Prior to may latest jaunt to the core systems, Void Opals and Low Temp Diamonds were easily the go-to minerals to mine for. So, diversify. We practice at Cal State East Bay in Hayward, CA. In addition to being a USA Age Group Swim Team, we are also a USA Masters Swim Team. The selling prices are the reason; LTDs I seem to be able to always find somewhere that will give me around 1M per tonne, but Void Opals are really hit an miss to sell. If so, I could imagine multi-session mining to be easier than here in the Bubble, where one is frequently plagued by pirates on re-logging. We are a year round competitive swim team providing a safe, healthy, positive environment for all athletes.

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Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. The number of cores is the same, what changes is the type of them, in a double hotspot basically all of the cores will be of the hotspot type.

I found nice Void Opal overlapping hotspots under 50LK from Jaques, and there's the overlapping LTDs in Coeus, so I can fill up with either pretty quickly. Only 1 or 2 jumps from any major stations in Colonia. I've got 600 painite sitting in my type-9 and no where to sell it for less than half within 22,000 LY... so there's one downside to Colonia. After putting about 130,000 LY on my exploration odometer, I stopped in Colonia and have begun life as a core miner there. Close. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the EliteMiners community. © Valve Corporation.

The site may not work properly if you don't, If you do not update your browser, we suggest you visit, Press J to jump to the feed. Colonia Core Miners - LTDs or Void Opals? From my experience so far its best to drop out a long way from the centre, i go for about 900km.

... For double LTD it's more efficient for laser mining, double void opals have no effect. Archived. You follow the prices. Void opal hotspots EBAT Masters Team Registration Welcome to the East Bay Bat Rays (EBAT) home page. 44.

Even when flying direct center to the hotspot, it almost as if the devs made Void Opals in their own hotspot super rare to find. But at least one of them (Painite, LTDs, Vopals) is usually viable there. I have mined only one time after the nerf in a Void Opal hotspot and I found some cores...and one LTD core, btw, it was funny. I might eventually do this for maybe a month straight so I can also buy myself a Krait II, and/or Fer de Lance. All rights reserved. Double-Double system near Colonia - Both LTD and Void Opal double overlap. Even gone back to farming LTD since they're still valuable, but also began farming for other material like grandiderite since the nerf also seem to inadvertedly buff the other materials. There's just not enough systems in the area to consistently have at least one for each high-value commodity at peak price. I'm not the only one who feels like Void Opals have been made to appear very less often right?

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When all else fails, I have 3xLG turrets all engineered to deal with any low to moderate pirates that manage to keep up with me. Although Void Opals can be found in any icy rings, which occur fairly commonly throughout the galaxy, the locations with the highest concentrations of asteroids with Void Opal cores are Void Opal Hotspots within high-mass icy rings orbiting Gas Giants . The allure of VOs selling for around 150M per trip is the siren's call that's potentially leading me to bad choices.

But if I was multi-session mining, I might choose LTDs for their more-widespread high prices. I still get NPCs spawning 100% of the time, so my tactic for multi-session is just to go full throttle and boost until I've lost them in the asteroids. In single hotspots I still get bromellite occasionally, but in the double hotspots it’s nearly 100% void opals I’m finding. As you point out, single session trips are optimal so I know the sell price ahead of time, but often I have to log off before my hold is full and top it off the next day. Whatever you can sell high, you mine, and wait for the rest to be high-price again. Even when flying direct center to the hotspot, it almost as if the devs made Void Opals in their own hotspot super rare to find. In the op you say even when flying direct centre of the hotspot. So for two days straight, I've been trying to farm for Void Opals due to the nerf to LTD but the hotspots I go to, I haven't found a single asteroid with a void opal core. Commodity Void Opals in Elite: Dangerous - Find the best buying and selling stations But for the most part, just mine whatever you can currently sell in the Colonia bubble using http://edtools.ddns.net/miner.

To discuss this information, volunteer to help collect it, or suggest site improvements, join the Colonia Census Discord, post in the forum thread, or contact Ian Doncaster . I'm sure a station will start buying it high again though in the next few days, in which case Painite mining is pretty awesome here at Randgnid 4a. I read that overlapping hotspots have no effect on core mining. So I always check prices before I go mining, and choose the mineral and hotspot that I'll get good pricing for. I always mine and sell in a single session. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. This is the subreddit for everything related to mining asteroids in the space trading and combat simulator game Elite: Dangerous. Press J to jump to the feed.

This past weekend, a couple systems under pirate attack were buying VOs for about 1.5M, but the drop off is steep to about 640K if the pirates take time off. The life in Colonia is about what's possible. Posted by 1 year ago.

I tend to stick to void opals and fill a 128T cargo on a Krait MK2. It not a high traffic area, but at the same time it not far in deep space where there is total anarchy. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Bought myself a Feddie Gunship and I wanna upgrade the thing after doing a maiden flight. After putting about 130,000 LY on my exploration odometer, I stopped in Colonia and have begun life as a core miner there.

Some hotspots are simply "dry", need to keep looking for VO hotspots until you find one that's productive. Currently have a decent Krait II build, but I'm having a tough time deciding whether to stick to LTDs or mine Void Opals.

I usually sell for between 85M and 105M per trip. They fetched well over 1 million credits per tick and the nice thing about the Colonia bubble is that ringed systems abound and are a virtually untapped resource here. In your mining patch in Colonia, do you get far enough from civilization that you no longer get NPCs spawning on drop-in / relog? So for two days straight, I've been trying to farm for Void Opals due to the nerf to LTD but the hotspots I go to, I haven't found a single asteroid with a void opal core. Funny that you ask because just recently I found one void opal core going back to the game (only got like 14t worth though).

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Then boost your way towards centre covering a lot of ground. Im hitting at least every 10 mins, but i use a fast medium ship to cover ground quicker :). For double LTD it's more efficient for laser mining, double void opals have no effect. Currently have a decent Krait II build, but I'm having a tough time deciding whether to stick to LTDs or mine Void Opals. This is the subreddit for everything related to mining asteroids in the space trading and combat simulator game Elite: Dangerous. I'm not the only one who feels like Void Opals have been made to appear very less often right?

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Cookies help us deliver our Services. Oh, I thought it increased the percentage that any given core will be of that type. If the prices drop on you, then I generally just log back in the following day and somewhere is usually buying high again. Any other Colonia core miners with recommendations for which commodity they focus on?

If you just prospect really bright glowing ones you should be hitting cores very often. But, bearing in mind that LTD overlaps are therefore primarily valuable for laser-mining. I read in the Elite:Miners that double hotspots have no effect on the spawn rate of core asteroids, so I would stick to LTDs as a more consistent meta. I use to use a Python for mining (it now my to go cargo ship) but I have an Anaconda for that job and currently just farming whatever I can make for money atm. Double-Double system near Colonia - Both LTD and Void Opal double overlap. But I usually laser mined, so I can't say if the porcentage has changed dramatically. LTDs have certainly been very stable in price, which is attractive.