How does it work?

It sounds complicated, but thanks to Excel is actually pretty easy. The only thing miners and boosters need to do, is say LASERS ON in fleet chat when they start shooting rocks, and LASERS OFF when they stop. Not between rocks obviously! But if you are leaving grid for whatever reason, just let us know. Since the haulers job is to leave grid and haul ores, this is not necessary to do.

Fleet members earn points for every minute they are in fleet. At the end of the mining op, the total number of points is calculated and fleet members are paid out according to their point contribution to total points.

For example. Let's say a small fleet runs for 60 minutes. In those 60 minutes, a venture and Orca pilot runs the entire time. A retriever for 30 minutes, and a Covetor for 20 minutes.

Venture earns 2 x 60 = 120 points

Orca earns 7 x 60 = 420 points

Retriever 4 x 30 = 120 points

Covetor 6 x 20 = 120 points

Total fleet points is 780. In that hour the fleet manages to mine 50 million isk of ore. Each point is worth 50'000'000 / 780 = 64'102 isk. So the pilots who got 120 points earn 7'692'240 isk and the Orca who boosted for the full hour earns 26'922'840.

The better your mining barge and the longer you spend in fleet mining, the bigger the piece of the pie is.

Points Breakdown

In order to keep track of payouts and still increase efficiency we use a point system. Points are awarded based on the mining ability of the ship as well as the role they play in the mining operation. For example, an Orca that is working as a booster gains additional points. It would usually be worth approximately 5 points, but gains an additional 2 for the role of booster and squad leader.

Venture 2

Procurer 4

Retriever 4

Hauler 4

Skiff 5

Mackinaw 5

Orca 5 (non-booster)

Covetor 6

Orca 7 (booster)

Hulk 8

Roles

Miner

The miner's job is to mine as much ore as quickly as possible. The Majority of members will fill this role, and there are a wider selection of ships available.

Miner's will be placed into a squad with a booster pilot as their squad leader. To check who your squad leader is, use the Fleet window to see which squad you were placed in.

• Set keep at range to your booster to 2500m
• Open Fleet Hangar to transfer ores directly to the Orca
• Target rocks as far away from you as possible with your lasers
• Assign mining drones to rocks closest to you
• All Miners need to have 2 light fighter drones deployed. With the exception of Orcas and Porpoises.
• Spread your lasers. Look at the rocks you are targeting, if you see more than 2 other lasers hitting it, then target yours on other rocks. Also put one of your lasers per rock. This reduces time wastage.

Booster

The booster boosts! Yeah, that should've been obvious.

In order to be listed as a booster though, we want to see at least a -35% cycle time boost and the Orca must be equipped to run all three mining boosts.

• Booster collects ores from members in his/her squad, so keep your fleet hangar open and drag into your ore hold.
• Call out to the hauler in fleet chat or voice when you are at 75% cargo capacity to give warning.
• Coordinate with the hauler for transferring of ores. Either through your fleet hangar, or if the hauler requests you to jettison.
• Position yourself at or close to the rock tagged with your squad number

Hauler

The hauler hauls! I bet you didn't see that one coming.

• Haulers can choose whichever freighter they want, as long as they can carry 750'000m3 per load. This is so they can take approximately 3 Orca loads per trip.
• We recommend two expanded cargo holds and one inertial stabilizer.
• Hauler needs to setup a bookmark that s/he can warp to between collection of ores. 200km away from the beacon away from the ores should be more than sufficient.
• When notified by the booster that ores are ready for collection, the hauler can warp to within 10km of the booster and slow boat in the rest of the way. This is to avoid bumping nearby miners. Once ores are collected, the hauler can return to the bookmark to wait for the next booster to call.
• Once three collections have been made the hauler goes to deposit the ore into the Warehouse container at the designated drop off. Check the MOTD to find the drop off station. Warehouse container will be named and in Corporate Hangar 1 unless otherwise specified by FC

Fleet Commander (FC)

The FC is the poor bastard who has to run the fleet, setup the MOTD, assign roles, and just make sure things are running smoothly. The FC is acting on behalf of the corp.

• FC establishes Fleet and sets up the MOTD
• Coordinate the miners and boosters into squads
• Makes sure that the station container for collection is a fresh one and named correctly. Name the container with the date in yyyy/mm/dd format followed by FC Name.
• Keep track of all Lasers On and Lasers Off times for fleet members on the spread sheet
• Calculation of total points earned, basically through the spread sheet.