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Beeker I
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Posted - 2008.10.01 12:24:00 -
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I have an easy question...
I have been doing a few mining missions as I get them from my agent. A number of them require me to get 6000 m3 of ore. My retriever can only hold 3200 m3.
My question is do the asteroids only hold exactly the amount you need? If you get to the end of a mining strip cycle, and you have no room for all the ore, it gives a warning about ejecting it to space. If you do this during a mission, are you unable to complete the mission? Since it takes me 2 runs to get all 6000 M3, if I let the mining strips cycle til the hold is full, some of the material will be ejected. Will the asteroid keep giving ore until I get the 6000 into my hold? or am I screwed if I forget and end up ejecting some?
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Shocker Steg
Amarr Crusaders of Darkness Forged Dominion
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Posted - 2008.10.01 12:33:00 -
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you got one midslot on you retriever... what do you have on that? Normally there ppl fit a Survey Scanner on it to see how big the roids are so then you would also know how big you asteroid is for this purpose.
to give a short answer: there should be enough even if you have to stop half way due to a full cargo hold. ------- Always a deeply religious people, religion remains of great importance to every Amarrian, a fervour which at various times has been responsible both for great good and great evil. |
Makko Gray
Gallente Nexus Aerospace Corporation Leather Rose Syndicate
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Posted - 2008.10.01 12:35:00 -
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The message is deceiving. You don't actually lose any ore when your strips deactivate.
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Jinn Bloodfire
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Posted - 2008.10.01 13:21:00 -
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What about this: you're mining with drones and they get shot before they make their trip back. Is the ore they're carrying lost?
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Dark 'Shadow
Shadow Fire Industries
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Posted - 2008.10.01 13:23:00 -
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Originally by: Jinn Bloodfire What about this: you're mining with drones and they get shot before they make their trip back. Is the ore they're carrying lost?
If they don't make it back to drop it off I would think so.
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Chwanna
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Posted - 2008.10.02 02:39:00 -
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I have done many mining missions. There is exactly enough ore (which may be in multiple asteroids) for you to complete the missions. No more, no less.
I have had mining drones destroyed before they were able to drop off the ore at my ship. This is not lost and the asteroid still has the same amount that is needed for you to fulfill the mission needs.
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Professor Leech
Transmetropolitan
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Posted - 2008.10.02 03:03:00 -
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Originally by: Chwanna I have done many mining missions. There is exactly enough ore (which may be in multiple asteroids) for you to complete the missions. No more, no less.
I have had mining drones destroyed before they were able to drop off the ore at my ship. This is not lost and the asteroid still has the same amount that is needed for you to fulfill the mission needs.
I believe that this is correct. The ore only appears to be deducted from the roid when the drone does the drop off.
Originally by: Crawe DeRaven this thread is obviously going places
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Tanis Khan
Minmatar 14th Legion
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Posted - 2008.10.03 00:05:00 -
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if you need 6000m3 of ore then there is exactly 6000m3 in the mining mission available.
if the drones dont make it back then the ore never leaves the asteroid
if you fill up yur hold the "excess" ore that is jettisoned to space never leaves the asteroid.
The only way to fail is if someone steals your mission ore or your ship gets destroyed and the mined ore is destroyed with it.
Hope this clariies things
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Baldour Ngarr
Interwarp Plexus Controlled Chaos
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Posted - 2008.10.03 01:31:00 -
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Originally by: Tanis Khan The only way to fail is if someone steals your mission ore or your ship gets destroyed and the mined ore is destroyed with it.
And note that, even then, it may be possible to obtain the ore you need from contracts. The arisite (or whatever) that you hand in does not have to have come from the asteroid you depleted. You just need to (a) deplete the asteroid, and (b) have X amount of the required rock type. ________________________________________________
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SystemaX1
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Posted - 2008.10.03 09:53:00 -
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For some reason i cant find mineing missions ive searched high and low but no luck i must have bad luck :(
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Abrazzar
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Posted - 2008.10.03 10:31:00 -
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Originally by: SystemaX1 For some reason i cant find mineing missions ive searched high and low but no luck i must have bad luck :(
Check the corporations with mining agents. For example Astral Mining in Gallente, Joint Harvesting in Amarr or Minmatar Mining Corporation. Those have mining agents. Get missions from them and a good amount of those will be mining missions.
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Baldour Ngarr
Interwarp Plexus Controlled Chaos
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Posted - 2008.10.03 14:54:00 -
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Originally by: Abrazzar
Originally by: SystemaX1 For some reason i cant find mineing missions ive searched high and low but no luck i must have bad luck :(
Check the corporations with mining agents. For example Astral Mining in Gallente, Joint Harvesting in Amarr or Minmatar Mining Corporation. Those have mining agents. Get missions from them and a good amount of those will be mining missions.
Astrosurveying will also work, but you usually find that a given corp will have agents of both divisions or neither. ________________________________________________
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Antihrist Pripravnik
Gallente The 13th Gallentean Armed Response
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Posted - 2008.10.04 05:08:00 -
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Missions regenerates themselves after the next downtime (kill and mining). If you lost some of the ore wait until after the next downtime and mine it again. I know this because I've done this. |
Venkul Mul
Gallente
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Posted - 2008.10.04 07:29:00 -
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Edited by: Venkul Mul on 04/10/2008 07:34:57
Originally by: Jinn Bloodfire What about this: you're mining with drones and they get shot before they make their trip back. Is the ore they're carrying lost?
Tested that some time ago.
If your ship is full and the drones or lasers have no space to put the mineral you don't lose anything.
If your mining drones are destroyed after mining a load (essentially while they are rturning to your ship to deliver it) you lose the minerals in the drone.
It is not a terrible problem for mining missions as you can wait till DT and the asteroid(s) will be replenished if you haven't popped them. the only drawback is that to complete the mission you need to pop all the asteroids. Positive is that you get a reserve ot the mission mineral for the next time.
Edit: for those saying that the mineral is not lost, in my experience the window of risk is small (the time between the moment when the drone has completed the cycle and start to return to the ship and the moment when it deliver the losad) but it exist.
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Baldour Ngarr
Interwarp Plexus Controlled Chaos
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Posted - 2008.10.04 13:39:00 -
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Edited by: Baldour Ngarr on 04/10/2008 13:39:27
Originally by: Antihrist Pripravnik Missions regenerates themselves after the next downtime (kill and mining). If you lost some of the ore wait until after the next downtime and mine it again. I know this because I've done this.
Provided you have not depleted the asteroid and got the "mission completed" flag in the journal, in which case it will not respawn. |
Beeker I
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Posted - 2008.10.05 17:25:00 -
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Thank you all so much for answering my question
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IsThereAnybodyOutThere
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Posted - 2008.10.05 18:44:00 -
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Originally by: Tanis Khan
The only way to fail is if someone steals your mission ore or your ship gets destroyed and the mined ore is destroyed with it.
Or petition it and you get the mission reset.
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