Demjon
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Posted - 2007.11.15 19:11:00 -
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I am still confused,
What is so hard about taking a freighter sized ship and slapping a intensive refining array to its back?
You take all the mining bonuses you get from all the exhumers and attach it to this vessel so it can mine anything it comes across. Give it a jump drive with a short range (so we can't use it for hauling). Make capital strip miners that can target roids at 100km to 200km (like the capital tractor beam). Give it shields like the rorqual and resistance like a hulk and call it a day! The capital strip miners can mine anything at the same speed as any of the exhumers making it equal to them not supperior. Keep your 3 hour timer on the refining array and give it a cargo bay big enough to hold the next cycle worth of ore, say (200,000 m3 maybe alittle bigger just to hold jump drive fuel). Then give it 200,000 m3 m3 more as a catch for the refined minerals. Thats a total of 600,000 m3 for all you keeping score (thats smaller than a freighter fyi).
Capital strip miner:
1. long range 100-200 km
2. can mine all ore types (mercoxit, ice, everything) at the same rate as its exhumer counterpart.
3. skill required inclued all requirements to use t2 ice miners, deep core, modulated
4. must have all ore refining skills to lvl 4 (equivelant to t2 mining crystals)
5. maybe a 1% bonus to yeild per lvl (if you feel generous)
Capital mining Barge:
1. All bonuses that are included on all mining bargs and Exhumers
2. Jump drive (short range)
3. replace all corp hangers and maintenance bays with cargo m3 (one separate cargo bay for refined minerals).
4. 5% bonus per lvl to refining array efficency (up to perfect refines)
5. at lvl 5 the refinery will be able to keep up with supply of ore from the capital strip miners and drones. (refinery only works with ore fyi)
6. Very long skill path this vessel (Mining Barge lvl 5, Exhumer lvl 5, Captial ships lvl 3, Captial Barge lvl 1, all ore refining skills to lvl 4 plus incentive to go to lvl 5, Jump drive operation lvl 1, Ice processing lvl 4, Deep core mining lvl 5, Capital strip miner lvl 1) you get the picture.
The bottom line is this ship mines and refines at the same rate that exist in its exhumer and refining array counterparts. The bonus to the miner is he can mine a whole belt of asteroids without repositioning too much. Refine his ore on the spot. Stay out in areas of space that done have stations or POS's for long periods of time. Use his jump drive to escape if needed. Isn't going to destroy the mineral market because he mines and refines at what are currently excepted rates.
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