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Since something happended to me while I was mining , I started to do a little thinking about how deposit sizes and how much you can get out of them are calculated, as well as how skills and tools help in that matter.
So I came up with this theory
I would like to hear the opinion of other experienced miners (since I have little experience) and see what you think
It's about how is calculated how much you can take out of a deposit depending on the skills of who prints the claim for that deposit (for what I have seen , the moment when you print the claim is when those calculations are made).
Many discussions on how tools are important or not, I believe they really make a diference. I don't think MA would put so many different tools in the game if they didn't had any diference between them (except for the obvious decay and reload time).
I think that in the moment you print a claim it's calculate the number of pulls that you can make from that deposit. A deposit has a number associated with it that refers to it's size and it would be crossed with the player's skills to get to the number of pulls you would be able to make.
So some of your skills (perhaps those like Geology, Surveing etc) as well as the finder tool you used helped to determine the amounts of pulls you could do. The finder you use (MF-102 , OF-103 , whatever...) would also be important , in my opinion they could have a skill modifier just like lasers and scopes that could help you to be able to make a couple of more pulls from that deposit. Then using the tt value of the ore and stones per pull were used to determine the name of the deposit.
Let's say we have an ore that is 10 pec per stone. It is calculated that that deposit has a max of 40.5 pulls for that deposit (yes , it has decimal figures since the last pull is always smaller than the rest) and supose that the max amount of stones per pull you can do in that deposit is 15 stones per pull.
So you have 40.5(pulls) x 15(stones per pull) x 10(pec per stone) = 6075
So you can have a 60 ped HoF here
That is 60.75 peds maximum you can have in that deposit. That qualifies as a "Great" deposit (not sure , but lets pretend ).
But now the mining/drilling comes into play. You have a max of 15 stones per pull (I know it's more than that but lets forget about that too lol) but now each time you make a pull your skills (drilling , mining , etc) and the driller or miner you are using (again , the tools should help there) are going to determine the amount of stones you have in that pull (13 - 12 - 15 - 14 - 13 ... and the last on would be like 7 stones or so).
So like this you would have some of your skills determine the amount of pulls you can do and the other skills determine how much you would get for each pull (with a little help from the tools you are using). So now what could be a 60 ped Hof/global if you were lucky , because of your crappy skills it might become a 40 ped deposit (not bad , but not global ).
That's why a deposit name (like Great) sometimes can give much diferent tt value.
Now remember , this is just me making up stuff lol , so if you think that some of these things are nonsense please say so , I would really like to hear opinions from ppl who know more about this than me.
Thank you for your coments (good or bad)
So I came up with this theory
I would like to hear the opinion of other experienced miners (since I have little experience) and see what you think
It's about how is calculated how much you can take out of a deposit depending on the skills of who prints the claim for that deposit (for what I have seen , the moment when you print the claim is when those calculations are made).
Many discussions on how tools are important or not, I believe they really make a diference. I don't think MA would put so many different tools in the game if they didn't had any diference between them (except for the obvious decay and reload time).
I think that in the moment you print a claim it's calculate the number of pulls that you can make from that deposit. A deposit has a number associated with it that refers to it's size and it would be crossed with the player's skills to get to the number of pulls you would be able to make.
So some of your skills (perhaps those like Geology, Surveing etc) as well as the finder tool you used helped to determine the amounts of pulls you could do. The finder you use (MF-102 , OF-103 , whatever...) would also be important , in my opinion they could have a skill modifier just like lasers and scopes that could help you to be able to make a couple of more pulls from that deposit. Then using the tt value of the ore and stones per pull were used to determine the name of the deposit.
Let's say we have an ore that is 10 pec per stone. It is calculated that that deposit has a max of 40.5 pulls for that deposit (yes , it has decimal figures since the last pull is always smaller than the rest) and supose that the max amount of stones per pull you can do in that deposit is 15 stones per pull.
So you have 40.5(pulls) x 15(stones per pull) x 10(pec per stone) = 6075
So you can have a 60 ped HoF here
That is 60.75 peds maximum you can have in that deposit. That qualifies as a "Great" deposit (not sure , but lets pretend ).
But now the mining/drilling comes into play. You have a max of 15 stones per pull (I know it's more than that but lets forget about that too lol) but now each time you make a pull your skills (drilling , mining , etc) and the driller or miner you are using (again , the tools should help there) are going to determine the amount of stones you have in that pull (13 - 12 - 15 - 14 - 13 ... and the last on would be like 7 stones or so).
So like this you would have some of your skills determine the amount of pulls you can do and the other skills determine how much you would get for each pull (with a little help from the tools you are using). So now what could be a 60 ped Hof/global if you were lucky , because of your crappy skills it might become a 40 ped deposit (not bad , but not global ).
That's why a deposit name (like Great) sometimes can give much diferent tt value.
Now remember , this is just me making up stuff lol , so if you think that some of these things are nonsense please say so , I would really like to hear opinions from ppl who know more about this than me.
Thank you for your coments (good or bad)