Miniing Compress

[bourland]

My skill at mining compress the ore is not removing any weight as it said it would. My description of the ore in center screen top is not leaving my screen too. Anyone else heard of this or made a topic?

[japp_02]

Compression of ores is a scam, I don't do it, it doesn't do what it says.

[krammer68]

This is for the general cargo compression skill which also applies to mining. At level 1 it is not really very good. At level 2 it is much better. This was 2 patches ago. You do have to save and reload to see the change in your cargo bay however (again as of 2 patches ago).

[krammer68]

Cargo compression does not apply to trading yet that I can see (as of 1 patch ago).

[japp_02]

It does the CONTRARY of what it says, after compress a 99 stack it's changed to 1 stack saving space but its value is less than half and you still have to substract taxes...1 compressed Wolfram = 147K without taxes. Scam, don't do it, leave it uncompressed.
You can try it out by saving the game before selling, then compare the compressed with the uncompressed, tell me the cash difference at the end...

[krammer68]

Been my experience with level 2 compression you get exactly the same ratio of money for it so you can double your money per run with 100% compression.

[japp_02]

Half your money with the first one, why should I bother with the 2nd...

[Stazen]

Originally posted by japp_02:

Half your money with the first one, why should I bother with the 2nd...

As Krammer says with level 2 atleast it gives the same money as non compressed and takes less cargo space, nice for mining. Still... not working as it says improving sell value.

[Cosmic Yak]

ok either I am not understanding some of you or it is one of those bugs that effects some people and not others kinda thing. So if it is the latter, you have my sympathy. This is my experience with it...

W/o Compressor a single stack of Asortak goes for 22k'ish. The station hits it with a tax and the Miner's guild gets their cut.

With Compressor @ Tier 1 a compressed stack goes for 1M'ish. The station hits it with a tax and the Miner's guild gets their cut.<--This alone makes it worth it imho

With Compressor @ Tier 2 a compressed stack goes for exactly 2,227,500. The station hits it with a tax and the Miner's guild cut their cut.<--This is AMAZING returns still

I literally have 75 stacks of compressed T2 Asortak as I am writing this...

Single stack worth 2,227,500 (remember this is up from 22K base)
Minus station Tax of 636,428
Minus Guild cut of 111,375
=1,479,697 (which is still a lot more than the base worth w/o compressor).

When I sold all 75 stacks I got nearly exactly the whole amount I was expecting. It however does not reduce the M3 at all for me ...which I am fine with since it only reduces my warp speed going back to sell.

[Dyspayr]

"W/o Compressor a single stack of Asortak goes for 22k'ish"
That is the price of a single unit not a stack of 99 (99 x 22,500 = 2,227,500). At tier 2 the weight should be half but the price is the same as a uncompressed stack. Currently despite the description stating that in addition to the weight savings it is supposed to increase the value by 60/100% but instead we are only getting 60/100% of the original value

[bourland]

Well, level 3 was a long time ago for me and at level 7500, compress does not work yet. Last time I checked.

[Cosmic Yak]

Originally posted by Dyspayr:

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That is the price of a single unit not a stack of 99 (99 x 22,500 = 2,227,500)...

Well I'll be a monkey's Uncle! Short version never sold anything smaller than a full stack, so completely missed the price was per unit and not per stack. Thank you for that.