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Wich is the best NPC Corp for empire-wide refining/reprocessing?
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Florian Bao
Black Box Technologies
#1 - 2012-04-05 14:39:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Florian Bao
Hi,

assuming I would like to push one NPC corp standing to a 6.7 standing - wich one should it be so I can find stations with 100% refinery yield (assuming all other necessary skills trained) relatively easy within lets say 2-5 jumps of every system I could be in in Highsec?
gfldex
#2 - 2012-04-05 15:51:51 UTC
Florian Bao wrote:
2-5 jumps of every system I could be in in Highsec?


none

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Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
#3 - 2012-04-05 17:03:03 UTC
gfldex wrote:
Florian Bao wrote:
2-5 jumps of every system I could be in in Highsec?


none

Yep.

You won't find many Minmatar corps operating in Amarr space, and vice versa. The ones that do operate everywhere (Quafe, CONCORD, etc) have fairly rare stations as well. The 2-5 jumps limitation is way too little, especially considering how much Hisec there is.

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Toshiro GreyHawk
#4 - 2012-04-05 17:54:05 UTC



What you want - refining wise - is a Base Refine Rate of 50%. To find out what that is - take enough veldspar to be able to do a refine into the station - then put it in your hangar, right click on it and select Refine (you can cancel out of this if you want). In the upper right hand corner it will tell you what the Base Refine Rate is. If it is 35% - go somewhere else.

As far as I know - the only Base Refine Rates are 50% and 35%. Most stations have a base refine rate of 50% - so look at their other criteria, such as what facilities they have, Repair, Clones, Manufacturing, Research - and then the types of missions their agents offer and what level the agents are (as you will be running missions for those agents to get your standings up).

Other factors are of course location. What security level they are in - proximity to trading hubs - lack of competition, types of ore they have.

Read the Player Guide sections on Mining and Advanced Mining (this is based on Halada's Guide) for more on mining itself and the calculations involved.


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Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#5 - 2012-04-05 19:51:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
I like to use:
* Sisters of EVE (everywhere and all 50% stations)
* Expert Distribution (everywhere, and all 50% stations)
* Emperor Family (all over Amarr space, and all 50% stations)
* Quafe (everywhere, and all 50% stations)

Suggest you look for corps with lots of 50% stations.

http://eve-online.itemdrop.net/eve_db/universe/station_search/

I maintain bookmarks to all 50% stations, so I can always find the closest (sort by jumps).
Louis deGuerre
The Dark Tribe
#6 - 2012-04-05 20:52:40 UTC
A good way to get an idea of a NPC corp system spread is to check the corporation of the main empires (via member corps) and then looking at settled systems -> show on map.
Very few corps cover multiple regions and most are difficult to get high standings for.