
Outward Definitive Edition | Time Ticking Down
Before I get too far into it this is stupid. That is right amp mining on F.O.M.A or in underground areas tends to only go one way. Into a dumpster fire of losses and more losses. I’ve normal mined and amp mined before on F.O.M.A with it usually almost always going bad.
Thankfully this time I’m not going up with a bunch of level 13’s wanting to get a tower or something huge. That run years ago went so bad I took a long break from the game after that. Thankfully this time around I’m just using D-Class amps.
Some things to keep in mind. I bought 6 D-Class Amps for this trip for 168 each (105% markup.) I’ll be double dropping for ore and enmatter so that should be 180 PED worth of probes used. There was the thruster decay, and oil cost to fly up to F.O.M.A. There will be the extract decay to get any claims I find and decay on the mining finder as well. There will be a cost to teleport back down to Calypso to sell, I believe it was 6 or 8 PED. Then there will be the refining and auction house listing fees.
On top of paying 105% for the amps. F.O.M.A. is a player owned so around a 5% tax gets taken out for the land owners as well. So that is already 10% eating into my bottom line plus all those extra costs of transportation.
Just to be on the verge of break-even once it is all said and done I’ll need over 3 globals at a minimum of 50 PED per amp. As you can imagen this thing can go sideways quite quickly and put me into a hole I’ll not be getting out of for this run.
The big thing about F.O.M.A and why I’m saying globals and just claims is that you have reduced mining range there. This makes it a lot harder to find a claim. In exchange for that, the claims are much bigger. I am then slapping a D-Class amp on top of that. While not every claim I’ll find will be a global most of them need to be.
You will also see in some of my screenshots my screen is turning this harsh green color. That is a bit of a graphics bug. I guess that bug is back up here. I hope it does not end up following me back down to Calypso otherwise I’ll have to reinstall the entire game. It is quite annoying to deal with.
The first drop . . . Nothing found.
The second drop . . . Nothing found.
The third drop . . . Nothing found.
After that not another global in dome 17. I ended up finding only one more claim as well a size 11 of Growth Molecules. This dome just was not doing it for me. Then I thought when was the last time I have seen someone get a global up here?
Some of the biggest mining claims ever were found in the main mining arena. I believe at some point it was supposed to be turned into some kind of PvP event area or something. That never happened. Back in the day, people use to rush in here every 20-30 minutes and try to drop a few probes with dozens of other miners. For the moment I have it all to myself.
I then went 7 more drops before finding just a size 12 of crude oil. While not a global at this point I needed all the finds I could get.
Two drops later I landed another size 12 of crude oil.
I finished off the last of that amp not finding anything else and it was time to load the 3rd D-Class amp into my finder. That last amp was not bad and I made up some ground.
Then another period of silence. It hit what felt like a dead zone. Not a claim to be found. This was perhaps the longest amount of time that passed before finding another claim during my entire run. A part of me wonder if that was going to be the end.
You can start to see as I make my passes through the dome I’m crossing close by that some of my other already found claims show up on the mini radar as red dots with an x in the middle of them. I was saving the long task of extracting all my claims till the run was over. No point in doing it early since I had the entire place to myself.
I was now on my 5th D-Class amp mining in F.O.M.A main arena. I had another period of not finding anything. At this point, I started to switch up what section of the main arena I was mining in. I knew I did not have enough amps to mine the entire thing out. I was hoping I would find a better part.
Not even a minute later after that, I found a size 13 of Narcanisum stone for 54 PED. This far into the run I now was starting to wonder if I would get anything of a decent size let alone break even. I really would not know till I fully mined up all these claims and added everything up.
After a couple more minutes of finding nothing, I loaded up my last D-Class amp for the run. It would all come down to this. How bad of a run was it going to be? I was at least hoping I would get a few claims out of this last amp if not something big.
Three drops remaining . . . Nothing found.
Two drops remaining . . . Nothing found.
One drop remaining . . . Nothing found.
I knew I had fallen quite short on the number of globals I needed to know for sure that I would at least break even or even profit. The good news is quite a few of the claims were at least a bit bigger than 50 PED. I also had a couple of non-global claims as well. There then would be whatever markup I could get on these resources.
Next came the very long part of mining up all these claims with a basic extractor. I’m so glad I had enough on me. You also can not spawn vehicles while here so I was having to slowly walk to each of my mining claims.
At this point, it was quite late at night for me. One thing I was not thinking about was how much time I had on any of my claims before they would expire. Thankfully you have some time to mine up globals. I just had to do my best not to fall asleep while sitting there for quite some time.
Screenshots were taken and content was written by @Enjar about Entropia Universe.