anyone know why they did this?

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so finally got a coveter mining barge before i quit playing last time but it had 3 high slots which is the sole reason why i got that one instead. anyone know why they took away the 3rd slot? cause thats pretty lame lol whole reason i got the cov was cause of the 3rd slot that let me fill up faster

[Harrison]

They rebalanced all the barges. They all now have two high slots. Covetor still fills up faster than the others. It gets a 25% decrease to the cycle time.

[Kodokuro]

When you stop using that covetor you will start to playing eve.

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i have fighting ships i can fit a hectae and such just mine on the side :P but aiet thats makes a little more sense i guess still kinda lame tho lol. but i guess it kind of balances out

[Harrison]

Originally posted by Puhfekt Shel:

i have fighting ships i can fit a hectae and such just mine on the side :P but aiet thats makes a little more sense i guess still kinda lame tho lol. but i guess it kind of balances out

They actually mine more over all than they used to. Part of the rebalance was to increase the amount that the strip miners themselves pull in. Now, instead of there being mining amount bonuses from the ship skils and role bonuses they are duration bonuses.

I just dusted off my oldest version of EFT:
Pre-rebalance a max skilled Covetor fit to mine the most it could (including harvester drones and orca boosts for giggles) pulled in 2,760m3 per minute.
Post-rebalance an equivalently fit covetor (also with harvester and orca) pulls in 3,138m3 per minute.

That said though, you'd be better off with a procurer or retriever if you mine solo. The covetor only has a 7k ore hold, so it'll fill up every few minutes and has to leave the belt unless you have an alt that can come and pick up a can or sit there in an orca. In contrast the Procurer and Retriever have ore holds of 12k and 26k (respectively).

The procurer can fit a near battleship level buffer tank on it and the retriever can stay in a belt for days before having to off load. The same applies to the t2 variants as well.

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thanks for the in depth info. i usually either afk mine while missioning with my main or if i want to go hard core i bring in a hauler to hold ore with my main as i mine with my alt so i bought the one with the biggest ore hold for afk. i think i just remember doing it a bad way with my covetor lol i use to mine and just drop my ore into a jettison container which i mean works but someone can just come snag it guess thats why i had the covetor instead. i wasent the smartest kid back when i played lol

[Harrison]

At the time it probably made sense. The covetor and the hulk used to both have decently large cargo holds and mined more than the rest, which is part of the reason that everyone used them. They rebalanced all the barges to make them all worth while and to give them a niche.

For example, the Covetor/Hulk are essentially fleet miners, with their small cargo, high yield, and lack of anything resembling a tank they need to be supported in the field.

The old system meant the some of them, like the procurer/skiff, never got much use.

[Styke]

Retriever is love, Retriever is life

[Tor]

The retriever is a deceitful wh*re. Procurer is where it's at.

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guys guys cant we all just agree mining is tedious no matter what ship we fly <3