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Asuka Smith
Gallente
StarHunt
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Posted - 2009.03.19 16:24:00 -
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Here is a good example for everyone who cannot understand how mining works. Two types of miners: Production miners and profit miners.
If you are a production miner you might think to yourself "I have perfect hulk skills, I might as well mine all the minerals I need myself!" If you think that you are a fool in the strongest degree. Here is an example to explain (using fictional numbers)
Tritanium can be mined at a rate of $100 per hour.
Pyerite can be mined at $60 per hour.
Mexallon can be mined at $75 per hour.
Nocxium can be mined at a rate of $80 per hour.
Isogen can be mined at $120 per hour.
Zydrine can be mined at $400 per hour.
Megacyte can be mined at $350 per hour.
Now, you could mine all the different types yourself and make a nice shiny battleship, for simplicities sake let us say you need 4 hours worth of each mineral to complete your ship. That means you will have earned $4340 if you mine all the minerals for your ship yourself, and then let's say that the markup for finished goods (the completed ship) is worth 20% more than the raw minerals, which puts your total profit at time of sale on the market at $5208, and it would take 28 hours to mine all the ore.
Now let us see what would happen if you only mined the most VALUABLE ore and bought the rest you would need off the market. That means mining Zydrine in 0.0 in the case of this example, I only need to earn $4340 worth of mined minerals and then I can go sell what I have and buy what I need. It would only take 11 hours of Zydrine mining to have enough money/minerals to build the same ship that took 28 hours worth of mining if I got every part of it myself.
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Asuka Smith
Gallente
StarHunt
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Posted - 2009.03.19 18:37:00 -
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Mining valuable pebbles is certainly the correct course of action. I find that I can reposition myself easily to continue mining a new 'roid before the currently targeted one dies. In almost every ABC system the pebbles are tiny but overlap ever so slightly, so you can always have one-two targeted and sometimes many more. And even if I had to spend 30% extra time moving around with no asteroid targeted (which is a ridiculously high about) ABCs would still be worth more than 3x anything else.
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Asuka Smith
Gallente
StarHunt
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Posted - 2009.03.19 19:15:00 -
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 Originally by: Sushi Chef
I find it more fun to eat the whole belt instead of picking at the little bits of valuable ore. Besides, my corp doesn't need 100,000,000 Trit, it needs all minerals, because it's a production corp.
You ought to read the post three above from yours (my long one) to explain why you are an idiot.
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Asuka Smith
Gallente
StarHunt
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Posted - 2009.03.20 02:37:00 -
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Depends on logistic capability, if you can mine and refine in the same system and can fly a freighter then it will be better to fill the freighter and AFK to Jita (no one is going to gank your freighter to haul away a ton of trit).
AFK freighter to Jita while you work/sleep takes 0 time. Hell, even if you do not want to do AFK your freighter you can put up sell orders at the nearest high population station (if you put up a big enough sell order people will come from across the region).
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