Level 4 Mining Mission Summary

[Lesican]

@Ribs_Ramone

If you want to grind CORP standings, the best way is to run distro missions

that is the most time efficient way, the “best” way is doing any mission type that you don’t personally find boring, or paying someone else to grind for you if you find them all dull af

[stefnia_Freir]

anything is boring when done enough, therefore at the end the most efficient is the best.

[Ribs_Ramone]

Yet another interesting fact that puts the “value” of mining missions, in null in a bit of chaos.

1). You all know that High → Low → Null LP is approx 1 → 1.5 ->2.

But that’s not always the case, especially with one mission in null that pays…

13K LP per mission

Not Gneiss at all pays about 7k. So this is double.

It’s one of the GAS missions. And only in curse. (I only saw it in Angel and Serp Agents in Curse). I know that NM-OEA (ORE) Does NOT pay the extra for it. No idea of the others.

The catch is… Serp and Angel pay a little less than Ore. About 65%. But you get double on this one mission.

And Serpentis has FOUR agents in the g-g system. You can decline and Cherry pick like crazy.

I find you can do three missions an hour. It goes to about 110ish million an hour. You can cash the LP close to Lowsec. Move the items in, cash at station and povchen jump home. If you donate the LP to your corp then another corpmate can cash them in. (Your alt I assume)

[Vokan_Narkar]

@Ribs_Ramone

You have to manipulate the storyline agent. Some corps have a dearth of level 3’s and terrible storyline agents. Just grind level 2’s then. Or don’t accept, or reject it and do another 16.

Or you can switch the corporation. You do 15 missions for corp you want and then because the storyline is in lowsec where you are afraid to go or just too far for your convenience (or idk what the reason is to not do it for the “right corp”) then you do 1 mission for different corporation and you get storyline mission for that corp instead.

[Ribs_Ramone]

Yeah. You have to keep count… And I can only count to 14…

[Skadoos]

@Miss_Stardust

A new mechanic worth mentioning is EDENCOM systems. There are several very good systems with L4 mining agents available. EDENCOM Fortress systems give a system-wide 10% mining boost.

Exhaustive list of all EDENCOM systems with an L4 mining agent:

0.5 Systems:

• Ghesis (Creodron)
• Usi (Perkone)

0.6 Systems:

• Gelfiven (Native Freshfood)
• Hentogaira (Minedrill, Perkone)
• Iro (Quafe Company)
• Teonusude (Imperial Armaments)

[Skadoos]

@Miss_Stardust

CCP has apparently coded all mission ore to ignore the residue mechanic. Therefore, Tech II mining gear is perfectly viable as a tool for Level 4 mission mining. I have personally tested Miner IIs, Mining Drone IIs, Ice Mining Laser IIs, and Gas Scoop IIs. I HAVE NOT tested Modulated Strip Miners with crystals, as I do not use Exhumers or Barges for this work. I tested Bandine, Augumene, Lyavite, Mercium, Green Arisite, both Gas clouds, and both ice rocks…no residue.

Mining crystals with Modulated Strip Miner II don’t work in missions anymore.

[Blossane_Thiesant]

I wonder if someone has a mining barge/exhumer fit for null-sec mining missions since the rats those can spawn are not funny. And it seems if i were to try and use a skiff i cannot fit all the ore in the hold which is just annoying

[Skadoos]

I’m flying this in high-sec currently, for null-sec I’d put in a flight of medium drones and tank it according to the regional rats, it should be fine. With Exhumers V this will fit any ore mission except Arisite Envy, which needs an Expanded Cargohold II in the lows. Replace the lows and highs for ice and gas accordingly.

[Mackinaw, Mackinaw ORE 44.8]
Mining Laser Upgrade II
Mining Laser Upgrade II
Mining Laser Upgrade II

10MN Afterburner II
Survey Scanner II
EM Shield Amplifier II
Thermal Shield Amplifier II

Strip Miner I
Strip Miner I

Medium Cargohold Optimization II
Medium Cargohold Optimization II

Mining Drone II x5