The Winter Nexus will wrap up at down time subsequent Monday, January twelfth. However, as promised again when the occasion launched, CCP has added some additional gadgets to the reward monitor in The Company to get individuals to return again and do just a few extra runs at the entire thing.
Winter Nexus 2025
Squeezed into the tip of the rewards monitor in The Company are 5 harder to discern rewards.
Form of cramped there
However if you happen to mouse over them, you will discover that the extra rewards are:
- 1090 factors – Knowledgeable System for the Perseverance
- 1150 factors – 100,00 ability factors
- 1200 factors – Aurora Universals SKIN for the Perseverance
- 1250 factors – Frozen Obelisk SKINR Sample
- 1350 factors – 75 PLEX
If, like me, you completed the preliminary reward monitor, then that is simply one other 300 factors to complete off.
Granted, all of the occasion websites are going to now see a final minute rush, so anticipate competitors.
One of many issues CCP is suggesting is that you just must get on the market in a Perseverance, the mining destroyer for which we received a blueprint copy on the 1050 level mark. I’ve two of these now.
The issue is, the Perseverance is a research in compromise. I haven’t tried the opposite mining destroyers but, however CCP was clearly in a bind. They needed to make an ice mining ship that was higher than the Endurance expedition frigate, however in addition they didn’t need it to compete with precise mining barges.
So, for instance, the Perseverance can mount three ice mining laser II modules in comparison with the one mount for the Endurance.
Perseverance mining three rocks
Nonetheless, the cycle time on the Perseverance is about 3x that of the Endurance so, all issues being equal, you haul in ice on the identical fee.
The issue is that every one issues are by no means equal. It’s good that the Perseverance has a greater vary bonus, so it may possibly lock three completely different ice asteroids and mine them concurrently. And you’ll maintain three extra in ice blocks within the mining bay… one thing that, once more, looks like a compromise quantity.
However in a aggressive setting the place you might have extra individuals mining, that three minute cycle time is usually a actual setback as an Endurance slips as much as certainly one of your rocks and sucks up one or two blocks, ending the factor off, when you’re nonetheless ready in your miner to complete its cycle.
So I went out for a bit within the Perseverance… then swapped again to the Endurance.
Out in my previous Endurance
If you could find an empty ice discipline you’re most likely higher off with the larger ship. However darting round attempting to seize a single asteroid on a grid with half a dozen different ships additionally working the sector, it looks like it’s higher to get one or two blocks of ice and transfer on than the watch that rock disappear mid cycle.
Anyway, that’s my intestine feeling on it.
So I’ll be on the market in my Endurance, semi-AFK in a quiet nook of excessive sec attempting to get that final 300 factors. I’ve carried out much more work for 100K ability factors up to now. However I’ll get to ability factors later within the week.
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