Tyberius Franklin wrote:Mariko Musashi Hareka wrote:Cade Windstalker wrote:EA Leguard wrote:I am a self-chosen Miner! Knowing that here is my opinion on the new mining barge / exhumer changes!
THEY SUCK! Because you have to spend more time mining despite the extra strip miner! You took away the bonuses for using mining barges making them almost worthless. Now it takes twice as long to get the same amount of ore! This leaves miners exposed to gankers "like CODE"! I feel like CCP is trying to get rid of miners all together. I say this because CCP nerfed Miners and Industrialists before. Now it takes 8 times longer to get the same amount of ore before the first nerf happened! I think that CCP needs to reverse the changes made to mining barges and then leave them alone! They weren't broke so don't fix them!
My prediction for the future if CCP doesn't reverse the recent changes to Mining Barges / Exhumers!
1. Miners will stop mining!
2. Prices will rise until everything becomes unaffordable!
3. Players will quit and/or leave in Masses!
4. CCP will be forced to discontinue Eve due to loss of income (aka Paying Players!)
You're bad at math, mining yields haven't changed because they adjusted the base yield of the mining lasers and the turret counts of the ships.
I'm sure all of the miners who can do math are happy this change is getting those who can't out of the market. More ISK for them!
Actually you are wrong mining yields are less then what they were before the change yes you could mine more with an extra mining upgrade but was supposed to be the same afterwards and its not so there we are back to being lied to. Would not surprise me that they totally screw up the rorqual
Mine is the same as what it was. If your yield changed show where it changed. So far the instances I've seen have worked out as stated.
Specifically what ship do you use?
pre change hulk with 3 modulated strip miner IIs t1 crystals
1 t2 mining upgrade
with rorq max boosts was 1180 m3 per laser = 3540 m3 per 73 secs cycle = 48.5 m3 per sec per hulk
post change same hulk same fittings
with rorq max boosts is 1370 m3 per laser = 2740 m3 per 60 secs cycle = 45.7 m3 per sec per hulk
So I'm getting 10,080 m3 less per hour per hulk and with 4 hulks that's lil over 40k m3 I'm losing
Now I could get more yield if I added a 2nd mining upgrade but that's not the point is we were supposed to be mining the same amount even after the change