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Fastest mining barge in M^3?
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Harry Kashuken
State War Academy
Caldari State
#1 - 2014-05-28 02:43:00 UTC
Wondering what mining barge i can pull in more ore over an hour using. I mine by going from belt to station belt to station and repeat. Im also not worried about rats so i just want to do 100% ore income.

If anyone has a fit too that would be awesome :D
Jacob Holland
Weyland-Vulcan Industries
#2 - 2014-05-28 05:06:10 UTC
Up until the Kronos rebalancing, given that you're solo mining and each trip to the station to unload will cost you a considerable percentage of a cycle, your best choice is probably the Retriever/Mackinaw. Although its yield is slightly lower than the Covetor/Hulk the capacity of its ore bay is such that, with moderate skills, you might not have to dock during your hour. As the Covetor might fill its bay in six minutes and might spent a minute or two docking and restarting (depending on where you're working) it might lose four cycles in its hour to navigation - the Retriever however might have to dock and empty once during that time, and it is a little more forgiving on the fittings (due to fewer strip miners eating PG), and should therefore get nineteen cycles in (almost a 20% increase in yield)...
In the Kronos expansion the Retriever's yield is being significantly reduced however and the breakeven point between yield and time in the field is lost (according to the quick and very rough calcs, based on half remembered data, I'm running in my head...)
Froggy Storm
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#3 - 2014-05-28 05:14:59 UTC
The answer here is to sub a power of two alt who runs an Indi (what ever the ore hold one is) two and from every 6 min from the tanked hulk.

Training time for a hauler is negligible and you don't then have to sacrifice tank or yield for navigation considerations. Then again with the changes coming up isk/hr in a lowsec skiff may payout more. You'd need an expert for that.
Last Wolf
Umbra Wing
#4 - 2014-05-28 20:12:43 UTC
Froggy Storm wrote:
The answer here is to sub a power of two alt who runs an Indi (what ever the ore hold one is) two and from every 6 min from the tanked hulk.

Training time for a hauler is negligible and you don't then have to sacrifice tank or yield for navigation considerations. Then again with the changes coming up isk/hr in a lowsec skiff may payout more. You'd need an expert for that.


If you're using an alt you're better off mining in two macks/retrievers and you will get way more m^3/hour than a hulk/covetor + indy ship.

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