Science & Industry

hi guys and gals

Im kinda new to eve online (played before years back)

i want to set up a moon mining operation but i have some difficulty understanding the many guides to moon mining.

I get that i need to be in a corp to setup my tower, i know i need a harvester array. and a silo

but here are my questions

On the "moon harvesting array" it says - "restricted to security level of the most 0,4"

what does that mean, is that the regions sercurity level, or mine, or the corp or what ?
Please explain in simple terms as English is not my first language.

Where is also something with the sovereignty i dont understand, anybody that can explain the process of setting up a moon harvesting operation, i know the physical aspects of it, its more the requirements

thank you
- crow

ok, thanks for the explanation, can you find a harvester array that can be set up in 0.7 system ?


and is there a better chance in higher systems for moon mining ?

Moon mining and moon reactions are limited to system security of 0.3 and below. End of story



Moon harvesting arrays produce the same amount of a material regardless of the security of the system

Incorrect. As of Crius, you can also moon mine in 0.4.

But yes, this is a low / null sec thing.

Also protip; Every single moon with anything worth mining (ie. stuff that is worth more than the cost of fueling a tower) is already being mined, most by large alliances that can throw around big fleets to keep those moons.

Only case where I can think of doing moon mining "small time" is if you set up POSes for some other reason (say, moon mineral reactions, industry etc.) and then picking a low end goo moon and mining "on the side" - if you plan on paying the POS fuel anyway, the low value goo becomes worth picking up.

Some R16s might barely be worth mining with a small tower, but in general you will mostly do a bunch of :effort: to transfer ISK from T2 producers to ice miners, getting just a tiny sliver of profit for your efforts.

I thought that was a rounding bug that they were going to fix. I know it was possible on Sisi at one point (along with one or more of the capital construction arrays being allowed in 0.5). Was it just not fixed or was to deemed 'not a bug'? (nothing in the patch notes)

CCP Greyscale wrote:

Bridgette d'Iberville wrote:

CCP Greyscale wrote:

0.5 or higher as of Crius. We changed a >= to a > so the code does what the authoring was always assuming it did. I just fixed the display text for the attributes this afternoon to reflect this, but the code should already be in place.

I'm being stupid for asking this since I think you pretty clearly articulated it above, but are you saying you can run moon mining arrays in 0.4 space? Are other modules (hello reactors) that are currently restricted to 0.3 or lower space also getting the make-over?

(As an aside, I've never put up a POS in 0.4 but seem to remember some game guides indicating charters were required for them. That always seemed weird to me and I wondered if that was actually the case).

Yes and yes. Nothing has changed on the structures themselves, we've just changed the code so "0.4" means "up to 0.4" rather than "below 0.4".

EDIT: Oh and charters in 0.4 were removed back in Tyrannis 1.0

Currently "just because".

Also be afraid of what you ask for. Those big alliances that control just about every R64/R32 out there would like to have the high sec ones as well. So allowing moon mining in high sec would not matter for you at all, you wouldn't get to mine them.