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RootEmerger
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Posted - 2010.01.28 09:10:00 -
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A check on mining drones is also needed - today from a full flight of tech 2 drones you get less than half the yeld from a single hulk tech 2 strip miner (more of a third than an half) and this while eliminating any offensive capablity of your ship...
One way to help could be something like this: Add to mining barges and exumers aspecialized mining drone bay, size and specialized bandwidth related to the ships tier. Add a skill "advanced mining drone" that gives you the ability to fly one drone from this extra bay each level, level V lets you fly the new tech 2 harvester drone (see below)
Harvesters drone as they are now are nearly useless - they needs some changes: up their class (and size/bw) to heavy (so its hard to fit them on most non-mining barge without the specialized bay and skills) up the base speed to 300 (just a little bit but it's not an huge need, could even eliminated) Change the basic yeld/cycle to 90, change the cycle time to 180 (longer cycle, less time spent by going to/from ship so the slow speed is a lot less relevant - higer efficiency hit if the roid pops tho)
Tech 2 mining harvesters: same with tech 2 strip miners crystals they are ore-specialized, less efficient than tech 1 when used to mine the "wrong" type of ore, definitely more efficient when used to mine the right one. Tertiary skill requirement should be the same than equivalent tech 2 mining crystal.
optional: tech 2 ice mining harvester - a single ice block is huge, 1000m3, so the main objection to ice mining drone is: how a 1000m3 ice block can fit into a 5m3 drone? The easy answer is: 25m3 (as we are speaking of a heavy class drone now) is the size that it get when docked inside is bay, not when it is operative... look at mining barges - a covetor when packaged will fit in a little more than 3.500m3 but when it is operative it become a 200.000m3 hulking metal thing, they needs lot of empty spaces inside to work and store the ore but only when working. So a ice mining drone will simply fold up when in his bay, open up when operating (only from a logic perspective, drone 3d model changes not really required - would be neat tho).
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Shaemell Buttleson
Euphoria Released
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Posted - 2010.01.28 11:23:00 -
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Get rid of hauler spawns.
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ACE81
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Posted - 2010.01.28 14:09:00 -
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I want a Secure can thats as big as my Jet can for solo mining :P 27k m3
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Sep'Shoni
Gallente Carpe Diem inc. Celestial Shadows
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Posted - 2010.01.30 15:48:00 -
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Originally by: David Grogan ...
FACT about most miners mining solo instead of hiring protection is that its not possible to mine enough to be profitable to earn isk and have to pay the huge isk a pvp fleet want to sit and watch your ass all day. ...
Yes.
People who think mining is boring and thus prefer combat think that watching someone else mine is EVEN MORE BORING.
And its quite impossible, short of taking the most valuable null-sec ores, for a miner to earn anywhere near the amount that said combat characters could be earning by running missions.
Sep'Shoni
Mining ore and making stuff. Its not just a job, its an obsession. |
Mielono
Caldari SWARTA
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Posted - 2010.01.31 12:52:00 -
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Some of these ideas deserve a bump
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David Grogan
Gallente Final Conflict UK Warped Aggression
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Posted - 2010.02.01 19:14:00 -
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bumpage SIG: if my message has spelling errors its cos i fail at typing properly :P |
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