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So how much is subbing the extra character to haul worth to you?
Mining is a profession where every character has to earn its keep - If you have to either pull a character off mining duty every 10 minutes or sub an extra one as a dedicated hauler - Your losing isk or having spend more time mining each day to pay for the lost earnings and or extra sub. Not to mention the time taken to train a dedicated hauler....

Another issue with these new boosts is the very common cherry picking of belts - If your not able to do your mining straight after DT each day, your often left with belts that have been picked clean of some ores leaving others.
While this itself is not bad (it is the nature of Eve); I often find I have half my fleet in one belt while the other half can be on the other side of the system in another. On grid boosts, especially such short cycle ones just won't work for efficient productive mining.

Don't even bother mentioning the Porpise - Tried it on SISI using a cruiser (same warp speed as the porpise) and stop watch - even with hyperspacials fit, your not able to keep boosts up on a fleet that is in 2 belts. So, if you hit belts after they have been cherry picked, your sheer out of luck when it comes to productive mining.

Mining productivity being so closely tied to EU TZ will be a huge loss for everyone else.....

And each Excavator class drone will cost 290-310mil isk, not counting BPO/BPC or shipping cost for a 900hp faction drone that moves along at 1-200 m/s.


Mats
- 60x Elite Drone AI
- 360x Drone Synaptic Relay Wiring
- 360x drone Capillary Fluid
- 300x Drone Cerebral Fragment
- 240x Drone Tactical Limb
- 120x Drone Epidermal Shielding Chunk
- 90x Drone Coronary Unit

200x Morphite

15x R.A.M. - Robotics
1x Modulated Strip Miner II / Ice Harvester II
10x Mining Laser Upgrade II / Ice Harvester Upgrade II

20x Ion Thruster
45x Magnetometric Sensor Cluster
500x Photon Microprocessor
500x Crystalline Carbonide Armor Plate
15x Fusion Reactor Unit
120x Oscillator Capacitor Unit
45x Pulse Shield Emitter

you can search the market on SiSi, not for sale yet but they show up in the search

Thanks. My bad, was searching via drones not BPO's.

Those build requirements are a little over the top but then,., they will make nice lossmails.

A single drone with a max velocity of 100m/s (before skills, not that they will help much) at the cost of a pirate battleship - Interesting concept, not really a viable one though.

Question - 25Mbit bandwidth going by the bpo? Has something changed? I thought they were meant to be 50Mbit.

Really CCP? An aggro timer for my orca cause I used mining bursts???? Bursts by their nature are passive and should not cause me a timer.

According to the data on Sisi, the T2 Ice Harvesting Drones will need 5 MBit band width...

this means, a max skilled Orca with T2 drones can harvest around 189 ice cubes per hour?
Without rigs, but maxed tanked...

this is more than a perfect hulk as far I can see?

Or is this an error in the data base and the band width should be 50 like the T1 version?

Never the less, both versions have a volume of 50 m³, therefore not many industrial ships are capable to fit more than one drone.

1000 units of heavy water isn't as bad as it sounds since during fuel production you end up amassing a large amount of extra. So while it makes it a bit more involved it's not a game breaker in the least.

So did some playing around with the rorq on sisi.

in siege mode with 5 super drones and max skills using the industrial core II i was able to mine 76 glare crust in 10 minutes sitting off a roid at about 1,000 meters, or one block every 8 seconds.

Outside of siege mode hitting the same roid from approxamtely the same distance i was able to mine about 33 in 10 minutes, or one block every 18 seconds.

Now as far as the rorq boosts it seems a bit underwhelming.

on Tranq a fully boosted skiff with my pilot was able to get about 29 second cycle times. However using the pulse boosts the best i could get on the same setting wad 49 second cycle times. This is a pretty bad hit for the rest of the fleet. Yes, you get protection from the panic button, but if you are at all paying attention then you don't need to use it.


Oh, and then my rorq got torched by a serpentis dreadnought, which i could not get away from since it webbed/scrammed/neuted me.

Both at once probably.

The wobbling only gives them what, 15 seconds notice?
So they are taking a gamble on how long they will have to wait till they see that effect, but seeing the effect gives them notice they can start shooting again very very soon.
But..... if they know they are within 2 jumps of a staging system...... do they wait or not. How long do they risk giving a response fleet to form. If it's 5 minutes they might be ok, if it's 7 minutes they might not be. That's the idea of the uncertainty.
Of course, I can't see any real reason to keep the timer lower for the defender. It doesn't give immunity to tackle, so they can keep web/points on your ships the whole time. So the longer the timer the more chance defenders (or third party) will arrive in time to mess things up.

It doesn't even prevent all damage for that matter, those might be insane shield resists, but the passive regen rate of a barge only gives them something like a 10k tank under the Panic module I believe. Pretty awesome for a barge, but not unbreakable, and if you can punch through the shield with enough damage the armour & hull are then tin foil.
So neut them out so they can't local rep, neut the Rorq so it can't RR, and you can kill people while panic'ed if the maths is right.

Amen Brother!!!

Better yet, could mining drones mine what the strip miner is mining or the rock a Target Painter is painting if they are not already mining something else? You know, same as how combat drones attack whatever your shooting at or target painting.

This may be a HUGE ask, is there anyway we can get a shortcut key assignment for launching drones? Something that would launch whatever drones are not grouped up to max bandwidth?

Miners could leave mining drones UN-grouped
Drone boats could leave their go to drones UN-grouped