You will not be extracting anything from this object anytime soon. Temperatures in excess of 8000 degress kelvin can take about a month to cool down, possibly longer depending on the size of the celestial body. This is what you call the process of someone (either a noob, a vindictive enemy or a complete psychopath) who derives pleasure by extracting ore from a single asteroid for unbelievably long amounts of time and increasing its temperature to levels not unlike the temperature of the sun. Yet, extraction rates will continue as if one was alone, for the most part. Group Mining reduces the cumulative temperature increase dramatically. Doing this experiment side-by-side with these two scenarios produces very different results. Create a group with a given miner and NOW mine a single asteroid together. When you create a group, much like in PvP, mining efficiency changes radically when compared to two strangers mining the same asteroid by themselves. Group Mining, however, changes the elements of solo mining considerably. The roid heats up at least twice the speed as before (with a single, lonely miner). You'll be amazed at how inefficient this is. In this situation, with two asteroid-crossed strangers, all you need to is add the rate of temperature increase of one miner to the other miners' rate of increase. They just happen to be mining the same asteroid as you. Now, add another person mining the same asteroid - they're a stranger and you aren't working with them. Theres a finite amount of time before continuing the mining process of a given asteroid becomes inefficient. When mining by yourself, its pretty clear how fast a given asteroid heats up, and due to what type of stimulus. Setting aside ship options, equipment options, etc., lets look at some factors: There are a few "methods" and "strategies" of mining. The asteroid will cool down over a period of time - if you LET IT. The key is to only let an asteroid get “so hot” before you move on to another asteroid. Overheating an asteroid will result in a greatly diminished extraction rate, which you will most certainly begin to notice. The issue with mining is that it can only be done for a finite amount of time before the asteroid begins to overheat. Over time, the collected ore can be stockpiled (for later manufacturing tasks), traded to other players, sold for simple credits or jettisoned if deemed undesirable. Mining involves using a sustained energy beam device, known as a Mining Beam, directed at asteroids to extract minerals. This makes the process of mining that much more valuable. Though ore can be purchased at stations, it is basically useless since the ore has to have been mined by an actual player - it will be rejected by the manufacturing station most likely. It can financially sustain an entire guild, or just an individual, for great deals of time, and it is a key prerequisite to many manufactured items. Mining is a pivotal trade in the Vendetta-Online universe.
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