ORE CALCULATOR:
This tool allows you to see, at a glance, whether your ore is more valuable refined or sold raw.
The first thing you must do to make this tool work is enter some values to allow the tool to
take account of your refining skills. Each skill level will allow you to keep a
higher percentage of the minerals after refining. In the tool, I have called
this percentage your “Keep rate”.
To find the values you need for the Keep rate calculator, you will need to enter the
refining plant at a station. Look for the part that says
“Your skills at refinery equipment operation
give a net yield of…” and
enter this value into the tool under “Skill yield %”.
Next, look for the part that says “We will take …. of all recoverable
minerals” and enter this
value into the tool under “Station’s
% cut”. The tool can now
account for your refining skills. You may now save the file, this will save
having to type these numbers every time. Any time you upgrade your refining
skills, you will need to repeat the above process.
Next, you will need to enter the market to find the current values for all the ores and
minerals and enter them under the “Price” column in the tool. After entering
these values, you may save the file, but remember that the sale values will
change often and you will need to keep these updated.
Finally, enter the amounts of each ore you wish to sell under the “Sell amt.” column. Since each
ore type has its own refining requirement, the “Calc amount” column will show
the nearest refinable amount for the calculation.
The sale values will now be displayed for you to compare under “Direct sell” and “Refined”
2 additional pages are included for more detailed breakdown of individual amounts and values
of minerals extracted from each ore. These can be accessed by clicking the tabs
at the bottom of the screen.