Quote Originally Posted by 'Souca',index.php?page=Thread&postID=191902#post19 1902
I should have a huge chunk of time on Sat and Sunday. Friday night depends on how dead work leaves me. I plan on bringing 3 retrievers, an Iteron 4 (one week and 850mil ISK till freighter), and up to two ravens for rats and can flippers (and 4 mining lasers each).

Depending on what the belts look like, we may need to go to a different system or just plan on mining ice. I heard something about Ice going away in empire space. The story was that Ice in empire would no longer regen on downtime, so once it's gone it's only in 0.0. anyone know anything about this? If this is the case, mining ice and sitting on the output could be profitable long term as the ice starts disapearing prices should go up in empire space.

I have BPOs for Rifter, Incursus and Catalyst. I'm still working on how to copy and research them since I've yet to find a single copy slot open in three different regions. Currently I'm just planning on grinding up standing and putting up a POS and paying the hourly charter fees. It gets me a bunch of lab slots I can use plus there is a system with no stations I might drop it in to have a dump point for mining there.
Any idea on how long it takes to get standing up to 7.5 ish? How many social skills would you train before you started this crazy plan?
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.