Good ship for mining Void opals?

[Lor]

I've got approximately 0 experience in mining anything really, whats a decent ship for it? I was thinking a Type-7 would be decent.

Also, is cracking open asteroids ice only or can you do it in any ring?

[Manwith Noname]

Anything with 2 medium hardpoints pretty much. Depending on how long you are prepared to sit in a belt dictates how much cargo space you'll need. On average you'll get around 15t (I've had between 10 and 20 I think) of void opals after refining from an "optimum" explosion. Other considerations for space are limpets and their respective controllers.

Void opals are ice only but you can deep core in metal and rocky I believe. You'll just be getting different minerals / metals.

[Guizin]

oh honey, the type 7 wont work, i'm afraid. you need a medium hardpoint so you can fit a seismic charge laucher.
it is possible to crack open asteroids in other rings, but you'll get different minerals.
void opals are only found in icy ring.

[T-Bone Biggins]

This video tells you everything you need to know. There are other vids of guys making millions with various other materials. The 2nd vid the guy does a good job explaining stuff you just have to listen closely because of his accent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIfZu1clbRg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htdpct-6Mg8

[Lor]

Would a keelback do well for deep core mining?

[ProLeetNoob]

python is best for mining. since you dont lose money on returns, just try every ship.

[bad coffee]

Keelback would work acceptably well as a starter miner.

[Guizin]

Originally posted by bad coffee:

Keelback would work acceptably well as a starter miner.

i've never flown a keelback
is it fun?

[Blackfyre]

It's alright, I swapped mine for a Krait MK II a few weeks back, but I don't enjoy the python so I took the Krait Instead. I mine in that too. And do cargo, can do combat, but I usually don't as I have better options there.

[ZombieHunter]

Python. A rate it and engineer it a bit on power and engines and you are good to go. Plenty of slots for cargo racks and a decent 4A refinery. Maneuvers well enough to get in and around the roids after you crack them open and also allows you to easily target the fissures and fire your charges while also having enough time to sit back and watch it go boom.

[Landor]

Corvette's decent at deep core mining, it's agile enough to hit the fissures on it's own, and it has plenty of hardpoints for mining tools as well as some self-defense weapons.

But it has a big profile, so having a decent shield to protect you knocking into asteroids a bit is a must, and depending on luck, how fast you mine, as well as a few other factors, it can take a fair while to fill your hold, or just use up your limpets. My first run with my mining Corvette took around four hours I think to use the three hundred fifty limpets I brought with me, admittedly I went at it with a pretty leisurely pace. I left with around three hundred tons of a mix of void opals, alexandrite, low temp diamonds, the stuff that's selling really well right now in icy rings.

But If you haven't experienced mining, try it with a Python, because that ship is one any player should have anyway. Probably the best multi-role ship there is, I started deep core mining in one, and after the first trip I was able to pay for reactive plating for my other Corvette, as well as finish my trade rank.

Originally posted by Guizin:

i've never flown a keelback
is it fun?

It's basically a Type-6 with some better weapons and worse optional internals. I used one for some VIP passenger missions for a while, and it's not bad, but nothing special. The biggest problem is if you want to use it with a fighter (it's the smallest ship that can carry a SLF,) you have to give up one of your biggest slots for it, and the class five hanger can only carry one type of fighter with only six replacments.

If anything, I can recommend it as a way to try out SLFs early, treat it as a flying hangar, launch yourself in a fighter, and set the thing to hold position (don't need a crewmember to do that,) around ten kilometers away from wherever you want to fly the fighter around, like a RES. Fighters are actually really powerful (provided you pick fixed variants,) and you can play suicidally because if you die you just go back to your flying hanger, safely away from the action.

[Crimson Echo]

Corvette or Anaconda is ideal (enough hardpoints for mining gear plus self defense). That said a Krait MK II , Asp or Cobra can work well also. T7 is too sluggish, and fragile. You want something fast to more quickly cover more area, and to run if need be.

[Purity+Control<]

Originally posted by CMDR Crimson Echo:

Corvette or Anaconda is ideal (enough hardpoints for mining gear plus self defense). That said a Krait MK II , Asp or Cobra can work well also. T7 is too sluggish, and fragile. You want something fast to more quickly cover more area, and to run if need be.

T10 is good for it too, can defend yourself and enjoy a great visibility from the cockpit

[OUTTATIME88]

I use a type 9 heavy, it’s suited for purpose but make sure you a rate the thrusters, otherwise it handles like it looks.

[Lord Haart]

Pyfun

[CHA CHING!!]

use a pickaxe man