For me the ranking goes Australia and New zealand , British , Brazil , German , Czech , French . <| sep |> he didn ' t seem to have any strategyFirst of all that is me and I do have a strategy . Which is prospecting as many rocks as fast as possible . That requires a lot of decision making . in twenty minutes of random spamming he only found two rocks with painite and managed to extract 8 tones . That ' s less than 1 milhour profit . Correction 16 tons . In that case around 3 milh . With enough space to accommodate for all fragments of both rocks it ' d be 4 milh which I achieve and exceeded a few times during these tests by finding and mining both rocks faster . Other ships can be optimised further for this job than the scout and find a Painite rock like that in less than 5 minutes average here . All you gotta do is up your prospecting rate . I ' ll grant you that using the laser instead of a prospecting drone is definitely faster , but other than that , he did exactly what I do and seemed to get similar results . It actually isn ' t if you have enough active prospectors , which a small ship simply cannot facilitate or waste for searching due to running out too early .