I'm thinking of giving it a go since it sounds like fun and should be profitable if it's possible. I'm presently I'm thinking of a build something like this:
http://coriolis.io/outfit/imperial_...18ZZA=.CwBj4hGCdmg=?bn=Mining (Hazrez) Cutter
But I'm wondering if I'm being too greedy with cargo space and should perhaps put an 8B shield cell bank in..
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I've done it for the last 3 nights in my Conda both on my own and in a wing with 3/4 cmdrs. It's great fun in a Wing, we had 2 big ships rigged for mining with heavy ships and then two other ships equipped for fighting (they got the bounties plus the 5% trade dividends). One thing we discovered you can do was to put a single mining laser each on the combat ships (for when you find those really good roids), because everyone gets that 100 fragments of painite in the asteroids. The combat ships can't collect it but they can make more fragments for the collectors (which can then be shared out later or whatever). While in a wing we were able to mine right in the middle of the HazRez although it was hectic. However, we discovered that it's not much different in the middle than it is at 18km so basically it seems like anywhere in the 20km is pretty much the same.
We also tried the other varieties of Rez site and the HazRez has by far the biggest fragment bonus. 4 ships with mining lasers makes one hell of a lot of painite.
http://plays.tv/video/56f79ab1064836...ng-in-a-hazrez
We even had one brave fairly new player join us with a shieldless Keelback rigged for mining. I thought he'd get in trouble but he was just fine because all the NPCs wanted to do was attack the Conda and the Corvette and they left him completely alone provided he stayed near the big ships.
http://coriolis.io/outfit/imperial_...18ZZA=.CwBj4hGCdmg=?bn=Mining (Hazrez) Cutter
But I'm wondering if I'm being too greedy with cargo space and should perhaps put an 8B shield cell bank in..
EDIT:
I've done it for the last 3 nights in my Conda both on my own and in a wing with 3/4 cmdrs. It's great fun in a Wing, we had 2 big ships rigged for mining with heavy ships and then two other ships equipped for fighting (they got the bounties plus the 5% trade dividends). One thing we discovered you can do was to put a single mining laser each on the combat ships (for when you find those really good roids), because everyone gets that 100 fragments of painite in the asteroids. The combat ships can't collect it but they can make more fragments for the collectors (which can then be shared out later or whatever). While in a wing we were able to mine right in the middle of the HazRez although it was hectic. However, we discovered that it's not much different in the middle than it is at 18km so basically it seems like anywhere in the 20km is pretty much the same.
We also tried the other varieties of Rez site and the HazRez has by far the biggest fragment bonus. 4 ships with mining lasers makes one hell of a lot of painite.
http://plays.tv/video/56f79ab1064836...ng-in-a-hazrez
We even had one brave fairly new player join us with a shieldless Keelback rigged for mining. I thought he'd get in trouble but he was just fine because all the NPCs wanted to do was attack the Conda and the Corvette and they left him completely alone provided he stayed near the big ships.
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