Sofia Wolf
Ubuntu Inc.
The Fourth District
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Posted - 2013.11.11 20:11:00 -
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With perfect boosts miner can expect some 15 M / h in minerals in -0.1 space. In that same sec status one can get about 20 M /h in minerals + 10 M /h in salvage + 30 M/h in bounties from grinding sansha anoms in cheap t1 battleship and noctis. It is clear that even if you are in it only for minerals, opportunity cost of mining, compared to rating, is so great that nobody should ever mine in 0.0 space, except for morphite. Even afk advantage of minig is absent in 0.0 space because one has to constantly watch local and intel channels to survive.
Main reason looting wrecks is superior source of minerals is that modules have smaller volume then minerals that are needed to make them, or that they reprocess into. So for example clearing snasha forsaken hub with noctis will fill ship's cargo hold only to about 1/3 of capacity, and reprocessing it will yield similar mineral value as two full ore loads of retriever.
The situation will get even worse with new auto tractor structure as noctis will not even have to spend time tractoring wrecks, only looting them and salvaging. Rating ship will simply drop tractor structure. Half an hour, or so, later he will return in noctis and all the loot will be in one place to be taken with only few clicks
So to fix this situation CCP should, as soon as possible, increase volume of all modules and scrap metal to ad least the level where they have the volume as big as the volume of minerals they reprocess into. Then it would take noctis multiple trips to loot it all, thus increasing time cost of getting minerals in that way.
As additional benefit this would also make importing minerals and modules from higsec harder, thus boosting need for domestic 0.0 industry.
Finally, in addition of being damaging for economy, modules having order of magnitude smaller volume then minerals that make them is stupid from verisimilitude point of view.
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