hello it's ricardo and welcome back to elite dangerous have you ever been
caught off and got mugged off whilst mining not fit any weapons you've only
got mining lasers well the mining lancer power play item could be the tool for you
aligning yourself to zamina torval will allow you to unlock the beam mining lance a weaponized
mining laser that will allow you to incur damage on enemy ships should you be caught sort
get yourself over to the cinenti system and that's where zamina torval hangs out
that's a seat of power you can rock in there align yourself from any position but once you
get to rating level three which is typically four weeks of being aligned to that particular power
you can unlock the mining lance you then that got to go through by unlocking 750 merits to get
yourself at rating three now once you've gone past four weeks of being aligned with zaminatorville
the lance will unlock once you've delivered 750 merits and how do you do that well these can be
done by preparation expansion or control missions this basically involves you stocking up on
some sort of propaganda or deeds or anything like that that you can get from a core system or
a controlled system and delivering it to a system that might be in preparation expansion or control
status now typically this can be done quite easily you haven't gotta wait but it is gonna
cost you a bit of money but it's elite dangerous so everything costs you a little bit of money
now for this i typically use my good old type 9 it's got 752 tons worth of cargo in it which means
in one sitting i can go off get all my deeds and transport it to my system of choice now you may
not have a ship as big as this because they cost a lot of money they do cost the in-game dollar
in which case then what you're gonna have to do is make a few trips but it's up to you if you
want militarized mining lasers as in the beam mining lands then this is the way to do it now
like anything in elite dangerous getting these deeds deliver to somewhere in preparation or
expansion is a bit of a grind and when i say it's a bit of a grind you're gonna wear out that mouse
or controller button on your keypad doing it you can only ever collect 10 items of deeds or
propaganda or whatever at any one time and then what happens is is that you have to wait a period
of time or you pay some money and when i say pay some money we're talking about in-game credit
you've got to pay a hundred thousand in in-game credits to expedite that process if you don't
you've got to wait 30 minutes before you can buy something else but here's the thing if
you've got a ship big enough to have that amount of dockets or chits or deeds or whatever it is
you're collecting propaganda then you're gonna have 7.5 million if not jump in another ship
and go bounty hunting or jump in another ship and go mining get your 7.5 million
from somewhere just to expedite that process once you've done that and you filled your hold
full of this propaganda or power play items we'll call it it's time to find yourself a place where
you can take it now by this you go into the person of choice zaminatorval in this case
and you look at preparation and say hey you know where is that you look at expansion
good control where can you take these places that are not so far away a couple of jumps
all right otherwise you have to look at putting in a guardian frameshift drive booster or a fuel
scoop that's going to eat into your inventory and you're in a world of hurt but once you have
found it get yourself into space get your flipper down and get yourself over to that system that
needs those expansion documents or preparation documents or control documents couldn't be easier
now once you've arrived at your destination system offloading all of this
propaganda or power play items couldn't be easier get yourself into the contact section and into
the power play contacts this time you're not bound just to handing in ten units of for example deeds
or toefl deeds you can press your finger or your mouse button or your gamepad controller on the
right arrow and you can scroll up to 750 and drop those merits off once you've done that then you
will have achieved the correct level in power play you can check that by going to galactic powers
down to your person of choice as i mean the torval and you can see where your galactic
standing is going to be now if for whatever reason your galactic standing is still rated at one
you'll have to wait until the thursday switch over which will allow the game to update
now this thursday takeover has been in game for as long as i can remember since power play came in
it's a way of refreshing all the game and it happens generally around about 10 o'clock
british standard time in game okay so now for those of you who have seen me mining before i
tend to use the imperial cutter good old ship this i called mine the badgers lust
loads of hard points and given the fact you now haven't got to put in weapons like beam lasers
pulse lasers or mini guns to defend yourself when you go into these mining hotspots because you've
got your beam mining laser the lancer um you can basically fit it up with whatever you want you
know abrasion blasters you can stick in the mining lance beam laser it's only a 1d module so you'll
get it in most ships so buy a couple and then when you move on from this power play individual
and move on to something else then you know you're going to be all right chevrolet go
back and go through this entire process because it is expensive and it is also time-consuming
so with these beam mining lasers what have i found well they're not as heat efficient as
mining lasers you got to keep your eye on the heat they're about as efficient as normal beam
lasers i would say so heat is going to be a problem if you're running multiple of these
and you go off attacking your favorite rock to get your low temperature diamonds out of
however saying that when you do drop into a mining area and it's teaming with people
who are just destined to take what you've got away from you mug you off as it were then
you're not feeling completely defenseless because you've stocked up your ship on pure mining tools
and some of these big ships are really expensive i mean you've got to check out the rebuy on this one
and it seems to me like you're trying to protect your investment as well now what
do i think about the mining lands well you shouldn't really consider them as a weapon
okay they're a mining laser a weaponized mining laser and that seems a contradiction what i mean
to say is that it's got an increased range with that increased range you've got increased heat
so far i haven't been able to engineer them although i haven't tried i don't think you can
so heat is going to be a problem if you've got fiber like what i have as soon as you open up then
you're going to start incurring additional heat additional heat could lead to damage but on the
flip side of this it means that you're not going into one of these areas completely defenseless
it's only a 1d module so its power will be different to any other weapon you can put on there
the good thing about this is that you haven't put additional weapons on your ship just to help
yourself feel protected a lot of people drop into these zones and just run away as they're fixed
and they're not gimballed if you've got a big ship then they're going to be a little bit of a problem
right because you haven't got the maneuverability against some of the small ships
that are going to be there to try and mug you off and take what you've just been mining
so that's one of the key issues would i do this power play mining again
yes i would just to say that i've done it and to have the item in my inventory because there may
be other ships smaller ships more nimble ships like the python for example that would benefit
from this mining lance as opposed to putting on a protective beaming laser am i going to go bounty
hunting with this no i'm not am i going to be able to fend off people who try to mug me off
yes i can at least while i can warm the engines up get all my pips to shields and get out of dodge
let's talk about distance and range the conventional mining laser has got a limited range
with these mining lance the range is somewhat extended in the right hotspot
you could make a lot of money as opposed to moving here moving there moving here moving there so
there you have it that's how to unlock the mining lance the mining beam lance from zamina torval
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