Ankanos
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Posted - 2006.02.11 04:34:00 -
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 Originally by: Tremor Brash
I was wondering if anyone uses a Vexor for mining and if so what is a good setup?
did you know with L4 cruiser, L5 mining drone,
L4 drone interfacing and 5/4 mining skills and
4x miner2's + 5 5 Tech 2 miner drones, you can
pull in about 758m3 per minute!
ganged with my L4 foreman skill gets me 786m3/min
-if i had 5/5 mining skills + foreman it goes to 806m3/min
tech 2 miners get 79.7m3/min with the above skills.
(tested in the belts and verified)
makes for a great low cost, high output miner (relatively speaking)
that can easily defend itself in 0.5 space and higher.
with good drone piloting skills, it should have no problems.
in 0.4 either
(vs npc's and perhaps solo player t1 frigs and intys)
the down side is it'd probably take close to 50 days
with good attributes, to get to those skill levels
from scratch. and even with the expander, the cargo
fills pretty quick.
this is the setup i use for 0.5 and higher mining.
(with a bit of a pvp touch)
4X MINER 2
1x small NOS
1X 20km fleeting warp scrambler
1x t2 target painter
1x survey scanner
1x partial hull expander
1x t2 small armor rep
2x t2 co-proc
5x t2 miner drone
4x t2 hornet
2x t2 hobgoblins
2x t2 hammers
the reason for the 20k scrambler is to hold ore
thieves should they be so bold. you need to bump
the thief constantly, otherwise he can roll up to your
can, initiate warp at the same time he nic's your ore
and get away.
the target painter is to grab aggro from npc's at range
so they'll stay more focused on you than your drones.
it also helps increase damage output (less misses, better
hits) of the drones.
the nos well, its a nos ffs!, help deprive him of defense
and enhance yours..
perhaps a +2 disrupter would be better, but so far,
the +1 does the trick. plus, i like to have a range buffer
should i bump the hauler out of a 7.5k scramblers range.
the reason i do not use harvester drones is that they are too
slow as well as a lot more expensive. (250 m/s vs 500 m/s,
150k vs 6-7mil isk)
try it out.. works pretty good. obviously there are other
setups you can use. notably, using 2 expanders to make it less
a hassle with ore transfers. but for a cheap rapid deployment,
high output miner, its hard to beat.
oh, and if my math is right, with all relevant skills
at level5, i think the output reaches 896M3/min. go with
harvies and you pass the 900m3 mark with ease. add L5 foreman
skills (and the foreman drone skill) i bet +1000m3/min can be had.
-you'd just be crying cause you'd be transfer ore every 30sec or so.
almost makes me wanna try some crokite ninja mining just
for fun..
not too shabby, eh? :)
-ank
(guess i now know why they wouldn't give us our mining bonus
on the domi.. ) -drat ;p
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