I am , and miserably failing . <| sep |> I gave it a Bronx Cheer nomination <| sep |> nah , music is without borders <| sep |> Same here , I can only play on weekends if there is no work , also too much TV to keep up with , recently got into anime . Too much entertainment very less time <| sep |> Like those pesky TTC fares . Everything should be free . <| sep |> Spending time with my kid . <| sep |> Emag Fan Curier Bucuresti 2 zile , comandat de bf si am primit pachetul duminica la pranz . <| sep |> There isn ' t really much to know at this point . How is all that not really much ? Let me add some more . You find a system with the correct type of ringsAnd sufficient reserves . And favourable position entry point distance , station distance , gravity wells in the area , security level , distance to where you need the mined resources , . . And enough clusters if you are belt mining . spam prospector drones until you find what you are lookingOr use just the laser for smaller ships degrading prospector to being only there for the yield bonus a lance is perfect for this job . Also what you ' re looking for is quite a complex task should you aim to optimise it . How quickly can you prospect rocks and thus how picky can you be ? Finding a low % of the target resource can be rather worthless and a waste of time mining it . Even finding a higher % mingled with too much other stuff can be skipped efficiently for finding a purer resource if you are prospecting fast enough . and maybe map them as wellThere is a whole lot to know about this alone . After that it ' s just shooting a spinning rock and listening to limpets deposit the ore in your refinery . Once you ' ve launched your collector limpets , you could literally put a rubber band around your trigger and go make a sandwich . That ' s your loss . Here ' s what I do unless I ' m hungry and need a sandwich fine tune my position to optimise the collector loop for speed and safety and monitor the scanner for threats if you are mapping rings , you ' ll be in a RES and clusters in inhabited systems will have NPCs as well . On some rotating rocks there often isn ' t a stationary optimal position , so I have to keep moving and another fact to know belt asteroids don ' t spin at all . I ' m also managing refinery bins and inventory space , because 10 bins isn ' t enough to account for all resources and I ' m usually not running with that many to begin with . Also recently pointed out on the mining sub it seems that if you ' re using an Anaconda , you can install the refinery close to the front hatch and thus get a shorter limpet loop . Scanning makes more sense . We already have cargo scanners that can identify materials within a ships hull , why not one that can identify whats in an asteroid . We have scanners that can tell us the composition of and entire planets crust but not this relatively tiny rock we are staring at ? How is this drone getting this information , core sample ? Effectively , scanning the rocks wouldn ' t be any easier or faster , it would just make more sense and we wouldn ' t need to carry and waste hundreds of drones . Scanning a ship means scanning something manufactured , thus systems can much more easily analyse what a signal signature means . Both ship and body scanners work at a vastly different scale from asteroids . Basically if you are having a stationary target that isn ' t running away right in front of you rather than several light seconds away it ' s always bestmost accurate to take an actual sample than trying to analyse a spectrum from a distance and we are only interested in a surfacecrust sample core sample wouldn ' t help , we don ' t mine that deep . The prospectors are giving you a very specific composition . You don ' t have that for either ships or bodies it ' s just 40 % Rock 60 % Metal for example micro material composition being an exception and that likely works because you are scanning a large enough surface at once asteroids are much smaller and less likely to give you enough signal to be certain about their micro material composition all you get is rough material content , even with the prospector . So , effectively it makes a whole lot of sense to probe asteroids . If a scanner wouldn ' t be any easier or faster , then what ' s the point ? What it could do is give you a general idea of what ' s in an asteroid no percentages , so you can save up on limpets . But we can already do that by chipping a single fragment which then via targeting effectively gives you the desired scan even with a good percentage estimate . I ' m not against having an asteroid scanner , I ' m mostly against being able to honk for scanning multiple asteroids in your vicinity as suggested in another recent mining post that even wants to see prospectors entirely replaced . Being able to synthesize limpets would be cool and would give us a reason to want to collect some of the more mundane materials . I ' ve seen mining missions for almost every mining commodity now D Also if you ' re into supporting minor factions , the mundane resources are rather important to meet market demands . Also beyond mapping I can already predict what content I ' ll get on any belt cluster asteroid . And there is material mining to consider rings and individual clusters have distinct drop rates for their loot table , just like planets . Then there ' s also your ship build p o w e r l a s e r c o l l e c t o r p r o s pectorspaceoffencedefence . ratios to consider how well does it match your mining strategy ? And wing mining several symmetric and asymmetric approaches . And we still don ' t know for certain if resources in rings occur in patterns . My experience says yes , if I find a low % of a resource I can usually find the jackpot nearby . Many are still dismissing this much like many have dismissed asteroids being persistent me included . We also don ' t know for certain , whether compositions differ between rings of the same type or even within the same ring with location , such as distance to the parent body . I already know that material composition differs between locations . And resource composition obviously differs between belt clusters because I can record the content of each individual asteroid . There ' s already a lot to know and still potentially a lot more to know .