I finally got my mining setup to work in Elite Dangerous (by buying a better refinery with more bins, and learning not to direct collector drones but just let them get on with it) and immediately made about 1.6 million credits in 2 runs, which compared to the 30k or so I was making at a time before via trading was very exciting.
To celebrate, I bought a fat new ship shaped like a brick that has no space for guns after mining tools are attached, but it’s got a ton of cargo space and room for an even better refinery. I’ll probably get immediately killed by the first pirate that glances my way but whatever, I’m all in on the fat defenceless space truck build
@sinbad Rule one: Never log out of the game while in an asteroid field if you have cargo.
It's pretty much 100% chance when you log in that if you are in an asteroid field a pirate ship will spawn near you and scan your cargo.
I've logged in, found my control mappings messed up and almost lost my Anaconda to a pirate before I rebound enough to either fight back or run away.
@sinbad I'd sometimes get lazy when my inventory was half full but I was tired of mining, so just log out in the field. Pirates within seconds every time I come back, even if I'm not near a hotspot or resource zone. If my controls aren't messed up (damn you ED) my first instinct when logging in is deploy hardpoints and watch the scanner. :)
Beyond a few thousand lightyears, you never run into NPCs or any other players, so it's safe anywhere. And if you're crazy, you use a Type 10 for it! 🤪
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