So I just got into the game and found mining kind of fun. I’ve read tutorials and stuff and know how to locate veins etc. But as I see it there’s no way to break even (or even less make a profit) when you’re a n00b miner. The profit from the extracted materials are never high enough to pay for bombs and probes, and I suspect this is because I don’t have a high enough level.
So, questions: At what level do you get good enough to make a profit from mining? Does it help with better equipment? Do you have any other n00b mining hints?
You can quite easily make a lot of helps from lvl1 and on. My advice would be to not use the guides, just mine where u know you have found minerals before, with some days between bombing the places. And if you use for example 100 bombs and gets 70 peds in minerals back one often thinks: DAMN! What a lousy round, but when u sell with the % it’s often just a few peds loss or even a few peds profit.
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You can quite easily make a lot of helps from lvl1 and on. My advice would be to not use the guides, just mine where u know you have found minerals before, with some days between bombing the places. And if you use for example 100 bombs and gets 70 peds in minerals back one often thinks: DAMN! What a lousy round, but when u sell with the % it’s often just a few peds loss or even a few peds profit.
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I recently bought some 102 ore equipment, and I got the feeling that at least the orefinder was a bit better than the one in the tt.
never ever TT minerals as i once have
It is tempting to do that with minerals that has no market, like zink and Copper, to get some instant cash. But I try to just put them away in the storage terminal until someone wants to buy it. It’s not very economical to have large amounts of cash in storage though…
It is technically possible to make steady profit even without skills. When you find something, usually near exists another 5-15 deposits. You can find some and go away, drop bombs like mad or you can drop bombs carefully to search surrounding area with smallest possible overlapping.
Usually I profit when at least 1/3 of bombs are successful.
I started to get more even and making profit ( TT value not street %) when i got about 250 prospecting and 800 mining and so on. So i guess, yeah, do like others say, mine in places that you already found resources, when you got your lvl up then u can start to explore other areas. Thats my opinion only and what i do, doesnt mean you have.
To answer my own question, I’d say that when you’re a total noob with no skills and no known mining spots, you will lose peds. But once your skills are up and you know what you’re doing, it’s pretty easy to break even. I think I had about 250 in mining and 100 in prospecting when I started to break even. Now with 700 in mining and 260 in prospecting I’d say I make profit on 90% of my mining runs.
So to any noobs reading this, it is possible to make a profit, but you’ll have to work on it for a few months, be prepared to lose a few peds and know where and how ores appear. Log all your finds with this little app called NeoMap, and you will figure it out eventually.
