Mining

There is 2 key points about mining in Warhammer 40k : Lost Crusade


 * Mining Speed
 * Load Capacity

When you are not actively playing, the idea is to have your 5 fleets farming all the time. For that, you have to connect a few minutes every 2-3 hours to respawn your farming fleets with just enough troops to empty resources points, and to optimize your mining speed using the following tips.

Resources Point
Collecting speed varies:


 * normal resource points: 70k/h;
 * super resource points: 73k/h;

Super Resources Point contains a huge amount of resources. Mining fleets cannot be attacked while they are on Super Resource Points, and multiple alliance members can mine there simultaneously.

Super Resources Points are shared between alliance members. Please use them only when you cannot connect every 2-3 hours to send mining fleets to new normal resource points.

Troops
Your load capacity essentialy depends on the troops you use.

Best capacity troops to mine are Predators :


 * Predator T1 : 200
 * Predator T2 : 220
 * Predator T3 : 230
 * Predator T4 : 240
 * Predator T5 : 250
 * Predator T6 : 260

Produce as much predators t1 as you can to rapidly increase your capacity, but be careful - if your mining fleets are taken out, they will take space in the apothecarion and may result in unnecessary deaths of higher-tier troops.

Hero
Each of the four Elite Heroes has a skill that can boost a resource mining speed :


 * Metal : Alvinus
 * Fuel : Omneus
 * Adamantium : Solaris
 * Plasma : Praetes

You can get a great speed boost depending on his skill level :


 * Lvl 1 : +3.4%
 * Lvl 2 : +5.1%
 * Lvl 3 : +6.8%
 * Lvl 4 : +9.5%
 * Lvl 5 : +12.2%
 * Lvl 6 : +16.9%
 * Lvl 7 : +21.9%
 * Lvl 8 : +27.0%

You can also get a great speed boost by assigning the Master Requisitor role to up to 3 heroes in the Adminitratum Outpost.

Knight
You Knight gear can bring a huge speed boost. Outfit your knight accordingly.

Technologies
Technologies can boost your speed and load capacity.


 * Mining Upgrade I : +1->3%
 * Mining Upgrade II Lvl 3 : +1->3%
 * Mining Upgrade III : +2->6%
 * Mining Upgrade IV : +2->6%
 * Mining Upgrade V : +2->6%
 * Mining Upgrade VI : +2->6%

Strategy
Its up to you to choose to increase Development Strategy or War Strategy as you won't be able to maximize both...

I choose to increase Development Strategies til I unlock the Servitor Overload skill that is great, and I now focus on War Strategies.

Development Strategies related to mining speed :


 * Mining Upgrade I : +1->5%
 * Mining Upgrade II : +1->10%
 * Mining Upgrade III : +1->10%
 * Servitor Overload Skill : +100% for 2h (cooldown 24h)

Collecting Boost
Last but not least point is the Collecting Boost that you can buy in the Store. It brings you an additionnal +50% speed boost.

The 3d Collecting Boost cost 2000 Crystals and it can represent around 5M additionnal resources per day.

Buying directly such an amount of resources costs more than 10K Crystals !!!