Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Assuming this isn't a troll:

Regular Arkonor has a current mineral value of 444 isk/m^3 vs the best highsec ore worth 200 isk/m^3.

A hulk with a maxed Orca booster will pull 2761 m^3 per minute, dropping to a tengu booster lowers it to 2598, a player with only a mindlink and no command links is 1868

Starting from the baseline of a max yield hulk and no command links, you will fill a max cargo (t1 rigs) covops transport in under 6 minutes, which means that running a mining op will require near regular jumping of the hauler, so you will need a black ops constantly portaling and jumping back and forth with the haulers between two cynos. So you need 5 accounts minimum, and for every extra hulk you add you will basically need another covops transport. Lets say you have 11 people, 4 hulks, 4 haulers, 2 cyno and a black ops BS, you would pull 200m per hour mining only Arkonor, or 18m per hour per character (Not counting jump expenses, and assuming you could find a station to dock within blackops bridge range). Even if you jumped in a T3 with mining links, you make almost as much as highsec, but its still less. If instead you used 9 Hulks and 2 Orca (1 booster, 1 hauler) in highsec, you would pull 300m per hour, or 27m per hour per character on the most valuable regular highsec ore. That doesn't even consider the risks of ninja mining 0.0, or the time spent hidding from scouts/gangs. It just does not make economic sense.

And all that assumes a covops hulk can mine as much as a regular one, which would be unlikely.