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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
Cosmic Consortium
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Posted - 2013.02.04 06:36:00 -
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Ore is regenerated at a certain rate each day. If the rocks have disappeared, they will be respawned. If the rocks are already there, their contents are altered.
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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
Cosmic Consortium
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Posted - 2013.02.04 23:45:00 -
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The rocks you pop will come back the next respawn.
If you bookmark all the dense veldspar in a belt and mine it all out, you will get dense veldspar at those locations tomorrow.
If you pop every rock in the belt, the exact same ore will respawn in that location next time.
Any competent belt miner has their belts bookmarked for optimal extraction: it is not worth harvesting Massive Scordite in Bawilan with strip miners since you will get less than a full cycle of T2 crystal + orca boosted yield. So you bookmark an optimal position in range of the rocks which respawn the greatest volume each cycle.
Or you run L1 missions to farm up asteroid-rich missions, and enjoy the pleasure of Scordite rocks containing 60-80k units of ore.
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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
Cosmic Consortium
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Posted - 2013.02.05 00:28:00 -
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Some belts are more than 50km diameter. I do the same as you for the smaller belts, though I try to get out of small blaster range of the belt warp in :)
I would suggest you lock up the asteroids and screen shot with the survey scanner results open. Then you can compare results from day to day by blinking between photos. You need to control for camera position and angle, and maybe post process to do fine adjustment. Have the camera zoomed out far to minimise the fish eye lens distortion of the scene (pincushion?).
Edit: 17 fiery kernite rocks in one belt?
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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
Cosmic Consortium
3035
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Posted - 2013.02.05 01:19:00 -
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RubyPorto wrote:Not Politically Correct wrote:No offense, but what I am looking for is experimental data from the period since the last upgrade.
And how does my suggestion not get you that data?
It will get him the data, but NPC appears to be hoping that someone already has this data, collected since Retribution was released.
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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
Cosmic Consortium
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Posted - 2013.02.05 01:51:00 -
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No link, just stating the obvious that collecting the data yourself will end up with you having the data you were looking for :)
If it helps I will post my scan results from the belts that I frequent.
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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
Cosmic Consortium
3036
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Posted - 2013.02.05 04:38:00 -
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Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:Not Politically Correct wrote:
Not sure I understand. That seems to disagree with my recent research.
Go ahead. Go right ahead and discount 10 years of data and experience from other players WHOM YOU ASKED. Sheesh.
Thank you for your constructive input to this discussion.
My experience over the last few years has been that the rocks come back exactly the same ore and location when they respawn. Ruby Porto claims otherwise. So between two experienced players there is disagreement.
You entering this thread with your disagreeable attitude is not going to help anyone.
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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
Cosmic Consortium
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Posted - 2013.02.05 04:41:00 -
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Not Politically Correct wrote:My next question was going to be, "Why are so many people. experienced or not, and corps. experienced or not, interested in clearing belts, knowing that the next day they will have small rocks to mine?"
If I mine the belt dry, first there's the immediate denial of resources to some other miner. Then there is the disincentive for them to come back tomorrow. Economic and morale victory! Though I am still mining. In hisec. So it is a Pyrrhic victory at best.
If you leave the rocks to get bigger, someone else will mine them out from under you. Harvesting gravel is better than harvesting nothing.
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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
Cosmic Consortium
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Posted - 2013.02.05 05:00:00 -
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Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:Sort of in general........but documented Veldspar regenerating as something else says otherwise.
Documented where? Be helpful.
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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
Cosmic Consortium
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Posted - 2013.02.06 00:19:00 -
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Not Politically Correct wrote:Next I'm going to try scanning a particular rock, in a particular belt, to see if leaving it alone makes it larger.
Yes, it will get larger, by the same amount of ore that would have spawned in that satge of the respawn cycle.
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