Yeah, don't misunderstand, the Python is highly suitable, just for me, not as suitable as the Krait. Either will work fine.

And FWIW, the Krait and Python share almost all the same slots. So to set up a Krait for mining, you can module swap. Give it a test run with your Python internals, see how you get on with it, and then can decide. That's what I did at first.

This is crazy. Made almost 500 million in the past two nights. More than half way though Tycoon already. 400 million of that in my freakin home system.

I had plenty of money before, now I've oodles.

I know that feeling, and it feels good!

It feels like stealin'

I had a transcendent transaction last night. One sale resulted in....

Elite Trade Rank/ Double Elite
Selene Jean engineer invitation
Exceeded 1 billion in cash on hand

That's 725 million in three nights of dedicated core mining. Insanity! I went from 86% Entrepreneur to Elite since Thursday

When I got back in to the game a few weeks ago, I looked at the stats of the guys here I am friends with on Inara. Everyone had billions of credits, and I had 240 million. I guessed that the killing was made on the Void Opal market, and I wanted in. So now I am a galactic billionaire myself. Of course there isn't really anything I want to buy, so it's just a status. But it's cool just to know I could buy anything, if I wanted to. Which I don't. So what do I need all this money for?

The best thing to come out of it is the Selene Jean invite. Need to mine 10 tons of painite to unlock her. But the FDL will get a nice weight reduction and have more smash as a result. All of my ships will benefit from this, as I have just G1 armor access at the moment.

Congratulations Elite and Billionaire in 3 days!

Thanks man, you showed me the light

Congratulations on Double Elite! That must have been like winning on a slot machine with all the notifications you got on that!

Thanks JC. Of course the game takes no special notice of it. Double Elite is just my way of saying 'more than Elite but less than Triple Elite'


After getting home from my son's flag football game yesterday (they lost in the rain 28-7), I decided to get Selene Jean unlocked. So I looked for pristine metallic rings, and found some not far away in a system called Zeta Octantis. Flew there in Poison Whiskey, and probed the rings on a couple of gas giants. Found a number of hotspots, but no painite. Then I noticed that planets are listed as having more than one ring. So I flew back to planet 4 and got down in tight so I could probe the small sliver of brownish inner ring. Close, so that the probe didn't get gravitationally sucked toward the planet and went in the ring instead.

Sure enough, when this probe stuck it revealed about 20 more very small hotspots, including several painite, around the inner edge of the ring. In business now. Dropped in, and prospected around. Found a rock with a good percentage of painite. But it soon became clear that neither abrasion blasters nor seismic charges would get at the painite, which is a 'subsurface deposit'. Mining Lasers?

EDDB'd it and found a nearby station selling mining lasers and flew there. That's when I noticed a new whizbang called subsurface displacement missiles. Hmmm, that sounds like just the thing. How does it work? No matter, how hard can it be?

Flew back to planet 4 and dropped in to the hotspot, found another rock and spent a couple of minutes wasting drill-bangrockets until I worked it out and 15 minutes later had my ten painite. These things are neat. Good one FDev.

Flew to a nearby tech trader, sold the mining stuff, bought a class 5 GFSDB to make it less painful and flew to Kuk. In another thread I advised using exploration data to increase engineer rep to save mats. I unlocked Selene Jean, then went to cartographics and sold 400k of the 1 million in data I had on me. That took me to access level 3.5 and then I G5 lightweight/deep plated the Krait's armor which took me to access grade 5.

I pinned lightweight and flew back to Dvorsi to do the FDL. But the lightweight blueprint didn't show in the remote workshop. Clearly a bug as it is certainly pinned. So I had to fly the FDL all the way to Kuk. I would have needed to do Deep Plate eventually anyway, so whatever. Did G 4.39 since I only had a couple military composites, and added deep plate and heavy duty'd the HRPs. This netted me a whole +2 m/s! But it's a little faster, and has better integrity and resistances. So a win-win.

Then I flew the FDL to my hunting ground in Exioce and raised combat rank another 4%. And so it goes.

Exactly my plan when I get back from the Black...

Void Opal mining DOES seem like cheating. I don't think I am going to make Explorer Elite when I get back, but I will get most of the way there, and continue Scanning and Mapping stuff in the Bubble.

Then, maybe proceed to blow stuff up and get the rest of the 36% to COMBAT ELITE.

I joined EDSM when I started exploring. Got this interesting FORTNIGHTLY summary... Not sure why Wingy/Sinisalo don't show up. Maybe not on EDSM?

I only imported the logs from when we went to the Guardian site and then when I set out..

Nice one Rec. I've had a question about that program.

I've gotten a lot of first discoveries. I would like to see how many. If I registered there would it be able to tell me this info after I've turned them in?

PINNING drives me crazy. I always think I have something pinned and then it doesn't show up. I think you can only have ONE pinned per Engineer (per Module???) so I have over-written pinned Blueprints by accident many times. Maybe it is per Engineer and not per module...

Yes and No... I think it does, but also, tracks FIRST REPORTED TO EDSM, which might not be a FIRST DISCOVERY. I meant to go back and see if BOTH were reported or just EDSM. The CODEX should track that, though..

OK thanks.

The Codex does not show this, as far as I can tell. I really wish it would. Like why can't first discoveries be shown in exploration stats? The game clearly tracks it. It shows me how many level 2 or 3 scans I have, Why not first discoveries?

As to the pinning.... I had just unlocked Selene Jean. I have G1 Heavy Duty armor pinned from a different engineer. In the remote workshop armor shows G5, but when you drill down only the G1 Heavy Duty appears. When I go back to Selene Jean the Lightweight armor mod is shown as pinned. But does not appear in the remote workshop.

I had this happen too when I changed pinned blueprints.

I flew back to Liz Ryder, she is the one I pinned G1 Heavy Duty before unlocking Selene Jean. I unpinned that blueprint and G5 Lightweight still doesn't appear at the remote workshop. I have other modules with multiple blueprints pinned, like shield generators for example. Do you recall which module you had trouble pinning JC?

So I'll have to go back to Selene Jean and try to pin it again, even though it already is! As if I don't already have enough to do !

I thInk it was the thruster blueprint from Farseer. I unpinned the FSD then pinned the thruster and it didn’t show.

Thanks JC, was thinking it might be limited to certain module types.

I once (pre-3.3) made me a list with the engineers in the bubble, with the modules and levels they can engineer. Makes it easier to decide which blueprints to pin with a certain engineer. Might still be valid today:

Thanks WC, nice work.