I just went out today to check a Deep Mining Endurance fit I have…
and discovered this…
29% residue chance…
That’s 1/3 of every cycles wasted…
The Ore Deep Miner do not use Crystals, has a much lower output ( 180mt Vs 460mt with crystals)
but has 0% residue chances… making it affectively 1/3 more powerful than it looks… like 240mt… of the T2 Seep Miner… before it uses the crystals…
That’s… massive…
Which skills get your Miners better at residue???
FYI I mined 5K Scordite Uu in 5 mins.
My log reported three completely 100% wasted cycles.
But all of them happened BEFORE I started using Crystals.
With Crystals I had zero Waster residue cycles (and double the output)
Mining foreman burst skills as well as industrial command ship skills will improve the effectiveness of the Mining Laser Efficiency Charge command burst on your Porpoise or Orca, which reduces residue on the affected miners.
While there are no skills to reduce residue directly, there are other ways. You can also use:
a Survey Chipset module, improves crits and reduces residue on your miner
abyssal miners with good residue rolls
faction mining equipment with zero residue like the ‘ORE Deep Core Mining Laser’
T1 mining equipment with zero residue (not for Mercoxit though)
Type A crystals instead of type B, as type A has lower residue
In addition you can also improve your mining critical yield and critical chance skills and use other sources to improve crits (chipset, mining efficiency boosts, abyssals, consortium ships) to increase your efficiency. Crits do not take ore from the rocks so they function like ‘anti-residue’ allowing you to create more ore out of nothing, instead of making ore disappear. With high crit stats and low residue you can even have more than 100% efficiency.
