I've encountered the same "bug" of the disappearing rocks. It seems your IR signature reading of these rocks are a multiple of 2000. In your case on screen, you had 8000 if i saw correctly. Those are scrapable panels, and they are there, just hard to see even with lights on. Be sure to not get too close at speed, they still have collition even though you struggle to see them.
I used to mine asteroids but switched back to moons w/good wx, visibility and plenty of surface markers so I can QT to sunlight. Reason is it's easier to judge closure rate with land visual references. Scanning's still flaky so it helps with that. Picking a moon with relatively smooth terrain and avoiding mountain deposits keeps rocks from rolling.
The amount of disappearing rocks sounds similar to the old "bug" of the amount of empty rocks that appeared in the belt. Maybe they made a band aid fix of just removing the empty ones when you get close :)
Similar, could not find gems on Daymar. Eventually found one patch after about an hour - and it was behind me after constantly scanning. Meaning that my forward scans did not pick them up and I flew over them before on a fluke stopping and looking behind. I think there's something buggy with scanning.
@@leslieviljoen and then u find some, mine 2 or 3, then it goes 2 pixels into the red bar, you drive 8 meters away and still it breaks your roc. You fly to the next outpost to get a new roc, take off, have no idea where your last roc stayed, get shot down by a pirate and alt f4.
@@PRIMEVAL543 good gravy you had some bad luck! It's a pity because I had a very good luck day during the expo and that was an enjoyable day's mining. Anyway I think I'll get a Prospector. Prospector rocks are much more reliably found, you don't spend time loading the vehicle and you can even mine in space if you like. They should buff the value of gems and also make it possible to differentiate them from a distance.
I've encountered the same "bug" of the disappearing rocks. It seems your IR signature reading of these rocks are a multiple of 2000. In your case on screen, you had 8000 if i saw correctly. Those are scrapable panels, and they are there, just hard to see even with lights on. Be sure to not get too close at speed, they still have collition even though you struggle to see them.
I used to mine asteroids but switched back to moons w/good wx, visibility and plenty of surface markers so I can QT to sunlight. Reason is it's easier to judge closure rate with land visual references. Scanning's still flaky so it helps with that. Picking a moon with relatively smooth terrain and avoiding mountain deposits keeps rocks from rolling.
The amount of disappearing rocks sounds similar to the old "bug" of the amount of empty rocks that appeared in the belt. Maybe they made a band aid fix of just removing the empty ones when you get close :)
I think CIG should give mine and prospector a buffer as well. I want to go back to mining, But I want to stay out longer like I can with salvaging
I tried roc mining
It didn’t end well…
4 hours and 0 uec…
Similar, could not find gems on Daymar. Eventually found one patch after about an hour - and it was behind me after constantly scanning. Meaning that my forward scans did not pick them up and I flew over them before on a fluke stopping and looking behind. I think there's something buggy with scanning.
@@leslieviljoen and then u find some, mine 2 or 3, then it goes 2 pixels into the red bar, you drive 8 meters away and still it breaks your roc.
You fly to the next outpost to get a new roc, take off, have no idea where your last roc stayed, get shot down by a pirate and alt f4.
@@leslieviljoen also good to know that I’m not stupid and those scans are just bugging around…
@@PRIMEVAL543 good gravy you had some bad luck! It's a pity because I had a very good luck day during the expo and that was an enjoyable day's mining. Anyway I think I'll get a Prospector. Prospector rocks are much more reliably found, you don't spend time loading the vehicle and you can even mine in space if you like. They should buff the value of gems and also make it possible to differentiate them from a distance.
You need to fly close to the surface (around 1-1.5k), and when scanning diamonds appear only under 3km, anything further is rocks u can't use roc for