Ok after one season on HWS as a carebear-PVP-player (i have a base in PVE but spent my time in PVP to tease skill-free-would-be-alpha-factions like TCH, ACE and so on) i would suggest the following :
- never go into PVP without replacement SV/CV in your factory
- park your CV in an orbit above one of the three gold planets
- you can mine gold asteroids, but meteroids on the planet surface are more effective
- always watch your minimap when gold mining ! AFK is ok for balls-free PVE Mimimi- games or minecraft but deadly on HWS
- i would recommmd to mine gold on Golden Globe. There are two other planets with gold meteroids. New Berlin is a lava planet full of holes, its simply the pest moving around, you have no sight and wll die shortly after disembarking your vessel. On homeworld there are not many gold meteroids, sometimes none at all, it seems the respawn is not working correctly
- if you are mining gold asteroids make sure you do it in a strong battleship with all weapons orientated into just one direction (maximum firepower for CV vs CV)
- if you land on Golden Globe do not try to build a bridgehead with bases ! Bases can be taken out easily solo by every average griefer-pirate in his SV. At the moment (6.7) bases are completely broken for PVP
- land with a cheap SV. Why ? Because the griefer pirates will search your SV first as soon as they detect you and destroy a main part like reactor or tank. If they later jump your HV and you try to head back to your SV you do not notice immediatelly that this vessel is out… giving the griefer-pirate more time tol kill you
- dont take any valuables with you to golden globe
- dont forget to set your CV in orbit as “home”
- have a strong hovercraft drill tank ready. Why not a cheap one ? Because you avoid auto-loss in PVP. With a strong tank you can not only drill gold, but also kill other gold diggers (and steal their gold) and even fight the griefer-pirates in their exploiter-SV. In general their exploiter-SV are by far too fast and agile for a hit, but with good HV movement in your tank you may land a lucky shot and put the pirate’s griefing to an end
- if things go wrong (your HV severely damaged) just log out and come back a few hours later. Its not worth losing the mined gold. You are not a coward as you risk a lot while the griefer-pirate risks nothing, so just ignore his comments
- maybe he is placing a base where you logged out, but from my experience these guys are too lazy to do that. When you log back in just spawn a SV from the factory and head back to your CV
- your tank hovercraft is always calculated as loss, but fun & gold is certainly worth this