Lord Prospector's Foray

[GetUrAssToMars]

Anybody manage to get 4+ stars on this one yet? If so what was your strategy. I typically command the buzzard on the magnetar to join the already existing wing set to intercept. I grab the smaller miner and just try to mine nvidium as quickly as possible before it gets out of hand - offloading my hauls to the magnetar.

Khaak really love to target the larger miners so I try to keep them close to the turret coverage of the magnetar. While the interceptors offer good coverage for extended range initially - the pressure from khaak becomes overwhelming as the mission progresses.

Really enjoy this one, but its tough. Great showcase of what the game has to offer. Its a shame its introduced so late into the DLC.

[Wraith]

Same strategy

I set the magnetar to mine and have all other miner do the same

I have the small miner transfer their ware to the magnetar as much as they can

The medium will just mine and once full I send them to station for safety

As soon as the magnetar is at 70 percent full I tell the small miner that are full to dock and go into internal storage this way they are safe as kha’ak really start massing by now and I finish the mining with the L miner with ton of escort

I then tell the L miner to haul it back to base

That how I got my 5 star for that mission and serious amount of panic micro

[GetUrAssToMars]

Oooh I like that. I was using the M miners to transfer wares to the L via cargo drones, but I think that just takes too long and too risky. I'll trying locking the M miners down when they fill and finish with the magnetar.

[Axeface]

Get in one of the fighters and fly away so the fleet is in low attention. Fighters should be on attack mode in 2 groups with protect position.

[LeGanjaMan]

I almost managed to fill the entire fleet the one time I got 5 stars. And unless you intentionally can't collect nvidium with the magnetar's container magnet, I probably would've done it. Actually, now that I think about it, some of my miners were unable to collect nvidium either but I transferred it over from the magnetar so I could fill up as much as I can. Anyway, my strategy was pretty much fill up the small/medium miners and send them (including the fighter escort) out of the area so they are safe.

The Magnetar alone can tank quite a lot of kha'ak, so I was just casually mining right in the middle of their swarm. Since I couldn't collect the nvidium with my magnet, I had to get close to the asteroid, pop it and only after that send out the ore collectors because for some reason that worked. By the time I was ~ 1 asteroid away from full, the Magnetar's shield started to go down, so I left.

Tried to go back in for the last one, got swarmed, lost the shield gens, some flak and an engine while trying to leave. Teleported to one of the other ships, Magnetar counted as oos so it could leave the area fast enough to survive lol.

[🎮 PalkoVvodets 🔑]

Originally posted by Axeface:

Get in one of the fighters and fly away so the fleet is in low attention. Fighters should be on attack mode in 2 groups with protect position.

Yeah, OOS was my first and successful thought on these missions with miners fleet. But did you notice fighters at protect position getting stuck doing nothing? Like some of them have an attack order but keep idling or mindlessly follow leader and not receive attack order. It was supposed to be easy 5* stars but I ended up non-stop issuing manual attack orders, because auto behavior ends up stalled.
{later I found safe OOS mining spot north-west of that asteroid cloud though. So kha`ak didn't bother me for rest of the mission}

Also miners behave weird OOS. If several of them mining for the same spot then only 1 of them benefits of mining (one of ships with the lowest cargo), when this lucky guy finishes mining entire cargo hold - rest miners become active, perform turning around once or two and stuck again for next iteration. None of those in queue get any progress in fulfilling their storage. In v6.20 all miners benefit at once of mining same spot OOS.

Hope its not v7.0 bugs and same won't appear in sandbox.

[CuRseAdeR]

Originally posted by Đ4W33ĐM4N:

I almost managed to fill the entire fleet the one time I got 5 stars. And unless you intentionally can't collect nvidium with the magnetar's container magnet, I probably would've done it. Actually, now that I think about it, some of my miners were unable to collect nvidium either but I transferred it over from the magnetar so I could fill up as much as I can. Anyway, my strategy was pretty much fill up the small/medium miners and send them (including the fighter escort) out of the area so they are safe.

The Magnetar alone can tank quite a lot of kha'ak, so I was just casually mining right in the middle of their swarm. Since I couldn't collect the nvidium with my magnet, I had to get close to the asteroid, pop it and only after that send out the ore collectors because for some reason that worked. By the time I was ~ 1 asteroid away from full, the Magnetar's shield started to go down, so I left.

Tried to go back in for the last one, got swarmed, lost the shield gens, some flak and an engine while trying to leave. Teleported to one of the other ships, Magnetar counted as oos so it could leave the area fast enough to survive lol.

Gosh, I've spent 50 minutes filling up the fleet. S miners were called of first, then 2 M miners. I used last one to fill up L ship, because for some reason it wasn't mining by itself. All ships were full when called of
So as a result I received my hard earned 2 stars, because game thinks I somehow got 3573 Nividium.. This one.. after a headache with Omicron Lyrae feels almost too much

[BadBRTNDR]

I know this thread is kind of old at this point but I am really struggling with this mission. I am a relatively new player so I may be just doing something dumb but I don't think so. I'm also going to 5-stars because I want the achievement. This is one of like 3 missions I have left to accomplish that.

I keep telling my ships to mine nividium but a bunch of them keep flying out of the asteroid field and sitting there doing nothing at all. Some are even reporting there is none left. But I am not getting enough to get more than 2 stars before this happens. Usually not even enough for that. Is my game bugged? What is going on?