KevLor I
Zephyr Corp
V.A.S.T.
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Posted - 2011.04.08 14:28:00 -
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If you don't have a hi-sec/low-sec static, adv. ship manufacturing in w-space just isn't worth the effort. It is easier, faster, and you have less isk in the hole at any given time if you just fly or haul you T2 med. ships in.
I would recommend at least 8 ECM, with maybe more offline but ready to go if you need to. Hardeners are kind of' 'eh', if they are shooting at your tower effectively, it means they have pretty much dismantled your defenses and are in it for the long haul, but having one or two hardeners may give you enough time to bug-out some of your stuff.
Have a variety of storage areas - corp hangars/component arrays - which can put offline/online as needed. You can also have a bit of corp security with multiple storage areas.
The refiner is a bear - it takes 30 minutes (?) to put online, I think, and runs for an hour (?) and sucks up CPU. If you have a big enough corp, you can run it 23/7, but otherwise it is a lot of turning it on/off so you can run gas reactions, and it takes forever to refine all your ore. You may want to do the math on a Rorqual if you have anyone that wants to spend the time training all the stuff necessary. Reducing your refining losses from 25% to 5% (or less, depends on npc station) can be huge if you plan to refine your ABC as well as low end. Heavy water is cheap, too, so the costs are not that high. Again, run the numbers, but if you plan on staying a while, a Rorq can pay for itself in isk and time savings. Hauling compressed ore to k-sapce is a breeze.
Gas reactions are only marginally profitable, but they do reduce hauling, and ladar sites spawn about the fastest of any type of site. They do use a lot of CPU, as well, though.
In the bigger sense, you cannot really be a 'miner' corp in a WH. You need to at least do PI (for fuel and profit) and really should be able to do the combat sites - C3s are really not that tough, most can be done solo still. Nanoribbons are wrecked gold (6.5 mil each or so at last check). It all depends on the size of your corp, but for smaller (<10 active warm bodies), gas reactions and refining arrays are a bit of a bore. |