Exploration Story 2019 PMC Elite Dangerous

Space story about hunting missing data, exploration, mining, tradedangerous trading and bounty hunting in 2019.

2019-09-09

Woke up today, cooked some food and then it was time to play elite, hunt some missing market data. My todays goal is to play as long as I can, I assume to get bored before tired but I'll really want to test myself that how many stations I can visit in a one day. Honestly I'm surprised how small the yesterdays list is with only 37 stations visited, I consider that extremely low amount.

Perhaps I'm confusing that to normal exploration traveling which is one system in 44 seconds, while visiting stations for EDDN sending is more like 14 minutes per station, as strange as that sounds. It really depends, for example distance from star is what mostly dictates how long one station takes, planetary usually takes more time than outpost in space, but if you have close ones with basically no traveling time, then it can be as quick as 5min or so.

Also good to note about yesterdays "depressed" mood is that I recall there being 20,000 stations in populated space, so there can be thousands of these missing data stations and my 37 visits per day... don't even make a dent on the list after a week Smiley :)

Edit: took a look at eddb.io/station list and it says: Found 68,985 stations. oh man that is huge number of stations and here I was thinking it was 20k hehe. Wow just imagine how many stations there are to do if even 10% of them are missing data... whoah! Smiley :o

2019-09-09T13:35:50Z back in my PMC EDDN Sender asp explorer cockpit and ready to get to work. 

2019-09-09T13:42:50Z, Groa, Mooz Barracks
2019-09-09T13:49:14Z, Motintana, McKie Dock
2019-09-09T13:59:13Z, Rindjigas, Gill Platform
2019-09-09T14:05:25Z, HIP 16595, Quinn Plant
2019-09-09T14:18:49Z, Grovicho, Cardano's Progress
2019-09-09T14:27:59Z, HIP 18888, Kurtz Holdings
2019-09-09T14:32:06Z, HIP 18888, Kosai Prospect
2019-09-09T14:54:31Z, Serd, Stackpole Installation
2019-09-09T15:01:34Z, Wikegarak, Alphonsi Orbital
2019-09-09T15:06:46Z, Gurua, Westerhout Terminal
2019-09-09T15:12:59Z, Etz'nambe, Kidd Reach
2019-09-09T15:22:30Z, Aruntei, Bartini Vision
2019-09-09T15:28:52Z, Aruntei, Clarke Legacy
2019-09-09T15:33:53Z, Vogul, Aller Terminal
2019-09-09T15:39:03Z, Vogul, Wagner Terminal
2019-09-09T15:47:36Z, Maasates, Pryor Legacy
2019-09-09T15:54:46Z, San Wu Gu, Smirnova Penal colony
2019-09-09T16:04:40Z, HIP 25359, Anderson Installation
2019-09-09T16:17:27Z, Bhalan, Zoline Prospect
2019-09-09T16:27:19Z, Bagalya, Dyr Port
2019-09-09T16:35:13Z, Khowei, Howe Port
2019-09-09T16:40:53Z, Khowei, Palitzsch Terminal
2019-09-09T16:49:28Z, Bragit, Grant's Inheritance
2019-09-09T17:33:55Z, HIP 23185, Lewis Ring
2019-09-09T17:40:07Z, HIP 24912, Poincare Mines
2019-09-09T17:49:35Z, HIP 19894, Hayashi Terminal
2019-09-09T18:06:45Z, Unktety, Grigorovich Orbital
2019-09-09T18:18:10Z, Leunii, Borrelly Escape
2019-09-09T18:26:19Z, HIP 20385, Chernykh Legacy
2019-09-09T18:34:39Z, Potai, Carrasco Installation
2019-09-09T18:46:37Z, Parorans, Adams Landing
2019-09-09T19:01:43Z, HIP 19212, Regiomontanus Orbital
2019-09-09T19:08:17Z, HIP 19212, Armero Oasis
2019-09-09T19:33:22Z, HIP 20792, Gehry Station
2019-09-09T19:39:32Z, HIP 20792, Zubrin Vision
2019-09-09T19:46:30Z, Cantzicnal, Scotti Landing
2019-09-09T19:54:16Z, Maker, Weiss Market
2019-09-09T20:18:06Z, HIP 15614, Lloyd Prospect
2019-09-09T20:32:56Z, Heikegar, Bolger Arsenal
2019-09-09T20:54:11Z, HIP 30260, Charlier City
2019-09-09T21:01:43Z, HIP 30260, Clark Arsenal
2019-09-09T21:21:13Z, HIP 38235, Kimberlin Penal colony
2019-09-09T21:31:41Z, Putanitu, Gerrold Landing
2019-09-09T21:50:32Z, G 14-6, Burroughs Base

At this point I was utterly bored, I just didn't want to continue this missing data hunt. Its probably my overall burnout thats causing this, I'd hate to think I get bored to elite after only two evenings of game-play.

I'm thinking of departing to long exploration journey or to go mining, perhaps even trading using eddb (because latest TradeDangerous is not working)... but all this feels like desperate attempt to get something interesting going on which is impossible while you're bored. Dunno, just dunno man... 

2019-09-09T22:12:07Z, Beta Circini, Quimby Hub
2019-09-09T22:22:20Z, Ullemi, Rosenberg Gateway

Decided to go try that overlapping hotspot painite mining. Got PMC Miner python out as I didn't want to purchase lakon type-9 for this task before testing it out. I went to one of the places recommended by that mining website, detailed surface scanner did not give me the hostpot areas, only the lock on targets, I tried to drop into overlap position but it was just a guessed location. I got fair painite supply there, mining was... well slow, I was there over two hours I think but got just 146 tons of painite before ran out of limpets and also at that point it was pretty clear that it was not overlapping hotspot.

Went to sell into that recommended place and indeed I got 115,683,976cr for the load, not bad.

But still I must test some more, with lakon type-9 on the proper overlapping hotspot and then compare to normal trading using lakon type-9 which is easier and more steady in-come.

Then went to mine another python 160t cargo hold of painite, got like 156t done, that got me 123 million credits, pretty nice. Flew PMC Miner python back to jameson memorial and shut elite down for tonight, dead tired.

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