Crystal Mining -- What is the best system for burnite (white) crystal mining?

[deltaagent26]

I am trying to play the game without editing my save game for money.
I want to legitimately make credits in the game, and have found crystal mining
to be lucrative...
However, I have ADHD, and i get impatient very quickly....
so I am trying to find the best place to mine the white Burnite crystals to
bolster my ingame income.

[strask]

Sad to say, I found the spawn rates in the XML files and they are identical across all systems/locations/environments. Basically it's just logic like this:

Are there rocks? Yeah? Ok 1% chance of burnite.

[depresso]

Look in Xenon space. Higher rates of crystals spawning in those areas; I flew through one of the asteroid fields and every single asteroid had a crystal spawn in it. Might just be my game though

[powergfx]

Originally posted by depresso:

Look in Xenon space. Higher rates of crystals spawning in those areas; I flew through one of the asteroid fields and every single asteroid had a crystal spawn in it. Might just be my game though

No, the rate is not higher, it seems so, because there are more astroids. The best way is to go for systems which have a lot of astroids and if possible, small ones, because there you can detect and reach the crystals easier. Though, Heretic's End is quite a good place. But be aware, this astroid crystal spawn script goes nuts there after a while and your frame rate can go below 10 fps from time to time.

[Xhawk]

Even the spawnrate is same in all system, and many say go to heretic end because of large number of small asteroids.. i found it muuuuuch faster to mine those rare crystal in Black Hole sun... smaller number of asteroids = easier to check em all faster, also no matter spawnrate is same or not.. i find much more yellow and orange and white crystals in this system... i tried em all for XXX hours...

Also i find it faster to F3 external view and F3 again so i can rotate, to check asteroids this way.. i jump from asteroid to asteroid that blink in F3 view ... and i only harvest yellow and up... why waste time on the common when 1 of those rare equal to tonz of time spent mining cheap ones?..

remember system with ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of small asteroids have also very high number of cheap crystals you have to look for.. so i found it much slower have to skip all those crappy crystals so often... also there is larger area to fly to rocks there... so smaller asteroids belt as argon prime and Black hole sun is perfect for speed harvest yellow and up.


Anyway, i only mine cystals to my *claytronics and hull factory at HQ is up and running.. then i make millions and can also build more of station cheap,... i do not use any mod or change scripts so my savegame have no modifyed tag on it... for some reason i feel savegame is broken if i have that tag.

I noticed white crystals are much harder to find now when i started game over... then it was after release.. but now 1 white crystal dropped 12 fragments... early on u was lucky they dropped 6-8

also laser burn most of the crystals.. so i use fragment gun.. and shoot the base of the crystal. i argon heavy fighter have 2 guns that hit same spot.. so it take 1-2sec to brake a crystal.. i just disable the other 2 guns so i not shoot those that fly into space.