Help: Mining skill missions

[WhiningSkeptic]

For a very good reason I have about eight weeks to gain 13 levels of prospector, 18 levels of surveyor and even more treasure hunter (this one not as important).

What mining missions with skill rewards are there? While I would like to lose as little as possible I will want to use amplifiers to complete these as fast as possible. I am guessing I am probably going to need about 200PED TT in the various main skills (I'll double check tonight and do the math).

 

[slick27]

Theirs a mining mission agent in twin peaks just outside the auction centre and in-between tp. This will cover caly foma possibly monria.

Cyrene their is multiple agents for various ores as well as separate agent for Miner Isles that is based on points ie size of the deposit. Might have got island name wrong but it's full of miners / tree huggers your find it

 

[Alina]

For a very good reason I have about eight weeks to gain 13 levels of prospector, 18 levels of surveyor and even more treasure hunter (this one not as important).

What mining missions with skill rewards are there? While I would like to lose as little as possible I will want to use amplifiers to complete these as fast as possible. I am guessing I am probably going to need about 200PED TT in the various main skills (I'll double check tonight and do the math).

What is your curent level on all three ?

 

[WhiningSkeptic]

What is your curent level on all three ?

27/17/13. I would need to get them to 40 so I can triple drop indoors with P160 and Terra 10.

Since I am that low I was hoping I could amp my way through a few missions and get a big boost.

 

[Alina]

27/17/13. I would need to get them to 40 so I can triple drop indoors with P160 and Terra 10.

Since I am that low I was hoping I could amp my way through a few missions and get a big boost.

Start skilling on Arka triple mining, middle area is fastest because of extraction, most ore enm got high TT. When i skilled i used the finder from boxes P20 but i dont know if you got skills for it, dont remember the sib for it.

As finder use F105 until you get level for P20 and if you want to rush a bit get some level 5 (I can craft you some). Ask in soc if someone got a prospector ring and get some 100% skill pills 10 hour are cheapest 100% per hour. Drop me a pm if you need some

 

[Alina]

Also in Celeste you have some missions but the area i mentioned won't be good for them but since you dont drop a lot just go for it you will gain skills with 9 ped per click (+ level 5).

 

[Thark]

Why would you need skills for that? You are mining for filler/lyst/oil with that setup so depth doesnt matter. It seems you wanna do some big gambling, so it doesnt matter if the finder is slow.

Or am I missing something and we have some Event in 8 weeks thats your "very good reason"? Otherwise, just go for it without wasting time skilling.

 

[Alina]

Why would you need skills for that? You are mining for filler/lyst/oil with that setup so depth doesnt matter. It seems you wanna do some big gambling, so it doesnt matter if the finder is slow.

Or am I missing something and we have some Event in 8 weeks thats your "very good reason"? Otherwise, just go for it without wasting time skilling.

Well this is true its not much markup when you that setup haha but also is very cheap when you do triple and level 5 for some hp

 

[WhiningSkeptic]

Why would you need skills for that? You are mining for filler/lyst/oil with that setup so depth doesnt matter. It seems you wanna do some big gambling, so it doesnt matter if the finder is slow.

Or am I missing something and we have some Event in 8 weeks thats your "very good reason"? Otherwise, just go for it without wasting time skilling.

We are doing a fun thing in december when we are going to either double of triple drop for as many PED per drop as possible indoors on the same spots after which we either celebrate an ATH or get drunk and cry about losses. I don't enjoy mining at all, this is a one time thing for the hell of it which is why I am trying to figure out the easiest way to get there.

 

[WhiningSkeptic]

Well this is true its not much markup when you that setup haha but also is very cheap when you do triple and level 5 for some hp

Yeah it is going to be a one time thing, I don't really like mining. But I need the skills and would like to do the skilling as quick as possible without being a complete idiot so your advice is appreciated.

 

[Thark]

then dont bother with skills. All they do for you is give you more depth (doesnt matter for you) and make you drop more probes per minute, which you also dont really need. Especially if you dont enjoy mining, just do your event.

But I mean, if you really wanna: Prospecting and surveying can be gotten from cyrene missions. Treasure could have missions on Ark (dunno). Cyrene has blue, yellow crystal and oil as well as zorn star missions which can all be found amped. so if you need to skill, that would work. Get those, go to purple area and go. Also pick up the mining mission for base/adj rucksack so you can sell that thing after. (takes 3k points of blue crystal or some trivial amount of zorn star). BUT skilling with big amps, especially with 100% skill pill and the occasional 1xx% random skill boost, is already fairly quick. So I dunno if missions are really necessary. I would immagine getting to 40 in all 3 shouldnt take much more than a few 10k cycle? Maybe 100k? Which goes quickly with big amps.

 

[WhiningSkeptic]

then dont bother with skills. All they do for you is give you more depth (doesnt matter for you) and make you drop more probes per minute, which you also dont really need. Especially if you dont enjoy mining, just do your event.

So there are no penalties to not reaching required level except depth?

 

[Thark]

and uses per minute, exactly. You will find the exact same tt as someone else - well, you know, random bla slot machine bla but you know what I mean.

 

[WhiningSkeptic]

and uses per minute, exactly. You will find the exact same tt as someone else - well, you know, random bla slot machine bla but you know what I mean.

Ah great, thanks. That makes it all so much easier for me.

 

[Alina]

Ah great, thanks. That makes it all so much easier for me.

If you want some fast hp, Level 5+ F105 for start is super decent, goal is to get to L30 tho.

 

[WhiningSkeptic]

If you want some fast hp, Level 5+ F105 for start is super decent, goal is to get to L30 tho.

I actually should do that anyhow. I want to reach 250 HP before end of year and hunting isn't giving me much anymore.

 

[slick27]

Tbh if you looking for skills to get your levels up, go speed mining indoors. Basically get a finder go out unamped and just autocycle. You will need around about 14% + run speed. Set limits per arena / area and you should be fine.

I have had plenty 1k hofs doing this and you can cycle just as much as people planet side amped. It's also more cost effective in foma with tax.

Dont waste your Peds amped it rarely pays unless you own a ul one.

Also one last thing I tried p160 with terra 10 your find out very quickly the claim size doesn't really match drop cost. Really weird this one if you try it indoors.

 

[Thark]

Why would indoor/outdoor matter for cycle speed? We already know you dont have to run twice the radius so just running straight gets you almost perfectly to the 55m with 25% run speed. So why pay the tax? Unless "speed mining" is some sort of special technique, which id love to learn if it is.

 

[James Jimbo Linehan]

Why would indoor/outdoor matter for cycle speed? We already know you dont have to run twice the radius so just running straight gets you almost perfectly to the 55m with 25% run speed. So why pay the tax? Unless "speed mining" is some sort of special technique, which id love to learn if it is.

I think he means speed skilling not so much the radius and running... indoor mining you have a horrible hit rate but get bigger claims so because of that alone only having to waste time extracting a few claims rather than running and stopping 5-6x more times for little claims you can cycle more in same time frame. But the tax is brutal and I can never justify doing that even tho I think there might be some nice spots in some indoors like ark/foma

 

[horus1121]

When I was lower level miner, I used to carry a few larger amps like terra 8 or whichever was not that crazy mu at the time, and use them only whenever I got a 200% + skill buff and then just spam drop. Multiplying your turnover during those precious minutes could also help to speed up the process.

 

[slick27]

I think he means speed skilling not so much the radius and running... indoor mining you have a horrible hit rate but get bigger claims so because of that alone only having to waste time extracting a few claims rather than running and stopping 5-6x more times for little claims you can cycle more in same time frame. But the tax is brutal and I can never justify doing that even tho I think there might be some nice spots in some indoors like ark/foma

It was indeed what I ment if you want to skill. As for tax it's doesn't matter if you go unamped as your not paying the amp tax so doesn't really make much difference compared to using amps planet side.

Foma has a few good spots with mu and monria is untaxed

 

[Thark]

I see, well, uhm, sure I guess. Seems horribly inefficient and having to wait between drops and then running all over the place to extract seems odd. But sure.

i'd not do that to skill ever. And would advice Alina's or horus' way but sure

 

[Syntaxtc]

use 100% skill juices and triple drop dclass on ark. wont take long to reach 40.