wtf... do hotspots mean nothing?

[5L1C3R10T]

getting really sick and tired of this....

mining hotspots seem to yield everything but the material the hotspot is for, and when the new chapter update first hit, you could just drop into a ring and find stuff.... but now, (i'm guessing this came with one of the recent smaller patches), but hotspots STILL don't yield the resource they say they are a "hotspot" for.... I drop into a "random" hotspot, and i find everything BUT what the "hotspot" is supposed to have....

don't call them "hotspots" if that spot doesn't actually have the mining resource in it...

mining was kinda interesting with the new mechanics, but it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that i drop into a hot spot and can't find a single ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ scrap of the material that is supposed to be "hot", in this "spot".... FFS...

[Mazaraz]

Pretty much.

[Agony_Aunt]

I've done a few hours of hotspot mining. While you sometimes find other rocks in those places, you should be finding a majority are of the type specified.

I suppose one possibility you are doing it in a popular spot. The hotspots deplete over time if they are heavily mined, so let's say you are in a void opal hotspot, and its being heavily mined for void opals, the number of void opal rocks might drop while leaving other non-void-opal rocks spawning.

No idea if this is correct or whether you are mining somewhere popular, just a hypothesis.

Of course, it could just be RNGesus messing with you, or maybe the last patch introduced a bug.

[bad coffee]

I've jumped into a void opal hotspot and found three bromellite core asteroids in a row, to my great annoyance. Then found 6 void opals in a row.

What I'd suggest is trying hotspots that are an inconvenient distance from the star. If it takes 15 minutes to get there people are less likely to be mining it.

[malorob]

Originally posted by bad coffee:

I've jumped into a void opal hotspot and found three bromellite core asteroids in a row, to my great annoyance. Then found 6 void opals in a row.

What I'd suggest is trying hotspots that are an inconvenient distance from the star. If it takes 15 minutes to get there people are less likely to be mining it.

soon everyone will get further and further out. as everyone thinks much the same.
go where there is avaliable minerals.

so start to think deep space mining go exploring find a spot and keep it to your self.

[Les Grossman]

Originally posted by malorob:

Originally posted by bad coffee:

I've jumped into a void opal hotspot and found three bromellite core asteroids in a row, to my great annoyance. Then found 6 void opals in a row.

What I'd suggest is trying hotspots that are an inconvenient distance from the star. If it takes 15 minutes to get there people are less likely to be mining it.

soon everyone will get further and further out. as everyone thinks much the same.
go where there is avaliable minerals.

so start to think deep space mining go exploring find a spot and keep it to your self.

^ this.

Pretty much every pristine ice ring hotspot, and I don't talk only Opals, but Diamonds and even Alexandite are drained at least ~10km around hotspot. If you go further, you may find some.

Best bet is to find those hotspots in remote areas, farther from populated space and specifically possible best sell stations. Just use common sense and you'll find spot full of minerals you want. It takes time and some knowledge, sure, but it pays BIG.

[Turd Ferguson]

the "other" stuff you find in a hotspot is just regular stuff that would normally be there. I THINK that pristine rings actually work against you because they contain more of the normal non-hotspotty stuff.

this is just a theory.

I have noticed that rocks tend to appear in clusters. this happened before core mining as well so if you found a core rock there's likely a few more nearby. not always but frequently.

[the frost staff]

I found something like 8 asteroids in 2 hrs

[arcaneprophet]

Originally posted by malorob:

Originally posted by bad coffee:

I've jumped into a void opal hotspot and found three bromellite core asteroids in a row, to my great annoyance. Then found 6 void opals in a row.

What I'd suggest is trying hotspots that are an inconvenient distance from the star. If it takes 15 minutes to get there people are less likely to be mining it.

soon everyone will get further and further out. as everyone thinks much the same.
go where there is avaliable minerals.

so start to think deep space mining go exploring find a spot and keep it to your self.

This what i do. I dont even mine in the bubble anymore.

[Sir Gigachad of Thundercock]

Well, even though it's hard to find void opals, hotspots have a better chance (doesn't mean a whole lot more) to find the resource.

For example, I find no void opals outside a hotspot, and I find 2-3 fissured asteroids per 10 minutes of search in a hotspot.

[Sir Gigachad of Thundercock]

They wouldn't be rare resources if you could find them just like that, would they?

[RayHazuki]

Different rings may contain diffent amount of deep core mining asteroids by itself. I've mined in 2 void opal hotspots. In one you need to search for them for a longer time and there are also Bromelite asteroids. In another you can sometimes find two void asteroids just next to each other and lowtemp diamonds as well. I mine on the edge of the bubble and drop from 5 to 10 Mm from the center of hotspot. As you scanned ring there are orange territories(hotspot of something point in the center) just drop anythere in that orange place and go towards a center of hotspot(to not fly circles). I doubt that Fdevs count every single asteriod with its coordinates but there may be some algorithm which is responsible for deplition of some areas of hotspots and amount of generated asteroids for you.
Just happens a strange situation. Scanner showed you the hotspot, because it's found a lot that mineral(if you put in roleplay way or something), but other commanders have already depleted resourses so it's no more a hotspot. But the scanner doesn't think so. It's just like it showed a thot pointing she is a virgin(but was so long time ago).

[Guizin]

You guys keep talking about deep space mining
how far away from sol are we talking about? and what ship?

[Les Grossman]

Originally posted by Guizin:

You guys keep talking about deep space mining
how far away from sol are we talking about? and what ship?

What I did:
Open up bubble map, see where bubble borders end. Open up EDDB, search for Pristine Rings with ref system somewhere around that place. If nothing, try another side of the bubble. Range depends on your home system. For me, trip is usually no longer than ~200 Ly.

For ship, any you want.

[5L1C3R10T]

appreciate all the info everyone... I've been trying to hunt down osmium to unlock another engineer.... I needed 10 pieces, and i had 6, but i STUPIDLY sold them during my last run cus i wan't paying attention, so now i gotta try to mine them again... not really worried about mining for money right now, just trying to get this osmium for this engineer, and i haven't been able to find any systems on eddb that sell it on the market....

so any tips on how or where to find osmium?

[dudhit]

my platinum / panite hotspot id full of osium :/ and gold and everything but.