Hurricane on Eletta III

 

Smells like fresh plag!

Cutting Azure Plag in Alenia 2.1

New Colors

 

Double yield by mining yourself!

 

The Versatile Endurance

 

Daily Driver

 

Cuttin’ Plag

 

Solo Porpoise vs. Retriever

I’ve been hauling in the Plagioclase with my Retriever for quite some time now and I’m happy with the results. It allows me to bring in a full load (33k m3 or about 7m ISK compressed) in just under 30 minutes with my current skills and fittings. Being bored out on the belt the other day I decided to spec out a Porpoise to see how that might compare (mainly so I could just compress out on the belt and not run back and forth). Here’s what I found.

The Retriever running 5 drones and two "Strip Miner I” will pull about "1241/60s or 20.5 m3/s” and the Porpoise with just the 5 drones (along with 3 augmented miner drone rigs) only pulls in "455/60s or 7.5 m3/s”.

I tried many different fittings but I can’t find anything much better. I can pull in quite a bit more with the Retriever (~50%) if I update to better mining lasers but then crystals come in to play and there is a lot more wasted ore (residue).

Keep in mind I did this without any of the other bonuses or boosting from the Porpoise as I’m not skilled into that yet. I doubt it makes up the difference though. That’s a pretty drastic gap.

Retriever +5 drones = 20.5 m3/s

Porpoise +5 drones = 7.5 m3/s

Unless they eventually give the Porp some turrets, I’m afraid it’s not really viable as a solo mining solution. I think it looks a lot cooler, but it’s just meant to be in a Fleet Support ship. However, If I end up mutil-boxing with an alt, that would be the way to go.