Tash'k Omar
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Posted - 2013.06.17 06:44:00 -
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With the changes to ice belts, running 10-15 hulks is no longer feasible in highsec. You will want to be mining ore anomalies in nullsec, where the rocks can support that many miners, and they respawn after completion. Also, you will be able to use Rorqual boosts, resulting in 17% more yield.
However, pulling in that much ore, you will easily bring the system to level 5 industry, which attracts the wrong kind of attention for mining. Level 5 does take a lot of mining though, so depending on your play schedule you may be OK.
Also, with a sieged Rorqual boosting your 10 max skilled hulks, you will be bringing in 31,690m3 of ore per minute. Pulling numbers out of thin air, I reason that realistically, you can expect a sustained 2,750m3 per minute from your hulks (as opposed to 3,169 with a 3% implant). This brings your intake to 27,500-41,250m3 per minute (10-15 hulks). With 15 hulks you are able to fill a T2 rigged Ity 5 every 60 seconds. At this rate of extraction, even hauling with an Orca is not feasable, due to the long align time and slow warp speed.
You will want to haul with a freighter or second rorqual, and possibly may want to consider fitting dual webs to one of the ships in site, for faster align time of the hauling ship.
Delving further into the logistical challenges, your hulks ore hold can only contain 8,000m3 of ore, however your T2 strips will be bringing in just under 5,500m3 of ore every 104 seconds. Managing shifting that much ore is not feasable over a long period of time, so you may wish to switch to mackinaws, jet cans every ~5-10 minutes, and tractor with a rorqual from 100km away. As it so happens, 15 max skilled Mackinaws will take very nearly exactly 10 minutes to mine the 400,000m3 of ore that a T1 rigged rorqual can hold, which brings us to our second problem, compression.
Your boosting Rorqual will need to be compressing, and you may need a third Rorqual compressing as well. Assuming we are using the mackinaws, you are mining 2.4 million m3 of ore per hour. 8 hours of mining and your last Rorqual load won't fit in your Large Ship Assembly array (you are hauling to a POS right? It takes way less time than docking).
Sorry for the book. And yes, it is that much of a pain.
Edit: Didn't consider can mining into an enormous freight container, and then scooping out of there with a Rorqual or freighter (don't bump the miners). That may be your best bet, and it lets you use hulks (moving ore every 2 minutes) for better yield == better money. I personally would not use a freighter, as the Rorqual has a jump drive as well as the ability to fit modules, which is a HUGE plus if anything ever hits the fan. Capital shield boosters/reps, capital tractor beam, 100mn MWD, jump to safety if hotdropped.
Also, 15 hulks brings you to ~3.13 million m3 per hour, if you use mining drones. 2.85 without drones.
I think the saddest part of this entire post is that it will still take you over an hour to mine the Spod. |