(10-31-2023, 02:49 AM)Eichy Bumm Wrote: Just a curiosity. Can a mining ship load a barge with ore by selecting the barge and then mining? Or has that changed?
(10-31-2023, 02:49 AM)Eichy Bumm Wrote: Just a curiosity. Can a mining ship load a barge with ore by selecting the barge and then mining? Or has that changed?
this hasn't changed, it still works
Not sure as I had a barge being filled by a Hegemon and it would not load, so is there a problem with the technique? Or is it craft related?
OK, lets do the maths. It takes 15000 units of Gold Ore to fill a barge. New London buys it for 30sc/unit. That is 450000 new SC (45 million old SC). A mining ship used to get about 2000 (20)sc/unit and for 6x 5000k transports = 20 x 15000 - 30 million old Sirus credits or 300k new SC. This leaves just 10 million (100k today to transport and make a profit on.
There is no money in mining it seems either for the miner operator or the transport pilot.
(10-31-2023, 05:11 AM)Yazov Wrote: Mining is now a source of refined goods which make the actual profit.
True, but one needs to have it mined which requires two players. There is not much fat left for paying the transport cost if paying a miner takes most of the credits.
(10-31-2023, 03:38 AM)Eichy Bumm Wrote: OK, lets do the maths. It takes 15000 units of Gold Ore to fill a barge. New London buys it for 30sc/unit. That is 450000 new SC (45 million old SC). A mining ship used to get about 2000 (20)sc/unit and for 6x 5000k transports = 20 x 15000 - 30 million old Sirus credits or 300k new SC. This leaves just 10 million (100k today to transport and make a profit on.
There is no money in mining it seems either for the miner operator or the transport pilot.
Canary Wharf is paying 45 credits per unit for Gold Ore.
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