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Refining is a miner’s second best friend, the first being powerful mining lasers. Refining allows a miner to refine their raw ore into usable minerals that can be sold or used for personal production. However, it is unlikely that new players' skill sets will allow for the efficient use of a refinery, and large portions of the refined minerals will be lost as ‘waste’, so new miners may find it more profitable to sell the raw ore they mine rather than refining it. | Refining is a miner’s second best friend, the first being powerful mining lasers. Refining allows a miner to refine their raw ore into usable minerals that can be sold or used for personal production. However, it is unlikely that new players' skill sets will allow for the efficient use of a refinery, and large portions of the refined minerals will be lost as ‘waste’, so new miners may find it more profitable to sell the raw ore they mine rather than refining it. | ||
==Equipment== | |||
In New Eden there are two types or refining equipment: equipment owned by NPC corporations and equipment owned by player corporations. Two modules exist for player-owned starbases with 52% and 54% refining efficiency. Outposts within sovereign null-security space have a base efficiency of 50%. Amarr, Caldari, and Gallente outposts can be upgraded to 57%, while Minmatar outposts can be upgraded to 60% efficiency. | |||
If an NPC station is capable of refining then its equipment will have an efficiency rating between 30% and 50% (you can search for stations with 50% reprocessing efficiency by criteria, for example npc-corp or solar system, at [http://eve-online.itemdrop.net/eve_db/universe/station_search/ Station search page]). Obviously using a station with 50% equipment is better so pilots should take care when choosing a refining station and check this value before use. (You can use third-party map tools like [http://evemaps.dotlan.net/ DOTLAN] to quickly check this. A list of the [[Mining_in_the_Apetter_Constellation|stations in Aptetter]] is available) | |||
In addition, NPC stations take a tax for using their refining facilities. The tax is based on the player's personal or corporation standings with the station's owner, whichever standing is higher is used. The tax starts at 5% with 0 standings and falls to 0% at 6.67 standings with the station owner. Hence, it's a good idea to refine at stations for which you or your corp have the best relationship. | |||
==Refining== | |||
Before you can refine your raw materials, or reprocess modules and scrap, you must place the ore in your hangar at a station with a refinery, or into the cargohold of a player-owned starbase reprocessing array. Compressed ores require 1 unit to refine, while uncompressed ores require 100 units. You cannot refine uncompressed ores with less than 100 units of a single type, e.g. 75 units of Veldspar cannot be combined with 25 units Dense Veldspar to refine together. Both compressed and uncompressed ores yield the same amount of minerals per batch. All ice require 1 unit to refine, with compressed ice simply takes 10x less volume (100 m3) than uncompressed ice (1,000 m3). | |||
To refine, you can right click the item from your hanger, or drag it to the opened refining window. Once done, you'll have screen that looks similar to this | |||
[[File:refining.png]] | |||
In this example, | |||
==Ore== | ==Ore== | ||
Before you can refine your ore, you must place the ore in your hangar at a station with a refinery, or into the cargohold of a player-owned starbase reprocessing array. The following table lists the mineral content of each ore type, and the location(s) where they can be found. Compressed ores require 1 unit to refine, while uncompressed ores require 100 units. | Before you can refine your ore, you must place the ore in your hangar at a station with a refinery, or into the cargohold of a player-owned starbase reprocessing array. The following table lists the mineral content of each ore type, and the location(s) where they can be found. Compressed ores require 1 unit to refine, while uncompressed ores require 100 units. | ||
Note that actual yields depend on refining equipment, player skills, level of refining implant (if any), and corporation standings if using an NPC station. The max refine currently possible with perfect skills, a +5% implant and using a fully upgraded Minmatar outpost in player owned null security space is 88%. With average skills taking around 30 days of training (Refining, Refining Efficiency, and Ore Skills all at IV), using a 50% NPC refining station with no implant, actual refining efficiency is ~60-65% depending on corporation standings. | Note that actual yields depend on refining equipment, player skills, level of refining implant (if any), and corporation standings if using an NPC station. The max refine currently possible with perfect skills, a +5% implant and using a fully upgraded Minmatar outpost in player owned null security space is 88%. With average skills taking around 30 days of training (Refining, Refining Efficiency, and Ore Skills all at IV), using a 50% NPC refining station with no implant, actual refining efficiency is ~60-65% depending on corporation standings. | ||
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==Equipment== | ==Equipment== | ||