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So the combination of the downside of actually mining the ore, coupled with the fact that you'd have to reduce the efficiency of at least one ship to get someone capable of mining it in the first place, nobody does this anymore. While you could have people warp in and mine for you, the asteroid disappears if you finish the site so you'd have to sit there and keep it open, protecting the miners while additional spawns pop up. | So the combination of the downside of actually mining the ore, coupled with the fact that you'd have to reduce the efficiency of at least one ship to get someone capable of mining it in the first place, nobody does this anymore. While you could have people warp in and mine for you, the asteroid disappears if you finish the site so you'd have to sit there and keep it open, protecting the miners while additional spawns pop up. | ||
==== Mining the asteroid ==== | |||
If you do decide to mine out the asteroid, it will have 75,000 units (90,000 m3) of Lyavite in it, which is 294 full stacks and some leftovers. | |||
The ships you use will need to be fairly tanked and to keep the spawns down to a minimum they should preferably use as few strip miners as possible. The regular fleet will also need to remain, or portions of it, to protect the miners while they mine. | |||
If you do this with a regular [[Procurer]]s and an average mining yield of 1,000 m3 / minute and miner, then it would take one miner an hour and a half (90 minutes) to mine all the Lyavite from the asteroid. For two miners it would take 45 minutes and for a group of five miners it would take 18 minutes. | |||
Even if you use [[Skiff]]s with a yield of 1,500 m3 / minute it would still take six miners to get it done in something like 10 minutes. | |||