Finding Resources (Source Local Region) question

[Kurtboard]

I am trying to find Nividium in Atiya's Misfortune 1, and I have found a couple large 500+ yield Nividium asteroids, but when I place a resource probe nearby it doesn't indicate any Nividium is in the region. I have had this occur for other resources in other sectors where I place a probe near a cluster of large Ore or Ice Asteroids and supposedly no resources are present. From the massive placement of resources probes that I have already placed in Atiya's Misfortune I have found some paltry Nividium locations, but I can't tell any difference between these locations and the other high Ore resource locations. Nividium is pink while the short range scanner is active, and these paltry spots don't indicate any pink. The only trend I have noticed is the Nividium has been more towards the edges, rather than towards the center of these fields.

In many cases for other sectors the visual cues make sense, high density of asteroids means lots of resources. But I am at a loss for how to find an Nividium stash when the probes don't recognize the couple visual indicators I have located (huge pink asteriod). Is it truly just a game of randomly throwing out countless probes until dumb luck brings back a significant find?

If anyone can offer advice for Nividium visual indicators to look for, I would greatly appreciate it.

[Wraith]

Nividium is one of the harder ones to find as a visual indicator because it pretty small amount of resource and most of the time you have to guess it with trial and error.

Most other resources you can eye it pretty well.
You can use your long range scanner to show fields but also use the map mode itself.
For example did you know you can find both resources from the map menu!

Have you ever used the map mode and noticed those clouds on the sector? those are the gas resources and you can even use the map mode to see where there could be asteroids. (brown dots)

This is how I find resources in places above and below the map.

If I remember correctly though the resource map stay the same (unless egosoft change it like with 4.0)
So once you find a good Nividium node it should be there for your next game as well.

[=X-men=]

Nvidium is too rare now after mining changes in 4.0 but prices too low for it. Automatic miners barely find some lol, it depletes so fast.
How to mine 3+ million of them for terraforming project this takes infinite time ?

[Kurtboard]

I forgot to respond to Wraith. I was aware of using the map and tilting your view to see the gas clouds and brown asteroids. It really helps for assigning a scout to deploy resource probes in asteroid belts using the map interface. For sectors where all the hexes are purple or red it unfortunately doesn't seem as useful. But thank you for the recommendation regardless.

I will add after my 20+ hours of scouring Atiya's Misfortune 1, I found out how to use the long range scanner to find Nividium asteroids. They look sky/light blue on the long range scanner rather than the deeper royal blue the long range scanner typically shows. It was maybe a 50/50 chance the sky blue asteroids had Nividium, but it was 100% that the Nividium asteroid had the sky blue hue when long range scanned. My greatest frustration was when I found a cluster of 3 Nividium asteroids and the probe came back with no Nividium in the region. I also found 3 locations that had the greatest concentration of Nividium I could find at 0.12, they had the light blue long range scan, but didn't actually have any Nividium asteroids in the region to manually mine. Which just seems weird to me; if there was supposedly Nividium to mine why was none present to actually mine it?

Ultimately after 20+ hours wasted, then the triple Nividium asteroid disappointment, and close to a hundred deployed probes I gave up and abandoned the mission. I sent a couple scouts to make pickup runs for all the probes and sell then to alleviate all the green clutter, and went back to actually enjoying the game.

I won't be doing anymore resource probe missions. This was the third time I got burned after countless hours wasted. I read a post where a moderator said the missions are guaranteed to work, but I am of the opinion the missions are either glitched or don't actually work the way they were intended (broken). On my 2nd failed attempt which was to find a gas resource, I found locations that had more than enough capacity but due to local faction mining they were under the required value. The moderator had indicated the resource quests only look at the capacity not the actual value, but in my experience the quest won't complete if only the capacity exceeds the requirement.