CataCourier
Asha' Man Corp
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Posted - 2012.11.02 17:15:00 -
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There are a lot of answers to your questions, depending on where/how you're mining and set up.
Here are some answers to your questions:
1) How much clicking do you want to do? If you don't want to do as much clicking, go with Mackinaws. Otherwise, go with Hulks. Be sure to put a decent tank on your hulks to survive suicide gankers and/or rats.
2) With that many miners, you better be using an Orca. Preferably a maxed out boosting Orca with a Mining Foreman implant.
3) This coincides with #1- if you want to be passive and not click much, use Mackinaws/Retrievers. The hulk has over 20% better output than a mack, but it does require more clicking. If you're using near-max hulk pilots, then you need to move the ore out of the ore hold every cycle with a Hulk.
4) If you have a max orca mining scordite in empire in a Hulk, you can make upwards of 35-37mil an hour. That's assuming you have the hulk mining under perfect conditions with a booster/hauler.
A few notes:
-Mining drones are an easy way to gain an extra 5-10% output if you're a maxed (orca boosted) miner. (it's roughly 5% actual amount if you have a max rorq. On paper it looks like they give more, but travel time + rock size matter)
-You really should be mining in Grav belts in 0.0 sov space. Go look up information on grav belts from Industrial Upgrades in 0.0. That's the safest place to mine at the moment.
-If you move to 0.0, you do need to worry about logistics of moving the minerals. You should stick to station systems to get comfortable and have a place to refine the ore. Hire someone from your alliance to jump the minerals to empire for you. Once you get off the ground and get a Rorqual, move to a quieter system and put up a POS- compress ore at the POS and use array modules to store the ore.
-If you're using 5+ accounts, download ISBoxer. Totally worth it. (Google it).
My setup:
-7 Maxed hulk pilots. I use drones about half the time, depending on how much I need to move (if at all). If there aren't any rocks within 10km of my mining point, I don't use drones. It takes them way too long to get back to me in case i need to warp out, and the travel time makes the output garbage.
-Maxed Rorq pilot. My cycle times are 104 seconds on the hulk. With 95-100% uptime (which isn't hard to do), I'm averaging about 40 mil an hour per miner. I use the Rorq at a POS to compress ore.
-Maxed Orca pilot to haul. If for whatever reason the Rorq isn't there, I can also use the Orca to boost, which nerfs my income to about 35 mil/hr per miner.
-I usually have one of my miners in a tanked skiff to tank the 0.0 rats. Skiffs have ridiculous tank. The one miner in the skiff gets about 25% less output than being in a hulk. |