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Hulk or skiff for mercoxit?

I have seen Hulks mining mercoxit...isnt the skiff better for this?

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caster j

The cloud will not pop you unless your Hulk tank sucks :P

It will pop your mining drones though. Also the radius is 10 km, so you can sit at 12 and mine it without fear.

The skiff gets 60% bonus to the mining amount per Exhumer Skill Level, so at level 4 you have 100% base + 240% Bonus giving you an amount 340%, whereas the hulk only gives you 3x (100% + 12%x3) = 336% (100% base + 12% bonus times 3 miners)

At level 5 it's 400% vs. 345% giving you an even bigger advantage

So, Level 4 and 5, Skiff beats the Hulk. But on the other hand: Its tank is non existant.

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virtucon [ Editor ]

SKIF SKIF SKIF. the SKIF mines more merc and has a bonus to prevent it from exploding. your hulk will almost definately get poped if you attempt to do it. mercoxit rocks generate a cloud that when it pops does large amounts of damage which i heard can even pop a battleship. you don't want to mine the mercoxs until you have very good exhumer skills + mercox skills.

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kaitrei

Regarding damage clouds, you only need the Skiff if your Deep Core Mining isn't maxed out.

Interesting question. I initially thought the hulk was better because it has three high power slots, but I ran the numbers in EFT. To my surprise, it looks like the skiff mines almost 200 more cubic meters of Mercoxit per minute*, but at the same time, the Hulk has more room for ore.

*assuming both pilots have all the skills maxed out and are using T2 crystals and are using mining upgrade II's.

EDIT: I'm not entirely sure since I haven't actually flown either ships yet, I'm still in a retriever.

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