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wth is this machariel doing?
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Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#21 - 2013-02-15 17:03:10 UTC
In a time when most miners were below average intelligence and cant tank a single catalyst... One man had an idea.... to mine..... like a boss.

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Jayson Kassis
Carbon Industries
#22 - 2013-02-15 17:05:25 UTC
All i see is a ship mining in style.
Kristoffon vonDrake
Forceful Resource Acquisition Inc
#23 - 2013-02-15 17:09:52 UTC
it's the stepping stone to the mining ragnarok
ElQuirko
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#24 - 2013-02-15 17:15:47 UTC
Kristoffon vonDrake wrote:
it's the stepping stone to the mining ragnarok


All mining supercaps are inferior to the mining Nyx. MinerNyx pilots have developed true mining chi. Why? Think about it.

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Aeril Malkyre
Knights of the Ouroboros
#25 - 2013-02-15 17:41:27 UTC
Jenn aSide wrote:
Aeril Malkyre wrote:
Whitehound wrote:
I'd say it is resting.
Here we see the stately but deadly Machariel in its natural habitat. Between rat hunts, the Machariel can be seen lazing about in the asteroid fields, munching on rocks to aid in its digestion. Some observers have assumed the creature was merely lazy, and using the rocks as a sort of subsistence nourishment at times when it doesn't feel up to hunting. A truly graceful and enigmatic being is the Machariel.
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Barakach
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#26 - 2013-02-15 18:00:32 UTC
Aeril Malkyre wrote:
Whitehound wrote:
I'd say it is resting.
Here we see the stately but deadly Machariel in its natural habitat. Between rat hunts, the Machariel can be seen lazing about in the asteroid fields, munching on rocks to aid in its digestion. Some observers have assumed the creature was merely lazy, and using the rocks as a sort of subsistence nourishment at times when it doesn't feel up to hunting. A truly graceful and enigmatic being is the Machariel.


Anyone else read this with Steve Irwin's voice?
Jessi Fatalis
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#27 - 2013-02-15 18:02:56 UTC
Barakach wrote:
Aeril Malkyre wrote:
Whitehound wrote:
I'd say it is resting.
Here we see the stately but deadly Machariel in its natural habitat. Between rat hunts, the Machariel can be seen lazing about in the asteroid fields, munching on rocks to aid in its digestion. Some observers have assumed the creature was merely lazy, and using the rocks as a sort of subsistence nourishment at times when it doesn't feel up to hunting. A truly graceful and enigmatic being is the Machariel.


Anyone else read this with Steve Irwin's voice?


i am imagining this narrated by Morgan Freeman.

No better voice then the voice of god narrating such an awesome piece of wordsmanship.
Sexy Cakes
Have A Seat
#28 - 2013-02-15 18:33:48 UTC
Go home machariel you're drunk.

Not today spaghetti.
Katran Luftschreck
Royal Ammatar Engineering Corps
#29 - 2013-02-15 18:47:04 UTC
Hmm... if this was in low-sec I'd say that he's trying to scare of potential gankers who will simply say "Oh crap a Mach, RUN AWAY!" before they bother to look too close.

But in 0.5... well, look at it like this: 0.5 is miner ganker paradise, because that's the lowest CONCORD response time this side of high-sec. But this guy/gal, are they going to get ganked? Not unless Mittani himself is leading the squad. This is someone can truly AFK mine without a care in the world.

Then again maybe they were just bored. I'm betting on the "Materials for War Prep" theory and will expand it further: The pilot probably doesn't have one SP devoted to anything past Mining 1... and wants to keep it that way.

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RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#30 - 2013-02-15 18:56:50 UTC
Cebraio wrote:
Grandpa:
Quote:
He is reliving the old times. Back in my days, we only had battleships for mining.


I miss Grandpa Bill.

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DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#31 - 2013-02-15 18:57:22 UTC
I highly doubt that ship can be easily suicide ganked in high security, even by a coordinated attack from 1/2 dozen gankers. The Mach has ample slots to fit up a massive tank, even if it had equipped all low slots with expanded cargoholds, the mid and rig slots would still give it plenty of tank.

I see nothing wrong in being innovative and safeguarding oneself from gankers.



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stoicfaux
#32 - 2013-02-15 18:58:40 UTC  |  Edited by: stoicfaux
Katran Luftschreck wrote:

But in 0.5... well, look at it like this: 0.5 is miner ganker paradise, because that's the lowest CONCORD response time this side of high-sec. But this guy/gal, are they going to get ganked? Not unless Mittani himself is leading the squad. This is someone can truly AFK mine without a care in the world.

A mining Mach has about ~46k EHP with 2.7k of cargo space. (CPU is really tight.) A Procurer has ~42k EHP with 12.0k of ore space.

So I guess the Mach isn't that great of an AFK miner; thus there's no need to nerf the Mach.


edit: Mach and Procurer both fit with 2x MLU IIs.

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Vincent Athena
Photosynth
#33 - 2013-02-15 23:48:17 UTC
Do you know what he was mining? You need Kernite for the L4 storyline. Also Id drop MLUs in a mining Mach, to free up CPU for a better tank.

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Dirt 'n' Glitter
Local Is Primary
#34 - 2013-02-15 23:58:11 UTC
Abrazzar wrote:
Materials for War Preparation. You gotta mine the veld if you don't want to buy the overpriced 999 Veldspar from the station.

If you can buy a Mach, you can probably afford to pay a little extra for veld

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FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#35 - 2013-02-16 00:34:55 UTC  |  Edited by: FloppieTheBanjoClown
Stealth bumper?

edit: a bump mach with miners on it owns the belt. No one else can get close enough to actually mine the ore.

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Gianath
Gallentian Legitimate Businessmen
#36 - 2013-02-16 00:58:03 UTC
Sometimes I get tired of missioning and want to do something different with my time. That's led me to mining across several different battleship hulls (Rokh, Domi, and Megathron). Was it the most efficient way to mine? No.

Was it nice being able to have 50-60k EHP and a full drone bay to pop people who can flip me? Oh yeah.

Different times now, but I probably would have used a Mach for the same purposes if I had one at the time.
Nexus Day
Lustrevik Trade and Travel Bureau
#37 - 2013-02-16 01:55:24 UTC
I have seen it too. It has a bumper sticker that says "Bump me. I dare you."
Joran Dravius
Doomheim
#38 - 2013-02-16 08:24:28 UTC
Jessi Fatalis wrote:
So i was mining in a .5 system when i came across this.

mining machariel

Should i have blown his position, so that he would be ganked?

Because if you are asking me, mining in a machariel is asking to be ganked.

I can't decide if it's more wrong for a miner to use a macariel or for a combat ship to equip a mining laser. Can someone help me, my brain hurts?
Alice Saki
Nocturnal Romance
Cynosural Field Theory.
#39 - 2013-02-16 10:02:03 UTC
Well It's better than someone using it with T1 guns I suppose :|

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Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#40 - 2013-02-16 10:33:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Rain6637
i mined 74k units of veld in a rattlesnake earlier this evening, waiting for CVA to undock. never happened. did pop a good sized asteroid, though. it was amazing

later got on some kills with the 'snake, a flycatcher, and a basilisk

//ok the mining and a roam did not happen concurrently, and saying that CVA's refusal to undock was the cause for mining was an embellishment, but there was faction battleship mining and CVA station camping in the same evening.

FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:
Stealth bumper?

edit: a bump mach with miners on it owns the belt. No one else can get close enough to actually mine the ore.


hahahhaha "man, what happened to mining? CCP just blew the lid off everything by making veld super lucrative"

sorry, belt's closed

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