I am running a procurer with Tech 2 strip Miners and veldspar crystals.
Yesterday I was getting 1462 every 149 seconds which was like 9.3m/s
Today I’m getting 1462 every 165.5 which is 8.8m/s
Same ship, nothing different. Only thing I can think of is that the crystals are slightly damaged but I’ve never noticed a difference with damaged crystals. That doesn’t lower your ability to mine more does it?
The only other thing is that I have started training mining barge up to 5 now. But that shouldn’t reduce the amount that I can mine either.
Same everything. I have always mined at 9.3. Now it’s at 8.8. I literally went from mining at 9.3 and then have some lunch and then came back and I was minding at 8.8. No changes in the ship at all.
The game recognized you haven’t purchased a mining permit and has throttled your mining efficiency back. Please contact a member of Safety. to purchase your permit.
This looks suspiciously like some numbers I computed a month ago examining the effects of the EDENCOM system-wide 10% mining speed buff. 90% of your 165.5 “unbuffed” cycle time comes out to be 148.95 with such a buff. I don’t know enough about EDENCOM/Trig mechanics to know how those buffs come and go from particular systems, so I can’t conclusively say “this is it”.
It’s got to be that Edencom buff. I did move one system over, and I forgot about that. I was trying to be all in one place so that I could destroy the rats around the mining area with my cruiser. That makes sense. I’ll just go back to where I was. This was driving me crazy. I think we figured it out. Thanks guys.