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Hulk vs Mackinaw
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Crunchy Muffin
#1 - 2014-02-23 11:12:31 UTC
Looking at the descriptions for the Hulk and Mackinaw, and from a short session mining, the Mackinaw appears to have a higher ore yield than the Hulk. I thought it was supposed to be the other way around, or am I mistaken?
Damien White
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#2 - 2014-02-23 11:26:53 UTC
It is the other way around. Hulk has maximum Oreyield.

Maybe different fitts?

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Sobaan Tali
Caldari Quick Reaction Force
#3 - 2014-02-23 15:01:50 UTC
The Hulk has a higher ore yield, but less tank much smaller ore bay than the Machinaw. Unless you had fit the two differently, you should see the Hulk pull out on top for yield. You may also notice that, while the Hulk has a higher overall yield, that is split among three strip miners where as the Mackinaw's yield is split between two, so the Hulk should have less yield per strip miner.

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Crunchy Muffin
#4 - 2014-02-23 22:00:05 UTC
I probably had my strip miners cycling at different times; it looks right now. Thanks.
Rhanna Khurin
Doomheim
#5 - 2014-02-23 22:24:24 UTC
Hulk only outperforms a mackinaw in yield if it uses both lows for mining upgrades, which is a death sentence.

Personally the trade off between a paper thin ship with marginal extra yield coupled with a tiny ore bay make it undesirable in my eyes.
Sobaan Tali
Caldari Quick Reaction Force
#6 - 2014-02-24 00:40:19 UTC
From what I remember (an honestly from what I paid any attention to) when they rebalanced the mining boats, the Hulk was restructured to be used mainly in a fleet setting with other mining ships/orca present on field where its lack of defense was somewhat mitigated by presence of other pilots. By contrast, the Mackinaw was redone with a more soloist setting in mind with consideration made for those things that would be needed or beneficial for a one-man job (higher defense, much larger ore bay).

"Tomahawks?"

"----in' A, right?"

"Trouble is, those things cost like a million and a half each."

"----, you pay me half that and I'll hump in some c4 and blow the ---- out of it my own damn self."
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#7 - 2014-02-24 01:38:14 UTC
Rhanna Khurin wrote:
Hulk only outperforms a mackinaw in yield if it uses both lows for mining upgrades, which is a death sentence.

Personally the trade off between a paper thin ship with marginal extra yield coupled with a tiny ore bay make it undesirable in my eyes.

I have to agree here. Applying similar fits (T2 strip miners + tank + 1 mining upgrade) to both a Hulk and Mackinaw sees the Hulk only have a ~150 to 250 unit per minute lead over the Mackinaw with ~10k less effective hitpoints (even with links applied to both).

Basically... unless you want to do mining on a massive industrial scale for a good amount of time (so that extra bit of yield can add up), the Mackinaw is superior.

How did you Veterans start?
Damien White
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#8 - 2014-02-24 20:15:43 UTC
Yeah, and if I take the skiff into account the mackinaw joins the hulk, crying in a corner.

No, realy, 3 ships, 3 roles, Hulk is maximum mining, period.

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