Profits are up!
23 Jan 2016BBQSAMICH
It's been a couple days now since I been working for myself, most specifically mining these rings, and I'm starting to get the hang of things again. Pulled two full hauls for right around 2 million each. Only need 20/30 more good runs like that and I'll be in the black on my investment.Before I head out today though I needed to refit a little based on my findings. It seems that Prospector Limpet Controllers still have some buggy software that, more times than not, cause it to destroy the last deployed limpet rather than the first, or have an option to destroy. Which is really too bad because sweeping a field with 4 prospectors (5A) speeds things up considerably. In any case, I head over to Allen Gateway (Ekondhri), renowned in the region for their exceptional mining equipment, and replaced my docking computer and smaller cargo hold with two 1A Prospector controllers to allow at least half the prospecting speed. On the way out the station I was treated to this sight:
I also decided to put another 5A collector controller on because pickups with just 3 were running a little slow. Look at this little army of limpets! Right now I'm running two 5A collector controllers, which is just a tiny bit of overkill when I run alone. However, I've got a couple of people mining with me now that don't have cargos quite as large as mine. It even's out the breaks when they are around and keeps the belts clean of debris.
CMDR sxtxixtxcxh and I tearing up this beautifully pristine 40% Painite rock. Black paint and silent running, the asteroids never see it coming, until it is too late... Pretty sure we pillaged 8 Painite from this one.
Perhaps the most interesting part of the day was this request from the Yan Musu Rats to smuggle 24 tons of narcotics a mere 5 jumps. I'm unsure if Smokey had a hand in this, but I highly doubt it. Even though he doesn't know it, I know the cut he takes on top of my fees and it ain't large enough to hide these sorts of numbers. Perhaps, settling that I've moved on, he's gotten desperate to the point of sending referrals my way in hopes of dragging me back into the game. Well it worked, this time. I took that million credit payout and delivered the goods without hassle. I didn't even have to use my MkIII
I got to say it was a good day
