Science & Industry

From what I'm reading, a lot of the lower end moon minerals aren't worth mining (or at least your POS better be doing other things as well). I'm trying to work out if this is still true, but I'm not entirely sure how much m3/units of minerals I get per hour from a moon harvester. If someone could let me know, is it m3 or units of minerals, that would help greatly. Also, are low ends enough to pay for fuel costs on a small tower?

Thanks in advance.

Moon mining low ends is more of a supplementary thing. IE, you are running reactions, you actually need some of those low ends, and it's a reaction tower. Throw on 1-3 harvesters, depending on how many low ends, that you can use, are on the moon, and silos, though you'll have to potentially gimp that reaction tower a touch to do so. Otherwise, you might mine them on a lab pos. But yea, I don't think even a triple resource low end moon would cover the fuel costs.

Whatever you do, don't do it. Moon mining and reaction farms are beyond boring. You will want to scratch out your eyes. But if you are dead set, then don't bother having any moon harvesters. You'll actually make more ISK off most moons by using that CPU/PG for reactors and just doing simple or complex reactions. But be warned, reaction farms cost a lot of capital and are a real pain to maintain (damn you CCP, why can't silos hold more than 2 days worth of fullerides!!).

-RR

There are quite a few moons available in 0.3 systems & lowers (read npc null). Yes you can turn a profit as well.
The issue though, is time vs reward. Its a real pain to setup a pos & keep it running. After a while it just becomes so bloody tedious fueling & hauling the moon goo back & forth between market hub.