You are making Whitehound and I pretty much take the same view points…? This is outrageous I’d much rather be calling a Whitehound a dingbat and I’m sure he’d rather be calling me a doofus. Can you people start doing it right so the normal way of things can obtain.
/sarcasm… I have no issue agreeing with Whitehound when indeed the agreement is warranted.
Well… The OP was asking for a MINERAL freighter, not an ORE freighter. Specialized ships which carry ores (Veld, Scord, Pyro, Plagio, Ombre, Jaspet, etc.)
So, there isn’t a specialized freighter level ship for moving minerals. But, IMO, we dont’ need one. Freighters and jump freighters can do the job fine. If you need more tritanium than this, you should probably consider moving compressed veldspar instead and having setting up reprocessing facilities at your desintation.
If you are in the business of building Titans, Putting up 40 courier contract of an in-system freighter haulage is pocket change…
If you’re not prepared to spend the man-hours hauling the stuff then pay someone else in your alliance to do it for you. There are pilots able to do your job. Generally speaking, I can have teather to teather freighter hauls done in nulsec for 1 Million ISK per load. that’s nothing.
Login tomorrow and your jobs will be done. It’s easy.
Well then… Use a freighter and do those 40 trips yourself.
I’d still suggest that making a Titan is an alliance level activity and people would outsource the transportation. There just isn’t the need for CCP developers to spend time on a ship which will hardly be used, and make no positive contribution.
This is exactly right. By creating a dedicated mineral freighter you pretty much remove or significantly reduce the need for compression. And yes, a freighter can carry a significant amount of minerals. Mineral volume is 100 units/1m3. So if you 500,000 m3 you can carry 50,000,000 units of minerals.
I get 34 trips or so. But building a titan does not need to be made easier, IMO.
Compression has always been in the game. Before we’d turn minerals into things like ammo and then ship them out to NS and refine them and get back 100% of the minerals. CCP removed that, and gave us compression which was not quite as good.
No, it isn’t. CCP changed the reprocessing equation so you can’t get back 100% of what you put in. That is why they added the current compression mechanics.