which one is better i wonder.
harvest 30 units a cyclte at 250m/s
T2 mining drones 25 units at 500m/s
i think over time (a few hours) the T2 drones would be better just cause they get from ship to roid to ship faster than harvesters.
Here is the deal -- it depends on your Mining Drone Operation skill which gives you a 5% bonus to the yield of the drone. In short, if you have the skill maxed you will get a 25% yield bonus which will give you a 37.5 units or 31.25 units (someone feel free to check my math).fabyak wrote: I found when I was using drones that it was best to train the lasers on the rocks that were furthest away and sit almost on top of the rock you are using the drones on so they don't need to travel at all
Break down as follows:
Skill % bonus
................5..............10..............15..............20..............25
With Yield
Of
30.............31.5.........33..............34.5............36............37.5
25.............26.25.......27.5...........28.75...........30............31.25
Short term get the drone miner II, as the havesters are so expensive.
Do what Fabyak suggests with any drone use in mining, then when we make the ISK we can upgrade the drones if the ones we bring last without issues.
To answer your question though, the harvesters are the better ones as flight time in a mining field is not going to make up the difference lost in yield sadly.
As a side note -- I do not have a gang mode for the drones, and I believe to have both a gang mod on lasers and the drones in a Cyclone active I would need to have a Command Processor -- which requires Warfare Link Specialist V.
Good news is I will have that in 30 days.
Then we can start the work towards a command ship.- TM
