Science & Industry

Is this worth it currently?

I know high sec ore prices are through the roof for a variety of reasons, and it would be a good idea to mine ore. The thing is, I have very low SP and almost no options in getting my ore to market and no refining skills. I suppose I could hire a freighter service but this would become very expensive I think?

I was considering mining ice and selling the blocks at station.

Just trying to see if this is a bad idea or what?

Edit: The reason why I'm wary of mining ore and selling it at station are that the buy orders for the different ore types can be all over the place.

It's totally worth it with some 1 week old retriever characters on a free buddy account.

edit: ore prices- http://ore.cerlestes.de/index.html

Ice mining worth it?

No

I tested this with a Procuror specced out for ice harvesting.....and damn if it didn't come out in a dead heat compared to mining hi-sec ore (in a Retty solo, of course), altho mining omber for the isogen is getting very profitable.

Of course, maybe the market is just weird in Sinq.

Note: have no ice refining skills, so its actually better for me to sell the blue ice blocks instead of selling the isotopes etc.....get slightly more iskies that way.

You will have to get your pen & paper out and do the math. I haven't checked for a while but high sec ore is probably still more profitable than unprocessed blocks of ice. Check the prices for ice in Gallente space for obvious reasons in your calculations. If possible check the prices at all the trade hubs (Hek, Rens, Dodixie, Amarr, Jita.) but Jita is probably best avoided as most prices there are slashed to pieces.
Regarding transportation of your ore/ice I thoroughly recommend Red Frog Freight. I think their prices have risen recently but when I used them before building my own Fenrir the freight cost was about 5% of the revenue for a full load (860,000m3.) of VP/SP so that wasn't bad imo. Always leave something for the next man as they say.
I won't give you any more hints. Hehe. Except that if you are serious about mining you will need to train up Refining & Refinery Efficiency both to lvl 5 and the mining crystal skills to lvl 4 for T2 crystals.

Alternatively train up for a BS and do lvl 4 missions or train up for a Scimitar or Onieros and do high sec Incursions instead.

Pay with PLEX? Next time you buy your PLEX, before you redeem it, create a Buddy Trial account and an alt. Fly alt to your main, trade him the PLEX. Have the alt redeem the PLEX and activate the Trial to Subscribed. Collect PLEX reward on the main account. Now you have 51 days of free play time.

Train alt with basic ice mining skills (approx 6 days) and level 3 PI skills (more if you want; do the PI skills first). Create two more PI alts on teh same account. Fly them all to an ice system (or mine ore, it doesn't matter). Setup PI colonies with all 3 characters. Profit, profit, profit. Advantage of ice mining is true AFK if you want to do it that way.

51 days expires, let it lapse, rinse and repeat

You can't read. Which means you shouldn't post.

You fly the alt to your main and you trade the PLEX to the ALT. moron