Industrialisms

I had been considering doing a joint mining operation for some time with other corporations, in the spirit of cooperation, and the time seemed right to get together with a few people, notably Keldar Anassi of Lonetrek Industries, Inc. (and the proprietor of Lonetrek Hosting Services as well) and also Jager Da, recently of The Kairos Syndicate. Both are people I follow on Twitter (see either Keldar or Jager Da), and both are also bloggers.

After we tossed a few in-game chats back and forth and some eve-mails later, I set aside a portion of our MCE forums for Joint Mining Operations. I gave Keldar and Jager access to this forum so we could set things up easier and keep lines of communications open.

We set the date for Monday, and people started showing up around 8:30 or 9PM. We mined until around 11:30PM or so. We had a total of 14 people, including myself, my CEO, Keldar, and Jager. It was very impressive to see, and once my CEO joined us in his Orca, I had to relegate myself to hauling using my Bustard which I had staged up in the area the night before. There was a mix of ships in attendance, a couple Hulks, a Bustard (me), a mining-fit Rohk, and some Retreivers. All in all a good group of people, and a great time.

It was all high sec mining in a 0.5 system in the Citadel region so we got some good high-sec ores. We ended up mining out two belts in a very short amount of time. I then collected all the ore, hauled it 8 jumps away in two trips, refined it, and returned with the splits for contract to the participants in the system we mined in. As a sidenote, I made a quick little Excel spreadsheet that figures the ore splits based on number of participants to make it easier to split everything in hangar.

To get an idea of what you can do with a mixed group, here’s a recap of how we did (and pictures too) – WARNING, beyond this point is extremely geeky number based data:

After refining at a 50% station, and taking into account my skills (Refinery Efficiency V) that left us with 99.5% yield, and at standings with Spacelane Patrol of 5.91, I get only 0.57% tax. A lot better refine rate than the system we mined in, but was 8 jumps away, so I had to run two loads in a freighter back and forth. Took a bit of time, but worth it to not incur as much loss.

We ended up with 15,454,190 Tritanium, 4,202,320 Pyerite, 1,325,335 Mexallon, and 17,040 Nocxium which was not bad at all. I also melted down the extra rat loot we picked up, and netted us a little extra in there as well (see pictures). The split, between 14 members of the group ended up being 1,105,891 Tritanium, 301,861 Pyerite, 94,805 Mexallon, and 1,220 Nocxium for each person.