![]() If you wish to use a tanky fit in nullsec – see the above highsec tanky fit. (Though, if you piss them off, people will go to extraordinary lengths to gank you). The following two fits are recommended to discourage solo gankers (even those multi-boxing multiple DPS ships for ganking) – they are unlikely to kill them. If you are mining in highsec – you need to be prepared to sacrifice a great deal of yield for tank in order to survive a ganker rich environment. The answer is, as usual, dependent on the situation and how much risk one is willing to take. When max yield fits tank considerably less than even moderately tanked ones, along with the delight some people get out of hunting and ganking miners – how much tank you need vs how much yield you are willing to sacrifice is an important question. One problem most miners have wrestled with is the issue of balancing tank and yield. This said – anyone serious about max yield mining will eventually end up training the T2 mining crystals for the ores they mine. Each different type of mining crystal requires training the processing skill for the ore it is associated with – Spodumain Mining Crystal I requires Spodumain Processing III, while the Spodumain Mining Crystal II requires Spodumain Processing IV – this can add up to a significant amount of training time if one wishes to use a great many different sorts of mining crystals. The flip side to the increase in mining yield provided by mining crystals is the time it takes to train to use them. One of the things to note about mining crystals is that they are specific to the ore they are named after. Mining crystals such as Spodumain Mining Crystal II equipped in a Modulated Strip Miner II can increase your mining from a Strip Miner I by 16.67% on Spodumain. Because of this one should consider that Mercoxit may not be the best isk/hour in mining – a careful calculation based on your skills is needed to determine whether it is more profitable to mine than other ores or not. ![]() On a unit-by-unit basis, Mercoxit is the most valuable ore in the game, but given that it is also the most voluminous (It has the most m 3 per unit) it takes both a long time to mine and mines in smaller amounts at one time than other ores. Thus the m 3 yield one gets for Mercoxit will always be lower than regular ores. Unfortunately one can only mine Mercoxit with an MDCSM or a Modulated Deep Core Mining Laser. Even with the proper T2 crystals – mining Mercoxit has a much-reduced m3/s.Mining Mercoxit and then forgetting to re-equip your Modulated Strip Miners (MSMs) even though you switch crystals results in a significant loss of yield (8.29m 3/s for T2 crystals on a non-Mercoxit ore with the correct crystals using a Modulated Deep Core Strip Miner (MDCSM) vs 11.9m 3/s with the proper MSM and T2 crystals).Not using a mining crystal with either T2 strip miner is a significant loss of yield.Strip miners are a significant upgrade from mining lasers (Strip Miner I’s more than double the yield of Miner II’s).There are quite a few conclusions one can draw from the above chart: The m³/s as given by Pyfa was recorded with the “All 5 skill” option) The mining lasers were fit on a Prospect – also with nothing else fit. (These numbers were arrived at by use of Pyfa (a tool with which you can test ship fittings) and fitting the strip miner type modules on a Hulk with nothing else fit. However, in order to properly use it, you need to train mining crystals. ![]() The Modulated Strip Miner II is the direct upgrade to the Strip Miner I – and to use it you need the additional 4-day train to Mining V. There are two T2 versions of Strip Miner I’s – the Modulated Strip Miner II and the Modulated Deep Core Strip Miner II. Strip Miners are only usable on Mining Barges and Exhumers – and they mine a great deal more than mining lasers. You have your run-of-the-mill Strip Miner I’s, which require training Mining IV to use, but Mining is a 1x skill, so it is a fast train. Strip miners come in a few different varieties. The upside of this is that they are replaced by something even better – strip miners. Any mining barge or exhumer cannot use mining lasers as they require a turret hardpoint in order to be equipped. Mining lasers are only used on mining frigates or on other ships that are not bonused for mining. The first distinction to be made is between mining lasers vs strip miners. Are you mining in highsec or nullsec? Are you mining by yourself or in a group? These are good questions. Much of what makes a good fit depends on the situation. There are many options for each ship, but they are not all equally effective. So, you’ve decided what ship you want to fly – time to figure out how to fit it.
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