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Aeneidae
Caldari School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2008.10.26 21:13:00 -
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Proud to say (or ashamed actually), that today, 23:04 GMT +2 an Asteroid belt suffered a horrendous death at the hands of a noob miner (me), after 8 hours of Strip Miner action (here is where half the crowd is cheering "you go!" and half is booing "pft, no lifer"). I feel the need to mention i usually mine 1-2 hours a day, however today i wanted to empty a belt for the first time. Now to the point: i have registered in an Excel file the total volume of the belt and each trip's cargo (my Badger II which has 12513 capacity atm) and in total:
919785 Dense Veldspar 128542 Condensed Veldspar 219129 Veldspar 264449 Massive Scordite 130734 Condensed Scordite 42267 Scordite
Doesn't this seem, well...awkward? The density of dense veldspar (pun intended) in an asteroid belt? Was i just lucky, or is there some secret coding that i don't know about? Seems to me, given D.V. is so precious, that's quite a load of it. Are there cases where, for example, Scordite is predominant, and D.V. is low? Tomorrow will i see my precious belt sporting only maybe 200.000 veldspar and rest scordite?
Answers apreciated.
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MenanceWhite
Amarr Ministry of War
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Posted - 2008.10.26 21:19:00 -
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Pay that no mind, it's in the belts. The "preciousness" is mostly just RP stuff. |
Letouk Mernel
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Posted - 2008.10.27 00:56:00 -
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Belts in lower security systems have higher-grade asteroids (pyroxeres and plagioclase start appearing in 0.6 - 0.5 systems, Omber, Kernite in lowsec, and 0.0 has the "upper" ores). However, Veldspar and Scordite are everywhere, and in the highest quantities within any belt.
Veldspar is the most predominant roid type.
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Salpad
Caldari Carebears with Attitude
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Posted - 2008.10.27 06:30:00 -
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Originally by: Letouk Mernel Belts in lower security systems have higher-grade asteroids (pyroxeres and plagioclase start appearing in 0.6 - 0.5 systems, Omber, Kernite in lowsec, and 0.0 has the "upper" ores). quote]
I've mined Plagioclase in a 0.8 system.
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Gieron
Middleton and Mercer LLP Sylph Alliance
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Posted - 2008.10.27 10:54:00 -
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I have noticed that belts in 0.0 tend to have more dense veldspar than ordinary veldspar. But you are obviously in a 0.9 or 1.0 system (since you have only veldspar and scordite). I used to mine a lot in such systems and there were definitely more ordinary veldspar than dense veldspar. So I don't know why that isn't true in your case.
However, I have noticed that some macro miners (curse them) only go after the ordinary ore types and leave the 5% and 10% types. I don't know why. But that still doesn't explain your difference between dense and concentrated veldspar.
Perhaps MenanceWhite is right and there is no real correlation between the 10% ore types and their distribution. |
Irulan S'Dijana
Amarr Imperial Academy
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Posted - 2008.10.27 11:06:00 -
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I see mining in 0.0 as a public service. I've lost ships before because I got stuck on moon-sized veldspar roids.
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Gieron
Middleton and Mercer LLP Sylph Alliance
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Posted - 2008.10.27 21:03:00 -
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Originally by: Irulan S'Dijana I see mining in 0.0 as a public service. I've lost ships before because I got stuck on moon-sized veldspar roids.
Yeah, those are dangerous. I sometimes begin with mining away the bigger of them.
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Aeneidae
Caldari School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2008.10.27 21:34:00 -
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Went back today, only spent enough time to mine all the dense veldspar and todays number is 911936. Seems to me this belt has a 900k Dense Veldspar coded into it.
As a sidenote. Targetting 2 is quite nice. Beeing able to target 4 asteroids saves a couple seconds each time you have to swap the targets, as you don't have to lock a new one.
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Suneai
Gallente
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Posted - 2008.10.27 22:20:00 -
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Originally by: Letouk Mernel Belts in lower security systems have higher-grade asteroids (pyroxeres and plagioclase start appearing in 0.6 - 0.5 systems, Omber, Kernite in lowsec, and 0.0 has the "upper" ores). However, Veldspar and Scordite are everywhere, and in the highest quantities within any belt.
Veldspar is the most predominant roid type.
Kernite & Plagioclase starts in 0.7, I think Omber starts appearing in 0.6... possibly 0.7 but I haven't searched myself.
Pyroxeres can be found in systems starting from 0.9, not sure about 1.0 but maybe there's some there too.
Jaspet is the first of the lowsec ores, in 0.4 systems. |
Suneai
Gallente
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Posted - 2008.10.27 22:23:00 -
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Originally by: Gieron I have noticed that belts in 0.0 tend to have more dense veldspar than ordinary veldspar. But you are obviously in a 0.9 or 1.0 system (since you have only veldspar and scordite). I used to mine a lot in such systems and there were definitely more ordinary veldspar than dense veldspar. So I don't know why that isn't true in your case.
However, I have noticed that some macro miners (curse them) only go after the ordinary ore types and leave the 5% and 10% types. I don't know why. But that still doesn't explain your difference between dense and concentrated veldspar.
Perhaps MenanceWhite is right and there is no real correlation between the 10% ore types and their distribution.
It's mainly because pure ores sell for more straight onto the market, marco miners don't tend to go for the others because they don't seem to care as much for refining. Probably too much hassle to refine and then drag it all for a large scale sale or manufacturing session. |
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