Shipwright Archive
Thread: Question about Asteroid Resource Quality
dont want to hijack ... but does the quality change ? i have got a pile of the 1000 OQ stuff - but i dont really want to spend aloads of time getting the 500 stuff if it changes every week - 2 weeks.
thanks
IGN TinyMistyHart / Elora
There has been a couple of threads on how to use a tractor beam effectively. Using this method I can fill up my 1550 cargo hold in about 5 minutes.
Shoot the main asteroid until a large chunk breaks off. Follow it and get within 100 meters. Toggle on your tractor beam. (you may need to remove it from your firing group using the 'g' key to bring up the weapon config box). Blow up the large chunk and most/all of the little chunks will get pulled in to the cargo hold. This is a very fast mining method someone came up with and it works really well.
So far the stats on the asteroids have not changed since rotw came out.
OrizCore wrote:
Sorry im not to familiar with the mining thing. I got 750 of all the required resources and made 3 mining lasers with mark II quickshot upgrades. They turned out alright. I was going to use all three in my heavy xwing beacuse i read somewhere that they are good for mining and that tractor beams dont do anything.
I use a Krayt M22 setup and can pull in 20k resources a day if I want, but it gets boring fast. I use Mark III minning lasers and a tractor beam. The tractor beam takes slightly longer to pull the asteroids in, but it has a higher yeild, you will typically get between 2-4% for each one you tractor in instead of the .5-1.0 you get for blasting them.