Tips and Tricks, Labyrinthine Solution for Lights Out Puzzle. Can someone send me a, The following information is from https://www.reddit.com/user/vanderaj/ on the referenced Reddit post. Text below taken from this url -> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1okp9xLc_TsSleibSONaK1q8oGXxMMUm4wJmRm2ZbyPM/edit This is a Platinum mining map for Lalande 34968 AB 8, drop into the Resource Extraction Site at the Platinum Hotspot. I kept at it. If you have one of the larger ships, such as the Imperial Cutter, you probably have some weapons on board. Now, however, that has changed, and according to good sources, the ring level (i.e. Shot was taken in the shadow for better examination. In general its not worth your time to search these missions. It seems I am doing everything as you say, for LTDs I have no issues, unless the metallic rings are different in some thing like others mention dead zones etc.. They come in different shapes and sizes, but generally for most mining missions you want at least two to three medium lasers equipped on your ship. There were no other CMDR's present to help us out as everyone was on another system with high demand. Searching for carrier NAME in systemp map or navigation panel is horror, there are no alphabetical order and the lists (at least in Col 285 Sector Cc-k a38-2) are very long. Collecting involves scooping up the ore like pick and mix or using the collector limpets that we mentioned earlier. Power plant and distributor for better weapons and engine capacity and thrusters for better maneuverability around asteroids (or even escaping bandits trying to steal your resource). In v3.7 fleet carriers patch 2 there is a bug that prevents CMDRs to sell into a carrier if the buy order is maxed out against carriers credit balance. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. After that, head to a system where you want to sell your ores. Never tried to mine in a HazRES, but I imagine it's similarly rewarding. WRONG, trust me on this on 2020-07-09 we sold 14,300t of LTDs in station that only accepted 360t per trip to avoid bulk tax and we spend ALL DAY hauling diamonds. A lump of Indite is not worth as much as a pile of Void Opals, and a handful of Low-Temperature Diamonds are worth a lot more than Gallite. The Python also handles smoothly and can take a few shots from pirates. This spot doesnt have any same material overlaps, but does have a lot of different materials. I'll get the most chunks from an asteroid in a HIRES, followed by Low and Regular. It happened to me as well, when I was getting the required amount for the engineer. Try not to get involved in such conversations, just ignore them. Elite Dangerous also receives various balance patches, and some ores have been nerfed recently to bring their profit margins more in line with other variations. Even experienced Triple Elite commanders often return from a mining trip with hull damaged some ways :). This might take a bit of investigation but is worth it for all your hard work. I didnt know (Im a noob still in this game) that planets had multiple rings so I had to send more surface scan drones to detect the inner ring. If the scan shows the miner ship has anything on it other than the base limpets, then they will attack. No need for the pulse scanner. Elite Dangerous is a complex game, especially when it comes to collecting resources, selling them on, and running profitable mining expeditions that cover the overheads of operating expensive ships and mining gear. theres a lot of highly quality panite in the ngalia system. This is just for the basic asteroid mining, but Elite Dangerous gets a lot more complicated than that. AI ships?
I don't like shields all they do is take good cargo space, but its a compromise you have to decide by yourself, more cargo or very vulnerable for attacks. When Mining there you have great visibility, there is almost no fog. We did say it was complicated. Thanks for the reply, I have tried both GCRV 1568 and I have also tried Hyades Sector DB-X d1-112, but I have tried more the GCRV because its closer to my home system, I will give it another go to the Hyades one.
Got pristine metallic rings. 1 good double overlapping Bromellite hostspot. Asteroid belts are not worth mining, go to planet rings instead. At a price of just under 90 thousand credits, it's not too difficult to acquire and is one of the first ships that comes with a Class 2 Hardpoint. You do get some pirate harassment tho LOL, This.great location for Painite (I mine in a cutter and have mined a lot of Pristine Rings but seem to always return to Delkar). At the time of writing, one of the most successful mining expeditions you can undertake is Platinum mining. Once you activated system chat you should immediately start to see a rich chatter in the comms panel. Some people are trying to figure out ways around the issues, like flying FAO in reverse to pulse but it is still badly broken even using these stopgap workarounds. Worth mining out if youre on an expedition in the Vulcans Gate Region. What could be bamboozling you is that painite, afaik, exists as a core material and also as a surface material. No shields for maximum cargo space, yup I get that, did that myself many times unfortunately your chances of survival an interdiction is dramatically reduced without shields. Double Void Opal Overlap. GCRV 1568 AB 1, which is where I was trying to mine, has two rings with painite, but only the inner one can be mined with lasers.
I will try again. [Edit] Alternatively, it could be that where you're entering an overlapped hotspot isn't precise enough, and you're falling outside of the more productive, strong overlapped areas into the areas where hotspot yields starts to drop off.[/e]. Activate system chat by going to your comms panel (top left of your ship HUD), switch to the right most TAB which is settings "cog wheel" icon, in there setup system as "MAIN", now all the system chat across all the game-modes; open and solo, will be shown in the comms panel and you can chat with everybody when you use TAB key to switch into LOCAL to SYSTEM mode. The short answer to the question: "Where to Mine In Elite Dangerous?" You should use some of the largest slots in your ship for cargo while saving some room for limpets and a fuel scoop. Pristine reserves. Mainly for Fleet Carriers near the center of the galaxy. I moved more into what I believed was the center of the hotspot which helped. But apparently, it does play a role in laser mining. For the refinery, you choose what you want to get. Overlapping Hotspot 2x Serendebite very close to 3x Benitoide overlapping Hostpot at 11 oclock position Overlapping Hotspot Musgravite/Benitoide (close to the body) and 2 x Musgravite overlapping Hotspot at 1 oclock position Found in Ring Dumbae DK-I d9-2101 A 2 unfortunately 22,784.92 ly away from Sol and 3,117.17ly away from Sagittarius A*. $1,000 per carat.Densit: 4.01-4.03 Monazite 2x overlap Musgravite/Monazite overlap Musgravite/Alexandrite overlap Alexandrite/Benitoite/Musgravite overlap Monazite/Serendibite overlap Monazite/Serendibite overlap. This will store ore in chunks and convert it into cargo. Donating assumes carrier CMDR has put really low price on LTD buy order, like carrier is bying LTDs for 2000 credits that clearly means this carrier wants LTD donations as taxi fee. Ring around a beautiful purple/blue gas giant to look at if you get bored. Sometimes this can be avoided by selling a very low amounts, 10, 5 or even 1 ton at once which obviously is terrible experience if you have to sell hundreds of tons. See notes above about patch 3. used to be in Pristine rings with overlapping Hotspots of valuable material. The mining process works like this: During the probing session, your Detailed Surface Scanner will highlight ring systems to find areas where there are lots of minerals.