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icelady25
Polaris Space Industries
#1 - 2013-01-08 07:48:35 UTC
Hello fellow citizens of New Eden

I am thinking of setting up mining in a highsec system with a new alt and a Iteron mark V to haul the ore.

My main questions are.

1 What Ore should i go for
2 Will a Retriever do? (i'm taking away training from my WH main)
3 What's the best way to mine? Into a can?

Been playing Eve a good few years now and this is the first time I have fancied mining...got to try everything once :D

Any constructive advice will be appreciated.
LordSpock
Doomheim
#2 - 2013-01-08 08:07:42 UTC
Did you take the effort to search these questions on the forums? Because I seem to remember they have been asnwered about a few hundred times already.

But here goes

icelady25 wrote:
Hello fellow citizens of New Eden

I am thinking of setting up mining in a highsec system with a new alt and a Iteron mark V to haul the ore.

My main questions are.

1 What Ore should i go for
http://ore.cerlestes.de/index.html#site:ore

2 Will a Retriever do? (i'm taking away training from my WH main)
Yes if that is all you can fly atm, covetor too, but that requires more hauling/trips

3 What's the best way to mine? Into a can?
Into the ore hold of your retriever, when full drop off at station. Retriever can hold some 25,6k m3 @ lvl4 iirc

Been playing Eve a good few years now and this is the first time I have fancied mining...got to try everything once :D

Any constructive advice will be appreciated.

Kandreath
De Re Metallica
#3 - 2013-01-08 13:47:22 UTC
"Isk per hour" is a good tool that will tell you the roids that give best profit for mining. You can try out basic mining setups and it will take into account your skills. - Take the time to set it up with the ship and the fit you are using.

Decide how you are going to mine. If it's AFK or if it's monitored.

I monitor my mining, I know how much I will pull in on a single cycle. if the roid will run out before the cycle ends I try to stop the cycle as the roid pops rather than wait the full 3 minutes. And yes I use a rock scanning doo-hickey to monitor the amount in each roid.

This gets me to a full hold in in a Retriever about 25 minutes. I run this back to the station each time.

Also I scout belts with something fast and set bookmarks around the belt so I can cover the whole belt (usually about 3 bookmarks). This means I can land on the belt and start mining, no need to slow boat to the roids. I keep the overview on with the roids i'm hunting. So I find if I land on a belt and notice some yummy +10% rocks out of range of my current spot but in range of another book mark, I'll make that my next landing spot.

Get standings and refining skills up too. Try to get to perfect refines.
icelady25
Polaris Space Industries
#4 - 2013-01-09 07:04:31 UTC
Thanks for the responses, very helpfull.

I will mainly be mining at the keyboard but occupied with my RVB alt so i can replace the ships I lose.

I'll try those tools out you suggested and train for a Covetor :)

Cheers
Dedaf
United Brothers Of Eve
#5 - 2013-01-09 08:50:42 UTC
You could also try out my tool for mining, it shows you very fast which ore is best to mine right now and it lets you play with other mining ships to show you how much more isk you will make if you change to another mining ships.
try it out here

Want to know what is best to mine or build at which cost? then try out Dedaf's Industrial Tool http://dedafsindustrialtool.blogspot.dk/
Troy Aihaken
Quekz
#6 - 2013-01-09 16:18:49 UTC
^^ AMAZING TOOL HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

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Iosue
League of Gentlemen
The Initiative.
#7 - 2013-01-09 18:16:03 UTC
you would do better to train the new alt to mine in a retriever as well, instead of spending all that time on gallente indy V.