Ice harvesting
Ice mining is different to standard asteroid mining as only mining barges and exhumers are capable of fitting the required equipment, and the refined products are not used for manufacture, but for the standard operation of Player Owned Structures(POS) as well as Capital Ship Jump Drives.
Ice mining equipment also differs to asteroid miners, as the yield is a fixed parameter depending on the ships being used. All capable ships will mine one piece of ice per cycle, except for the mackinaw which has a 100% bonus, thusly 2 pieces of ice will be mined per cycle.
To improve the amount of ice mined, the cycle time is reduced, allowing for more cycles.
Basic Ice Mining Requirements
The following allows for a Mining Barge to be used:
- Astrogeology III
- Science IV
- Industry V
- Mining Barge I
- Mining IV
The following allows for the use of a Ice Harvester I module
- Ice Harvesting - level 1
This skill set will result in 1 Piece of Ice per Ice Harvester with a cycle time of 10mins
This is the lowest ice yield rate possible
Perfect Ice Mining Requirements
The following allows for Mackinaw to be used perfectly
- Exhumers V
- Spaceship Command IV
- Industry V
- Astrogeology V
- Science IV
- Mining IV
- Mining Barge V
The following allows for the use of a Ice Harvester II module
- Ice Harvesting V
2 x Ice Mining Upgrades
This skill set will result in 2 pieces of Ice per Ice harvester with a cycle time of 4 mins 20sec
