moondog
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- Charley Moondog 1969
Hi,
I have been playing about 3 years and only ever dabbled in mining, mainly I pull up enough oil to run my vehicles , sweetstuff for nutrio bars and nexus for TP chips. If a 100 ped mining run gives me a stack of over 10 - 20 ped of anything else I will sell at MU, small stacks I just TT.
Recently, becoming dissilusioned with hunting - at level 46 laser pistoleer s bad loot swing of a few weeks can be depressing. In the past I have started skilling melee, chips or anything else when loot is bad , to build skills or grind a particular mob for an item - such as hides.
So recently I started to look into mining a bit more seriously and I am confused about the finder F series
Each one seems to search to a different depth, the higher the level finder the deeper it searches. I am maxed on the F103 but a couple of years ago a friend recomended I get an f105 and just use that. although I am not maxed on it it still seems to search deeper than the f103 i am maxed on but all the f series finders use the same number of probes.
I read in this section that it is recommended to use the f101 until you have maxed the f105, being noob at this I defer to the opinion of ppl who have been doing this for years.
My question is this, with guns if you have not maxed them on SIB then they are not as effiecient as guns that you have maxed. Is this the same with finders ? If it is then why isn't the number of probes per hit more for the higher level finders like the f105.
Furthermore, should I really stick with the f101 until I max the f105 or should I use the f103 which I am maxed on and searched deeper than the f101.
I dont want to get into amps atm the moment as I am still learning this profession, I understand the amps give a great haul on each hit, but I am looking for an alternative to hunting when the loot swing is bad, I am not trying to become an uber miner, but it would be nice to be able to mine efficiently for resources that I use in my normal game play.
Any advice would be appreciated
I have been playing about 3 years and only ever dabbled in mining, mainly I pull up enough oil to run my vehicles , sweetstuff for nutrio bars and nexus for TP chips. If a 100 ped mining run gives me a stack of over 10 - 20 ped of anything else I will sell at MU, small stacks I just TT.
Recently, becoming dissilusioned with hunting - at level 46 laser pistoleer s bad loot swing of a few weeks can be depressing. In the past I have started skilling melee, chips or anything else when loot is bad , to build skills or grind a particular mob for an item - such as hides.
So recently I started to look into mining a bit more seriously and I am confused about the finder F series
Each one seems to search to a different depth, the higher the level finder the deeper it searches. I am maxed on the F103 but a couple of years ago a friend recomended I get an f105 and just use that. although I am not maxed on it it still seems to search deeper than the f103 i am maxed on but all the f series finders use the same number of probes.
I read in this section that it is recommended to use the f101 until you have maxed the f105, being noob at this I defer to the opinion of ppl who have been doing this for years.
My question is this, with guns if you have not maxed them on SIB then they are not as effiecient as guns that you have maxed. Is this the same with finders ? If it is then why isn't the number of probes per hit more for the higher level finders like the f105.
Furthermore, should I really stick with the f101 until I max the f105 or should I use the f103 which I am maxed on and searched deeper than the f101.
I dont want to get into amps atm the moment as I am still learning this profession, I understand the amps give a great haul on each hit, but I am looking for an alternative to hunting when the loot swing is bad, I am not trying to become an uber miner, but it would be nice to be able to mine efficiently for resources that I use in my normal game play.
Any advice would be appreciated