Science & Industry

A year or two ago, I arranged 2-3 so-called "commie style" mining ops, for fellow Danish language players. Everybody who was to participate was told what system to show up in, and whether to bring a mining ship or a hauler (I supplied the Orca), and we'd mine for 3 hours straight, e.g. from 1800 to 2100 local time. At the end, the hauler would contract all the ore to me, I'd haul the ore to someplace where I had perfect refine, then I'd haul the minerals to Jita, note down the sell prices, sell them, then divide the ISK equally among all participants. Equally, regardless of whether some some in Venture mining frigates and others in T2/T2 Hulks.

One op kinda broke, because some of the people who signed up hadn't understood that they were supposed to mine for the entire duration of the op, so the left after maybe 90 minutes, maybe expecting to be paid per can or something. But if people understand the principle, it can work fine.

In my experience, you need one miner per type of ore per belt, so e.g. if you have 4 miner ships, you assign one to veld, one to scord, one to pyx and one to kern, and they just suck on the roids until they're gone, jetcanning, then on to next belt. With 6-8 miners, you need to be mining 2 belts at a time, and more than that probably isn't practical with one Orca. You also need one hauler, preferable able to move large amounts of ore. (Note that the range bonus from the Orca is very nice - don't fit for the yield bonus only).