Hi All,
I've done some ROC mining and wanted to share some impressions an thoughts, as well as to see if you have anything to share on the subject.
Overall, I think it's much better than mining on foot, but you won't be able to reach the most difficult places,. where you can only get on foot.
On the positive side:
Things than can be improved:
Some screenshots and numbers:
Most of the time I found minerals in a form of 2 rocks. Sometimes you can find patches like this:
See how difficult it is to tell where the energy level is? And that's not the worst visibility conditions:
Cargo capacity 45.36%, - enough for the day.
45.36% is 364 minerals of 800 max storage capacity (empty space of 436). How long would it take me to manually pick up 364 minerals? - Very long. And to bring all to the ship would require multiple trips to leave bit by bit on the cargo grid.
80 units of Hadanite for 22,000 aUEC and 284 units of Dolivine for 36,920 aUEC, total Commodity Cargo Value of 58,920 aUEC. You can see how much Hadanite is more valuable, more than twice. To earn 36,920 aUEC (Dolivine amount) in Hadanite, I only need to mine 135 minerals, not 284. Considering the time it takes to find minerals, if I had to mine manually, I may skip cheaper minerals, but with ROC it's quick, so I harvest it all.
What experience have you had with the ROC and what do you think about it?
I've done some ROC mining and wanted to share some impressions an thoughts, as well as to see if you have anything to share on the subject.
Overall, I think it's much better than mining on foot, but you won't be able to reach the most difficult places,. where you can only get on foot.
On the positive side:
- You can traverse quickly.
- Breaks the rocks faster than with the manual tool.
- You can pick lots of mineral pieces quickly, which is a pain point with hand mining.
- The ROC has a scanner. While it's slow, it's much better than to have no scanner on foot.
- Overall, you can earn a lot more than by hand mining. The only issue is to find rock minerals on planet surfaces. I believe these are concentrated in caves.
- The internal storage is pretty large, about 800 mineral pieces.
Things than can be improved:
- The display is too small and difficult to read, especially the energy gauge. Even the hand held tool's display reads much better. When you are in poor visibility conditions, e.g. snow blizzard on Calliope, the display becomes almost illegible and you have to guess how the energy is getting transferred into the stone and whether you are still in the green zone.
- The main headlights/projector are facing forward-up direction. I understand this is for the caves, but I think that a player should be able to control the direction of the top projector, otherwise you almost can't see what's ahead, and your flashlight provides better lighting than ROC's headlights.
- Vehicle size and wheel base - the vehicle is small, but its wheels stick out too much, so that it takes a lot more space than it could on your ship, as well as it could go through a more narrow cave. This is probably arguable, as the vehicle will loose stability with a smaller wheel base, so there is a trade off. With the caves, I haven't found one were the ROC could enter - so likely this hasn't been implemented yet.
- No functionality to empty the internal storage. If you are in a long duration expedition, you would want to transfer the contents of the ROC's storage compartment into a container, which you can keep in your ship's cargo hold, and keep mining. Maybe this functionality will be added later.
Some screenshots and numbers:
Most of the time I found minerals in a form of 2 rocks. Sometimes you can find patches like this:
See how difficult it is to tell where the energy level is? And that's not the worst visibility conditions:
Cargo capacity 45.36%, - enough for the day.
45.36% is 364 minerals of 800 max storage capacity (empty space of 436). How long would it take me to manually pick up 364 minerals? - Very long. And to bring all to the ship would require multiple trips to leave bit by bit on the cargo grid.
80 units of Hadanite for 22,000 aUEC and 284 units of Dolivine for 36,920 aUEC, total Commodity Cargo Value of 58,920 aUEC. You can see how much Hadanite is more valuable, more than twice. To earn 36,920 aUEC (Dolivine amount) in Hadanite, I only need to mine 135 minerals, not 284. Considering the time it takes to find minerals, if I had to mine manually, I may skip cheaper minerals, but with ROC it's quick, so I harvest it all.
What experience have you had with the ROC and what do you think about it?
