Science & Industry

Costs 1.1 billion ISK. I heard that a while back it was no more than 40 mill. Did they upgrade it or something to drive the price that far up? Is it really worth it?

The mining foreman mind link has about a 1 in 6 chance of dropping. And only drops from a single storyline mission.

As already stated they added some new missions and now it is more rare to get that mission. When/if you are lucky enough to get the mission you only have a 1 in 6 chance of getting that implant.

With the growing game and the increase in popularity for high sec miners the demand for this has gone up. With the supply also going down the price has skyrocketed.

It's not even as high as one in six. I've had Shipyard Theft offer me crappy +3s.

Of course, that's not the only source, but it does seem to be the major one.

I've never gotten that mission in all my years here. =( I did get a Siege Warfare Mindlink drop twice in a week once, but not the mining one.

I've also had some low value implants offered for Shipyard Theft as well.

My theory is that each storyline mission has a difficulty rating and that the possible rewards are drawn from a pool for that difficulty rating, with Shipyard Theft being about the most difficult storyline mission for level 4. As I've stopped doing missions in the region where I got 3 shipyard thefts in a row, I've been getting storylines that are within my skill range and they're usually just isk (and standing) rewards, with an occasional +3 or +4 implant. Another of my theories is that if you have items to fulfil the reward, that mission gets skipped. The basis for this hypothesis is that one level 3 storyline asks for omber, and the equivalent level 4 storyline asks for kernite, and since I've stockpiled enough of each mineral, I have not been issued either of these storylines. I've also been stockpiling other mission loots that I can find on contracts to test this hypothesis. Lately, most of my storylines are "go haul this junk to lowsec".

That these mindlinks are (were?) available in some complex is strongly indicated by this post, and in particular, this killmail. Note the 7 month delay between the killmail and that post - which seems to me that the poster was also benefiting that site before the nerf/fix. Due to the value of information in this game, it would not surprise me at all that undocumented plexes could drop these mindlinks. I've come across some lowsec anomalies that do not appear in the grid at SwiftAndBitters scanning pages (although when googling the sites, some have write-ups at eve-uni's wiki and evelopedia) - and I haven't been playing a year yet. Are some plexes limited to certain constellations, like ladar sites?

I can shoot that theory down. When I used to run missions regularly I stockpiled kernite (both for sale to other missions runners and for myself) and got Materials for War Preparation with some regularity whether I had any in stock or not. Luck of the draw, I'm afraid.

Also, Shipyard Theft is notorious for being the only mission that gives mindlinks. This was true back when they were more or less worthless and it's true now. The implant reward is hard-coded on that mission -- it's just that it doesn't always offer mindlinks.



Some plexes are still static, in fact. Null cosmos sites spawn in the same place, or at least the same system constellation, at all times. The goofy Sansa thing you're probably thinking of in Genesis (Assez? can't recall the system for sure) doesn't actually move -- scan it once and you've got the location permanently. The Ruins sites stay in constellation and respawn regularly. It's all a throwback to when many, many "exploration" sites were static.

And no, Mio doesn't have all the sites in the game listed. And they're not all listed on the right band. But it's still quite a body of work.

Thanks for the explanations. A main question I am concerned with is it this mind link worth that amount of isk?
It says it gives a 50% increase to the command bonus of Mining Foreman Link modules. The main thing i am wondering is this:

Currently my orca gives a 18.20% reduction in harvester duration. As this is eve and the calculations don't always make sense to me, will this mindlink really increase that reduction to 68.2% reduction in harvester duration?

Also the other foreman link i use is at 40.95% increase to harvester range. Would the mindlink give it a 90.95% increase in range then?

Google-Fu to the rescue:

site:forums.eveonline.com cabalander mindlink

How much does a Mining Foremand implant help?

The mindlink gives 50% link bonus which is huge (same as Warfare Link Specialist 5), and a 5% ore yield bonus over Mining Foreman 5. The implant requires Mining Director 5, as does T2 mining links.

For max skill Orca with a tech 2 link that is 2.5%
X = 2.5% * Mining Director 5 * (1 + Warfare Link Specialist 5 * 10%) * (1 + Industrial Command Ship 5 * 3%)
X = 21.5625% link bonus

* Without Mindlink: Ore Yield Multiplier = (1 + 10%) / (1 - X) = 1.4023
* With Mindlink: Ore Yield Multiplier = (1 + 15%) / (1 - 1.5 * X) = 1.6998

Note that ice doesn't get the 10% or 15% yield bonus (numerator is 1).

Range is simpler:

For max skill Orca with a tech 2 link that is 5.625%
X = 5.625% * Mining Director 5 * (1 + Warfare Link Specialist 5 * 10%) * (1 + Industrial Command Ship 5 * 3%)
X = 48.5156% link bonus

* Without Mindlink: Range Multiplier = 1 + X = 1.485156
* With Mindlink: Range Multiplier = 1 + 1.5 * X = 1.727734

If I you don't trust my math, Max Orca Mining Link Bonuses (includes Mindlink), which matches the above.

What are your skills so I can do the math for you: Mining Director, Warfare Link Specialist, Industrial Command Ships.