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Sophise Seksi
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Posted - 2006.02.25 05:33:00 -
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I'm newish to Eve and I keep seeing topics and items regarding moon mining. Could someone please explain what this is all about?
What's the difference between mining from a moon and an asteroid? Are the yields better? Is there better ore?
I read the description of a survey scanner and some say that it takes 45 minutes to give a report... That seems kind of odd. And how exactly would you mine from a moon? You can't really get close enough in any kind of decent timeframe.
What would you use to mine it?
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Alexis DeTocqueville
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Posted - 2006.02.25 05:37:00 -
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You can only mine a moon using a Player Owned Station. I would assume the yields are better, but I think the ores are pretty common stuff. You don't have to get close to it in order to mine from it...don't ask me how that works.
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F'nog
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Posted - 2006.02.25 05:53:00 -
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Originally by: Alexis DeTocqueville You can only mine a moon using a Player Owned Station. I would assume the yields are better, but I think the ores are pretty common stuff. You don't have to get close to it in order to mine from it...don't ask me how that works.
Not really. Moon minerals are completely different from asteroid ones. They form the building blocks for T2 components when mixed together in a process called reactions. Distance plays no part in it, as the POS does the mining, and it can only be set at a certain point in space, one POS per moon.
The reactions are now fairly common because the market has been flooded with them, but their frequency has no relation to asteroid minerals.
It's not something any new player, nor most advanced ones, should worry about at this point. Maybe in the future it will become a worthwhile investment. But for the time being the good moons are all claimed and there is little profit from them.
If you think you may one day want to get into POSes, however, check out the Starbases forum for more info.
Originally by: Bl4zer But, cmon, this is the Eve forums, we don't let facts get in the way of pointless speculation.
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Sophise Seksi
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Posted - 2006.02.25 09:03:00 -
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Hey I appreciate the replies, they satisfied my question well.
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