Mining

[Harcourt.Fenton.Mudd]

EDIT: Another thing I've noticed: you need to have exactly the right ID/IFF for a particular commodity to get the mining bonus. The same thing applies to mining lasers/mining ship - you've got to have both. Mining lasers have no effect if they are in another ship (except the some junker ships like the csv).

Am I one of the only miners that actualy read what was written on mining ?

Thats exactly how it is SUPPOSED to work. There is no universal 'i R t3h m|n3R' ID, each faction that mines, mines differnt items better than others.

Mining lasers have a small % bonus per drop, mining ship has the BIGGEST bonus of em all (personaly, I say lower the bonus a lot, and base it more on ID so people RP their ID not just wandering for quick cash). ID has about the same effect as the lasers, maybe a tad more, cant recall.


The funny thing was the number of generic miner IDs in O49 crying 'how do you get moar than me', or better yet never even noticed how those properly IDd were doing better.

I thought the aim was to have the transports constantly flying, or close to it.. All the part of creating maximum efficiency.

I got my o49 estimated from when I was with Kuro (in a mining ship) in my Heavy tanker. Both of us had IMG ID and IFF and after about 45mins (I doubt it was an hour..) we did about seven loads before quitting and coming in together (he was full from the leftovers I couldn't pick up each run by then). We earnt a little over 63mil, which we split to 30mil each and 3mil for the faction guildfunds. extrapolating that and I got 40mil per person if we went the whole hour (and if we weren't going gung-ho about it). I boggle as to how you earnt 120mil an hour Virus - I was speed docking, tractoring short of the mined "cloud", everything I could think to speed myself up.. I'm suggestion on nerfing the cloud 85-90% of what it was was so that the transporter can actually have a rest, perhaps even pewing a couple rocks himself before having to go again.

EDIT: Hm bit slow.. but now seeing that a second person is saying they can get that sort of amount maybe I am thinking off here. I'll retest it sometime and see if I can reaffirm it though..

No way to re-test it, it's been nerfed. As for HOW to do it, the answer is quite simple. Work. the miner has to work VERY hard, and the hauler has to be perfectly efficent. I'll actualy tell HOW now that the field isnt worth mining anymore (read: mining requires more work than trading, and isnt worth it when trading is so much more profatable).

Heres how.

1- Have a WP in the cloud, set it a fewK farther than you WILL travel so it never goes away.
2- Launch
3- Targed WP, F2,
4- Turret mode and target the moor
5- Arrive @ mining zone, tractor in and fill up (or mine and fill if a miner going alone)
6- When full, F2 and go to the moor
7- ????
8- PROFIT

The average trading profits should be around 30-35 millions or so per hour, if we need to make a comparison with mining. While the mining is still a safer way to generate cash, it is also more tiresome to use your mining laser and mine the bloody raw materials. I'm in favour of increasing the mining profits a little bit more. We have never had a significant amount of miners ever, have we?

And with nerfs like these, we never will. Mining will become something specific to a few RP factions only, and noobs that read how .85 has 'OMG BONUS TO MINING, I WILL BE TEH MINAR!!!'



TBH I think reducing the sell price, or drop rate, so that you make about 80% (solo mining) as what you did before per hour would be the MOST that should be done.



But the way it is now I am seriously considering making a return to power trading (prehaps I'll just get a zoner dessie and trade in that, as I recall its got a decent cargo hold ........ ) becasue I'm being punished for RPing mining properly because I dare make more than the power traders.