Today I decided to go on a mining trip. In order to do so I had to acquire some mining probes, så I bought 20 probes at a value of PED 1.00.
To track how much I have spent on this mining trip I put everything I could in the sell window of a Trade Terminal (TT) to see it's TT Value. So with my weapon, ammo, tools and probes I had stuff at TT value of PED 13.68. I also have PED 3.02 on my PED Card, for a total of PED 16.70.
What I had misunderstood was that searching for materials takes 20 probes, so I only got one "shot", which incidently did not give anything, not even any skills. So already here there was a loss of PED 1.
So it turned into a Swunting (Sweat Gathering & Hunting) trip instead.
I made the mistake to use another healer device than the Vivo T1. I have (nearly) maxed out the Vivo T1 (Heal Interval 7.7-10.3, uses per min: 19/20), and looted the Flap on an earlier hunting trip.
It is more powerful (Heal Interval 16.0-16.0) than the Vivo T1, with a bigger max and faster heal (25 per min) although I am not skilled enough to do the max heal.
I went just north of Port Atlantis for this trip. Dying a few times I ended up at the Outpost, just north of Port Atlantis.
At the end I had items of TT value PED 12.62 and PED 0.02 for a total of PED 12.64. So a total loss of PED 4.06.
I did gain 101 Vibrant Sweat and 22 Blazar Fragments though which the TT values at PED 0.00. The Blazar Fragments has a markup at around 44,000 % today. I don't know the going rate of Vibrant Sweat these days.
So I lost a bunch of PEDs today, but I hope I gathered a little knowledge ;-)
See You out there! :-)
Eve