IonHammer
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Posted - 2005.09.21 14:15:00 -
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I probably have a different take and to get the most you need to figure out what you want to do in the longer term.
While covetors with strip miner 2's and t2 crystals (and t2 mining drones) vacum more ore than any other ship their training requirements are very heavy and at the end you still can only mine.
Another option is to train up for a bs and use this with miner 2's till u can use dcm 2's then you have a ship that can mine all ore, npc hunt do missions. Unfortunaly you pick caldari and along with minmater they have the worst mining battleship platforms.
The Apoc is probably the swiss army knife of battle ships, however, I have a real soft spot for mining in dom's while they can fit only 6 mining lasers there drone capacity and flexablility in setting up make them a choice for me. My current mining setup is a dom and a geddon. These l1 bs's are a lot less to insure and easier to replace for those times when you loose a ship.
While the above is my opinion on which way u want to go, I also want to add some things you might want to check to increase your current output.
1. Refine at a station with base refine efficiency of 50% not less.
2. Refine at a station where u can run at least one mission with that corporation. this reduces station tax which is normally 5%.
3. Get to your ref eff skills to 5 so you get min 100% refine efficiency when you refine (you may be there already).
4. Get mining drones to L5 pronto the T2 mining drones are not to be neglected.
5. Astro 4 is the minium for high end mining as it gives u the most output L5 only helps with low end.
6. When you have mins to sell, spend some time looking for areas to sell in, dont get me wrong don't haul it 50 jumps but you may find a better price 10-20 jumps away.
7. Use sell orders dont sell at market, so if you moved you mins say 15 jumps to a busy local area look for the prices on market as a guide to set yours, i often set multiple sell orders so i can make some quick isk then make some profit on the higher prices.
8. The advantage of going to an area where the prices are higher is that you already offer a service by having the mins for sale at the location sometime buyers will pay quite a lot more if they don't have to haul.
9. Ions ore guide. I mine the following for the for the mins i want,
trit = veld
pyrite = scordite
mex= plag
iso= omber
nox = (japset in empire hemo has to many pirates around) (0.0 crokite :))
Zydrine = (empire i hear some ores have it might be japset not 100%)(0.0 crokite, bisot, arknor).
Megacyte (Arknor, Bisot, i hear spud has mega never mined it.
Mine the 10% extra ore then the 5% extra ore then the normal ore in the order.
While there are other ores they produce the desired minerals at a slower rate this means less isk.
With the price of mex moving up atm you may want to look at plag, if japset has some syd that is also another good ore As you can see I hardly mine pyrox. While a year ago I could give you an hourly breakdown of the best ore to mine at current prices, now i just do the right thing well mostly.
Oh and finally if your not using bm's form the station to the field ore can and return then your lossing isk.
Good Luck
Ion
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