Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26009169-20151231154249/@comment-99.237.37.136-20160205032728

Using a federal drop ship i can get 120-ish pieces of high quality metal in about 20-25 minutes... usually 1.3-2mil a trip and i can make on average 2-3 trips in an hour.. you do the math. How fast can you do that in a small ship with minimal power distrubutor or slots for collector limpets? Larger internal compartments = more collector/prospector limpets as well as cargo space and even shields if you budget well.

It's simple... take 2/3rd's of your cargo as limpets and use your prospectors to find the best roids, mine them using medium lasers (with a good power distr. u can tap out a roid in a single go) and use 4-5 collectors to rape the fragments into your cargo hold. If you can get a 10 slot refinery on a metallic belt, you never need to worry about ejecting unwanted minerals. To top it all off, while your limpets are finishing collecting shards, you start to prospect near-by roids.

As the article says... it is a good way to learn ship control for new players. What better way to learn how a drifty box like a really large ship than to take it into an asteroid ring around a planet? I can personally say i have never lost a Drop ship to hitting an asteroid.