Mining Tools - My current thoughts [V.U. 7.5]

[Dash Smashing]

Wow.. Lots of information here..


[edit: I'll keep my mining results to myself. No one wants to hear how much ore I find it seems. ]

[Devon]

So, to sum up... the higher the level of the detector the greater the range.

Makes sense, otherwise the higher level tools would be pointless. But good to know that it's been proved.

The only other big question is if/how skills have any effect. Maybe the 'personalised stats' in the next VU will enlighten us

[Czochcio]

How does skill effect is..

hmm like with guns..higher skills you make an average higher damages, and you aim better..

it is just a maximum range of this tool 50-or70 or 140 meters..

but that dosent mean you all alwyas using it at this range..so i think it is just like with dmg..sometimes you hit with 40 meters range, sometimes with 50 sometimes with 140...thats why somethimes if you were mining on one area other ppl can find also someminerals, beacuse you havn't found all, and this can be a reson of this no always full range.

[MG Mighty]

Well just a resume so that people might find my conclusions easier to understand.
I think that after you read all that data you might reach the same conclusions, if you don't, I would appreciate very much that you replyed and posted what your thoughts are in this matter.

Originally Posted by Czochcio

How does skill effect is..

hmm like with guns..higher skills you make an average higher damages, and you aim better..

it is just a maximum range of this tool 50-or70 or 140 meters..

but that dosent mean you all alwyas using it at this range..so i think it is just like with dmg..sometimes you hit with 40 meters range, sometimes with 50 sometimes with 140...thats why somethimes if you were mining on one area other ppl can find also someminerals, beacuse you havn't found all, and this can be a reson of this no always full range.

My conclusions would also be that the maximum horizontal range for a newcommer would be with an OF-105 and a MD-50
~ 70 range.

I find it very hard to believe that they could have 140 range when there have been miners doing this activities for many many months now and the only report of a deposit found over 65 range counting from the center of the circle were the bomb/probe was planted was my own (they could be hidding information, but I have no reasons to believe that they wouldn't share this with me) and all the mining tuturials assume that the maximum range is arround 50 anyway.


One of the results seemed to indicate that skills might affected range (very little) when using diferent tools of similiar level, but it could be that it was just a small sample of results that was giving error, or that there is a small diference between those tools and skills doesn't affect the maximum range all that much.

I didn't show any proof nor I ever seen any that could satisfy me but I believe that just like the weapons and the results in crafting that your skill level will improve the ability to get deposits at the edges of the maximum range capacity of the tool.
In the extractors it is quite obvious that they work this way.

[Maska]

Nice work you have done.
Unfortunately i didn't have time to read the full research.
I'm sorry if you said sth about it and i just missed it but...
Drop a bomb, find ore, then run 60 m away from that resource site, cancel the search, drop another bomb and tell me if you find the same place again...
as far as i have tested, i dont find it even at 51 m.

[Skam]

You cant cancel search now, it detonates automaticly (vu 7.6)

[Mercury]

I recommend that you both have a drink. Don't stop with just one :P .
Good work but good lord is that a lot of time spent.

[sp00ne]

Very interesting conclusion , unfortunaly i don't have the time to read it all through atm. But i will give you feedback on it as soon as i can.

Hopefully the new VU 7.6 will give us more answers than questions.

+rep for you for your great job now that could have been a great exam work !