Someone please explain me meteorite droprates

[Mordgier]

@mcprouty

1: Not sure if this still works it used to in 2.0, you can mine anywhere on the planet to start meteors from falling it doesn’t have to be a deposit.
2: The more the meteors get mined the more they spawn and the more drop at any given time, hence why home-world has less spawns than other pvp planets that people have been living on ours has at any given time around 5-10 on the surface.
3: Again not sure if this works it used to in 2.0 but, the more you mine those meteorites the higher the chance is of resources meteors falling that isn’t part of the resource deposit types so if your planet has iron and mag, there is a tiny chance of it spawning cobalt aswell and eventually gold
4: Shooting meteors with guns does not cuase meteors to fall it just lowers everything back down again to its starter state, so be careful with those SV plasma cannons, same as digging your base out by shooting the ground it wont cuase any spawns.

Just to confirm what mcprouty said:

1. Totally untrue. You don’t have to mine anything. I generally land my CV and sit inside it stocking my HV and crafting spares until a meteorite drops. You really need not do anything other than be on the playfield.

2. You have a set number of meteorites, generally ~4. Nothing you ever do will cause there to be “MORE” meteorites. This was very obvious in 3.4 when you could see all metorites on the map. As soon as you mined one down enough another would fall out of the sky.

3. There is ZERO chance of you getting a meteorite that contains a resource not native to the planet. Zero. You will NEVER see sathium on a starter planet.

4. Shooting meteorites you do not want to mine is the accepted best practice for speeding up mining of a specific type of ore. I shoot everything that is not Sathium and have never ever had a problem with consistent meteorite spawns.