Kate stark
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Posted - 2013.11.01 15:39:00 -
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Thane Shimaya wrote:Hello, everyone.
I've been solo mining for most of my Eve career, but when the CEO and nearly everyone else from my previous nullsec corp stopped logging in, my RL friend and I decided to break off and form our own corp. Being out in null all by yourself isn't very fun...
So at the moment, my corp consists of just myself and my friend (he only has a couple months experience) together with three alts. Having been primarily a solo miner however, I'm very new to leading fleets and mining operations with a group.
All characters have been flying Retrievers. Though two can fly Hulks, I don't have the funds to purchase them at the moment (soon, though!). I also recently purchased an Orca, and am skilling towards flying a freighter.
Question #1:
What would be the most efficient setup for my currrent characters and ships? I would love to use the Orca for boosting, but without a freighter or freighter pilot, we would lose those bonuses when I dock to unload. Losing range could mean ore/time/ISK wasted. My present options it seems are:
5 Retrievers
1 Orca x 4 Retrievers
1 Orca x (2 Hulks + 2 Retrievers) *Eventually...
Question #2:
Being a brand new CEO and mining fleet coordinator, I'm almost entirely clueless as to how to pay my friend and any future corpmates. Should I go by time spent mining? Value of ore mined? Is there a standard that most mining fleets follow? I've been selling my own refined minerals to another corp who buys at 90% of the Jita max buy order, until I can fly a freighter to move the materials myself. Should I be buying my corpmates ores at a discount as well, in order to turn a profit for the corp?
Question #3:
My short term goals for my new corporation are simply to make as much ISK as possible. Long term, I would like to leave high sec and establish outposts either in low sec or null and manufacture ships and modules. Personally, I have little experience with either POS setup or manufacturing. Would it be wise to entrust these areas to the knowledge of future corpmates, or wiser to spend my own ISK and time training skills, going through trial and error figuring out what works best?
Any advice or help is greatly appreciated!
-T. Shimaya
1) as soon as you have more than 2 accounts, use an orca. if you're worried about boosts dropping. stop being bad, boosts are only relevant when your cycles end and start, the time between is irrelevant as cycle bonuses aren't checked.
2) if they want to sell their ore to you offer them somewhere between what they would earn unboosted, and what you can get for their minerals when mining in your fleet. they take the cut in isk/m3 for an increase in isk/hour due to boosts and you doing all the hauling. it involves maths, get comfortable with it.
3) if your goal is to make as much isk as possible; stop mining.
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