Today, mining without an escort is suicidal. Now, the question is, how well do you pay your escorts? Comparedly to trading, you can give them a very good salary, one that they can live off from. Since I know my escorts personally, and I know they're reliable, I give them around 15 million credits per full run, and it's not even half my profits!
Paying half would be far to mutch, since the escort wasnt mining, youll have to count that time too.
if you are two guys, with two mining ships, one train and one bomber, it would be half half of cause.
But miners that dont got trough shikoku wont have any problems, you can mine all day in Dublin and ship it to Ingoldstadt without ever meeting another soul.
We either go alone, or team up transports. Single atlas is a target, three make a fire team.
ANd if we pay, about 3 million per run, since we havent met a pirate yet.
We (Powermining, Inc) all have a miner and at least one escort. If trouble pops up someone can grab a fighter pretty fast.
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Treewyrm Wrote:all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.
And, how do you do it when there is lets say 2 transports flying separately, one flying other being filled and escort. We usually split the cash between the 2 trans 2 miners, and pay escorts from our earn on way back which is pretty good too. Thing is if I would pay him 15million, he would get more then rest of us