are there good sectors to mine in 4.0?

[el cid]

Anyone can tell me where are good sectors to mine with close refineries nearby with the 4.0 update? i dont care if its ore,ice,silicon i just need to make some money with miners before i move on to trading, thank you.

[Kajar]

Best would be to start with Gas as that doesn't attract khaak.
As for resource rich sectors, you can easily find those if you look at the sectors info-tab on the map.
Some big mining sectors are Pious Mists 4. Cardinals Redress. Eighteen Billion. Grand Exchange. The Reach. Second Contact. Pretty much all of Antigone space.

[el cid]

i am mining and grand exchange on for ore and one for silicon but they having trouble finding ore takes a very long time to fill up the hull i will look at the other spots you mentioned thx

[strask]

I think there are mining changes (like, per sector yield changes) in 4.10 so be wary looking for 4.0 specific advice. :) I don't have the details unfortunately will go look for a link.

[el cid]

ok imeant for 4.10 then, they really nerfed mining to hell it is not fun anymore to do.

[Kajar]

So far i have not seen any changes in yields in 4.1. Only change is in The Void with the radiation now dealing damage even when you are not present.

[strask]

Sorry I was wrong the changes were indeed in 4.0:
https://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=146&t=433686&p=5010773#p5010773

[Wraith]

Originally posted by el cid:

Anyone can tell me where are good sectors to mine with close refineries nearby with the 4.0 update? i dont care if its ore,ice,silicon i just need to make some money with miners before i move on to trading, thank you.

That gonna be impossible.
Normal station layouts are random and thus it will be impossible to tell you what location is good for it that has station and resource in the same layout.

Grand exchange is still a good place (at least for my game)

Ore is definitely the one to mine for at the start and always use 2 star miners at the very beginning to increase mining speed.

Silicon require a good captain and other factors to mine at a good rate in 4.0

[Asmosis]

for small scale mining it really doesnt matter what sector, so long as someone will buy whatever you're mining.

When you open the map, click the "i" button on the right hand side to open the right hand info tab, then click on empty space in a sector to bring up the sector info which includes resources.

Next type the resource you intend to mine into the search box and make sure there's a station buying the ore/silicon/nividium/ice you plan to mine.

The mining changes made during 4.0 and 4.10 beta really only apply to megafactory level complexes with hundreds of mining ships. Completely irrelevant at the start of the game, but handy to know for later on.

[BGratz]

marked the ones where my miners go to (should have satelites and probes in all sectors)
(my miners come from 3 bases in W,E,N in myy profile are screens of the base locations)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2530480881

[Cythal]

Don't recall if so in 4.00 but in 4.10 the Nopileos' Fortune resource patch (aka smoke pipe patch) seems to stretch on for very long distances. I flew for several minutes (in addition to an exploration fleet) expanding the sector to very large and could not locate the end of the patch.

There is lots of Ore and Silicon in there, as well as Nividium and Hydrogen. The challenge is the long travel as well as the resource concentration spread over very large distances. Question is, if the AI is to mine there is their logic able to search the explored map far and deep.

The map info recorded 60000K + Ore and Silicon. An idea comes to mind. One could chain build Mine Ops stations and link them with repeat orders towards the gate, using manual prices and blacklists to only move resources towards the station nearest the gate or an industrial complex.

[WuTidi]

Played 4.1 (10 Oct. 21)
Asteroid Belt works fine if you own Terran DLC. Silicon and Hydrogen
Second Contact XI also works nice. Silicon
Grand Exchange I. Silicon

I have only played few hours as newbie. M miner gives me 150k in a run.