Darius Wrote:I speak from personal experience when I say that building and getting a base to Core 3 max HP, with fully built modules and refineries, costs only some 10 millions. It is outrageously cheap.
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I would think that making 2.4 millions an hour, mining Gold in Dublin (thus requiring only some 4.something hours total for said Core 3 max base) makes this "cheap", but perhaps you'd like to make an argument that earning cash is difficult in today's Discovery...?
To nitpick: If we're going to equate time and money like this and then judge everything against the gold (heh) standard of money making right now, you're going to need to consider the time cost as well. If supplying the base took say 10 hours, then that's an additional $24mil down. $10mil of actual expenditure, and another $24mil of opportunity cost. Time is really the big one for a POB, in my limited and outdated experience.
Busy Miner Wrote:So more than 1 million per hour is fantasy.
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And this is the thick-headedness of this whole server I am talking about. I am quite the experienced miner, and people keep disregarding my experience and bullshitting me.
Connacht buys Gold Ore for $175 per, and my Hegemon holds 4982 ore. $871,850 per load. One round trip takes me 21-22 minutes on an indie Molly ID (x3 bonus)
871850/21.5 = $40,551/min
60*40551=$2,433,060/hr
No need to insult anyone mate.
Busy Miner Wrote:This doesn't help at all if you aren't allowed to dock at the bases that pay that much. And 20 min is pure fantasy, I would like to see some video evidence. You claimed as much in my Hegemon thread, but it is physically impossible.
Whether or not you can dock with any ID does not matter: there is an open access ID that can make $2.4mil/hr with very little investment. And 20min sounds pretty doable for a x4 ID or for a Gamer who uses 20 keybinds for optimal Hege turret steering+strafing.
First; this wasn't meant as an insult but just a factual description. Second: people here claim that this run can be doable in 20 minutes, while the flight from POB to the field and back takes half of that. And no amount of strafing gets you through the field this fast, especially if the next ore asteroid is 2k away. And third: BMM indie of BMF wouldn't be allowed to dock at Connacht, would it?