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Secondly, it gets you a lot of money without any cost. Admittedly, mining can be more time consuming than trading, but I believe it's worth it. Piracy also gets you money without any cost, but the initial outlay is higher, and it tends to make people angry with you. That is piracy (look it up if you don't believe me).

This is where it differs from trading - in order to trade, you need to buy the commodities you wish to trade, unless by 'trading', you mean 'plundering other ships and selling the commodities they have on board'. So, why be an asteroid miner? Firstly, it's a good way to get money without any cost, other than an initial outlay of 10,000 credits, and assorted escort fees if you desire to hire escorts. All images appearing on this page are to scale (I didn't shrink any of them, only cropped from a screenshot). So after the 50th person in the Nova Webboards desperately trying to describe what kind of asteroids put out opals, I decided it's time someone posted images instead of a description, and all this just grew from there. This is what the EV Nova Documentation has to say on the subject of mining. Oh, all right there's a whole heap more on asteroid resources, as in setting what minerals come out of asteroids, and how much of them, and how many smaller pieces they break into, but that's not really about mining, and it doesn't really help a prospecting prospector. This is what the EV Nova Bible has to say on the subject of mining: 501-504 are the spïn resource numbers assigned to mini-asteroids for mining.

EV NOVA STARBRIDGE HOW TO

If you would like to contribute to this page, my e-mail address is - any input is appreciated.įor those of you who couldn't really be bothered reading my nice shiny guide, here's How to mine asteroids in fifteen words or less - thanks to ArcAngel Counterstrike of the Webboard for that one. This page is a work in progress, and is intended to help those playing EVN (especially those in the Web Board) and intending to mine asteroids for a living. For those of you who have managed to wander in from the outside, and thus don't have the slightest clue what I am going on about, EV Nova is a really great game by Ambrosia Software. Welcome to Belthazar's Guide to Asteroid Mining in Escape Velocity: Nova. Introduction So you want to be an asteroid miner? You've come to the right place. 5.5 The Brains of the Bunch - Advanced Mining Tacticsġ. 5.4 The Crux of the Matter - Where is the Best Place to Sell? 5.3 All Dressed Up and Nowhere to go - Where is the Best Place to Mine? 5.2.2.2 Ion Cannon / Ionic Particle Cannon 5.2.1 Fixed, Swivel and Turreted Weapons 5.2 The Most Bang for your Buck - Which Weapon Should I Use? 5.1 Flying Around with the Greatest of Ease - Which Ship Should I Use?

Biting Off More Than You Can Chew - Cargo Space, Escorts and the Like Between a Rock and a Hard Place - What do I Mine?Ĥ. Kicking Off - What Do I Need to Start Mining?ģ.

one so good, in fact, that I'm going to go home tonight and start asteroid mining!'Ģ. 'I love mining, It's the ultimate go between a shuttle and a better ship, like a valk or starbridge.' Belthazar's Guide to Asteroid Mining Still Under Construction

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