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procurer worth getting?
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Trudeaux Margaret
University of Caille
#21 - 2013-08-16 22:00:50 UTC
Auduin Samson wrote:
Trudeaux Margaret wrote:
Auduin Samson wrote:
*While on paper the retriever and procurer have the same output (2 + (2*.5) = 1 + (1*2) = 3 strip miners worth of output on both), the retriever will get more in practice. This is because the Procurer's laser draws so much ore per cycle, it is much more likely to dry up an asteroid quickly and run out before one of your mining cycles ends, causing time to be lost. While this isn't a very big issue, it is something that min/maxers (IE people who play Eve) like to take into consideration when calculating profit and output.



It means you have to use your survey scanner and that you can't AFK mine in one. Horrors!


Absolutely true. Personally, I prefer the safety of more tank over a survey scanner, but to each his own. If you plan to stay in a safe part of hisec where you won't benefit as much from the procurer's ungodly tank though, you'll probably just jump for a retriever instead to capitalize on the bigger hold/more mining time.



The whole point, though, is that high sec is not safe, especially for new miners, and Retrievers are favorite targets of gankers:

https://zkillboard.com/ship/17478/losses/

In high sec when using a Procurer with its ungodly tank (especially if you're cap stable and have your hardeners on), a new miner can surely squeeze in that survey scanner if he wants to min/max profit and output like the rest of us. Who likes to watch the strip miner cycling on and on and on, knowing there's waste occurring?



> anyone willing to give me like a 5 min politics crash course?

> grr goons, lowsec is full of elitist sh*s, all roads lead to the bittervet pl
MicDeath Titan
No Mans Corp
#22 - 2013-08-16 22:59:32 UTC  |  Edited by: MicDeath Titan
Trudeaux Margaret wrote:
MicDeath Titan wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqJKBMxWqkg
To demonstrate the tank on a procurer.



Now let's see the same test applied to a typically-tanked Retriever.


Give me a fit to test.
Due to the so so many different ret fits in this thread, it is hard to see which one is 'typical'.
EDIT: I appear to have merged thread syndrome. I kept thinking this was the anti-gank thread with like many many pages.

Damn, I need coffee...yet have no coffee near by. *sobs*
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