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Al hubbard (talk | contribs) →Mining drones: Added updated numbers for Ascension. Need to add Ice Harvesting drones. |
Al hubbard (talk | contribs) →Mining drones: Added ice harvesting drones. Added faction icons to drone names, and a note that excavators can only be used the the Rorq. |
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| style="text-align:left; background-color:#333333" | Mining Drone II | | style="text-align:left; background-color:#333333" | [[File:Icon tech2.png|16px]] Mining Drone II | ||
| 5 | | 5 | ||
| 33 | | 33 | ||
| 500 m/s | | 500 m/s | ||
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| style="text-align:left; background-color:#333333" | 'Augmented' Mining Drone | | style="text-align:left; background-color:#333333" | [[File:Icon faction.png|16px]] 'Augmented' Mining Drone | ||
| 5 | | 5 | ||
| 37 | | 37 | ||
| 550 m/s | | 550 m/s | ||
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| style="text-align:left; background-color:#333333" | Harvester Mining Drone | | style="text-align:left; background-color:#333333" | [[File:Icon faction.png|16px]] Harvester Mining Drone | ||
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| style="text-align:left; background-color:#333333" | 'Excavator' Mining Drone | | style="text-align:left; background-color:#333333" | [[File:Icon faction.png|16px]]'Excavator' Mining Drone<ref name="rorqOnly">Can only be used by the [[Rorqual]]</ref> | ||
| 25 | | 25 | ||
| 325 | | 325 | ||
| 200 m/s | | 200 m/s | ||
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<small><references></references></small> | |||
Mining drones will mine the targeted asteroid for one cycle (60 seconds), then return to your ship, drop off the mined ore (into your cargo bay or ore hold), and fly back to the asteroid to continue mining. Since these drones don't have a MWD, they are very slow (about half as fast as heavy combat drones), and therefore it's important to keep your ship as close as possible to the asteroid they are mining, to avoid losing too much time in transit. Training {{sk|Mining Drone Operation|icon=yes}} and {{sk|Drone Interfacing|icon=yes}} improves their mining yield, and training {{sk|Drone Navigation|icon=yes}} increases their speed. | Mining drones will mine the targeted asteroid for one cycle (60 seconds), then return to your ship, drop off the mined ore (into your cargo bay or ore hold), and fly back to the asteroid to continue mining. Since these drones don't have a MWD, they are very slow (about half as fast as heavy combat drones), and therefore it's important to keep your ship as close as possible to the asteroid they are mining, to avoid losing too much time in transit. Training {{sk|Mining Drone Operation|icon=yes}} and {{sk|Drone Interfacing|icon=yes}} improves their mining yield, and training {{sk|Drone Navigation|icon=yes}} increases their speed. | ||
For comparison, a Miner I mining module can mine 40 m<sup>3</sup>/min of ore. There are no mining drones for [[Ice Mining|ice]] | For comparison, a Miner I mining module can mine 40 m<sup>3</sup>/min of ore. There are no mining drones for [[Gas Cloud Mining|gas]] harvesting. | ||
===Ice harvesting drones=== | |||
These drones [[Ice Mining|gather ice]] from ice asteroids. There are four ice harvesting drone models: | |||
{| class="wikitable drones" | |||
! style="text-align:left" | Drone | |||
! style="cursor:help" | <span title="Volume required in drone bay (m3) and drone bandwidth required (MBit/s).">Volume/Bandwidth</span> | |||
! style="cursor:help" | <span title="Volume of ore mined per minute (m³/min).">Cycle time</span> | |||
! style="cursor:help" | <span title="Drone flight speed.">Speed</span> | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align:left; background-color:#333333" | Ice Harvesting Drone I | |||
| 50 | |||
| 330 s | |||
| 200 m/s | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align:left; background-color:#333333" | [[File:Icon tech2.png|16px]] Ice Harvesting Drone II | |||
| 50 | |||
| 300 s | |||
| 250 m/s | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align:left; background-color:#333333" | [[File:Icon faction.png|16px]] 'Augmented' Ice Harvesting Drone | |||
| 50 | |||
| 280 s | |||
| 275 m/s | |||
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| style="text-align:left; background-color:#333333" | [[File:Icon faction.png|16px]]'Excavator' Ice Harvesting Drone<ref name="rorqOnly">Can only be used by the [[Rorqual]]</ref> | |||
| 25 | |||
| 225 s | |||
| 100 m/s | |||
|} | |||
<small><references></references></small> | |||
Ice harvesting drones operate identically to mining drones, except their cycles are longer and they only harvest one unit of ice at a time. For comparison, an Ice Harvester I module has a cycle time of 220 seconds. | |||
== Skills == | == Skills == | ||