I thought i would put this together given how many times i saw the phrase "Wheres the Laser" in zone chat. Think that might be the new "Wheres Sulu"
*****Video Tutorial*****First and foremost you must accept the mission. If you dont and just Transwarp to the location and pick up your suit you
may not be able to mine. To accept the mission click your FED or KDF icon near mini map. To begin with you will be on the
"Overview" tab that displays events where you can accept the mission from the events calendar or click
"Available" tab at the top find the mission
"Asteroid Mining" and accept.
Second the
asteroid field is in the Beta Ursae sector not in the Bajor system. You can find it on the Beta Ursae sector map to the lower left of DS9. Once at the asteroid base get your suit (if you didnt get one from the Dominion Series) from the ferengi.
Make sure to equip it either by Double Click or by slotting in your armour slot. Then you will have new options in your powers tray one of which is a suit. Click it.
Third go to a door and look in the middle right of the screen for the
"exit airlock" once outside look at your mini map you should have 5 (Cpt Picard. There are four lights he he he) dotted circles. Find purple crystals in these areas and a mine button will appear.
Finally mining itself. The mini game shows a dilithium vein (pink stream) in rock with a red triangle over it.
There is a pinkish triangle that you must match to the outer edge of the red triangle. (using left, right, up and down keys) When you do this 3 lasers will appear in the red triangle. This indicates you are mining. At the top left of the mini game a little progress bar will start to fill and you will get points. The triangle will move location though and you have to reaquire your lock.
You can practise this using the console inside the airlock near the dilithium crystals
Notes:You dont get a laser in your inventory or at all its in built to the EVA suit
It was my best practise to mine in only one location in each circle
The amount of points you get when drilling is related to your overall score so...
0-25 points = +5 points at a time
25-150 points = +15 points at a time
150-250 points = +20 points at a time
250-400 points = +25 points at a time
400-500 points = +30 points at a time
500-700 points = +35 points at a time
700+ = +40 points at a time.
There may be more but i didn't get any higher and this is only a rough guide from when i was mining may not be exact
I did this and managed to mine perfectly with no bugs, or anything. This is for those unsure on mining.
This is a social map so when not mining you can come jump around or walk the grand asteroid canyon
To those who got the 4/5 and cant mine... I feel for you peeps
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joking. Ty for the post as I have not tried this new mission yet.
Then I saw that I was actually supposed to accept the mission before starting...that made it much easier! lol
So, again, thank you very much!
Thanks for making it!
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
Is this by design or a bug?
Personally i think it might happen if you mined twice in one circle but thats just a thought
I don't think that's the case, here. It appears to be a "KDF" thing.
My fed completed the mission and actually mined twice in one circle. The mission still completed just fine.
The 4/5 bug on my KDF toon appeared when I mined the 4th cirlcle, the 5th one disappeared also.
Well my thoughts are often wrong but I cant stop having them for some reason lol. In the words of Homer Simpson "Shut up brain, or I'll stab you with a Q-tip!"
Perhaps you could include the "Basics of Laser Drilling"?
ie How to manipulate the Laser targeting triangle.
I found it to be pretty easy with just the arrow keys on your keyboard. It's very responsive that way and (as with the wave scanner mini-game) once you've practiced a few times it's pretty much 100%.
Edit: Editing just to don't make a new post. The diffrence between suits is really only cosmetic? If that is the case, it seens not worth to pay 350k of dilithium on a item that doesn't give nothing in return (other than it is a bit more shiny) . so, unless it gaves you some advantage, I would suggest cryptic to lower the price of it, because otherwise, almost no one will be going to buy them (okay, there is always those who have no lobes for business and will pay that amount. But it will be VERY feel people).
Thank you very much! I've been thinking about changing it to something else, though. Not sure what...
Edit: What the heck just happened? Why do i have a clone post?
Edit edit: You can even see they're posted within the same minute, so it's not (intentional, anyway) spam or trolling
The system is tedious and the dilithium results are horrible. Not to mention that theres these things called satellites that mine dilithium in star trek (in the past). I fail to see any reason they would start doing it slowly by hand in the future.
The topic of this post should probably be: "New Mining Event - Why To??"
Sorry, but it is how I and many of the people I talked to while there felt.
For those wanting an idea of the mission's payoff, here was my mini-game scoring:
Score .... Reward
165 ......... 40 Dil Ore.
460 ......... 60 Dil Ore.
555 ......... 80 Dil Ore and 2x Chronometric Wave Signatures.
555 ......... 80 Dil Ore and 2x Chronometric Wave Signatures.
400 ......... 60 Dil Ore.
Total Dilithium Ore won: 320 in about 10mins.
(There were some XP and BO points too, but being VA, I didn't pay it much heed.)
Now that I know what I'm doing, I would be able to do this faster, and likely score higher too. I agree with others that there are other methods of scoring more Dil, but when I compare this to the 480 I get for one of the little "10-15min Eta Eridani Dailies" it seems pretty spot on.
The map looks great, and the "moon walking" (less this, more this) is a hoot. The mission is not for all, but different people might like this sort of game play. I say more power to them, and good on ya Cryptic for offering a new type of mission that isn't about shooting things or clicking 5 of 5 items (Yeah, ok, there are 5/5 in this, but the mini-game adds some "arcade action" value to this).
Thanks for the free Orange EV Suit. It's too bad I'm running out of storage...
Overall Score: B