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What ship is good for gas mining missions?
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Salpad
Carebears with Attitude
#21 - 2012-10-02 02:31:40 UTC
Arazel Chainfire wrote:
Another thing to keep in mind - once the new mining frigate comes out this winter, you'll be able to use it (2 turrets + total bonuses to make it equal 5 gas harvesters, and enough ore space for an entire gas harvesting mission). So depending upon how impatient you are to have a dedicated gas harvesting ship, you may just want to wait.


When exactly does the Winter Expansion come out? And how sure are we about what stats the mining frigate will have?

I want to get perfect refine at a couple of NPC corps, and I like doing mining missions because they're doable semi-AFK. Having to constantly alt+tab back into the game client to move gas to a jetcan goes against that principle, which is why I'm interested in a Transport, to just set all modules to run, go AFK, and come back and warp to dock.

On the other hand, I've achieved 0.4% refining tax with one of the NPC corps already, just by doing level 3 missions (64 of them, plus storylines), and I can easily do that with the other corp as well, and then get by with near-perfect refine for a couple of months. The problem is, those last 0.4% will require a lot of effort to get rid of, because standing increases are asymptotic, so I really want to ramp it up to level 4 missions, so I can get maximum standing increase per mission.
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#22 - 2012-10-02 03:46:11 UTC
Salpad wrote:
...how sure are we about what stats the mining frigate will have?

Being discussed here. Gas bonus is already being possibly tweaked leaving it abit better that a 5 harvester BC. Also 5K ore (and gas) bay hasn't been changed
Mavnas
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#23 - 2012-10-02 15:47:20 UTC
So currently the only correct answer to this question is a battleship with 5+ hardpoints and the ability to have over 4250m3 of cargo space. Every race but Caldari has at least one viable option here.

After that you just fit 5x Gas thingies, a MWD, cargo mods/rigs to get to 4250, and enough drones to take out the rats. Launch drones, start mining and AFK for 28 mins.

Gas mining missions are the easiest and least skill intensive mining missions ever, and ever before exhumer changes were doable in a single trip unlike other mining missions.

If you're willing to spend the money for a T2 transport just rig your BS.
Salpad
Carebears with Attitude
#24 - 2012-10-02 22:22:42 UTC
Mavnas wrote:
So currently the only correct answer to this question is a battleship with 5+ hardpoints and the ability to have over 4250m3 of cargo space. Every race but Caldari has at least one viable option here.

After that you just fit 5x Gas thingies, a MWD, cargo mods/rigs to get to 4250, and enough drones to take out the rats. Launch drones, start mining and AFK for 28 mins.

Gas mining missions are the easiest and least skill intensive mining missions ever, and ever before exhumer changes were doable in a single trip unlike other mining missions.

If you're willing to spend the money for a T2 transport just rig your BS.


I already own two T2 Transports. one Blockade Runner and one Deep Space Transport. As well as several other T2 Transports that are on permanent loan to alts (both currently retired) and corpmates.

Which Gallente ships can do the 4250 m3 cargo thing with rigs? I already have some Gallente skill and may be able to train up very quickly to get Gallente Battleship 1.
Idris Helion
Doomheim
#25 - 2012-10-03 14:36:27 UTC
Pretty much any cruiser/BC hull with sufficient high slots can make a decent gas harvesting platform. The Ferox is popular because it has a lot of high turret slots and enough lows for decent cargo room, plus some fitting left over for defense and tank. But really, it doesn't matter much for L4 mining missions. It's just a matter of how fast you want to complete the mission.

If it weren't for L4 mining missions, I wouldn't have trained the gas harvesting skill at all. There aren't enough Ladar sites in hisec space to bother with, and even when you find them, the product won't fetch much on the market these days. Harvesting gas is even more a waste of time than mining omber grav sites, really.
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