I was thinking it would be nice to have three CMDR's out honking rocks with pulse waves and prospecting limpets. Two of them outfitted with large cargo bays, abrasion blasters and collectors, and one with a medium hardpoint for seismic charges. Anyone tried this?
Posted Feb 5, 2019, 3:04 PM UTC
Deep core wing mining seems bugged. Charges do not blow up or asteroids do not break etc.
It should be the most fun. Instead it’s bugged. Last time we tried my friend got murdered by a limpet. He was at 100% hull with shields.
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I know I’m just saying what everyone else is but... I VO mine with a friends a lot, and let me tell you, the game does not like it. When it works it’s great, but at least 50% of the time we encounter bugs that just make it a massive waste of time. I will now list the bugs we have encountered:
Seismic charges will fail to bring up the ui telling you the yield levels
They will massively over power themselves (aka putting a single low yield charge in a strong fissure would send the yield levels to maximum)
Even with optimum yield levels, the asteroid would fail to break up
Charges won’t disarm when they are told to
With optimum yield levels, the asteroid would break up but have nothing in it
Asteroid would break up and chunks would be freed like normal, but when attempting to use abrasion blasters on surface deposits, they would fail to yield anything 100% of the time for a certain player
These are all the bugs I can remember off the top of my head.
That's so weird. I wonder why. I also wonder what would happen if you De-Winged and did it. Just 3 ships in a similar location. I know I've never ran into an issue when an NPS ship is nearby when I'm mining.
Its fucked up.
you can’t both go after the same roid, only 1 can use siesmic whoever blows it, must abrasion blast. Otherwise youll lose the items, or they’ll appear 4 km away
What I did: I fitted a mamba for scout and blast, I bring a friend for refine and cargo, I go thru, blast a roid and abrasion all the goodies, then my buddy comes and vaccums that all up, while I’m prospecting, by the time he’s done, I’m already on to abrasion blasting the new roid.. as soon as he appears, I move on... so on/so forth.
The only downtime, every so often it takes 50-60 km to find a new target, and I have to wait till he gets closer to start my blasting
Edited for clarity: also I recommend whoever does cargo NEEDs 6 limpets.. preferred twp 5a’s. I got a buddy coming out tonight with a cutter to do the pickup. Gonna try to set a record
Don't even try. Core mining in a wing is completely busted.
It's extremely buggy.