ORE Basic Ship and Skill Overview: Difference between revisions

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For more in-depth discussion of the purpose and use of some specific ORE ships, please see the [[Mining Ships#Mining_Barges|Mining Ships]] and [[Orca]] pages.  

With the introduction of the Ore Hold (in Inferno 1.2) to Mining Barges and Exhumers, the Expanded Cargohold modules and Cargohold Optimization rigs of past fits are no longer beneficial. The Ore Hold cannot be increased by modules or rigs (only skills).

Required skills for ORE ships vary depending on the ship class. All mining-related ships require Mining Barge and Astrogeology to some level, though, and the Orca and Rorqual require leadership skills in order to give bonuses. The Primae does not require any skills to pilot, but the Noctis will require a new skill: ORE Industrial, which is available at the npc seeded price of 1.6 million at all stations that sell skillbooks.

The Orca and Rorqual are also shield tanked, but most of their EHP comes from a large hull buffer that is greatly extended by fitting a DCU2.

 

=== Venture ===

The Venture is the first ORE ship almost any aspiring miner will fly. It only requires the [[sp|Mining Frigate]] skill, which can be injected by any newly created character, to operate, thus providing a viable mining ship with a low barrier of entry. Its two built-in warp core stabilizers also make the Venture a good ship for mining in hostile space.

The Venture also carries an unique bonus to Gas Harvesting, making it the ship of choice for such purposes.

</noinclude>{{#ifeq:{{{1|Venture}}}|Venture|

| version=RET 1.0

| shipDNA=32880:17938;1:25266;2:439;1:2281;1:3831;1:2048;1:31716;1:31788;2:23707;2:30013;8::

| skills=

| notes=Basic wormhole gas harvester fit. Tech 2 modules can be replaced with Tech 1 but will reduce your tank.</li><li>Drones can be used against any attackers.}}

{{ShipFitting

| notes=ECCM to to make you harder to probe down and hopefully give you time to see the combat probes on d-scan.</li><li>The warp core stab is to make it so that the enemy would need 4 points of warp disruption to pin you down.</li><li>MSE II is to let you survive one volley on your way out.</li><li>Gravity capacitor rigs to help you probe your way out to a new exit if needed.}}

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Mining barges are the first level of ORE mining ships. There are three mining barges, each optimized for a different role.

=== Procurer ===

Since the Inferno 1.2 patch, the Procurer has become a very respectable mining ship due to its combination of decent yield, good ore hold, great tank, and low cost. The Procurer's ore hold is larger than a Covetor, smaller than a Retriever, but can still fit several cycles worth of ore. The Procurer's base mining yield is the lowest of all the ORE ships, but has been improved significantly to be on par with other ORE mining ships. The procurer's tank is beat only by its T2 varient, the Skiff. Using inexpensive modules, the procurer can reach enormous EHP while still maintaining a respectable yield and is thus the safest ship for mining in the lower-security (.6 or .5) areas of high security space.

</noinclude>{{#ifeq:{{{1|Procurer}}}|Procurer|

ship=Procurer|

shipTypeID=17480|

fitName=Tanked mining (T1)|

fitID=TankedT1|

high1name=Strip Miner I|

high1typeID=17482|

notes=A buffer of 63,670 EHP against Antimatter makes suicide ganks against this ship extremely unprofitable.</li><li>Even at maximum skills, the Procurer is still a slow ship at 113 m/s. Use of a bounce bookmark that is on grid with the asteroid belt is recommended.</li><li>Two Hobgoblin I drones should be sufficient to dispatch all high-sec belt rats with ease. The EC-300 drones are added to provide further security against suicide ganking. If you have done nothing to make yourself a target, you can likely replace them with Mining Drone Is or further Hobgoblin Is.}} {{ShipFitting|

fitName=Tanked mining (T2)|

version=RUB 1.0|

notes=This fit further increases the already-high EHP buffer of the fit above to a grand total of 97,696 EHP against Antimatter.</li><li>Note that this is done by removing the Survey Scanner module. As such, this fit is designed to work in small-scale mining fleets where a single ship uses a Survey Scanner to point out high-resource asteroids to the other miners.</li><li>Even at maximum skills, the Procurer is still a slow ship at 113 m/s. Use of a bounce bookmark that is on grid with the asteroid belt is recommended.}}

notes=A bait fit, to trap low sec pirates looking for an easy prey. </li><li>Make sure that you've got backup if you're jumped by multiple hostiles or by anything bigger than a destroyer.</li><li>Usage: Mine in a Low-Sec belt. Wait until someone willing to take the bait arrives on grid. Warn your Backup, that they should align to you. Align out & bump an asteroid or make yourself look foolish doing something else. Get redboxed. Call for Backup. Yellowbox back. Ideally your opponent should be in web range - If he isn't simply point him. Your backup should arrive and end up with a nice killmail</li><li>With all skills at V and before boosts, this ship has 67.3 K EHP, flies at 113 m/s and align in 9.4 s. The capacitor is stable.</li><li>Damage is 99 dps at 60 km with the Hogoblins II drones.}}

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As Covetors are extremely easy to destroy in suicide gank attacks, using this ship without the possibility of storing it in an [[Orca]]'s Ship Maintenance Bay when attacked might be unwise.

{{Ship|Covetor|box}}

ship=Covetor|

shipTypeID=17476|

fitName=Supported mining (T1)|

fitID=Hisec-Mining|

high1name=Strip Miner I|

high1typeID=17482|

high2name=Strip Miner I|

high2typeID=17482|

high3name=Strip Miner I|

high3typeID=17482|

version=RUB 1.0|

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>The Cargohold Optimisation rigs of past fits are no longer beneficial to the Ore Hold (introduced in Inferno 1.2). Rig slots are now available for other purposes.}} {{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><li>The Cargohold Optimisation rigs of past fits are no longer beneficial to the Ore Hold (introduced in Inferno 1.2). Rig slots are now available for other purposes.}}

=== Retriever ===

The Retriever has the largest ore hold out of the T1 mining barges, but has a middling yield and only slightly more tank than the Covetor. If you are mining without support in higher-security areas (.7 and above), the Retriever is the ship of choice as its slightly lower yield is offset by vastly reducing the number of ore drop-off runs that need to be made.

ship=Retriever|

shipTypeID=17478|

fitName=Unsupported mining (T1)|

high1name=Strip Miner I|

high1typeID=17482|

high2name=Strip Miner I|

high2typeID=17482|

mid1name=Survey Scanner I|

mid1typeID=444|

low1name=Mining Laser Upgrade I|

warsop=A|

warsopReason=|

version=RUB 1.0|

shipDNA=17478:17482;2:444;1:22542;3:2486;5::|

skills=Mining Barge III</li><li>Astrogeology IV</li><li>Electronics IV</li><li>Drones V</li><li>Combat Drone Operation III</li><li>Hull Upgrades II</li><li>Mining Upgrades I</li><li>Drone Durability III</li><li>Drone Interfacing III</li><li>Electronics Upgrades I</li><li>Scout Drone Operation III|

notes=The Cargohold Optimisation rigs of past fits are no longer beneficial to the Ore Hold (introduced in Inferno 1.2). Rig slots are now available for other purposes.}}  {{ShipFitting|

fitName=Unsupported mining (T2)|

version=RUB 1.0|

| notes=~83s cycle time with 2 harvesters gives 1000m3 of ice every 41.5s.</li><li>This Retriever fit will allow for the fastest possible ice harvesting, exceeding that of the Procurer thanks to the third Ice Harvester Upgrade in the low slot. This fit also meets or exceeds the production of a Covetor unless your Mining Barge skill is IV or higher. Given the large ore bay, this fit is ideal for solo ice mining.</li><li>Relatively modest fitting skills are required; CPU management IV is sufficient. CPU rig is required even with CPU Management V unless 3% CPU implants are used. Defensive drones to taste and skill. Mining drones do not work with ice mining.}}}}

fitName=Retriever: Unsupported mining (T2) With Tank|

notes=Without accounting for any skills, this version has 13,086 EHP according to EFT.}}<noinclude>

==Exhumer==

Exhumers are the T2 versions of Mining Barges, and all three are direct upgrades from their T1 counterparts. All of them require the {{sk|Exhumers}} skill to operate.

=== Skiff ===

Being the T2 version of the [[#Procurer|Procurer]], the Skiff naturally has the most impressive tank out of the three Exhumers by quite a large margin, being able to achieve battleship-level EHP with proper fitting. Its higher speed also allows it to effectively use Afterburner modules to further complicate matters for any would-be gankers. If you wish to safely mine in lower-security regions of high security space (.5 and .6 security), the Skiff is the ship of choice.

ship=Skiff|

shipTypeID=22546|

fitName=Unsupported mining (AB)|

warsop=S|

warsopReason=Faction module|

version=RUB 1.0|

skills=Exhumers III</li><li>CPU Management V</li><li>Power Grid Management V</li><li>Shield Management IV|

notes=The pictured fit achieves an impressive 104,095 EHP against Antimatter before overheating. The capacitor is stable with all modules active.</li><li>With the Afterburner active, the Skiff goes at 644 m/s, thus outrunning typical ganking-fit Catalysts by a rather large margin as well as complicating warpins. To take advantage of this, orbiting the asteroid being mined is recommended.</li><li>The Dread Guristas Kinetic Deflection Field is used to provide the same performance as a T2 Kinetic Deflection Field at a reduced CPU usage. The module is very cheap at a mere 5 million ISK at time of writing.</li><li>If your skills do not allow you to use the pictured fit due to CPU issues, replacing the Thermic Dissipation Field II with a Dread Guristas or equivalent variation is a possibility.}} {{ShipFitting|

fitName=Unsupported mining (No prop)|

notes=The pictured fit reaches 133,211 EHP against Antimatter before overheating. The capacitor is stable with all modules active.</li><li>Due to not having an Afterburner fit, this Skiff will only move at 250m/s even at perfect skills. Use of an on-grid bounce tactical is thus recommended.</li><li>The Dread Guristas Kinetic Deflection Field is used to provide the same performance as a T2 Kinetic Deflection Field at a reduced CPU usage. The module is very cheap at a mere 5 million ISK at time of writing.</li><li>If your skills do not allow you to use the pictured fit due to CPU issues, replacing the Thermic Dissipation Field II with a Dread Guristas or equivalent variation is a possibility.}}

=== Hulk ===

Being the T2 version of the [[#Covetor|Covetor]], the Hulk impresses with the highest yield of all the Exhumers and little else. Its tank is nothing to write home about, with even the most heavily tanked fits succumbing to two dedicated Catalyst pilots. When mining unsupported, the increased number of ore drop-off runs, caused by Hulk's comparatively small ore hold that after a mere five minutes of mining, will also likely offset any yield gains made compared to its cousins.

While in a fleet with a trustworthy Orca pilot, however, all of the Hulk's disadvantages are negated through the Ship Maintenance Bay's near-perfect anti-gank protection and the fleet hangar's convenient ore storage, making it the T2 barge of choice for use in medium-to-large-scale fleet mining operations.

{{Ship|Hulk|box}}

</noinclude>{{#ifeq:{{{1|Hulk}}}|Hulk|

{{ShipFitting|

ship=Hulk|

shipTypeID=22544|

fitName=Fleet mining|

fitID=HulkFleetMining|

high1name=Modulated Strip Miner II|

high1typeID=17912|

high2name=Modulated Strip Miner II|

high2typeID=17912|

high3name=Modulated Strip Miner II|

high3typeID=17912|

mid1name=Survey Scanner II|

mid1typeID=2333|

mid2name=Limited Adaptive Invulnerability Field I|

mid2typeID=9632|

mid3name=Dread Guristas Thermic Dissipation Field|

mid3typeID=13966|

mid4name=Dread Guristas Kinetic Deflection Field|

mid4typeID=13968|

low1name=Mining Laser Upgrade II|

low1typeID=28576|

low2name=Mining Laser Upgrade II|

low2typeID=28576|

drone1name=Mining Drone II x5|

drone1typeID=10250|

drone2name=Hobgoblin II x5|

drone2typeID=2456|

drone3name=open|

drone4name=open|

drone5name=open|

charge1name=open|

charge2name=open|

charge3name=open|

charge4name=open|

charge5name=open|

rig1name=Medium Processor Overclocking Unit I|

rig1typeID=4395|

rig2name=Medium Core Defense Field Extender II|

rig2typeID=31796|

difficulty=2|

warsop=S|

warsopReason=Faction module|

version=RUB 1.0|

shipDNA=22544:17912;3:2333;1:9632;1:13966;1:13968;1:28576;2:4395;1:31796;1:10250;5:2456;5:18066;3::|

notes=The fit pictures only achieves a meager 22,815 EHP against antimatter before heat, crumbling to two Catalysts in .5 security. However, the buffer should provide the pilot sufficient time to store the ship in the Orca's Ship Maintenance Bay before it can be destroyed.}}

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As the T2 upgrade to the [[#Retriever|Retriever]], the Mackinaw sports an impressively sized ore hold, yield that is only slightly below that of the Hulk, and a rather flimsy tank when contrasted to its price tag. The latter attribute has led to the Mackinaw being a very common target for suicide ganks, thus making unsupported use outside of .7 security or above unwise.

{{Ship|Mackinaw|box}}

</noinclude>{{#ifeq:{{{1|Mackinaw}}}|Mackinaw|

skills=Exhumers III</li><li>CPU Management V</li><li>Shield Management IV|

notes=The fitted tank is mainly to discourage alpha gankers, which are the main threat you will face in the Mackinaw's common usage area where CONCORD response times are near-instantaneous.</li><li>Both the Domination EM Ward Field and the Domination Thermic Dissipation Amplifier are rather cheap at time of writing, clocking in below 10 million ISK.</li><li>If you use a Medium Processor Overclocking Unit I rig in place of the shield rig, you can replace some faction modules with their T2 variations for reduced tank that also comes with a slightly lower price tag.}} {{ShipFitting|

notes=The fitted tank is mainly to discourage alpha gankers, which are the main threat you will face in the Mackinaw's common usage area where CONCORD response times are near-instantaneous.</li><li>All the faction modules used are rather cheap, clocking in below 10 million ISK at time of writing.</li><li>If you are willing to sacrifice yield, replacing the Medium Ice Harvester Accelerator I rig with a second Medium Processor Overclocking Unit I rig will allow you to replace faction modules with their T2 counterparts for a reduction in price.}}

==Industrial==

=== Primae ===

The Primae was a free ship given out along with the Tyrannis expansion. While it can be useful if the player doesn't have another industrial ship available, it is generally thought of as too specialized and an easy target for gankers.

{{ShipFitting|

fitID=PI-Hauler|