Science & Industry

1) More than likely they'll run fine.

2) It can be, especially if you use T2 crystals and they break and stop cycle. As well as rocks depleting and tabbing to find out which one it is, overlapping cycles, strips stopping because of a full cargo hold.

3) Your limiting factors will be belt competition and the yield of the rocks in that belt. If you happen to be in a low traffic system with many belts with a mindlinked booster, you could easily fill an orca full every 25-30 minutes no problem -- maybe even faster.

You'd have to mine a whole lot to clear five plexes a month. Even with something like 40mil/hour for four hours a day every day of the month, probably be close to 4.5-5bil/month. Numbers change though, Tritanium is up now but it could crash next week, next month thereby making you sit out in the belt longer for those plex.

I normally run 4 accounts when mining (Orca + 2 Hulks + Bustard). Sometimes run 5 (Tengu booster). Have run 6, but it gets dicey (client tends to crash).

Also, I've had significant losses from losing connection while doing missions.


Mining is easy. I like mining though so I never find it tedious.

Doing missions can get busy when a spawn targets something you don't want targeted, and worse something that you didn't notice was targeted.


No idea. I have 7 accounts and only PLEX 2 of them.

Mining gets boring if you're alone, period, doesn't matter if you use 1 or 10 accounts. ( though you'll be spending more time clicking the same things over and over again )

Only way to make mining less boring is to be in a fleet with other people and chatter away while the rocks get vaporised. As for plexing the accounts.. you would still need to mine enough per account, so adding more hulks simply means having to make more money too, so it doesn't change much wether you use 3 accounts or 5. 2 accounts it gets noticable as the orca bonus doesn't fess up to a full hulk mining, and mining without an orca.. ugh..

As for managing it.. have each hulk mine something else, so you can use tech 2 strippers, that's also why I only use 3 accounts. 1 veldspar, 1 scord, 1 plagio, omber is just not worth it. and there's no kernite or pyrox where I live.

As for your rig, my 'former top end' machine of about 6 years old now can run 3 acounts just fine without me turning down the gfx, so running 5 on minimum should work fine on a recently animated monster machine.

next winter you could look forward to Ring mining - may use different mining ships though

Train some cyno alts on the miner accounts so when you have a capital ship you can move it around easily

I just wanted to reiterate this point. I enjoy mining (not as much as I used to) and feel that having more accounts mining doesn't make it any more enjoyable.

The way I did it ...

I had several older computers and a newer one that's about 3 years old now. Two of the older systems would do two accounts, one would do one and the new one would do 4 - (though i don't know how many accounts I had running - that was the individual capability of the computers).

My advice on this would be to add accounts one at a time until you know what your hardware can handle. Of course ... you're also testing to see what YOU can handle without going into Task Overload.

I'd run missions until I found one that had a lot of rocks in it.

Then I'd spread my miners out (I have more than 4 accounts) and have them dumping into jet cans. Mission Fields are different that the belts. The belts tend to form a large crescent - the mission fields tend to be rounded like a loose ball.

I had one Hulk but they were just to expensive to give one to each of my miners so the other guys got Covetors.

The Orca would take up a central position in the Asteroid Field where it could use it's tractor beam to pull the cans to it.

I'd have Industrials going from the Orca to the station, since I had a number of mission runners - they could only help by flying industrials anyway. I did use the Orca as a hauler initially but then switched to using the industrials which let me retain the boosts the Orca was giving and let me continue to tractor. The biggest problem was if I had to put the industrials through multiple gates to get to the field.


I was never bored but then I like mining. When I was into sports - they were endurance sports. I think a lot and am never bored doing a repetitive task that frees my mind up.

It did get tiring though after several hours as you are constantly servicing your ships. You're constantly moving from one ship to the next just trying to empty their holds and any interruptions like depleted asteroids or burnt out crystals didn't help matters. Mostly - I was way to busy to worry about being bored. The real down side was that the relaxing nature of mining with a few ships - was gone - this was full scale industrial output ... and sorta became ... work ...

I had several systems with multiple monitors. I'd put EVE full screen on one and have the desk top with the task bar on the other. The Task Bar was not hidden - that way - i could just click from left to right to access any of my accounts. I'd load the accounts in a specific order so I always knew which one was first, second or third and always use them on the same computer. For the computers that didn't have a second monitor I had to just alt tab through them - but then they were older systems so they didn't have that many accounts. One problem there though was that I had my worst system sharing a monitor with my best and had to punch the button on the monitor to see that systems account. CCP solved this problem for me by obsoleting the CPU on it.

I could pull in a decent amount of ore doing this but even back then I didn't play enough to even consider a plex. Today, RL > EVE, and I'm lucky to keep my skill queues active and my factories running ... so mining ops are pretty much of the past.

*shrug*

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Meh,

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