Ships & Modules

Hello,

I'm working as fittings manager for a new start up corporation. The world of fittings and modules is quite daunting, and difficult to get my head around. But essentially, I'd like someone to have a look at these two fittings and give some constructive criticism.

For my corporations mining barge fleet I have been opted for the Procurer in most scenarios. The aim really is to make it "un-gankable". With two different fits. One for HiSec and one for LowSec. Which are as follows. The surplus fittings are usually carried in the cargo hold so that the one ship can be quickly reconfigured for the required mission. Of course tech II strip miners and crystals can be substituted as skills allow. According to https://o.smium.org They both have an estimated HP of 44.3k. Power grid is 89% and CPU 70% on max skills.





So my questions are as follows:
1. What can these ships handle?
2. Would you take the second one into LowSec?
2. What changes would you recommend?

Thanks.

Yeah I asked the lowsec miners and neither of them think it's a good fit.

On a serious note, lowsec mining isn't worth the effort,
if you don't get murdered on the way in you're likely to be murdered shortly thereafter.
Stabs will only help you some of the time, anyone with a faction scram or a navy malus or a hic will catch you regardless.

If you're set on dangerous content go huff gass with a venture in wormholes.
As dangerous but with much better payoff if you get back alive.

I do a decent amount of mining in LS (yes I know it's not incredibly profitable, but this is a game. I enjoy it).

Use a prospect. you get nearly the same yield as a procurer, and are next to uncatchable.

yeah its not that the second one is bad, it isnt.
its the concept of low-sec mining in a barge.

if you get war decked now that second one would be fine

Mining in LowSec is bad idea. If you want jaspet, mine Veldspar (in hisec), sell it, and buy the ores you missing.

What he said.

In addition to that and what I forgot the last time I advertised the use of the mining frigates is that the Endurance even has room for a probe launcher.
You may not warp cloaked but you can cloak the second you land.

For both mining frigates the following facts may be interesting. After some playtime with the both of them, do not fit any laser upgrades to the Prospect, since the increased yield will come back to bite you, meaning the Prospect and the Venture are designed to not have mining laser upgrades fitted.

You can use 2x ice harvesting upgrades of the Endurance because ice is ice and always 1000m³ in size, so the ice mining upgrades will reduce the time you need to get your 15 ice to around 14 minutes and a few seconds.

In case you fit mining laser upgrades to the frigates, you get into a "half-cycle" that overfills your ore-bay and you loose a few drops of ore.

I think over-filling the bay is worse that waiting for the last cycle to complete. Both frigates and the Venture will have filled the ore-bay with the last completed cycle.

If you like the frigates as much as I do, always have a depot with you, so you can adjust to your mining-lust. Have gas-harvesters, mining lasers and deep-core mining lasers + a few mining crystals with you and 2x ice-mining upgrades for the Endurance.

Mine dangerous.