Face of Gozu Asteroid Field

[An Ning]

I started a new game today, and while messing around I found this asteroid field with 5 enormous crystal asteroids.
EACH ONE of them had a Face of Gozu in it.

Why did I not know of this place earlier?

[An Ning]

Make that TEN frikkin asteroids with FoG and 6 gold in them -though with no fault lines in these things 5 gold was destroyed each time
(and I only had a cargo hold of 10.. I had to leave so much gold behind...)

[Code]

Never did much mining to be honest, Only did what I needed to complete a mission, the rest came from playing the game Pirate style.

[An Ning]

I usually avoided mining as well, but these asteroids were enormous enough for me to be curious about them (they were like mini-planets).

....and ten of them with the tenpieces of gold they had was 550k, so... most useful in the first system.

[Cookie]

Oh nice, you stumbled on one of those fields by accident? That's never happened to me. I usually have to scan the system map to find one deliberately.

[An Ning]

you can scan the map for it?
How?

[obliviondoll]

Those fields are a thing that you can sometimes encounter, yeah. Keep an eye out for the huge asteroids in your travels, they're rather helpful to get hold of.

[Cookie]

Zoom in ever so slightly on the system map, and you'll find wispy green clouds here and there.
If you zoom in and out, you can check for Gozu asteroids that way. There are some video guides about where and how to find them.

[Mordred of Fairy]

Aye. Now sell them to a trader ship, then pirate them back. Yay profit.
Got me a nice amount of money in the first system.
Then felt kind of cheesy so I'll only return to that once things feel grindy...still carrying around all 10 Gozu-Faces, too :)

[An Ning]

I can't find traders very often, though

[Cookie]

You really don't need traders anyway, because
the asteroids respawn every time you leave the system and come back

[Mordred of Fairy]

Hm. Honestly, it seems faster to answer distress calls. In several systems, they seem to go by convoy...with 3 or even 4 bunched up traders.
Kill their opposition, then serial-pirate them, jettisoning unwanted cargo in-between so they always have to buy the faces of gozu. since they seem to give you a better prize than stations, I dare say you'd easily get over 1 million per set of traders, and you can do anything else you are busy with, only going for the slight distraction of distress calls close by, rather than a dedicated mining run :)

But I guess Sunny Milk does have a point.

[Cookie]

You are right, pirating traders throughout the game is the best option overall, since you'll run into distress calls on the way between mission locations.