EVE Multiboxers

[Souca]

Looks like we can get a mining op going this weekend then. I've got my two hulks plus a myrmidon salvager to provide drone support. I'm going to level up a WoW team in the Hinterlands on Friday night but Sat & Sun is good for me. There is an ice belt marked in Abudban on Ombey's maps but I don't know if it's there. I scanned out some wormholes and a gas cloud site during the week, it's worth doing the scanning every week as you can find mining sites that can be exploited.

For ice mining we'd want to get the barges that are optimised for it - the skill is also needed.

I'll have a look at what materials are required to make Rifters and the other stuff needed, maybe try to get some module BPOs/BPCs.

Researching the BPOs is needed to optimise the material requirement for manufacturing, it's a swine but there you are. I really don't understand why there isn't a 'lab ship' (remember Traveller?) that has a research lab built in. EVE has mining ships, so why not research ones? They'd be very popular as can be proved by the constantly full labs in Empire space.

The ships that are specific for ice are all exhumers. I have the skill to use normal Ice Harvestors and on a retriever I can fit 2 and a upgrade. mackinaw is the first ship to get a bonus for Ice cycle time and it's the middle tier exhumer.

Yea, there is still ice in Abudban. There is also crazy lag from tehre being about 50 miners there are about 400 cans. Nice thing about ice is that it has so many units on it. I was working on small one tonight and it had over 50k units left. It takes 10 minute per ice harvestor to get 1 unit

I was able to find some time efficiency labs, but beyond that I can't find any open materials labs or any copy labs. Sometimes I can get a manufacotring slot, but to be sure I opened a cheap office in a 0.4 system 3 jumps out. Much cheaper there too. I figure I'll slowly get my BPOs there and just research the PE on them while I wait for the rep to put a POS up. I might head back to the closest Gallente region I can since I have 3.94 standing with them and could get it up to 5 pretty easily so I can put a station up sooner. I'd only need my manfacturing and research alts to be close enought okick off job once the get the skills that let them remote.

I also need to do some non Veldspar mining to get some other minerals for ships. I'll likely do that tomorrow with the new alts since they likely won't have their crystals for veld yet.

- Souca -