Gold Mining useless?

[Soldner42]

Hello there,

Just a quick Question. Is Gold Mining in this Game useless?
Im playing DRG kinda often together with a Friend. And both of us thought that its kinda Pointless to mine Gold , even tho this Game is all about Mining and bringing back Resources.
But so far, we were more efficient with ignoring all Gold veins and just mining for the Gold Stone or how its called. We found, that you gain more Gold by Finishing many main and Secondary Missions fast than by spending the extra time mining all the Gold.
We found, usually we need 20-30 Minutes for a Mission to mine all minerals and do all missions and maybe some extras like Chests, Helmets or these challenge Areas.
When we tried to mine all Gold we needed around an extra 20-30 Minutes. And the Gold Outcome ALWAYS was less than what we got by FInishing the 2 Missions. No matter how much Gold we mined. Even with Bonuses and huge amounts of Gold in our Pocket, we just couldnt beat the outcome of missions with Gold.
Are we doing anything wrong? Or is the Gold outcome from Veins really that underwhelming?

[Professor Hugedix]

Gold is not really that lucrative compared to speedrunning but if you're spending 20 extra minutes scouring every remnant of gold off the walls and then another 10 minutes just to make sure there's absolutely none left, that's a playstyle problem, not a gold value tuning problem. Just get what you can see, it shouldn't even add 5 minutes to the runtime of a mission. Unless you get blursed with a crassus detonator.

[Nightwolf]

Originally posted by Professor Hugedix:

Gold is not really that lucrative compared to speedrunning

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dont try telling that to noobs tho. blasphemy they cry

there are rare circumstances where it pays off where pots of gold are involved but on average yeah speed running is better if you do it right

[Syncourt]

It should not take an extra 20-30 minutes to mine the extra gold. Something is being done terribly wrong if so.

Should maybe take you an extra 5 mins - tops. Unless it's gold rush anomaly.

It depends mainly on how quickly you can access the gold vein for if it's worth it or not.

Mostly it's not though. Not only are mission pays better, but the rate you collect rare minerals at 50c a peice also outweighs thr benefits of hanging around getting every bit of gold.

But, it depends what you think is fun. I like the mining aspect of the game, it's how the game is intended to be played. So I try to always mine gold when I can as long as it's quick. The gains aren't going to be drastically less anyway.

I would appreciate if they raised the value of gold a bit though.

[【🐲】Kobayashi Tohru ★]

If you don't care about further promotion after first bronze
Then yes, it's pointless
After three platinum promotions on all dwarves I've encountered on lack of creds and couple of resources(also maybe that's because I've unlocked all cosmetics on this rank)
So I've used trading station

[Sokaku]

Gold isn't something I'd go out of my way for. It's only really practical when you've got an EPC miner or playing on Sandblasted or have Rocky Mountain. Pots of Gold + a Gold Rush map (and with luck a Crassus Detonator) is a good extra 30+ minutes to a mission to try and get a PB for most gold mined since you have to hand-pick Pots of Gold.

[Professor Hugedix]

Originally posted by Nightwolf:

Originally posted by Professor Hugedix:

Gold is not really that lucrative compared to speedrunning

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dont try telling that to noobs tho. blasphemy they cry

there are rare circumstances where it pays off where pots of gold are involved but on average yeah speed running is better if you do it right

I still mine gold even though I have 5mil+ credits, cuz I'm a dwarf. But I understand people who ignore it

[Nightwolf]

i wouldnt mind mining it if i got something from it.

the average random haz 4 runs you roughly between 4-6k, 8k if you luck out on rng. regardless of whether you strip a cave clean or no most times. and even then we are taking 15-30 min missions. its just not worth it even with a crassus.

10k is the bare minimum to be worth it and that usually requires pots of gold, golden bugs mixed with a crassus most times to get that at 4.

on the other hand i can run speed runs doing just main and secondary objs 3 times in a 30 min span and walk out with between 12k and 18k in credits on most map rolls. so a sorta thing i might get SOME of the time vs a credit value i can get nearly every time. i need credits more than most but its just not worth it mining gold for a random value is all.

i would love to see crassus gold amounts doubled. that would make stopping to mine that worth it. as it is now its just a waste of time and nitra.

[Dead PL ayerCZ]

Let me put it this way:

1 gold is 4,3 credits, now bear with me, if you get 40 pocket space until deposit, you get 172 credits per deposit, if you were to deposit 5 full pouches per mission, this would render you 200 gold which is 860 credits, but you always get more!
On average you get around 450 gold per mission, get it and obtain bonus 1720 credits per mission. Now play the game, I got around 1750 completed mission, using the avrg of 450g/mission I got around 787e3 gold (also 787e3 bonus xp) which turned into 3e6 credits. Now pay close attention, 1 round of glyphid slammers is 85 credits, with a 4 man its 21,25 credits per mug, you gotta drink 5 to get into a coma, so as long as youre drinking all of it, this makes your passout price 106,25 credits. So with 3e6 credits you can passout 28 235 times.
Better yet, 1 round of oily oaf is 35 creddits (8,13g), if youre on a 4 man team, you get a mug for 8,75 credits - given you drink all of it by yourself, now, it takes 10 mugs to get you into a coma, making the price for coma 87,5 credits - so with 3e6 credits this gets you around
34 285 times passed out.
Or even better, a song from the juke box is 2 credits, each song is around 30 seconds, therefore you can request a whopping total of 15e5 songs, this makes your play time around
521 real life days (yes, you can count it yourself to check :D).

So.... yes, do mine the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gold, dont you dare leaving it behind!!!

Rock & Stone!

[R.-]

Well, it's not only about how much extra credit you get, but also the credit / xp ratio as you push through promotion levels.

For anyone who plans to buy all cosmetics in the shop, forge every core, and keep promoting after Legendary 3, I'd strongly recommend mining gold until all cosmetic cores are forged.

And for everyone else, it doesn't matter, really.

[Fryskar]

Originally posted by Dead PL ayerCZ:

Let me put it this way:

1 gold is 4,3 credits, now bear with me, if you get 40 pocket space until deposit, you get 172 credits per deposit, if you were to deposit 5 full pouches per mission, this would render you 200 gold which is 860 credits, but you always get more!
On average you get around 450 gold per mission, get it and obtain bonus 1720 credits per mission. Now play the game, I got around 1750 completed mission, using the avrg of 450g/mission I got around 787e3 gold (also 787e3 bonus xp) which turned into 3e6 credits. Now pay close attention, 1 round of glyphid slammers is 85 credits, with a 4 man its 21,25 credits per mug, you gotta drink 5 to get into a coma, so as long as youre drinking all of it, this makes your passout price 106,25 credits. So with 3e6 credits you can passout 28 235 times.
Better yet, 1 round of oily oaf is 35 creddits (8,13g), if youre on a 4 man team, you get a mug for 8,75 credits - given you drink all of it by yourself, now, it takes 10 mugs to get you into a coma, making the price for coma 87,5 credits - so with 3e6 credits this gets you around
34 285 times passed out.
Or even better, a song from the juke box is 2 credits, each song is around 30 seconds, therefore you can request a whopping total of 15e5 songs, this makes your play time around
521 real life days (yes, you can count it yourself to check :D).

So.... yes, do mine the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gold, dont you dare leaving it behind!!!

Rock & Stone!

Now the real question is:
On which multiplier did you calculate that?

[Soldner42]

Originally posted by Fryskar:

Originally posted by Dead PL ayerCZ:

Let me put it this way:

1 gold is 4,3 credits, now bear with me, if you get 40 pocket space until deposit, you get 172 credits per deposit, if you were to deposit 5 full pouches per mission, this would render you 200 gold which is 860 credits, but you always get more!
On average you get around 450 gold per mission, get it and obtain bonus 1720 credits per mission. Now play the game, I got around 1750 completed mission, using the avrg of 450g/mission I got around 787e3 gold (also 787e3 bonus xp) which turned into 3e6 credits. Now pay close attention, 1 round of glyphid slammers is 85 credits, with a 4 man its 21,25 credits per mug, you gotta drink 5 to get into a coma, so as long as youre drinking all of it, this makes your passout price 106,25 credits. So with 3e6 credits you can passout 28 235 times.
Better yet, 1 round of oily oaf is 35 creddits (8,13g), if youre on a 4 man team, you get a mug for 8,75 credits - given you drink all of it by yourself, now, it takes 10 mugs to get you into a coma, making the price for coma 87,5 credits - so with 3e6 credits this gets you around
34 285 times passed out.
Or even better, a song from the juke box is 2 credits, each song is around 30 seconds, therefore you can request a whopping total of 15e5 songs, this makes your play time around
521 real life days (yes, you can count it yourself to check :D).

So.... yes, do mine the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gold, dont you dare leaving it behind!!!

Rock & Stone!

Now the real question is:
On which multiplier did you calculate that?

1gold = 4,3 Credits seems like Hazard 4 aka 100% without any Bonus, or?

[GIRL]

Originally posted by Soldner42:

1gold = 4,3 Credits seems like Hazard 4 aka 100% without any Bonus, or?

Why do people type decimals with commas instead of periods? Is it just a European thing? To Americans this looks really weird and confusing. It's 4.3, not 4,3.

4,3 to us says, "4, then 3." Whereas 4.3 says "4 point 3."

[Fryskar]

Originally posted by Soldner42:

Originally posted by Fryskar:

Now the real question is:
On which multiplier did you calculate that?

1gold = 4,3 Credits seems like Hazard 4 aka 100% without any Bonus, or?

Pretty sure its +100% not 100%.

Wiki says 2 per gold.

https://deeprockgalactic.fandom.com/wiki/Gold

Originally posted by Femboy Thighs:

Originally posted by Soldner42:

1gold = 4,3 Credits seems like Hazard 4 aka 100% without any Bonus, or?

Why do people type decimals with commas instead of periods? Is it just a European thing? To Americans this looks really weird and confusing. It's 4.3, not 4,3.

4,3 to us says, "4, then 3." Whereas 4.3 says "4 point 3."

If, then not completely spread.
I use to write numbers like 12'345.67

[Dead PL ayerCZ]

Originally posted by Fryskar:

Originally posted by Soldner42:

1gold = 4,3 Credits seems like Hazard 4 aka 100% without any Bonus, or?

Pretty sure its +100% not 100%.

Originally posted by Femboy Thighs:

Why do people type decimals with commas instead of periods? Is it just a European thing? To Americans this looks really weird and confusing. It's 4.3, not 4,3.

4,3 to us says, "4, then 3." Whereas 4.3 says "4 point 3."

If, then not completely spread.
I use to write numbers like 12'345.67

yeah sorry for me as a Europe lad 1,1 is 1.1 did not though of that, excuse me Ill fix that for yall.
Isnt the gold multiplier the same? I was convinced that its 4.3 on every haz.

[Fryskar]

Originally posted by Dead PL ayerCZ:

Originally posted by Fryskar:

Pretty sure its +100% not 100%.



If, then not completely spread.
I use to write numbers like 12'345.67

yeah sorry for me as a Europe lad 1,1 is 1.1 did not though of that excuse me Ill fix that for yall

That nothing badly needing fixing, its rather that in different places stuff gets teached different.
Guess he was curious.