notes=Due to the extreme ease of suicide ganking Covetors, this ship should only be used while in range of an Orca in order to use the Ship Maintenance Bay for protection.</li>}}{{ShipFitting|
notes=Due to the extreme ease of suicide ganking Covetors, this ship should only be used while in range of an Orca in order to use the Ship Maintenance Bay for protection.</li><li>This is a good point to train for T2 Strip Miners, which add a significant boost to your mining output but require more management and capacitor skills.</li><li>With no capacitor skills, you'll only just have enough capacitor to start all three strip miners at once, and only with hisec ore crystals. This can cause problems especially if you want to start mining just after coming out of warp, and training a couple of capacitor skills at this point is recommended.</li>}}
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ship=Covetor|
shipTypeID=17476|
fitName=0.7 Tanked (T1)|
fitID=0-7-Tanked--T1-|
high1name=Strip Miner I|
high1typeID=17482|
high2name=Strip Miner I|
high2typeID=17482|
high3name=Strip Miner I|
high3typeID=17482|
mid1name=Limited Adaptive Invulnerability Field I|
notes=Contingent upon skill points, has sufficient tank to survive a skilled solo ganker in 0.7 sec status or higher</li><li>ECM drones are used as a deterrent as well as a chance to break target lock}}{{ShipFitting|
notes=Contingent upon skill points, has sufficient tank to survive a skilled solo ganker in 0.6 sec status or higher</li><li>ECM drones are used as a deterrent as well as a chance to break target lock}}
Development The mining barge was designed by ORE to facilitate advancing the mining profession to a new level. Each barge was created to excel at a specific function, the Covetor's being mining yield. This additional yield comes at a price, as the Covetor has weaker defenses and a smaller ore bay than the other mining barges. Mining barges are equipped with electronic subsystems specifically designed to accommodate Strip Mining and Ice Harvesting modules.
SHIP BONUSES
Mining Barge bonuses (per skill level): 5% bonus to Strip Miner and Ice Harvester range 4% reduction in Strip Miner and Ice Harvester duration
Base Time to Warp is essentially the time needed for this ship to align and accelerate until it reaches 75% of its top speed and goes to warp. The time displayed here is the base calculated time with no account for any warp related skills, modules or any other effects.
Drones
Drone Capacity
50 m³
Drone Bandwidth
50 Mbit/sec
Targeting
Max Tgt. Range
35.00 km
Max Locked Targets
6
Magnetometric Sensor
8 points
Sig. Radius
200 m
Scan Res.
660 mm
Structure
Structure Hitpoints
1,500 HP
Mass
30,000,000 kg
Volume
200,000 m³
Cargo Capacity
350 m³
Ore Capacity
7,000 m³
Armor
Armor Hitpoints
1,300 HP
Armor Resistances
EM
60
THR
35
KIN
25
EXP
10
Shields
Shield Capacity
1,700 HP
Shield Resistances
EM
0
THR
20
KIN
40
EXP
50
Summary
Of the mining barges, the Covetor has the greatest yield whilst having the smallest ore hold and the least tank, making it unsuitable/impractical for solo mining but shine in boosted/protected fleet mining.
Skills
Further information about additional or recommended skills to pilot Covetor for a specific or it's common role(s) can be written here.
Covetors are a ganker's target of choice due to its inadequate tank and advertises, "I have no tank, only yield"
Fit enough tank (and train tanking skills) to survive the ganker's DPS long enough for CONCORD to destroy the ganker; as of Rubicon 1.2, this means surviving a Catalyst's 728.2 DPS for 20 seconds--14,564 Void damage--in a 0.6 system
No Covetor fit can tank long enough in 0.5, even with all level V skills
A solo tanked Covetor has less than 1% more yield than a tanked Retriever, which is further reduced by more frequent (four times) trips to unload
Use and keep launched ECM drones
This lets gankers know that you are expecting them and implies you are tanked for them; this is deterrence
This provides a chance to break the ganker's target lock for 20 seconds
Setting drones to aggressive lets them engage your aggressor without having to target-lock first CCP Drone Guide
Fitting expensive meta modules may compel a duo gank due to their high-value loot chance
Trade hubs (especially Hek) and ice belt systems are popular hunting grounds for gankers
Mine aligned to a celestial/station for faster warp-out
Warping out when a non-mining ship enters your belt/anomaly is prudent
Other mining ships may be scouts for gankers; it is good to know who your neighbours are and put known gankers on your contact list with terrible standing
It is impolite (and diminishes yield) to mine a rock someone else is already mining: when the rock runs out of ore, the first laser to cycle will get the last ore but the other lasers will continue to cycle (up to 3 minutes) and get nothing
