Desash
The Extremely Norty Gankers Union
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Posted - 2014.06.17 20:41:00 -
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I believe there are some significant 'inconsistencies' with the proposed compressed ore volumes as they currently appear on Sisi. They are inconsistent with each other and they are inconisistent with the following statement quoted from the Reprocess All The Things blog.
Quote:Compressing the universe, one asteroid at a time
With the max reprocessing rate for any item that is not ore or ice dropping to 55%(with Scrapmetal Processing trained at 5), we needed to find other ways to favor compression or else null-security industry would simply stop functioning.
The solution is to improve compression ratios from Rorqual ore blueprints by increasing their outputs by 38.1% (due to the reprocessing changes above) while tweaking the compressed ore volumes to make it competitive with current modules like the 425mm Railgun I for instance.
I have used a spreadsheet in the past to help establish the best ores to mine based on Mined Ore Value per m3 . Nothing new; Omber was worst and Mercoxit was best (twice as good) but nothing looked exceptionally unusual.
I recently expanded that spreadsheet to compare Compressed Ore Value per m3 and I also added 425mm Railgun, seeing as these could rightly be regarded as the standard for ore compression activities. Based on a buy price of 2,300,000 isk per 425mm Railgun with its volume of 50m3, the compressed ore value for a 425mm Railgun is 46,000 ISK per m3 (2,300,000 / 50).
Below is a list of ores along with their compressed value per m3 as calculated by my updated spreadsheet. (I have just kept to the standard ores for comparison reasons only).
Veldspar - 12,000 isk / m3
Scordite - 15,700 isk / m3
Pyroxeres - 40,100 isk / m3
Plagioclase - 40,100 isk / m3
Omber - 125,100 isk / m3
Kernite - 120,000 isk / m3
Jaspet - 293,900 isk / m3
Hemorphite - 446,500 isk / m3
Hedbergite - 522,600 isk / m3
Spodumain - 18,400 isk / m3
Gneiss - 99,500 isk / m3
Dark Ochre - 52,000 isk / m3
Crokite - 52,600 isk / m3
Bistot - 62,600 isk / m3
Arkonor - 121,600 isk / m3
Veldspar and Scordite look too low compared to other hi-sec ores. Jaspet, Hemorphite and Hedbergite look far too high compared to other low/null-sec ores and Spodumain once again takes the prize for least desirable ore in its class. I would like to remind you at this point that these are values comparing the transportation of compressed ore and have little to no relevance with whether they are worth the time spent mining them.
I am of the opinion that rather than having compressed ore volumes based roughly on the total number of reprocessed minerals contained within it and then dividing that by approx 2000, some consideration should be given to the value of that compressed ore when expressed in m3 terms to bring it more in line with 425mm Railguns.
The following compressed ore m3 values would go a long way to achieving this:
Veldspar - 0.05 m3
Scordite - 0.10 m3
Pyroxeres - 0.15 m3
Plagioclase - 0.15 m3
Omber - 0.25 m3
Kernite - 0.50 m3
Jaspet - 1.00 m3
Hemorphite - 1.00 m3
Hedbergite - 1.00 m3
Spodumain - 4.00 m3
Gneiss - 2.00 m3
Dark Ochre - 2.00 m3
Crokite - 5.00 m3
Bistot - 5.00 m3
Arkonor - 5.00 m3 |