I woke up this morning to find when CCP Games labels something as major, they are not joking around. Today's Revenant Major Update for EVE Online features quite a few topics that deserve their own posts. The sixth in the series will feature a subject that received a very long dev blog at the end of February: Mining Upgrades for the Equinox sovereignty system.
The news article gave a summary of the changes.
Mining Sovereignty Upgrades
Nullsec mining operations are seeing major boosts. Tier 1 and 2 mining sites now provide more ore from fewer but larger asteroids, reducing travel time and inefficiency. A new Tier 3 mining site, designed for capital-scale operations, offers enormous asteroids rich in resources. Mordunium refinement has been buffed to improve Pyerite availability, while Mercoxit yields increase across nullsec. Additionally, a new ORE deep core strip mining laser enhances efficiency for barges and exhumers, giving industrialists a powerful new tool for mining Mercoxit.
A new set of sovereignty mining upgrades were introduced in today's patch.
- New Tier 3 sovereignty mining upgrades have been added! The tier 3 mining locations are designed with Rorquals and large mining fleets in mind, with smaller numbers of asteroids but all of them are very high in volume. Each site contains just under 4x the total ore overall compared to the tier 2 mining sites.
- Tier 3 sites have a 10 hour respawn timer.
- Power Cost: 1800
- Workforce Cost: 18100
- Blueprints are available for purchase for 1 billion ISK.
- Large Veldspar Deposit
- Total site ore volume = 17,000,000 m3
- Large Mordunium Deposit
- Total site ore volume = 25,000,000 m3
- Large Kylixium Deposit
- Total site ore volume = 13,000,000 m3
- Large Griemeer Deposit
- Total site ore volume = 13,000,000 m3
- Large Nocxite Deposit
- Total site ore volume = 13,000,000 m3
- Large Hezorime Deposit
- Total site ore volume = 23,000,000 m3
- Large Ueganite Deposit:
- Total site ore volume = 16,000,000 m3
The pre-existing Tier 1 and Tier 2 also received buffs in the patch.
- The Power cost of Tier 1 and Tier 2 upgrades have been reduced by approximately 10% each.
- Tier 2 Power Cost reduced from 1350 to 1220
- Tier 1 Power Cost reduced from 500 to 450
- The Tier 2 nullsec sovereignty hub mining upgrade sites, such as the Grimeer Deposit, have been refactored so that approximately 40% of the asteroids in each site have been removed and their ore contents added to existing asteroids in the site, we have prioritized removing the lower quantity asteroids and tried to make sure there is at least one very large asteroid in each site, we’ve also compacted the asteroid belts to move more asteroids closer together.
- Additionally, after this refactor, the amount of ore in the Tier 2 sites has then also been increased by approximately 10-15%.
- This means that now, the average asteroid size in all of the sites has been significantly increased.
- The Tier 1 mining upgrade sites have also had their ore contents increased by approximately 10%.
- Increased the chance of getting the mining escalation from Tier 2 mining sites by 1.5x
Mining escalations are important and miners in player-owned null sec should be happier with the patch in that regard.
- The new Tier 3 sites have approximately 2.5x chance over the improved Tier 2 mining sites to get the mining escalation.
The devs also worked to address the mercoxit supply issues in the economy.
- We have a created a new ‘Enormous Mercoxit Deposit’ site which has 4x the amount of Mercoxit in it than the Large Mercoxit Deposit, and much larger asteroids.
- Total site ore volume = 960,000 m3
- Tier 3 mining upgrades will give a guaranteed Enormous Mercoxit Deposit into the system with a 12 hour respawn time.
- Tier 2 mining upgrades now will also give a guaranteed Large Mercoxit Deposit into the system rather than it being a chance-based spawn, which has an 8 hour respawn time.
- Tier 3 mining upgrades now also give a chance to spawn the ‘Large Mercoxit Deposit’ in addition to the guaranteed Enormous Mercoxit Deposit site.
- Tier 2 mining upgrades now also give a chance to spawn the ‘Average Mercoxit Deposit’ in addition to the guaranteed Large Mercoxit Deposit site.
The devs have also introduced new mining equipment specifically aimed at mercoxit.
- Added a new faction ORE Deep Core Strip Miner module which has 0% waste as an option for mining Mercoxit with mining barges and exhumers. It can be obtained from ORE corporation LP stores.
- Cost/Materials to Purchase:
- 37,500,000 ISK
- 56,250 LP
- 1x Modulated Deep Core Strip Miner II
Null sec will also produce more pyerite though a reprocessing change for a null sec ore.
- Increased the amount of Pyerite that Mordunium gives when reprocessed.
- Mordunium: 80 → 84
- Plum Mordunium: 84 → 88
- Prize Mordunium: 88 → 92
- Plunder Mordinium: 92 → 96
Two other items of interest.
- To help allieviate pressure on R4s and increase the value of Athanors - The magmatic gas fuel cost per hour for a Metenox Moon Drill has been increased from 110 units to 150 units.
- Most Mining sites spawned by upgrades will now persist their respawn time across downtimes (i.e. they won’t always respawn at downtime even if they were mined out at 10:59).
And finally a note from CCP Okami from his mining dev blog.
Notably we are not touching ore density of our newer Nullsec ores at this time. While we are aware of the feedback and understand the complaints with it, it’s a more complex lever to pull that touches both on reworking many of the sites from a content perspective and also puts some risk on stockpiles as well. Will this fix everything all at once? Being totally honest? Probably not. There’s no silver bullet here. And I can’t promise that this is going to be the magic change that gets it all right. However, since there are a large number of changes going out the door all at once, I want to see how these land and what their impact on our simulated universe is. I promise to be looking at data and check in with you guys every 2 weeks on the official EVE Discord. We’ll examine what levers and things we may need to keep adjusting on a monthly basis. Tending to this is an iterative thing and I think we can keep moving towards a healthier equilibrium.
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