Is tritum found in icy rings that have Trituim hospots??

[Astro the Cat]

Title says it all, is Tritium found in icy rings that also have Tritium hotspots, or can it be found in icy rings WITHOUT any hotspots??

[Sighman]

Yes, can be found anywhere in icy rings.

[ждун]

But its better to buy it. Mining it is slow. Or its better to mine platinum, sell it and buy tritium.

[Astro the Cat]

Originally posted by ждун:

But its better to buy it. Mining it is slow. Or its better to mine platinum, sell it and buy tritium.

I'm 2500 LY out :)

[kraul59]

2500 Ly? Ah in the backyard! ;))
Mining Trit is very very slow.
o7

[Sighman]

Originally posted by kraul59:

2500 Ly? Ah in the backyard! ;))
Mining Trit is very very slow.
o7

True, but it doesn't take long to gather enough for a jump.

If I were filling my carrier I'd buy it for sure.

[Astro the Cat]

I vary how I play the game, some days it just exo, others it's mining (mostly for Trituim. As was pointed out it does not take much to gather for a jump. I am looking to get a reserve built up for if (big if) I jump it back towards the bubble. At the moment, I am around 2500 LY or so.

I am going back to a system in which there are a LOT of reserves in the rungs, several of them are Platnium.

[Konril]

A hotspot increases the frequency that a specific resource is found inside an asteroid. For a surface resource like Tritium, more asteroids in the hotspot area will contain Tritium than outside the area. However all Icy rings and asteroid fields will still contain tritium you can mine. It will simply be found less frequently.

It will take more time to fill your hold outside of a hotspot, but it can be done. So if you need to, do it. However, I find outside of hotspots, it is a good idea to carry a pulse-wave analyzer, abrasion blaster, and sub-surface displacement launcher along with the usual mining lasers. Surface and sub-surface deposits are very lucrative compared to lasers alone. As long as you can actually find them.

In the case of a core resource, a hotspot will make it more likely that a specific core will match the hotspot type, but otherwise doesn't really affect how many cores are in an area. The game servers like to keep track of how many cores get cracked in an area. So core mining outside a hotspot in a lonely area can actually be more profitable than a popular hotspot.