Ships & Modules

Howdy!

I just started playing the other day and have a newly-acquired Wreathe (2 low, 2 med, 1 high). I've literally just picked up enough skills that I can fly the ship. I also picked up shield ops, afterburner, and industry at 1 with mining at 2 and a few other basics (Electronics) at 3.

Being that I'm a new player, what would be a few good entry-level modules to pick up that I could start doing a bit of mining and maybe transporting some goods?

Thank you!

-Gut Kao

That to begin with. Though I would work into a mining cruiser then go for mining barge on your way to hulk.

This might help a bit.

So in this case, someone else would be mining and I'd be carrying their load - or, alternatively, I'd be fulfilling buy orders on the market by transferring large amounts of goods around?

Never EVER EVER fulfill a buy order if you trade as a profession. Set your own sell orders.

Wreathe is a amazing ship, darling. Look for miners mining into cans and loot those. If they try to punish you for your nasty ways, grab those retrievers and wear them down!

[Wreathe, Look! Shinies!]
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane I
Small Armor Repairer I

Warp Scrambler I
Small Capacitor Booster I, Cap Booster 200

Light Neutron Blaster I, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S

Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Medium Trimark Armor Pump I

Being a nasty boy can be quite lucrative in the beginning

right now, mining really does not pay as well as shooting at things. if you do not care that much about earning money or are really into mining, you should still consider mining in a cruiser, as someone else mentioned. if you really want to keep using your wrathe, consider running distribution missions.

If you're playing Buy-Low-Sell-High, beware of low sec. I lost a few industrials when I was starting out, tempted by a rock bottom sell order or a sky high buy order somewhere on the wrong side of a stargate. The monsters that lurk there have no mercy. It won't matter to them if you're a month old toon in a noobie hauler with all your ISK in the world tied up in the cargo you're carrying. You'll probably have to stick to high sec, and you'll probably find that you aren't making much money. The margins on NPC trade goods are pretty thin, and the volume of goods involved in profitable trades usually isn't that great. Sometimes you can find planetary goods produced by players dumped on the market for cheap, though, and certain types of those can be worth your while. If you can establish your base near the boarder where two or three different regions meet, you can scan prices in each region and probably find a larger spread than just within one region's market, but you're looking at longer hauls. Your profit-per-jump might not increase at all.

Perhaps the best routes are those linking the big racial trade hubs with the mother of all markets in Jita. Differences between the availability of certain raw goods can lead to hefty margins in the manufactured goods they go into, and the different requirements of mission runners leads to higher or lower demands. But beware, these routes are rife with pirates. You probably have nothing to worry about for now, but when the day comes that your cargo is worth more than the replacement price of a ship than can blow you up you'll become a target for suicide gankers. In a Wreathe almost anything could rip you apart before help arrives, but high sec pirates are usually looking for bigger fish. Once you get into a Mammoth you start looking mighty interesting to them, and the sort of ball park figure of what it would cost to pop one is 75 million. Carrying anything more than 100M in a Mammoth is considered foolish.

You need to anchor the container to stop someone stealing the contents.

If someone decides to gank your industrial, there's basically no hope for it. I lost a Wreathe myself the other week to a gatecamp; jumped into lowsec, someone was lurking there in a command ship. Locked, dead in a few salvos.
I lost 3mil of ship, modules, and cargo.
Joke was on him; nothing dropped, and I was gone before he could lock my pod. Then he couldn't station-camp me because I had an insta-undock bookmark set up.

It is 10 seconds.