Ships & Modules

Wondering the same.

porpoise is a command ships it boosts the mining output of other mining ships

Whats your current skills? And what mining yield you think you should get from mining?
Also what fit you prefer max security or max mining yield?

Mining drone II yields 33 m3 per cycle.

Base x Role Bonus x Ship Level bonus x Rigs x Drone Interfacing x Mining Drone Level x Mining Drone Specialization Level = Yield/drone

33 x 1.5 x 1.5 x 1.15 x 1.15 x 1.1 x 1.5 x 1.25 x 1.1 = 222.78 per drone.

5 Drones = 1,113.9 Per 60 seconds (+ flight time to and from roid)

This is at max skills level for all associated skills.

With augmented drones you can get close to 250m3 per drone and with nav comps or sitting on the rock can reduce the travel time down to almost nothing. Even then, it is only to enhance your mining experience and give you some additional value to your boosts. I have a porp for ice mining.. Even then I have 3 hulks and a hauling alt as well.

That being said, if you think the Rorq, in low sec, is "Price vs risk" balanced you have lost your marbles. Between the multiple fits, fuel and papa drones you are a floating 8 to 12b target. While it can make its money back and then some it takes a fair amount of use and time to recoup the up front cost. If you are by yourself, someone will find you and you will die in a fire...

The only way you are going to scale up, in mining, is to move to fleet mining. At that point though you have to ask yourself if it is worth the risk. I've seen one man mining fleets in high sec make 8+ bil a week and even if they do suffer a loss or two, who cares because dank isk.. The only way I've seen that topped is mining fleets in null.

Your problem is that mining in low-sec is not optimal - in fact, it is literally the worst place to mine. In null-sec, friendly territory is relatively safe. In high-sec, Concord acts as a deterrent. Wormhole space is not great, but you can still close down a hole and the odds of a new K162 opening into your system are pretty low (plus you'll know when they do).

Your best options are moving to high-sec or null-sec to mine.

you go from
Venture to Prospect/Endurance
and from
Mining Barge to Exhumer
and from
Porpoise to Orca to Rorqual


Venture, Prospect/Endurance, Barge & Exhumer are for you active mining in a belt
Porpoise to Orca to Rorqual can fit booster modules to boost the barges and exhumers to more yield, mining laser and stripminer range and mining crystals lifetime and they can do mining with drones too (Porpoise fit only 2 out of this 3 modules)

dont mix up shipclass - a mining barge has nothing todo with a industrial command ship
https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/ORE_Basic_Ship_and_Skill_Overview

you use 3 alts with barges or exhumers and a 4th char with a porpoise for example .. thats a mining fleet them .. then you have mining yield

a other thing is skills - its EVE - skills is everything - look at he bonuses you get with good skills
mining barge 5
exhumers 5
mining upgrades 5

for ice mining the icemining rig
implants for ice (yeti) or ore (dont know the name)

yea and after all that you think about T1, Meta, T2 or Faction miners, mining upgrade modules and a good fit with good yield and tank

its a long way to get max mining yield but then you can make money even in LS with it ..

btw in LS i recommend the Skiff and not the Mackinaw becaus of the better tank

each ship has his spot where you use it .. yea you can do what you want but if its is not the way you like it you better do it like it was planed

i dont want to sound like a teacher .. you have to find out what your way is but some people can help and my help would be "use the right ship"

JuuR