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Hey all

Im a Smugglers Alliance Master Pilot/Master Shipwright, and i recently got myself 2x MarkIII Mining Lasers, 1x Cargo Hold.. So i inserted it in my YT1300, found an asteroid and begang shooting.. and shooting.. and shooting, lol.. No chunks fell off, how long am i supposed to wait? I did it for 2-5min. Ityped '/examine' and the Condition was max.

How do i get the chunks to fall off? =(

Yours Sincerely, Olotox

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Okay, i think i've found the issue.... the Mining Lasers i've bought doesnt have a "Mining Extraction Rate" in its stats... I suppose its a bug, since i checked on "Vendor Location" and none of the Mining Lasers have any "Mining Extraction Rate" on them, except for the "Class I Mining Laser" you receive from the Y8 quest!

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yup, that's the problem... Obviously, Crafted Mining Lasers doesn't work.. =/
I can only get the free Class I mining Laser to work.. this sucks =(

Zymm Nietow [Corbantis]

If some how you manage to get the equipment working properly, perhapse this guide will help you figure out how to use it.

Guide to fast and efficient Y-8 mineing

Pre requisits:

• 2 accounts 2 computers (someone has to be in the top turret at all times, I can't imagine an actual player wanting to do this)

Equip your Y-8 like this:

• Top turret is the tractor beem
  
• fixed forward gun is your Y-8 elite mineing laser
  
• rear mounted wapon you can do with as you please, its mostly useless
  
• droid progrms: Reactor OL4, Cap OL4, Engine OL 3, Weapon OL 3, Shield shunt 4
  
• Cargo hold, bigger is better

When you launch:

• 2nd account get in 1 of the 2 opperations chair and run the 4 overloads.
  
• after over loads are complete move the 2nd account to the upper turret
  
• Toggle the Tractor beem on with the 2nd account (doing it from the pilot seat will only turn on an imaginary tractor beem that does nothing)
  
• While looking in first person view pilots chair adjust the tractor beem so that half of the beem runs down the middle-left strutt in the forward window. This approxamatly intersects your reticle's cross hair at 50m-150m from target rock.
  
• Once the beem is aimed the pilot needs to zoom out to external view. You cant see jack from the interior view.
  
• use the laser on the big rock to break of a chunk
  
• Target the chunk and match its speed.
  
• Optimal distance to target is 50m-150m. if it's farther than 180m, just turn around and break off another chunk. dont bother chaceing anything.
  
• Aim the beem at the center of rotation, Put the white flashlight on the green lead indicator.
  
• Tap the chunk with the laser and SLURP 90-100% of the chunk instanly pops in your hold. Most of the time I do not bother picking up the small potatos the splatter around. but if you must you will be at the same speed as the little rocks for EZ pickup with the beem.

If I were to do this in a fighter, I would use auto follow instead of matching target speed. A fighter is better able to adjust speed than the Y-8 and autofollow puts you in the most optomal distance and aimed at the center of rotation.

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Olotox wrote:

yup, that's the problem... Obviously, Crafted Mining Lasers doesn't work.. =/
I can only get the free Class I mining Laser to work.. this sucks =(

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Crafted lasers work fine. It's just a UI display bug not showing the extraction rate.

There's a pretty good thread on it in the Shipwright forums, if I can find it (between work) I'll post a link. If not, wouldn't hurt to browse over there and you can probably get it relatively quickly.

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Okay, thx, ill give it a try in my firespray then