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Severice
Aurora Empire Fuzzy Nut Attack Squirrels
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Posted - 2012.08.15 06:38:00 -
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TL:DR Version, Retriver classes better than covetor classes in fleets too.
I realize there is a thread that basically reads MACKINAW LOL SO GOOD! As far as i can tell, the hulk isn't significantly better than the Covetorr, to justify the price/SP of the ship. And the same can easily be said of the mac. Not to mention that the covetor class doesn't mine enough when compared to the Retriever class of ships.
I am using ice for my numbers for a few reasons, mostly because ice is extremely static.. predicted theoretical mining maximums are easily attainable. Where if you're mining ore, they just aren't. Rocks pop, belts run out, hauls pick up half empty cans. Ect.
The two yields that matter here are Solo/ Rorqual + mind link all skill perfect.
Retriever 44/59 Mackinaw 46/62
Covetor 47/64 Hulk 50/69
We have 2 gangs mining ice in separate systems. each composed of 10 pilots.
One of them is a rorqual and 9 retreivers
The other is a rorqual, 8 covetors, and 1 industrial.
Now, we're going to assume neither gang is stupid and putting a rorqual, in siege mode, in a belt, but is leaving at a pos.
Team A, has the retreivers mining and hauling for themselves, they have to return to drop off ore just over twice an hour. Their turn around time, would be just around 1-2 minutes for a trip. so about 4 minutes of mining time lost per retriver, or 2 cycles. mining yeild is reduced to 55 blocks an hour.
Their yeild is 495 blocks an hour.
the covetors on the other hand, never leave the belt, and have a dedicated hauler.
Their yeild is 512 blocks an hour.
Seven blocks difference.
That is extremely similar yeilds considering the number of players involved, and the supposed "role" of the covetor.
Hulks Vs macks is
Mack gang 522
Hulk gang 552
30 blocks difference.
more importantly, the differnce between using macks vs retrivers? 27 blocks Covetors vs hulks? 40 blocks. Retreivers vs hulk? 57 blocks, or 1 more retriever.
Sp difference? Covetor needs all the barge levels you can get it, retreiver, entirely possible to use at barge 1, and be productive. Hulk? Swapped bonus requires exhumers to be level IV, before it even mines more than a covetor and even then that's only by a percent. End gaming at 5% more effective.
A retriever? 100% effective at level 1, but requires more time spent hauling ore from A to B
The difference in the gangs starts to become very dependant on the speed and effectiveness of the industrial ships that are hauling for the hulks. You need atleast a 9:1 pairty of industiral ships to even begin to beat out retreivers/macks, and the industrial pilot probably won't be making more than 1 trip every 3-5 minutes, which is between 450 and 760 blocks. That's between 6 and 11 hulks to the industrial ship.
Why am i saying it takes an industrial ship longer to drop off ore than a mackinaw/retreiver? A combination of pilot burn out, and the industrial needing to get back into position to hit a can and fly to the next hulk's can. Even with a tractor, extra time is added the mack simply ignores because it IS the can 2 seconds to lock the roid and game on. That's pretty rough.
It's even debateable if the orca is a viable hauler, even if you have the balls to continuously put an orca in a hostile belt in 0.0, it's slow align time, and slower warp speeds, make it extremely ponderous and slow to haul with. Although it's 5-8 times larger hauling capacity is significant.
Another advantage of retreivers is the gang is infinitely scalable. Add a retriver subtract a retreiver a pilot goes to take a ****, no one notices, no one cares. Industiral pilots goes afk for 10 min? that ore piles up fast. Hulk takes a break? Ratio drops and you should have all been in macks.
All in all, the theory of "Different roles, but same yeilds" doesn't make sense. A mining barge is all about yeild/cargo.
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Travis117
APEX ARDENT COALITION Persona Non Gratis
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Posted - 2012.08.15 06:48:00 -
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OP needs to use spell check more often |
malcovas Henderson
Smoking Minerals Syndicate Cannabis Legionis
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Posted - 2012.08.15 07:17:00 -
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Although I do like these changes, I cannot help feeling that CCP had missed a golden opportunity to finally nail this.
I would have thought that to keep the Hulk unchanged and 8000k ore hold would have sufficed.
Mack as it is but only the yield of 2 lasers, and the same for the Skiff. This would have put everything into its place.
just my 2 cents worth |
Boadicea Wales
Trotters Independant Inc.
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Posted - 2012.08.15 07:36:00 -
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Travis117 wrote:OP needs to use spell check more often
do you get up in the morning and say to your self I am going to make some one miserable today TROLL LOL LOL.
Now to my tupence worth.
There is now no need to bother skilling Exumers past lvl 3 as the rewards for doing this are simply not worth the time it takes to skill Exumers further.
1% bouns per skill lvl = 1% to ice cycle time and ore yeild time.
1% for ice mining = 1 secomd off the cycle time. lvl 5 = 5 seconds off the cycle time. 3 + weeks skilling time for an extra 2 seconds off the ice cycle time is not good vaule for money.
There is now only one ship ti go mining in and that is a mackinaw. CCP your have truly messed this one up.
BTW CCP thanks for wasting my skilling time I have exumers at lvl 5 that was a total waste of skilling time. |
Sentamon
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Posted - 2012.08.15 08:27:00 -
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Well, it's a good thing the extremely unprofitable ice mining in highsec isn't the only type of mining there is then.
You all just keep mining that ice, the more the merrier. ~ Professional Forum Alt -á~ |
khamael III
New Rome corp.
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Posted - 2012.08.15 08:46:00 -
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Boadicea Wales wrote:
There is now only one ship ti go mining in and that is a mackinaw.
Well, a solo mack in a O.O belt is not a good option (cannot permatank the most difficult spawns and will not discourage the casual solo pirate hanging around). For that kind of enviroment, the Skiff is the real choice. Moreover the skiff is useful in "Low" high sec (I mean 0.5-0.6) too, just to make sure that suicide gankers will choose another target.
I therefore think that only the Hulk - since its mining yeld advantage on then Mack is not really relevant - actually lacks a "real" role now. |
Blacksuns
Perkone Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.08.16 11:57:00 -
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Boadicea Wales wrote:Travis117 wrote:OP needs to use spell check more often There is now only one ship ti go mining in and that is a mackinaw. CCP your have truly messed this one up. BTW CCP thanks for wasting my skilling time I have exumers at lvl 5 that was a total waste of skilling time.
Well said.... alot of players are very unhappy with the changes am one of them !!! having lvl 5 exhumers waist of time put them back as they were !!!! |
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Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises Otherworld Empire
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Posted - 2012.08.16 12:12:00 -
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Your world will be upsidedown when gang boost requires you to be on grid, that poor Veldqual might dieeeeee
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Malcanis
Vanishing Point. The Initiative.
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Posted - 2012.08.16 12:14:00 -
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Blacksuns wrote:Boadicea Wales wrote:Travis117 wrote:OP needs to use spell check more often There is now only one ship ti go mining in and that is a mackinaw. CCP your have truly messed this one up. BTW CCP thanks for wasting my skilling time I have exumers at lvl 5 that was a total waste of skilling time. Well said.... alot of players are very unhappy with the changes am one of them !!! having lvl 5 exhumers waist of time put them back as they were !!!!
Does the Exhumers skill no longer apply to the T2 mining barges? Malcanis' Law: Any proposal justified on the basis that "it will benefit new players" is invariably to the greater advantage of older, richer players.
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Desert Ice78
Cobra Kai Dojo WHY so Seri0Us
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Posted - 2012.08.16 12:42:00 -
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khamael III wrote:
I therefore think that only the Hulk - since its mining yeld advantage on then Mack is not really relevant - actually lacks a "real" role now.
Agreed. The advantages of flying the mack or skiff are definitely overshadowing the (small) additional yeild gained from the flying the hulk. Both security and piece of mind as well as everything being easier to manage are huge pluses. Miners are NOT adrenaline junkies; we are patient and if we need an extra 30 minutes to finish out that belt, well we've already been at it for 6 hours so whats another half. I am a pod pilot: http://dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/DesertIce/POD.jpg
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Lilliana Stelles
Mindstar Technology Executive Outcomes
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Posted - 2012.08.16 12:49:00 -
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Basically, the only mining ship you need id the retriever... because it's the only one that pays for itself by going afk for an hour.
Sure, it can be ganked pretty easily, but at ~28 mil, do you really care? Incarna from 2009. 3 Years later and what we have doesn't look half as good as this.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n41s1Iox18A |
Sarton Wells
Blackmoon Ltd.
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Posted - 2012.08.16 12:53:00 -
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Are you talking about ice mining? Because I don't see how you can afk for more than a couple of cycles with ore mining. |
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
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Posted - 2012.08.16 13:20:00 -
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Malcanis wrote:Does the Exhumers skill no longer apply to the T2 mining barges? Sure it does, but it gives better bonuses now so of course the SP is wastedGǪ
GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥
CONCORD spawns: quick enough to save you?
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Arkturus McFadden
Sonoran Shadow Black Mesa Complex
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Posted - 2012.08.16 13:30:00 -
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I think this thread has prejudice towards Procurers.
I love my Procurer... |
Rengerel en Distel
Amarr Science and Industry
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Posted - 2012.08.16 13:33:00 -
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I used to mine, and think ganking miners was like punching little kids, but I'm starting to see why they do it ... Each ship works exactly as CCP redesigned them to work, stop thinking about what was, and think about what is. If the hulk is no longer the best ship for what you want to do, then change ships. Is that really that hard to understand? There are plenty of people out in fleets happily flying their hulks getting 15-30% more yield than the "i just wanna watch a movie while i play a game" crowd.
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Cadfael Maelgwyn
Immortals of New Eden Rebel Alliance of New Eden
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Posted - 2012.08.16 13:44:00 -
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Honestly, who cares if more people are using Mackinaws than Hulks? |
Tlat Ij
Hedion University Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.08.16 14:00:00 -
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Severice wrote:Their yeild is 495 blocks an hour ... Their yeild is 512 blocks an hour.
Seven blocks difference. You have nobel prize winning math skills there. You also spelled yield wrong. |
Cadfael Maelgwyn
Immortals of New Eden Rebel Alliance of New Eden
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Posted - 2012.08.16 14:01:00 -
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Tlat Ij wrote:Severice wrote:Their yeild is 495 blocks an hour ... Their yeild is 512 blocks an hour.
Seven blocks difference. You have nobel prize winning math skills there. You also spelled yield wrong. Yeah, well, they hand out Nobel prizes nowadays for doing nothing important, so he could qualify. |
Theangryhobo
Hobo Industries Inc
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Posted - 2012.08.16 14:04:00 -
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Severice wrote:Their yeild is 495 blocks an hour.
the covetors on the other hand, never leave the belt, and have a dedicated hauler.
Their yeild is 512 blocks an hour.
Seven blocks difference.
Math is hard? The difference is 17 blocks. Hobo Industries Inc is recruiting |
Lysanne Reqetta
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.08.16 14:06:00 -
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The names are right there in game, how the **** could you POSSIBLY spell them wrong? The bep train's a'comin' for you boy! |
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Yokai Mitsuhide
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.08.16 14:11:00 -
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Travis117 wrote:OP needs to use spell check more often
If its perfectly readable, stop your whining and contribute instead of "wahhh he spelled words wrong, i'm tellin!" It's just a video game forum buddy, relax. |
Din Chao
Seraphim Initiative
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Posted - 2012.08.16 14:12:00 -
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Arkturus McFadden wrote:I think this thread has prejudice towards Procurers.
I love my Procurer... I like the cut of your jib. |
James 315
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.08.16 15:43:00 -
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malcovas Henderson wrote:Although I do like these changes, I cannot help feeling that CCP had missed a golden opportunity to finally nail this.
I would have thought that to keep the Hulk unchanged and 8000k ore hold would have sufficed.
Mack as it is but only the yield of 2 lasers, and the same for the Skiff. This would have put everything into its place.
just my 2 cents worth Over leave all of the ships unchanged.
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