I have a neighbor that loves mining with that ship. It relaxes her and on top of that the mining gun sounds makes her baby stop crying and goes to sleep.

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, will have to try that :D

@jameskimball9960

4 ай бұрын

Baby cries no worries *Uses mining laser* But honestoy thats cute

Farrister, your ships reviews are the best. I watch'em even if I know everything about the ship. You bring good points and you don't overhype / overdrama ships as many other youtubers. I like the format of your videos and time stamps are well thought. If I can complain about something is that you don't make reviews more often and you don't talk much about the concepts, while I would love to hear your thoughts about Crucible or Liberator :-)

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your thoughts! It takes me a while to do each ship review, because I need to a) earn the funds to actually buy the ship, and b) fly the ship for around 2 weeks so I get a good feel for the ins and outs of it. Noted about the concepts - both of those are interesting to me! But would be highly speculative ;)

When I first got my Prospector, I had difficulty finding the mining materials I was looking for, because I had no idea what I was doing at the time. I took a break and did a bunker and cave mission. Then I went back to mining and found some good minerals to take to the refinery. Bring a Multi tool with a tractor beam with you, if you want to do box missions with it. I see this as a multi-tasker's dream come true. Bringing a box from a box delivery mission to use as a marker when you find the Mother-load of Quantainium might be a good idea. BTW, your videos are always top notch! Keep it up!

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Oh that's an ingenious idea! And thank you :)

I can't wait to see MISC's take on salvage ships !

With the current event, I took out the prospector for the first time. Talk about an unfinished ship in the eyes of the little things, like panels opening (they do not). One of my favorite things about the Vanguard variants is the module panels open to reveal what you actually have in them. Upgrade your shield generator and take a look at it in action. Seeing not a single panel opens truly blew my mind at the little effort that went into this ship, but again, simple things that just weren't done. No access to the back also is pretty lame. A catwalk in just dodging cables and hoses would have been something, but to buy a rig that's this size and only have a closet worth of space to explore that has it's panels nailed shut is as if this was an actual concept ship that never saw day two of development. Before I got into SC, this was one of the ships I thought I would first get and more than once it was nearly in my cart. Thankfully I took advantage of the event and saw how sad of a ship it is. I'll still eventually get one since SC gets very boring after you have a major player (ship) in all other categories, but by the time I try ship mining, the Arrastra will most likely be out. It too has major drawbacks if hey do all they say, but we'll see. For the record, and for new folks out there listening to all the people saying how much this makes per hour, all I can say is I hope they're wrong because you can do way better than that with a ROC and a ship to transport it. I made 5 mil in a couple of days with that and there aren't as many steps as ship mining where you have to get it refined and then do missions to get the better money for your minerals. Adds something to your day though, so that part isn't bad in itself. Anywho, great video. I just can't get over how abandoned I see this ship as being.

@Farrister

7 ай бұрын

:( sorry to read, these things tend to go in waves of ups and downs - thankfully, it's now available for purchase in game, which is a MUCH more appealing choice for many people

Outstanding review of the Prospecor, Farrister. I love this ship and have a couple of them. I bought one and was given one. I like to leave them at different locations so I can just go there and pull one out and start mining without having to wait for the slow quantum drive that comes stock in them. They do help me earn a good amount of credits and it's relaxing to just go out and mine. Thanks for the excellent review, take care, and I'll see you in the verse.

I needed a soothing Farrister vid! Thanks brother, appreciate ya!

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

Loved the video!

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

Very fun review Farrister! To me the Prospector is the Goose that lays the golden eggs. She is able to seed all the other dreams in the game and allows you to obtain any ship ingame you want to get. I've been a busy little bee since the wipe rebuilding my warchest with mining. Being able to buy any ship in the game without worrying about your aUEC is a nice feeling.

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks TripperDan, I agree wholeheartedly!

I'm first wow 👌 nice. Love your videos I have no gaming PC but I can't get enough of star citizen. Keep up the a Amazing work. 👏

Thank you for an informative video. I will take your advise and try to rent the Prospector.

@Farrister

Жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy :)

Thanks for this review. I own a Prospector and if it wasn't for Elden Ring I'd be learning to use it now.

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Oh I was tempted by that game...

As a non-combative player, I love the Prospector. It is my second favorite ship after the Vulture, and I am excited for what I am hoping is the coming release of it next month.

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

I'm excited to try the Vulture!

Nice video, subbed, thanks

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, welcome :)

Thanks for sharing.

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tim :)

Just on time for my break at work

@obliteron

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Yay!

I believe functionality should be a checkbox. Love your videos man. So relaxing 😌

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Ah thank you :)

“Warning! Power critical! Warning! Power critical!” (rocks go flying) “Shield under attack.”

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Story of my life xD

I always find it amusing that Misc in its ship lineup owns both the very best cockpit views and some of the very worst.

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

I hadn't considered that but you're exactly right lol

Love the Prospector. Wish CIG would make the energy indicator easier to see though.

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, I hadn't noticed a problem with it!

Prospector for me personally was something I wanted in my hangar. I enjoy mining. The vanilla Halo mining is great for safe cash earning. For more excitement, surface mining on the moons of Microtech. That gets the blood pumping for sure.

@andyandreson3989

2 жыл бұрын

As a side note, maybe a guide to easy to difficult areas to mine. Just a thought. Great work once again.

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Are there easy and difficult areas to mine? :O

@andyandreson3989

2 жыл бұрын

@@Farrister The Halo and some moons with no weather are easy. Rings of Yela has a better chance of coming across someone else. The moons of Microtech are a beast to try to stay in place at times. Plus in my recent experience this patch, I’m coming across hostile NPC’s constantly at the Lagrange station asteroids.

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

@@andyandreson3989 ah gotcha, it's less about the rocks, and more about what and who else is around!

I like my Prospector with a lancet mining head a Brant and 2 filters QT mining for the money to get better ships :) but if I was going to mine other stuff then the mole may be better as it has a bigger storage . I changed my QT drive for the fastest I could as that short jump to the refinery with 32 scu of Quantum you want as much time as pos :)

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, a man of culture I see

I just bought this thing with ingame cash. Probably gonna add some ease-of-use upgrades before I go learn proper mining.

@Farrister

Жыл бұрын

I have plenty of mining videos if you're looking to find out more, I'm a big fan of using the Prospector!

The Prospector is fantastic fun, and I use mine when I want to chill out, fly around and snoop, and do something a little different while still making decent (but not overwhelming) money. However, this is ABSOLUTELY NOT a good choice as your first or only ship, for a couple of key reasons: (1) To get the most out of mining you'll want to refine your ore, and once it's refined, the Prospector can't carry it to a destination for sale. However, most mining trips will see you end up with somewhere around 20, 40, or 60 SCU of good trade material after the refining is done, which means a Prospector pairs very nicely with the Nomad, Cutlass, or Freelancer as the means to get your refined ore to market - you have the needed room for one, two, or three mining trips in those partner vessels, without wasting a bunch of space. Once it becomes available, the very inexpensive Hull A might also make a very good candidate for this light cargo role. (2) While the Prospector performs well enough in space or in the low gravity and thin atmosphere of moons, getting it from a landing zone to space is absolutely dismal - it will take you just as long to get out to space in a Prospector as it would a Reclaimer or Starfarer, thanks to its poor aerodynamics and acceleration, and the low overall power of its thrusters. As with point 1, you're going to want a second ship to do this leg of a journey, and ONLY board a Prospector from a space station. The trip's also likely to cost you a lot of fuel, too - though it's inexpensive to replace, it's still best to just avoid the cost altogether. When you mine, the main investment you're making is time -- and while mining CAN offer a quick and lucrative turnaround, it's not likely to do so consistently, since the variety in target deposits you can find is fairly large and fairly random, and knowing both what to look for and where to find it takes some practice. You're also pretty much a sitting duck when you're mining, and your heat, EM activity, and scanning pings will make you easier to pick out as a target of opportunity for those nearby. All of this basically means that PATIENCE is the greatest asset you'll have as a miner. Take the time to be picky about the rocks you break and the bits you take from them. Take the time to learn how to find the Aaron Halo consistently, or to float down to a moon's surface from orbit, rather than zipping out from a quantum jump to a surface installation. If you're mining on a moon, take the time to pick up a simple box mission on it, so you can leave the pickup boxes as markers for good return spots, since you'll invariably fill your bags before the ore is gone. Even then, accept that sometimes it'll take you 15 minutes to find a nice motherlode, while other times it'll take an hour.

@tequila6955

2 жыл бұрын

I had some store credit and upgraded mine to a Mole. Prospector was so much more convenient.

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Rental Cutlass Black is also a nice option :)

@billyhyde1415

2 жыл бұрын

So long as you've got SOMETHING, that's true. How does renting a Cutlass Black compare to renting a Prospector? A bit cheaper, I expect?

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

@@billyhyde1415 well if you stack up lots of jobs, you can do a single day rental just to sell them

I think the price on the Prospector is ok. I melted my Cutlass Black and my ROC + $5 to make the Prospector my "starter" ship. If you wanna talk overpriced, $50 for a ROC is ridiculous, and the Cutlass has been broken and/or nerfed so many times it's not really good at anything anymore. I have always liked the idea of a multi-role "jack-of-all-trades" ship. In Elite Dangerous I had a Corvette that I could refit to do anything... exploration, mining, combat, trading, etc. In SC you have to have a fleet of purpose-built ships for the best experience. The Prospector is the fastest way to build that fleet after a wipe. Thanks for the video. Cheers!

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

I'm really enjoying quanta mining at the moment, much more relaxing than the VHRTs

Wow I've owned one for a long while and I had no idea about the pop-out control panel XD

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

xD

Ninetails helped me buy one 😊

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Xenothreat purchase here :D

The Prospector is a really cool mining ship. Hopefully mining gadgets will make rocks easier to crack with it. I also look forward to the saddle bags being able to release to a cargo ship. That said I CCUed my Prospector to a Mole in 2020. Couldn’t resist the fish tank, triple lasers and the interior.

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Wait, there's a fish tank in the MOLE?!

@aipilot6795

2 жыл бұрын

Haha nope. I was talking about the shape of the cockpit.

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

@@aipilot6795 hahaha I see

Looking forward to saddlebag transport via other ship!

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Yes please!

May you make a mining vs trading vs bounty hunting video?

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Oooh, interesting idea! Will add to the list of possibilities :)

The Prospector can currently earn a player enough in one year for them to buy literally all of the other ships, vehicles, components, and every armor set and weapon sold in-game, but since it’s available for rent, you might as well use the rental to earn enough to buy it in-game. I love the Prospector for its profitability, but my acct hangar is for fun ships like racers and fighters that might get destroyed often and could use LTI after the game launches. The Prospector is profitable enough to easily pay for itself and its running costs, and is more of a ‘means to an end’ for my gameplay preferences. Also, I expect it to become less profitable after the introduction of cargo refactor, the dynamic economy, and its final rebalancing pass before launch. Either way, I’d highly recommend it to anyone who wants to earn a lot with low risk of getting killed (compared to other gameplay loops)

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Great notes! Although worth adding that I think the rented Prospectors don't let you swap out the mining head? Which to some extent restricts what you can mine?

@citizeninja

2 жыл бұрын

@@Farrister I haven't tested it yet in 3.16, but in 3.14-3.15 we could swap rental components by disabling the rental timer. I learned to mine quant with the stock Arbor laser during the 3.14 free-fly event before I learned lasers could be upgraded, and I only stumbled upon the rental timer exploit at the end of that free-fly event. That rental timer exploit was nice for stripping IAE rentals of their components, especially the alien ships with their ballistic-repelling shields. If they've fixed rentals so we can't upgrade them anymore, then yeah, the stock Prospector laser would limit many new miners on what they can mine, but it's still highly recommended as a consistent aUEC printing-press.

I think (but not sure) that you can jettison the pods and have someone else pick them up. Is this implemented yet? Those cargopods are cloth looking, so they're compact when storing and you can just pop open another one after having jettisoned something out. The idea being that the miner just mines happily around while some faster craft collects and delivers the ore. Like a combine harvester and tractor combo. Or I'm just remembering things wrong. If you are mostly a solo player and like to take things easy, this definitivly is worth the mony to upgrade from your starter or any other ship you may have. Plus there's a cool looking blue skin for it Everything you need to know is in the video. When looking around the asteroid fields it is best to keep an eye out for laranite, borase and bexalite; everything else is not worth it, unless you have to bring it along because it's part of a chunk. If you like the risk, have good quantum etc, Quantanium is the way to got. But I found the normal ore much mor enjoyable. I DID do an experiment where I burned up my friend with the mining laser. I could not collect him afterwards. SCIENCE!

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

The pods are not implemented yet, but that's one of the things that was discussed for the future. Laranite is my spirit mineral :D

@nilsgerdes6747

2 жыл бұрын

@@Farrister yes, Laranite! Loads of it. That was my bread and butter while mining! :D I should go mining again and see how the mole, former Ion (yes, still miffed about that) does solo. And listen to some podcasts..

I have yet to figure out how to log out in the bed. I have searched all over the bed and only command available is to get up, when the background lights up. There are no commands to select. BTW, all ships drift to the left. It is just more noticable in the Prospector, because you typically make finer movements while mining. It definitely is not a first ship, and mining with things like a ROC is suggested as a first step. The Prospector for me is a really good ship to have, but that is specific to my personal playstyle. For group outings I bring my Mole out. With a crew and proper outfitting, the Mole can get you into the big bucks, until the Orion arrives. Mining isn't for everyone and takes patience. Group mining takes even more patience, which many would find counter to what is expected from a game. I just wish they would fix the bed.

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

I don't have the left drift problem - could be a calibration issue with your hardware?

I always enjoy your reviews, but I do feel you should rename the combat section to focus on the ships primary role.

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I've been thinking about that too - just don't want to go too far from what people are used to hearing!

Should say something about damage from exploded rocks could disable the whole ship.

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Hopefully not, if careful!

@hujiaming6151

2 жыл бұрын

@@Farrister That happened to my prospector 3 times, every time my ship's power plant is fried.

I spent a few days play time mining bexalite, gold and taranite after I bought a Prospector. Considering the tiny ore hold, the time it takes to locate good ores and mining one, then going back to refine, I have to say that I found it much more profitable to mine gems with my ROC. Am I doing something wrong, or is that the way of things?

@Farrister

3 ай бұрын

Well this is a fairly old Prospector video at this point. For me, when I go out I'm overjoyed to find Bexalite, Gold, and Taranite, but happy to also take Agricium, Beryl, Borase, Hephastanite, or Laranite. I don't want to spend ages searching for the perfect rock

Has the ultra glare mining UI been fixed? I can’t stand to use my prospector due to this.

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

It seems OK to me?

@user_16309

2 жыл бұрын

@@Farrister thanks! I’m going to try it again!!!!

I've been away from the game for the better part of a year and thinking about returning. My base ships are an Aurora and a Titan Avenger, which was my original package ship. I'm thinking about upgrading my Titan to a Prospector at this point. It takes so long to earn the 2M aUEC in game only to lose the ship with the next game version and have to start over again

How do you prevent prospector drifting whole mining ok n a moon.

@Farrister

Жыл бұрын

You can always land and kick the engines off - it's not a problem I have very often

@peoplelikeus3684

Жыл бұрын

@@Farrister thank you. I'll try that.

Ive spent more time watching your videos than doing what i bought a ship to do. #brokebutinformed

@Farrister

Жыл бұрын

Haha, thanks, I think?

so here we are a year later .... do we know yet what the rear door is for yet?

@Farrister

Жыл бұрын

Well, I still don't know lol

It Rocks ! ;) @ rocking the rocks. Combat Meh. Renting I wouldn't at least not till new "placeable" consumables, & even then meh.

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Nice :D

A shoilet

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

Zero gravity ablutions

@wernervanschalkwyk6652

2 жыл бұрын

@@Farrister you have a way with words sir! 😂

🛀📺

@Farrister

2 жыл бұрын

XD