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LADAR sites: Is it worth it to Harvest Gas Clouds?
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jinina
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2012-10-16 23:10:15 UTC
Is it worth it to bring a Gas Cloud Harvester to get the gas that drops in a LADAR site? Or is it just simply better to ignore that part of the loot?
Jack Miton
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-10-17 01:20:38 UTC
in WHs or kspace?
no idea in kspace but in WHs the c320, c540 and c28/c32 if youre bored are worth quite a lot.

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Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#3 - 2012-10-17 01:38:55 UTC
In k-space, gas sites are pretty marginal. Unless you're wholesaling to a booster production operation you're going to have trouble even moving the goods once you have them on market. Unless you plan to specifically harvest gas as a task it isn't really going to work out -- which is to say that sites can be safely ignored if you're just doing exploration.

Combat ladars are another story entirely, of course.
Flurk Hellbron
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#4 - 2012-10-17 07:28:41 UTC
HS no
WH yes
Doddy
Excidium.
#5 - 2012-10-17 08:16:31 UTC
Some null sec gas sites pay out around 100 mil/hr per account mining, not to be sniffed at.
Hav0cide
The Graduates
The Initiative.
#6 - 2012-10-17 11:11:58 UTC
Dont forget you have combat ladars in some null/lowsec areas which are quite profitable when you get the good drops.

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Idris Helion
Doomheim
#7 - 2012-10-17 16:57:19 UTC
There's another corner-case where gas harvesting is useful: L4 mining missions. "Like Drones to a Cloud", for example. The mission itself pays out around 2M ISK, but the LP award is pretty significant and is where the real ISK is at. It's still not great money compared to other activities in the game, but it's worth training up for. (In fact, this is the sole reason I trained gas harvesting at all.)
jinina
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2012-10-19 03:21:23 UTC
Doddy wrote:
Some null sec gas sites pay out around 100 mil/hr per account mining, not to be sniffed at.


Does that 100 mil/hr require a harvest specialized ship? Or can you get that with just equiping a single harvester on a combat ship?
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#9 - 2012-10-19 03:22:47 UTC
jinina wrote:
Doddy wrote:
Some null sec gas sites pay out around 100 mil/hr per account mining, not to be sniffed at.


Does that 100 mil/hr require a harvest specialized ship? Or can you get that with just equiping a single harvester on a combat ship?


You're looking at maxing the gas harvesting skill and mounting 5 T2 harvesters to pull in that kind of money.
Doddy
Excidium.
#10 - 2012-10-19 14:37:20 UTC
jinina wrote:
Doddy wrote:
Some null sec gas sites pay out around 100 mil/hr per account mining, not to be sniffed at.


Does that 100 mil/hr require a harvest specialized ship? Or can you get that with just equiping a single harvester on a combat ship?


5 t2 harvesters

IDK what site you are doing. If it is a nebula the loot is the gas. If there are rats the idea is you kill the rats then come back in a harvester and harvest the gas, which is worth far mor ethan the rather crappy rats. If its a combat ladar with gas in it then i don't know, no combat ladar i have done have had any gas in them.
Lipbite
Express Hauler
#11 - 2012-10-19 15:40:41 UTC
jinina wrote:
Doddy wrote:
Some null sec gas sites pay out around 100 mil/hr per account mining, not to be sniffed at.


Does that 100 mil/hr require a harvest specialized ship? Or can you get that with just equiping a single harvester on a combat ship?


Specialized ship isn't necessary - just T2 harvesters. People harvesting gas in battlecruisers and battleships (Hyperion, Myrm).
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#12 - 2012-10-20 07:32:20 UTC
Lipbite wrote:
jinina wrote:
Does that 100 mil/hr require a harvest specialized ship? Or can you get that with just equiping a single harvester on a combat ship?


Specialized ship isn't necessary - just T2 harvesters. People harvesting gas in battlecruisers and battleships (Hyperion, Myrm).


Well yes, but those are specialized ships compared to a normal exploration fit and they are required to make it worthwhile.

In fact, until the ORE frigate comes out there is no such thing as a specialized gas harvesting ship in the sense of a purpose-built hull.
Creedling
#13 - 2012-10-22 10:10:41 UTC
If you'd like to produce boosters, then yes, it is worth it.

As someone has already pointed out - the new ORE Mining Frigate will have a gas harvesting bonus. In addition to this, you can can fit the new gas mining rigs that became available after the last mining barge changes.