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Mining & Industry Changes

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So, New Eden recently underwent a couple of changes when it comes to one of my favourite pastimes: mining! In more specific (and relevant to me) terms, the drones of an Orca have lost some of their mining bonus but the Orca has gained the Large Industrial Core which technically is a Siege Module which boosts many of the Orca’s defining traits but in turn make it immobile for quite some time and additionally uses fuel. All in all this again reinforces the Orca’s primary purpose; many people are seeing the Orca as a mining ship but it’s actually not, it’s a mining support ship! You’re supposed to have a hord of real mining ships around, like Mining Barges and Exhumers!

This past weekend I have for the first time tried to use one of the new Industrial Cores and I have to say, they do take some getting used to. First of all, you need to be really slow when you activate it. Optimally, you are at a complete standstill because once you activate the Core, your ship will coast at its current velocity until you either deactivate the Core (only possible after a complete cycle which takes two and a half minutes) or you bump something or something bumps you. Have you ever spooled up a Micro Jump Drive and somebody got too close, sending you 100 km in a random direction and you could neither steer nor brake? Exactly that can now happen with the Orca.

And then it doesn’t have an immediate effect on currently running boosts but its changes will only take effect on the next boost. That your boost range switches from 90 km back to 45 km only because you planning to unload is something that needs to be communicated to your mining fleet as long as they don’t really know how this Core thing works.

Other than that, this new module is really fine! With one Covetor, three Procurers, one Retriever, and one Venture it takes about 30 minutes to fill up an Orca — which in turn uses about 20% of the Heavy Water in the new fuel bay… one more thing to pay attention to!

Another thing that has changed as a part of this patch are the mining crystals. While before you needed a specialized crystal for each and every type of ore there was (except moon ores) you now only have six broad categories of crystals, reducing the amount of crystals you have to pack for certain endeavors. I really like that!

And there’s at least one more thing in the works to look forward to: at some point the Orca will gain in-space ore compression using this new Core! I totally can’t wait for that to happen! 🎉

So Much Mining

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Happy new year, everyone! While everybody has been out celebrating New Year’s Eve, I have used the opportunity to mine the more valuable stuff from all those places that are normally a lot more dangerous than my usual mining grounds: low-sec and wormholes.

With just a couple of an Endurance’s cargohold’s worth I have collected almost enough non-high-sec minerals to build a full Combat Battlecruiser. That’s really not too shabby for a few hour’s worth of mining!

Winter Mining

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So, while Lissy is busy hunting down Sansha’s Nation (as she usually is) I have been clearing the mining sites that follow the ice storms that are currently roaming New Eden. It seems that under certain circumstances the sites disappear from the Probe Scanner window but do remain active and even respawn the asteroids after a while, giving you pretty much uncontested access to as much ice as you can mine. A miner’s dream come true! 😍

Not Flying a Vargur

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Haha, my friend is a real doozy! Now I built her that incredibly awesome Vargur but instead she got it in her head to take on a support role in her Incursion fleet so she is now concentrating on flying Logistics Cruisers such as the Basilisk! I really hope that Vargur will either a) see some action anytime soon or b) go up in price so much that I can make a quick buck on it. 😀

Anyway, while she is off to all over the place to beat Sansha’s Nation to a pulp, I am supporting her by getting some Lyavite every now and then. (Because when doing those Vanguard sites there is one site that requires Lyavite to get a chain reaction and blow something up or whatever, what do I know, I don’t do that shit.) I am also still mining all the usual high-sec ores in order to produce ammo which my friend can use to exchange for faction ammo using their massive collection of CONCORD Loyalty Points. They have to be good for something, right?

Welcome

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Welcome to my blog, fellow space-dweller! I will be using this space to tell a bit about my life in highsec (and surrounding areas) and other things that are of interest to me.

I do also develop small applications to help my life in New Eden. One thing I have written is the Asteroid Belt Calculator which shows you how large an asteroid belt is. I still have a number of features planned for it so make sure to check back every once in a while!

Plan for today: moon mining! There is a moon in highsec in the Metropolis area that has just popped, and there’s millions of m3 of tasty moon ore waiting for me!