Eve dying by a thousand cuts
It would be SO much better if the mining criticals dropped the true ore in your mining hold instead of the mission ore. That way it would be an actual bonus.
And don’t give me the “if you want to mine rare ores you should head into low/null argument.
It is a bonus, not a substitute for mining the actual ore like you do in low/null.
I think it’s mostly an issue of being a tedious annoyance that CCP didn’t think about, and now people are having to micro manage what should be a mostly relaxing activity.
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If crits don’t count, there’s no point speccing into them
ah okay… so well, its the “effort” of “jettison some ore” and then when the roid disappears scooping it back until the cargo is full?
Hmm, so the mission is equally long (because crits aren’t taken out of the roid), but there are 3 more clicks involved? Like “jettison ore”, “opening the container” and “scooping back what fits in the cargo” before warping out?
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you got it chief
Maybe their cheap mining bot is not suited for handling jetcans. 
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“Mine 40,000 m3 of this ore but your crits dont count.”
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Thought the same…
The statement about largest volume in this thread is not correct.
Arisite Envy has the largest of 45.000m3.
If you run the mission solo its done in Mack with 2 Cargohold Optimization II and 1 Expanded Cargohold II. Bringing you over the 45000 limit (44296 + 826)
The reason for not taking 2 trips is solely due to the loss of time and the Porpoise is not a viable option here either as its 40% slower in this mission than the Mack.
Jet canning in mining missions is not recommended as it brings a potential risk of getting robbed and loosing standings.
An easy fix…… Change the Ore Strip Miners Critical Success Chance to 0% or interduce a new tech 1 version with no residue and crit chance.
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That’s a huge nerf to ORE strip miners.
Many thousands of players would be seriously disappointed with CCP if they were to make this change just for a couple of mission miners.
They should make an exhumer which can fit four ORE strip miners.
They could add more mission roids spaced farther apart: without residue you finish on the closest ones, with residue you’ll need to hit the distant ones as well. Let crits count too. Easy.
Or, like residue, they turn the crit off for mining missions
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Oh, you are right with that, slipped through my fingers. Well, its 200m³ more then.
So where is the problem to just jettison some of the ore and mine until the roid is gone, then scoop back into the cargo as much as possible and turn in the mission?
Either I am still missing something important or the crits don’t make it incredibly hard or complex to still get the mission done, it’s basically just 3 clicks more within a … 10 minute timeframe or so?
The new Outrider and Pioneer are nice, they can fit three ORE miners.
Also the Outrider may have a massive amount of CPU for a Command Destroyer, but it’s still not enough to easily fit three of them together with three mining laser upgrades as this costs way too much CPU, so people will also likely fit ‘Elara Restrained’ upgrades for 30M each on the Outrider.
It’s easy to fit 900M on this new ship!