Got my retrievers!!!! I bought 3 retrievers and 6x modulated strip miners. Made everything I spent back in 2 hours! One can flipper stole 6000m3 of ore while I was using the bathroom.
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Got my retrievers!!!! I bought 3 retrievers and 6x modulated strip miners. Made everything I spent back in 2 hours! One can flipper stole 6000m3 of ore while I was using the bathroom.
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The poetry that comes from the squaring off between,
And the circling is worth it,
Finding beauty in the dissonance
Awsome! i can't wait to be able to do that kind of stuff...
Realm: Vek'nilash Faction: Alliance
What were you mining? Veld only or a mix of whatever was available? The system I'm in now is really crowded. Most belts are empty so it's hard to get a consistent yield going. What is your system like?Originally Posted by 'd0z3rr',index.php?page=Thread&postID=192518#post1 92518
Also, are you using a combat ship to handle rats, or just swapping out drones when you get rats?
Glad to hear. Also good to know in case anyone else runs up against the same issue.Originally Posted by 'Alptraum',index.php?page=Thread&postID=192574#pos t192574
- Souca -
This space for rent.
Sorry about that Souca it was my choice of system and it's not good - I'm happy to relocate seeing as I made a hash of the choice.Originally Posted by 'Souca',index.php?page=Thread&postID=192637#post19 2637
Where are oher people based? It would be good if we could get all of us within a few jumps of each other for massive mining ops. Souca and I are lurking in Abudban, Heimatar region as it's near to where I had a ton of characters stashed.
Also: Ding! My main can now fly an Orca (although I can't afford to buy one yet, cash supply is low at the moment...)
No worries. We'd both just gotten back into it so there wasn't any real way to know if it would be decent or not. I've moved over to Inder with my mining ships. 0.5 system so the rats are more frequent, but as long as you have a remote armor repair and good drones or a combat ship they aren't an issue. I worked on a belt that looked pretty fresh. After 3 hours I think I only mined out about 20% of it and got something like 1.6M trit, 0.54M pyr and 0.31M mex. Never saw another ship at the belt the entire time. In fact, even with my 5 ships there local never went above 15 players. There is only one station and you need to make 2 jumps to Hek to sell anything, but it's definately better mining.Originally Posted by 'RobinGBrown',index.php?page=Thread&postID=192748# post192748
If we can all find a decent system or two to work in that would be cool. If possible I'd like it to be in Gallente space, or at least a short trip from their turf, so I can put up a POS to do BPO research. My main has 3.94 standing with Gallente so it will be much faster for him to get to 6+ standing as every other faction standing is below 1.
3 days to a freighter on my hauler skill wise. Going to have to pick up some PLEX to pay for the ship though, not sure I want to mine 900M worth with only a Iteron to haul it. I'm thinking I can either log the freighter out near the belt and log back on when cans are full or just dock and warp out. While it would be easiest to just let it float there, I'm not sure its safe to do so even in 0.5 space. Anyone have any thoughts on this? How easy is it for someone to kill a freighter in 0.5 space? Is it even worth it to them? If it were full, there is no way they could haul everything off without a freighter of their own. I never plan to take it below a 0.5 system without major protection so I'm trying to get a baseline of how careful I need to be with it in 0.5 or higher. Losing battleships are one thing, but at nearly a billion I don't want to lose a freighter unless there is no way I could have planned for it.
- Souca -
This space for rent.
My system has been pretty darn good. Even if all the veldspar is cleared out there's tons of other minerals to mine. Veldspar does have a good isk/hour ratio, but I wouldn't say it's mindblowing. I don't even refine my crap, I just right click>sell. I could take my ore and sell them at a different station for perhaps a increase of 5 isk per ore, but most of the best deals are like 6 jumps away. I'm not gonna sit in my hauler and wait for it to jump 6 times just to get a measely 100k profit.Originally Posted by 'Souca',index.php?page=Thread&postID=192637#post19 2637
Last night some noob was hovering right near me while I was mining, he stole like 493m3 of ore. I had to constantly empty my can right away so he wouldn't steal. After a few minutes of that I just warped everyone to another belt. So that slowed me down a bit. I encounter a can flipper pretty much every time I go mining.
As for rats I have a lazerr mounted on my hauler. He can easily take out any rats that will bother us with the single laser, it takes a while but it gets the job done. I used to have rocket launchers on my ospreys that sped up the kill, but since I upgraded to retrievers the high slots are occupied by strip miners. I am considering creating a new account just to deal with rats and can flippers. But since I'm a pvp noob I need to research how to kill people and pvp first.
The poetry that comes from the squaring off between,
And the circling is worth it,
Finding beauty in the dissonance
User: Physics101
Characters: Talis'har, prober/scanner alt, another dps alt when needed
Experience:42m sp
Location: Egghelende
Interest: Yarrrr! Pirating
Playtime: Every once in awhile.
Physics 101- Gravîty, Måss, Enêrgy, Dîstance
Kil'Jaden -Alliance
To all you guys mining, I suggest not using belts, but get level 1 missions. Tons of them have ore you can mine in them. When you get tired of pounding rocks come out and pvp =)
Physics 101- Gravîty, Måss, Enêrgy, Dîstance
Kil'Jaden -Alliance
I've thought about hitting up the mission spots. I've noticed they seem to be pretty well stocked in terms of their roids. To be honest, my biggest thing against missions is that they are really boring and I spend more time looting and salvaging than I do killing things. Most rats die before I can even get a target lock on them as the drones swarm. Most of my fittings include more salvagers and tractor beams than weapons.Originally Posted by 'Physics101',index.php?page=Thread&postID=192945#p ost192945
I have a pvp character. She is training a lot. I do play around with her in a frigate, but it's hard to get a decent fitting until you have some of the basic skills up to 5. The miners pay for her ships and all my skill training. PvP is an expense for me at the moment, but it's definately in my plans.
- Souca -
This space for rent.
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