EVE New Citizens Q&A

hey gang, pure noob here, so please be patient. ( less then 30 days old account)

So i started off as miner and i really love it ( i am a weirdo, i know ). I am using retriever for my mining operation, which is a briliant ship, though i did got myself a covetor to see how better yeld is ( i was trying to force myself in to second account :D )

to my huge shock i was very dissapointed in covetor as a package. I can mine 2900 m3 per cycle in retriever and only 3100m3 in covetor. I was expecting a lot a lot more! the trade of of almost 20k m3 cargo hold, for 200m3 yeld looks like a very bad deal.


so as i am a really huge noob, do i actually miss something? i know i am using Strip miner I and mining upgrade II now, will covetor will get a lot better with better strip miners and better skills? Or will it be just a slightly less yeld scale to retriever anyway?

with 2 accounts covetor would make sense, but other then that it looks like small bit out of touch in balance wise?

dont understand me wrong, i am not moaning or ranting or asking for buffs. i am trying to understand the whole role of covetor as a mining barge.

thank you

The Covetor is a mining barge with superb mining yield.

Traits
Mining Barge skill bonus per level:
4% bonus to Strip Miner yield
3% reduction in Ice Harvester duration

Development
The mining barge was designed by ORE to facilitate advancing the mining profession to a new level. Each barge was created to excel at a specific function, the Covetor's being mining yield. This additional yield comes at a price, as the Covetor has weaker defenses and a smaller ore bay than the other mining barges.
Mining barges are equipped with electronic subsystems specifically designed to accommodate Strip Mining and Ice Harvesting modules.


so yeah, it is ment to be a high yeld low cargo space ship, but 200m3 of extra yeld vs loss of almost 20k m3 of cargo space is hardly a MASSIVE yeld increase over retriever? Or 200m3 is actually a lot?

okay, thank you. i am training for mining barge now and i will check on it in few days. around 8% increase wont be that much significant though?

8% increase is actually quite significant in EvE.

each mining barge and it's T2 exhumer form has a purpose

Procurer -> Tank (for mining in dangerous places)
Retriever -> Ore Hold (for mining alone)
Covetor -> Yield (for mining with friends)

as a noob to noob ;)

retrievers are half the price of covetors. you should be able to find retrievers for around 15-20mil.

these things dont use mining lasers, they use strip miners m8. all you will be able to use is strip miner I when you train for retriever. though strip miner I are very good, the Strip miner II excel only when you get mining crystals which are used as ammunition. So i would just stick with mk I for now.

ty for more info on the issue lads.

Modulated Strip Miner II
xxxxx Mining Cyrstal II

That's old info.

They changed the mining barges this year.

Like anything in EVE, verify your information cause CCP does a lot of changing to things which can make sources out of date.

You're such a carebear

I used perfect conditions cause that's the only way to really compare stuff. Using avg. skills will mean that you can benefit one ship over another without knowing it.

And a proper miner will never put 3 lasers on 1 single asteroid, cause there is a chance you will mine with 1 and the 2 others are wasted cycles. You can spread your lasers over 3 roids, makes the chance of wasted cycles even lower