Science & Industry

50mill/hour per hulk is exagerated, especially since you will munch trough belt fast, and finding/setting up will take a lot of time

I would be using an isboxer and yes would a hauling orca do ?

And how much an hr per mack would we be looking at

As a multi-boxing miner, yhea can be worth it. if you take the time to set up your route, you will save time down the road, a butt loads of time. before you start, with each miner set up their book marks for every roid belt you want to mine in every system you want to make your route.
The goal is to spread out the fleet so you don't pop a belt so fast that you end up spending most of time relocating. My rule of thumb is max of 3 miners per belt.
Once you get those bookmarks set up take a day to practice freighter running. Getting inside the freighter, running to each belt via "Warp to member", i find warp to 0 causes you to have too much forward momentum you get out of range of the cans too often.
I make my freighter mine as well, no sense having the freighter on standby for 70 minutes or so.

The way I go about it is, have the miners and freighter mine at least 3 full cans for the start, and then once the freighter has 2 cans on the second run the third can on the miners should be getting full. Each run should yield 32 cans. Each belt can sustain 3-6 runs before you waste more time locking new roids than actually mining them. At this point just move to the next system. For me I make the move once every 3 hours and 20-30 min. Each system will give about 2.5-5 milion m3 of ore.

Work your way from the higher value ores and down. I also don't even bother locking onto roid with less than 10k units.
@Termy Rockling doing 15 accounts isn't scary, just got to be on the ball. :D
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When you reach 10-15 miners you are better off mining in nullsec and taking advantage grav sites that spawn based on industry level.

With the changes to ice belts, running 10-15 hulks is no longer feasible in highsec. You will want to be mining ore anomalies in nullsec, where the rocks can support that many miners, and they respawn after completion. Also, you will be able to use Rorqual boosts, resulting in 17% more yield.

However, pulling in that much ore, you will easily bring the system to level 5 industry, which attracts the wrong kind of attention for mining. Level 5 does take a lot of mining though, so depending on your play schedule you may be OK.

Also, with a sieged Rorqual boosting your 10 max skilled hulks, you will be bringing in 31,690m3 of ore per minute. Pulling numbers out of thin air, I reason that realistically, you can expect a sustained 2,750m3 per minute from your hulks (as opposed to 3,169 with a 3% implant). This brings your intake to 27,500-41,250m3 per minute (10-15 hulks). With 15 hulks you are able to fill a T2 rigged Ity 5 every 60 seconds. At this rate of extraction, even hauling with an Orca is not feasable, due to the long align time and slow warp speed.

You will want to haul with a freighter or second rorqual, and possibly may want to consider fitting dual webs to one of the ships in site, for faster align time of the hauling ship.

Delving further into the logistical challenges, your hulks ore hold can only contain 8,000m3 of ore, however your T2 strips will be bringing in just under 5,500m3 of ore every 104 seconds. Managing shifting that much ore is not feasable over a long period of time, so you may wish to switch to mackinaws, jet cans every ~5-10 minutes, and tractor with a rorqual from 100km away. As it so happens, 15 max skilled Mackinaws will take very nearly exactly 10 minutes to mine the 400,000m3 of ore that a T1 rigged rorqual can hold, which brings us to our second problem, compression.

Your boosting Rorqual will need to be compressing, and you may need a third Rorqual compressing as well. Assuming we are using the mackinaws, you are mining 2.4 million m3 of ore per hour. 8 hours of mining and your last Rorqual load won't fit in your Large Ship Assembly array (you are hauling to a POS right? It takes way less time than docking).

Sorry for the book. And yes, it is that much of a pain.

Edit: Didn't consider can mining into an enormous freight container, and then scooping out of there with a Rorqual or freighter (don't bump the miners). That may be your best bet, and it lets you use hulks (moving ore every 2 minutes) for better yield == better money. I personally would not use a freighter, as the Rorqual has a jump drive as well as the ability to fit modules, which is a HUGE plus if anything ever hits the fan. Capital shield boosters/reps, capital tractor beam, 100mn MWD, jump to safety if hotdropped.

Also, 15 hulks brings you to ~3.13 million m3 per hour, if you use mining drones. 2.85 without drones.

I think the saddest part of this entire post is that it will still take you over an hour to mine the Spod.

The correct answer is that you don't multibox 15 hulks. The 8500 ore hold will push you past the edge of sanity.

You're going to be as popular as a Rottweiler with bubonic plague & AIDS doing that in high sec.

I have 3 hulks and an ORCA, not quite maxed out. I make about 100M for the fleet per hour. So averages 25m per ship, including the ORCA. I dobt you will do near 50M per ship, even using isk boxer you lose a lot of efficiency to the multitasking. you will not be able to cherry pick ores as you will be eating through them far to fast. You will be stripping entire belts, probably 2-3 belts at a time just to spread out your 15 HULKS.

Multiboxing mining does stack very well compared to other activities. For example. As I said I make about 100M /hr with a 4 ship mining fleet. I also make about the same with a 4 ship mission running fleet. At least in high sec. Adding a 5th ship will add another 30M/hr to the mining fleet but only about 5M/hr to the mission running fleet. The more accounts you add the better mining looks.

Again I say you will not get near 50M per account in high sec. Sov null sec, sure, although you may attract a lot of ganker attention with such a fleet. But 50-60M/hr per account should be easy in null. In high sec the best you can hope for is 30-35M/hr per account.

This would be the way to go. However you will want to mine in the ore anoms spawned by the ihub. Initially in the small you can put all 15 miners on the large spod roid and it will take you over an hour to complete it, but it's a good way to boost the industry level, especially now that spod isn't worthless to mine.

I have no experience in the Extra-Large and Giant grav belts since the ore composition changes, but it is generally considered most profitable to cycle the Large (Indy lvl 3). This grav belt also has extremely large rocks so switching targets will not be too much of an issue.

So it's viable with the null roid size?

I was then going to refine and sell cta ships or caps for my alliance to avoid the need to import in using bpos of common fleet docs and a jf to move them to system staging. An I'm guessing in null the micro management would be quite small just boosting rorq and hauling. Rorq and 10 or so macks with a 40-50m an hr for a 500m an hr
Turnover using is boxer to copy all at once