Whereas if you don't actually plan on mining properly. It's a dead end skills-wise, and a waste of training time and isk. You need racial frigate to 4, and at least a few levels of racial cruiser to make it worthwhile, and that's a lot of training time at that stage in the game for something that's a stop-gap. If you actually plan on mining properly, skilling towards mining cruisers is kind of a waste - by the time you can mine in them better than you could in a mining frigate, you could be halfway to flying a barge anyway. I've been wanting to get some better computers but haven't been able to swing it yet. I use the combat drones when I need to but then pull them back as soon as I can to cut down on the lag. They just cause to much lag on my system. I carry 5 combat drones and 5 mining drones in my Covetor's but have stopped trying to use the mining drones. Which doesn't mean that it never happens but does mean it doesn't happen very often. So while someone else might be able to shrug it off as a cost of doing business, I'm not able to do that and go to some pains to see that it doesn't happen. After getting a Rupture and Thorax ganked by guys in frigates I lost my awe at the power and majesty of cruisers and started paying more attention to my tank.įor mining, I've got barges and haulers now that team mine out of jet can's.Ī lot of stuff depends on where you are as a player, your computer equipment and play style not to mention RL interference in your gaming.Īnother factor is in your personality. At the time, an additional factor was that they were a *Cruiser* oooooh! Which was still impressive then as my first non-frigate ship. Yeah, those Exequror's were almost a year ago. Another reason I don't like using them so much. My initial thinking was that since what I've always done was to carries combat drones in my mining ships so there, the Vexor's mining bonus for drones wouldn't do me any good but looking at it's bandwidth I can see it can carry enough to have combat drones and mining drones at the same time.īut then my computers aren't that great and launching drones causes me a lot of lag. Maybe with a mining bonus those drones might be worth while but mostly I've found them more trouble than they were worth. The one exception being using an Imicus for mining until I moved up to the Exequror, both because of the cargo capacity.
I've seen other people mining in destroyers but mostly used the mining frigates myself. Mining Frigates - I'd wondered about that. For me, the bottleneck always seemed to be hauling the ore away rather than mining it.Īs to the Destroyers vs. I'd still use the Exequror though unless I was jet can mining by myself (which I don't do) because of it's bigger cargo hold.Īnyway that is what I did before I moved on to barges. If you're hauling the ore by yourself the cruiser would help with that. I've never used a Destroyer for mining myself as I did at one time go from a mining frigate to a mining cruiser.īut then, with another character, I've also just bit the bullet and kept training for my barge while using the frigate to mine but that was as part of a team. Of course both the Cruiser and the Destroyer have other uses. It all depends on how much money you've got and how much time you want to divert from training for a barge. Training Destroyer to Level 1 is only going to take a few minutes though so I wouldn't say going to the Cruiser right away would be better. You're much better off if you train for a mining cruiser instead (in the long run).īut that would be the next step up from a destroyer. Put a salvager and maybe a tractor beam on there and you can salvage the wrecks you create in. The extra amount of ore 1 mining drone will get you isn't worth sacrificing the combat capability or the aggravation of fooling with drones. Put a combat drone in there and you can mine in.
Of course the best way to do it is to team up with an some other guy in an industrial.įorget the mining drone. If you are mining alone you might be better off putting expanded cargo holds up there and just running back to the base when they're full. Whether or not you have the Power Grid and CPU to support them is going to be dependent on your Electronics and Engineering skills.Īs to trying to increase your output with MLU's I don't know if I'd bother unless you are going to jet can mine then come back and get it with an industrial. If it doesn't then yes you should be able to put 8 Miner's in there. I've not used a Catalyst myself though so I don't know if it's got any reserved missile slots or not. I've seen other people mining in Catalysts.
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