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hulk bonuses are unchanged so (so it's mining yield is unchanged) so we can figure out all the mining rates relative to a hulk

these calculations are based on Exhumers V/Barge V char, for mining rock not ice - this is without MLUs


Ship - Strips * modifiers = effective # of strip mining modules

Hulk (no MLUs) - 3 strips * 1.15 (barge V) * 1.15 (exhumers V) = 3.9675
Hulk (1x MLUs) - 3 strips * 1.15 (barge V) * 1.15 (exhumers V) * 1.09 = 4.3245
Hulk (2x MLUs) - 3 strips * 1.15 (barge V) * 1.15 (exhumers V) * 1.09 * 1.09 = 4.7137


Mackinaw (No MLUs) - 2 strips * 1.50 (role bonus) * 1.05 (exhumers V) = 3.15
Mackinaw (1x MLUs) - 2 strips * 1.50 (role bonus) * 1.05 (exhumers V) * 1.09 = 3.4335
Mackinaw (2x MLUs) - 2 strips * 1.50 (role bonus) * 1.05 (exhumers V) * 1.09 * 1.09 = 3.7425
Mackinaw (3x MLUs) - 2 strips * 1.50 (role bonus) * 1.05 (exhumers V) * 1.09 * 1.09 = 4.0793


Skiff (No MLUs) - 1 strips * 3 (role bonus) * 1.05 = 3.15
Skiff (1x MLUs) - 1 strips * 3 (role bonus) * 1.05 * 1.09 = 3.4335
Skiff (2x MLUs) - 1 strips * 3 (role bonus) * 1.05 * 1.09 * 1.09 = 3.7425


Covetor - 3 strips * 1.2 (barge V) = 3.6
Retriever - 2 strips * 1.5 (role bonus) = 3 strips
Procurer - 1 strips * 3 (role bonus) = 3 strips




note: there is now an ice mining and a mercoxit rig

see thread in the test server forum


note: more posts to come, i'm going to try to find ships with comparable stats (CPU/PG/HP) to post side-by-side

[edit]
note if you fit two MLU's to the exhumers you get the following effective strip miner factors

hulk: 5
mack/skiff: 3.99

and ice and mercoxit "role bonuses" have been moved to rigs [see second page of thread]


[edit2]
updated chart to include MLU'ed versions of each ship

also here are some ship stats for the various fits

No MLU Hulk (pure tank) - 49.3k (needs +4% PG implant)
2x MLU hulk - 28.6k ehp (needs +5% cpu implant)
1x MLU hulk - 40k EHP (needs +4% cpu implant)


3x MLU mackinaw - 37.7k (needs +5% CPU implant) - 103% output of a zero MLU hulk, 81.4% of the tank
2x MLU Mackinaw - 51.6k ehp (n+2% PG implant) - 94.3% of the output of a zeru MLU hulk, 1.13% of the tank

2x MLU Skiff - 62.8k EHP (and 376 hp/s regen tank, and that is with a survey scanner II) = 94.3% output, 127% the tank


lots of tech 2 shield and pg rigs flying around thses fits

I do hope ore goes directly into the ore bay when mined.

They were talking about that, iirc

The problem is a 500 m3 cargohold is even a small for one strip miner, so hence the ore going directly to the ore bay would be a requirement.

Modulated Strip Miner II: 360 m3/cycle
T2 Mining Crystal: 1.75

360 m3 * 1.75 = 630 m3 and skills and ship bonuses haven't even been included yet!

On an slightly unrelated note, rookie ships getting powergrids boosted to 20 MW means a cyno can be fitted without a MAPC

3 lows

50% bonus to strip output. so effectively 3 strip miners.
Procurer gets 1 miner. but with +200% output. so effectively 3 miners.

ahh I misread, still though, the ore space is nice, means I won't need to train for a hauler :)

I'll always need a hauler.

i was able to get the tanking attributes of the hulk modified - and here is the fit comparison for the following fit [which requires a CPU implant]

[Hulk, Highsec Gank proof]
Damage Control II
Micro Auxiliary Power Core I

Medium F-S9 Regolith Shield Induction
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II

Modulated Strip Miner II, Kernite Mining Crystal II
Modulated Strip Miner II, Kernite Mining Crystal II
Modulated Strip Miner II, Kernite Mining Crystal II

Medium Ancillary Current Router I
Medium Core Defense Field Extender I


Mining Drone II x5
Hobgoblin II x5



EFT stats (current): 30,235 EHP (20034 shield / 2292 armor / 7909 structure), 107 dps shield tank [passive recharge],
Pyfa (test server tank): 42,638 [29814 shield / 5010 armor / 7812 structure), 99.382 dps shield tank [passive recharge]

Anyone did calculations for ice mining? I did try it but failed somehow, cant find my error :/