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I bet the 99% would love that.

Mining 24/7 ABC ORE in a Covetor or Hulk, I don't know the numbers because I do not Mine but I doubt it would take much longer then a few days. I have not really kept up with Mining. Is it still 20 Million an Hour Max Skill with ABC?


Duh, Assembly Line. Is there only one Dreadnaught being built at this station. I don't know exactly how many Factory slots a Station has but they can build an incredible ship in a short amount.

You did not think I was talking about one ship did you?

Actually, we technically can. Think about it.

Dreadnaught costs 1 billion isk

submarine costs about 1 bil usd

Note that SilentSkills said that if you take into account size, technology, and weaponry, then this will mean that it will take several or more earth made submarines to be able to equal the cost of just a single Dreadnought should USD be converted to ISK. So, 1 ISK = a boatload of USD.

The same can be said for a Rifter in New Eden and a 747 Jumbo Jet here on Earth. They are both the same size and perhaps the same weight, but the level of technology between the two and weaponry will mean that it will cost several or more 747 Jumbo Jets to equal the production costs of just one Rifter (and this is comparing to a T1 frigate).

And as I showed that could be completely mistaken and that Sub could be more expensive then the Dreadnaught.


Says who.

Production on Earth does not have Nanobots that put ships together. Earth also can not Vacumm 8000m3 of Metal out of a Rock in 15min. A Rifter could cost 1/10th as much as a 747 to produce.


I did, conclusion you can not.

Mining for a dreadnought takes a hell of a lot longer than 2 days if you're using only one ship. If you don't know the numbers please stop guessing.

And a dreadnought is built in two parts: The components and the ship itself.

A revelation takes 12 components and the build time for each is more or less 4 hours. If you could dedicate 12 assembly lines to building one each all at the same time, you would have the components built in less than a day.

BUT, the ship itself takes 2 weeks to build. You cannot dedicate separate assembly lines to assemble one unit. Its like trying to build a car in two separate lines. You can't cut the chassis in half, build on them and connect the two later.


And another thing.. if all you mine is ABC ore than it will take you a hell of a lot LONGER to build the dread than if you knew what you were supposed to be mining.


So again, if you don't know how its done stop taking guesses however educated you think they might be

I see, so what you are saying is that if you ran all the production lines with equal space apart with components made in other Stations you will get closer to that 1 Dread an Hour Mark. But I would need a lot of POS's to pick up the slack.

1 Dread an Hour, Challenge Accepted.

Can anyone lone me 300 Billion in Start Up Cost.

Edit: this is getting boring, yes I looked up Dread Construction before my first post here it is.

I gave no mention to individual build time. Just that they are produced on assembly lines on a massive scale.

It is impossible to get a Dread in less than 2 weeks. it takes longer than that to construct (after having all the parts and ore).

An old piece of PF roughly explained the value of ISK, if I can find it again I'll link it here when I do.

Basically, the example was simple.

When shuttles were pegged at 10k and produced by NPCs (to peg the price of Tritanuim and keep the economy stable) there was a piece of PF which stated that the value of a single shuttle, that we paid 10k for, is enough when converted to regular currency to allow a family to live in the lap of luxury for several generations.

Basically the ISK (Interstellar Kredit) isn't really a normal currency as such. It's a trading currency, kind of an index to measure wealth on a vast scale, like we use gold or oil today to gauge a country's wealth.

The ISK is basically monetised to allow huge corporations and insanely wealthy capsuleers to deal with smaller numbers when trading, to simplify transactions rather than having to deal in quintillions of units of planetside currencies.

It really is pointless to compare a piece of military hardware today, such as a Submarine or a Battleship to the cost of a Dreadnought or Carrier in Eve. There aren't even fundamental similarities in the costs associated with construction and manning them.

Hope this helps

Why are there all these nonsensical submarine/EVE-dreadnaught analogies? They have a whole two things in common: They shoot things, and the fact that letting the atmosphere out of the hull is bad.