So I have my com setup like this. Has worked for me since the dawn of time, Think I have the lowest ID in the game atm lol

1x living quarters (hold some extra people incase I get attacked and lose my engine dudes lol) Otherwise dunno if anyone cares to have this?
12x cargo
38x marines
46x shields
1x wormhole
1x ftl
1x safety override 80-100% (sell all rest)

Krypton      585557   $111,255,792

WOW. Ive played for a very long time and before 40m were the largest ive found. That is insane lol

Never ever found anything this massive!? Wow! But why Chlorine! Going to take time lol

If you pay us $474,938 solars, we will help you find this elusive treasure... I mean deposit. It has a unique signature, it's very hard to detect even for us, and hidden to others... Our sources indicated the total value of the deposit is $94,987,584 solars.

Congratulations captain! The deposit has been located and will now appear on your survey scanner.
We've measured the deposit at 593672 m3 of Chlorine, for an estimated value of $94,987,584 solars!

Yeah I disable the marines to as low as I can without an attack fail which lowers the time. But even then the timer is over a month on a 89 million pirate. I see players spawning pirates over a billion and as a joke I tested how long it would take for me and it was like 68,000 hours lol and I was only 1/15 the pirate power so I can't imagine if I was at a point to beat pirates that strong what the timer would be.

I just did not know if there is some kind of trick to fight such big targets that I may not know of.

Hey everyone, so I am hoping for some guidance into how to not have battle timers over a month long which for my current ship of 120 million is a baby to many of you lol. I see battles with over 1 billion and the timer literally was 14 years!!
I use 48x shields and 38x marines. I see the laser and railguns but would these not miss a lot especially with the dodge rates of the pirates especially interceptor?

How are you very high up players handling big power fights? Is there a trick / good way to have a very low battle time? Thanks for any help!

Where can we safely have station labs set up? I spent a fortune and time making 82 MM science labs. They are on my ship but only work when on a station.. and someone will blow that up for sure
oh wait.. I have science production now! So they do work on my ships!

Just got back on.. what happen in earth solar system? Jupiter and saturn everything is gone lol. My stations gone to.

I just upped Mata to 110. None of us are down repping him at all. I love how you sit there and point fingers at us all here at SSS but when you randomly show up again his rep began to fall? Suspicious..

It is for sure not me, however I am part of SSS and have 40m power ships with coms over 30m power. We also have a few more who are even much stronger than me. I recently had a person from SPQNR put a looter ontop of my looter and he message me to say sorry, it was no problem I was able to do both looters at same time easily at 25m power, and I message him back to claim his reward.

But anyways I am very careful about checking surface before I drop any coms

So I waited 5 or 6 days at most to check a 37 millon deposit. I had things to do. Wasn't there. This has happened so often I really can't just accept it. It's insult to injury. Mining is alreayd so time consuming and less profitable than COM. Maybe I"m missing somethingm like with the tech you get from QP donation, but COMs are just so mcuh easier it seems unbalanced.

Had to just say that this is quite false lol

Congratulations captain! The deposit has been located and will now appear on your survey scanner.
We've measured the deposit at 25795 m3 of Xenon, for an estimated value of $14,832,000 solars!

I mined all that within 24 hours .. No COM even comes close to that kind of 24 hour income =D
It does take luck though, Rarer finds on large places = incredible income. Very volatile, keeps it interesting. And yes it is possible to get a Diamond prospector which is friggin sweet lol

Prospectors are a passive income, I personally have 2 SoS prospector hunters and rest are all coms. Keep some variety.

lol you do realize ive been mining in this game for nearly 2 years.. I know exactly what to do.. I ALWAYS surface view, scan planet then check the prospector.. I did this because incase I did not find the planet I would click every system I explored and recheck every planet of the type to see if I even scanned the planet at all.

I can say for a hot gas giant and only 6 systems total.. there was only a handful of hot gas giants.. not a single one was the prospector and there was nothing else to search. This has happened to more more than enough times thats it is irritating me to go and make this post in the first place.

There is a bug going on because even when a system blows up and is gone.. you can still have the prospector make you search for that same system / planet. So seems whats happening is there are SoS prospectors giving a location to an already nova'd system. Thats my guess.

I am getting more than often prospectors usually of the gas giant's where I have searched every single gas of the type it says in the area specified with no luck at all! The so called gas giant they are looking for is non-existent! For example my current one.

Prospectors: Mining expedition (Talk) Q 4,0->Terrain: Hot Gas Giant

Checked every single hot gas in the whole area, not a single one was the prospector and this has been happening a lot.. not just with gas types but all others as well. Its already bad enough to get prospectors on already nova'd systems but to be dealing with a 2 whammy combo of this.. really needs to be fixed please Emi. Can you respond to this bug please?

How the officer should work is.. when active all timers are reduced by 50% as usual.. and once the officer expires.. whatever timers are currently active if any are then doubled to what it normally would be aka. 14 hours left becomes 28 hours left. Sigh

yeah which makes no sense... I started all my mk400 upgrades so it would only take 25 days to finish with officer.. so I did that and then bought the officer.. but here we are with a broken officer that does not seem to reduce the times by 50% unless you have it before you do any upgrades? So now I spent 420 million! And I am forced to wait 50 days because I am not going to cancel every upgrade.. get only 75% resources back as I can not afford 25% of that 420 to redo all the upgrades. Not happy

Officer for -50% manufacturer time did not work!? ALL MY STUFF is still normal time to complete!? mk400 taking 1200 hours!? What the hell?