Project Amethera

[Bobbygolucky]

Originally Posted by Nor Alien

Gl to you and your endevour's!!!

Thanks mate

[Bobbygolucky]

Run #4

General Location - North-west Segna Forest.

Bombs/probes 50/50

Unamped

Resources (Totals) Prices from PEAuction.

Ore

Lanorium 103 - 22.66PED - 104% - 23.57PED
Blausarium 199 - 7.96PED - 108% - 8.60PED
Dianum 3 - 3.75PED - 142% - 5.33PED
Frigulite 45 - 5.40PED - 103% - 5.56PED

Total 43.06PED

Basic profit/loss -6.94PED

Enmatter

Nexus - 1074 - 10.74PED - 140% - 15.04PED
Acid Root - 26 - 8.32PED - 111% - 9.24PED
Devil's Tail - 2 - 0.94PED - 413% - 3.88PED
Angelic Grit - 9 - 4.50PED - 121% - 5.12PED

Total 33.28PED

Basic profit/loss +8.28PED

Total profit/loss of run +1.34PED

Ore finds

Lanorium III 2191, 19050
Lanorium IV 1078, 19102, 488
Lanorium V 1043, 19086, 437
Blausarium III 977, 19260, 379
Blausarium III 1535, 20641, 466
Blausarium III 1661, 20829, 312
Lanorium III 2038, 21116, 418
Dianum III 1673, 21157, 511
Blausarium IV 1701, 21351, 521
Dianum IV 1395, 21472, 531
Lanorium IX 1171, 21584, 529
Frigulite V 890, 21793, 613
Lanorium III, 590, 21995, 499
Lanorium II 827, 21798, 511
Frigulite III 795, 21760, 461
Blausarium III 804, 21711, 430

Hits 16 (32%)

Enmatter finds

Nexus II 2184, 19059
Acid Root III 1701, 19024
Nexus IV 1063, 20108
Nexus II 1691, 20791
Nexus III 1721, 20810
Nexus III 1756, 20781
Nexus II 1896, 21285
Acid Root VII 1690, 21138
Devil's Tail II 1093, 21687
Nexus IV 1133, 21681
Angelic Grit IV 1026, 21764
Nexus II 880, 21803
Acid Root II 640, 21990
Angelic II 907, 21753
Angelic IV 871, 21591

Hits 15 (30%)

Notes

I picked an easy mob location for the next one. I mined round here once quite a while back but not as far north.

Started off west around the lake, only mobs encountered on the whole trip were Snarks, Snables and a couple of Hiryuu. Nothing really eventful happened on the whole trip apart from the Devil's Tail find which was nice as it's my first. I shall definitely be coming back here with probes though as the enmatter was great. No high markup ores found though apart from a couple of small Dianum claims.

Anyway, it achieved my objective in finding out what was there. The most annoying part of the trip was when a soc mate got a 800 odd ped Nexus HoF (unamped with TT finder...) for me to find out that it was just west of the Segna TP where I'd been about an hour earlier... I'm not bitter... honest!

Anyway, so far the project is going well, my first overall basic profit shown as well thanks to all the Nexus mainly.

Good luck all!

Bob

[Bobbygolucky]

Run #5

General Location - Bilton Towers to Shinook (OLA27)

Bombs/probes 50/50

Unamped

Resources (Totals) Prices from PEAuction.

Ore

Iron 31 - 4.03PED - 116% - 4.67PED
Lysterium 265 - 2.65PED - 103% - 2.73PED
Alferix 10 - 9.50PED - 103% - 9.79PED
Gazzurdite 51 - 12.75PED - 126% - 16.07PED
Belkar 425 - 8.50PED - 121% - 10.29PED
Durulium 6 - 4.80PED - 127% - 10.80PED

Total 43.55PED

Basic profit/loss -6.45PED

Enmatter

Crude Oil 376 - 3.76PED - 102% - 3.84PED
Nexus - 51 - 0.51PED - 141% - 0.72PED
Garcen - 63 - 6.30PED - 118% - 7.43PED
Cave Sap - 1 - 0.39PED - 105% - 0.41PED
Sweetstuff - 248 - 2.48PED - 102% - 2.52PED

Total 14.92PED

Basic profit/loss -10.08PED

Total profit/loss of run -16.53PED

Ore finds

Iron V 13664, 19135, 717
Lysterium IV 13171, 19499, 593
Alferix II 12639, 20157, 539
Alferix III 11626, 21686, 360
Alferix V 11799, 22351, 771
Alferix IV 11732, 22512, 389
Gazzurdite V 11387, 23041, 263
Belkar VI 11461, 23549, 437
Belkar V 11321, 23846, 604
Gazzurdite III 11339, 23900, 350
Gazzurdite V 11156, 24415, 569
Gazzurdite V 11304, 24519, 563
Durulium V 11199, 24928, 638
Durulium III 11345, 25405, 512

Hits 14 (28%)

_ _ V _ _ _ IV _ _ _
II _ _ _ _ _ III _ _ V
_ IV _ _ _ V _ _ _ VI
_ _ V _ III _ _ _ V _ V
_ _ V _ _ _ _ III _ _

Enmatter finds

Oil III 13516, 19230, 406
Oil IV 13302, 19320, 666
Nexus II 11624, 21691, 541
Sweetstuff III 11826, 22401, 517
Sweetstuff II 11794, 22395, 244
Garcen II 11472, 23520, 467
Garcen IV 11514, 23532, 495
Garcen II 11439, 23744, 475
Cave Sap II 11135, 23866, 600
Garcen III 11315, 25297, 459
Garcen III 11425, 25852, 466

Hits 11 (22%)

_ _ _ III _ IV _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ II _ _ III II
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ II IV _
II _ II _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ III _ _ _ _ _ III _

Notes

The main aim of this project is to identify where ores and enmatter are found in Amethera. This is the only reason that I can call this trip anything like a success as I discovered Alferix for the first time and Cave Sap for the first time in ages - was gutted when I saw the Alferix markup though! It was a truly abysmal run - I'm surprised that the figures are anywhere near as "good" as they are - the Gazz, Belkar and Durulium saved me at the end!

As you will see from the hits, I had a 9 run NRF on enmatter after which I got a II. Because I was getting desparate for claims on the run I rebombed all claims before I mined, this resulted in 3 more hits overall, a III ore and a II and IV in enmatters. This cost me a total of 15.50PED in missed shots, interestingly enough not far off my total loss for the trip... I might consider doing a run with absolutely no rebombing and see how I get on.

I started out from Bilton with the aim of mining OLA27 and had it in mind to do a circular run back. When I got there I discovered a spawn of high maturity Tripudion just big enough to really annoy me while mining. I took on a stalker just to make sure that I could kill them (just about comfortable although quite a bit of fapping) and decided to carry on.

After a few battles and little loot from the froggys and next to nothing on the mining front I decided that the safest route was along the river bank north. This changed my original circular route plan to head north towards Shinook. I'm glad I did because the claims there were a darn sight better than in the LA. I also bagged a few argos on the way that looted pretty nicely.

Bob

[Bobbygolucky]

Run #6

General Location - Shinook Jungle to New Swiss (OLA42)

Bombs/probes 50/50

Unamped

Resources (Totals) Prices from PEAuction.

Ore

Belkar 55 - 1.10PED -121% - 1.33PED
Durulium 6 - 4.80PED - 127% - 6.10PED
Gazzurdite 19 - 4.75PED - 126% - 5.99PED
Cumbriz - 16 - 2.40PED - 115% - 2.76PED
Narcanisum - 69 - 5.52PED - 150% - 8.28PED

Total 24.46PED

Basic profit/loss -25.54PED

Enmatter

Garcen - 36 - 3.60PED - 118% - 4.25PED
Magerian - 3 - 0.75PED - 133% - 1.00PED
Typonolic - 14 - 2.10PED - 136% - 2.86PED
Melchi - 29 - 0.58PED - 104% - 0.60PED
Ares - 2 - 0.52 - 107% - 0.56PED
Cave Sap - 3 - 1.17PED - 105% - 1.23PED
Acid Root - 2 - 0.64PED - 110% - 0.70PED

Total 11.20PED

Basic profit/loss -13.80PED

Total profit/loss of run -42.07PED

Ore finds

Belkar III 12902, 28429, 453
Durulium III 12902, 29457, 543
Gazzurdite V 14260, 30881, 493
Gazzurdite III 14373, 31202, 479
Durulium V 13319, 32905, 646
Cumbriz IV 13808, 35162, 528
Narcanisum III 13860, 36499, 487
Narcanisum V 12427, 38292, 451

Hits 8 (16%)

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ III
_ _ _ _ _ _ III _ _ _
_ _ _ V III _ _ _ _ _
_ V _ _ _ _ _ IV _ _
_ _ _ III _ _ _ _ V _

Enmatter finds

Magerian II 11318, 28083, 601
Typonolic IV 11350, 38343, 328
Garcen II 13042, 28882, 475
Garcen II 13567, 29897, 395
Garcen II 14758, 31425, 617
Ares II 13845, 35137, 317
Cave Sap III 13872, 35781, 305
Acid Root II 13927, 36234, 296
Garcen III 13849, 36493, 458
Melchi II 13438, 36914, 455

Hits 10 (20%)

_ _ _ _ _ _ II IV _ _
_ _ _ _ II _ _ _ _ II
_ _ _ _ _ _ II _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ II _ _
III _ II III II _ _ _ _ _

Notes

Well the scenery was nice....

I've been planning to do this for some time now, just needed the time to sit down to work out the route with my noob hunting skills. I have tried mining around New Swiss before with very little success.... I was originally planning to take 100 bombs/probes on the route due to the length of it but decided due to time restrictions that I'd only take 50 of each (thank god)!

The general route taken was all the way along the river as far north as possible then directly north through OLA42 and nw to New Swiss.

As you'll see from the hits I dropped a total of 12 bombs/probes before I got my first hit - a II. I was already apprehensive at this time, especially after I'd only got a III Belkar after 16 bombs! The figures speak for themselves - this was truly awful, probably the worst mining run I've ever had. It's a good job that I'm only doing this as a data gathering exercise!

As far as the project goes, it was a very partial success as I found Melchi and Ares for the first time on Amethera (first ever Ares find). As far as discovering what is to be found in what area it was pretty much a disaster. Due to the awful hit % it has given me very little data to work on which probably means that I'll have to take a similar route again at some point. I'll probably wait until I either change or upgrade my equipment to see if that makes a difference, whenever I do it though it will be with some trepadation!

Bob

[EarlVonKippler]

interesting so far, but i don't understand why you can't run NRF in fullscreen. i do and it records everything fine. i will alt-tab out fast from time to time be a certain. i use the plot mapping tool often.

[Bobbygolucky]

Originally Posted by EarlVonKippler

interesting so far, but i don't understand why you can't run NRF in fullscreen. i do and it records everything fine. i will alt-tab out fast from time to time be a certain. i use the plot mapping tool often.

That's interesting, I never actually thought about trying to use it in fullscreen!

+Rep for the advice

Bob

[Shard-Angel]

Originally Posted by Bobbygolucky

After tonight I think I'm going to start recording NRFs as well - even if I don't get an exact location. Bob

I started recording NRFs (very fast and easy with NRF program) - but gave up on it - since when the entire map starts filling up with NRF spots, it actively discourages us from mining in a previously NRF spot. And since finds are random - we may miss vital spots if we follow NRF patterns.

Having said that, however, it may be interesting to see if NRF's form a pattern of sorts - but that would mean either someone with tremendous money/time on their hands - or an entire soc or community participates to map the NRFs over SEVERAL trials. And also ENSURES that ALL data is accurate and not tainted by guesswork or poor recordings.

Regards.

[Bobbygolucky]

Originally Posted by Shard-Angel

I started recording NRFs (very fast and easy with NRF program) - but gave up on it - since when the entire map starts filling up with NRF spots, it actively discourages us from mining in a previously NRF spot. And since finds are random - we may miss vital spots if we follow NRF patterns.

Having said that, however, it may be interesting to see if NRF's form a pattern of sorts - but that would mean either someone with tremendous money/time on their hands - or an entire soc or community participates to map the NRFs over SEVERAL trials. And also ENSURES that ALL data is accurate and not tainted by guesswork or poor recordings.

Regards.

Yep, I hear what you are saying - for the purposes of this project though it might be worth me doing it as I'm not intending to revisit places over and over again. The idea is to get as much of the continent "mapped" for resources as possible.

Anyway guys, for anybody that is following the thread, sorry for the delay, I've got another run to record on here but not got round to doing it yet because of this:

4773 PED Hiryuu Old WoF HoF

I got that yesterday morning during WoF and I've done pretty much nothing since but work on how best to spend the best part of 5000PED! (There will be some new mining equipment on the way)!

[Bobbygolucky]

Run #7

General Location - Rei's Defence to Akmuul Island (LA09, OLA20, OLA19, OLA39)

Bombs/probes 42/45

Unamped

Resources (Totals) Prices from PEAuction.

Ore

Belkar 994 - 19.88PED - 121% - 24.05PED
Kanerium 2 - 5.00PED - 169% - 8.45PED
Blausarium 100 - 4.00PED - 107% - 4.28PED

Total 36.78PED

Basic profit/loss -5.22PED

Enmatter

Crude Oil - 2828 - 28.28PED - 102% - 28.85PED
Garcen - 19 - 1.90PED - 118% - 2.24PED
Alicenies - 51 - 2.55PED - 117% - 2.98PED

Total 34.07PED

Basic profit/loss +11.57PED

Total profit/loss of run +6.35PED

Ore finds

Belkar III 20136, 3937, 661
Belkar III 20267, 3735, 418
Belkar IV 20299, 3706, 529
Belkar V 19017, 2986, 253
Belkar III 18978, 3002, 496
Belkar III 18958, 2974, 407
Belkar V 18457, 2912, 472
Belkar IV 17484, 2673, 378
Blausarium V 11010, 1661, 576
Belkar V 10978, 2110, 548
Kanerium VI 11022, 2298, 437

Hits 11 (26%)

_ _ III _ III, IV _ _ _ _
V, III, III _ V _ IV _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ V _ _ V _ VI _ _
_ _

Enmatter finds

Oil III 20142, 3902, 341
Garcen II 20172, 3918, 425
Garcen III 20316, 3709, 542
Oil III 17457, 2677, 528
Oil IV 16848, 2122, 440
Oil II 16283, 2296, 452
Oil III 15891, 2402, 321
Oil II 15901, 2359, 540
Oil IX 15943, 2393, 652
Oil II 15443, 2652, 417
Oil IV 15484, 2659, 537
Alicenies IV 11179, 1651, 494
Alicenies II 11152, 1651, 443
Oil II 10895, 2865, 402

Hits 14 (31%)

_ _ III, II _ III _ _ _ _
_ _ III _ _ _ IV _ _ II
_ _ III, II, IX _ II, IV _ _
_ _ _ _ IV, II _ _ _ _
_ _ _ II _

Notes

A route that I've never taken before, I decided that I really wanted to check out the island to the south of Amethera and planned my route around that. When the first enmatter hit came up with Oil I thought uh oh here comes tonnes of Lyst but I was happy to see the Belkar claims start rolling in. I ran south into Longu land and then along the border of Allophyl land before I hit the coast. I tp'd across to the Island where I hit the nice IX Oil which was the difference between profit and loss on the run. PEASS described OLA39 as Atrax medium. I got a bit of a shock to find a mix of mid to high level Trax and Trox and got quickly killed there - I really ought to get up to date with what mobs are in what LAs! This is the reason that I didn't use my full quota of bombs and probes as I revived in the LA on the Akmuul side and ran out of room although I did pick up a nice Kanerium claim there - first in Amethera.

As far as the project goes, it was a pretty good success. I can pretty much confirm that the area south of Rei's is loaded with Belkar and Oil If it wasn't for the horrible run of 15NRFs on ore it would have brought in a nice as opposed to small profit as well. Shame I wasn't using a small enmatter amp!

Just about to hit Amethera for another run, will post results up tomorrow.

Good luck!

Bob

[Bobbygolucky]

Run #8

General Location - North/North-West Treasure Island

Bombs/probes 54/51

Unamped

Resources (Totals) Prices from PEAuction.

Ore

Cobalt 56 - 11.20PED - 127% - 14.22PED
Gazzurdite 65 - 16.25PED - 126% - 20.48PED
Blausarium 1841 - 73.64PED - 107% - 78.79PED

Total 113.49PED

Basic profit/loss +59.49PED

Enmatter

Lytairian - 16 - 3.04PED - 132% - 4.01PED
Growth Molecules - 1 - 0.47PED - 101% - 0.47PED
Force Nexus - 454 - 4.54PED - 138% - 6.26PED
Alicenies - 27 - 1.35PED - 117% - 1.58PED
Sweetstuff - 186 - 1.86PED - 101% - 1.88PED
Typonolic - 13 - 1.95PED - 136% - 2.65PED

Total 16.85PED

Basic profit/loss -8.65PED

Total profit/loss of run +50.84PED

Ore finds

Cobolt V 10978, 2110, 548
Gazzurdite III 22505, 26719, 453
Gazzurdite III 20182, 26425, 505
Cobalt III 20002, 26390, 390
Gazzurdite III 19221, 26646, 328
Cobalt V 18778, 27208, 621
Blausarium IV 18830, 27207, 598
Cobalt III 18863, 26273, 513
Gazzurdite III 18852, 26289, 463
Gazzurdite V 18985, 16176, 454
Gazzurdite IV 19057, 26023, 412
Blausarium III 19130, 25959, 414
Blausarium V 19480, 25632, 386
Blausarium XIII 19676, 25579, 375 - 65PED Global
Gazzurdite III 20375, 24973, 364
Gazzurdite V 20546, 24899, 485
Cobalt III 20497, 24913, 602

Hits 17 (31.4%)

_ V_ _ III _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ III _ III _ _ _ _
III _ _ _ V, IV _ _ _ _
_ III, III _ V _ IV _ III _
_ _ V _ XIII _ _ _ _ III
_ V, III _

Enmatter finds

Lytairian III 21946, 26469, 401
Lytairian III 21482, 26488, 378
Growth Molecules II 21459, 26504, 362
Force Nexus III 21502, 26530
Force Nexus II 21482, 26563
Alicenies III 20120, 26369, 697
Sweetstuff III 19388, 26418, 584
Lytairian II 18818, 27233, 515
Force Nexus III 18478, 26728, 411
Typonolic III 18443, 26728, 425
Sweetstuff II 19120, 25999, 619
Force Nexus II 19212, 25924, 511
Typonolic II 19714, 25582, 356

Hits 13 (25.5%)

_ _ _ _ III _ _ III, II, III
II _ _ _ _ _ _ _ III _ _
_ III _ _ _ _ _ _ II _ _
_ III, II _ _ _ _ _ _ II _
II _ _ _ II _ _ _ _ _ _
_

Notes

Treasure Island is pretty much the only part of Amethera that I've extensively mined before I started this project. I've mined most of it in the past with some success apart from the obvious inaccessible areas where the Hogs and SEGs are (to me anyway). The one area that I haven't tried is across the far north of the island so I decided to give it a go.

This originally started off as a 100 bomb/probe run but due to hitting a 65PED Blaus global when running back to TI Castle to dump loot I decided to end the run ensuring a profit.

Nothing really significant to say about the run - I tried mining the thin piece of land right in the north-west which I've heard sometimes comes up with rare ores but didn't find much (not that I expected to with my finder). Killed lots of medium foul along the way, a couple of Allos and some Bristlehogs. Getting the global was nice - first mining one for a while.

As far as this project goes, personally I gained nothing that I didn't already know out of the run. It is the first time that I've found Cobalt since I started this project though so at least it's one thing to add to the list.

On to somewhere more adventurous tonight I think!

Bob


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