Mining Crystal Changes, Why?

[tinny_Esil]

@Gerard_Amatin

Type A
Type A crystals II on a T2 miner mines about 44% faster than a T1 strip miner, which is really nice.
Downside is that you get some residue, which means you cannot get all ore out of an asteroid.

For Type A II your residue chance is 37.6%, which means about 27% of any rock is wasted and you gain 73% of the ore in it.

Type B
Type B crystals cycle quicker than Type A, which results in 25% more yield.

Residue chance is higher at 64%, which means you can potentially mine 61% of a rock and 39% of the rock is lost.

Type C
Type C crystals are useful when you want to quickly destroy rocks. For example when you want to get rid of less valuable rocks to make Mercoxit respawn in an anomaly, or want to annoy your neighbours.

^This is not a simplification.

@Gerard_Amatin

You will likely bring a few type B crystals and need to shuffle less as your crystal now covers multiple different ores.

In nullsec, you were swapping crystal types about once every 15min or so due to the size of the asteroid, unless you were hulk mining with perfect rorqual bonus.

Follow up, why would anyone want an extra “waste” figure. Just reduce the size of the rocks.