Science & Industry

Hello players.


I started new account yesterday and I chosed mining career in Eve.


I found in evelopedia advanced mining tutorial, what ships is recommended, what skills to improve first and very very usefull for new player like me.


I finished 2 tutorials, Aura, and mining agent.

Notice that I played 2 trial accounts in last 2 years, and now I want to start serious play here.

I allready completed much more agents in that 2 last trial accounts, military, business etc, and even allmost completed some arc

missions with catalyst ship but couldnt proceed because trail was over and I didnt have time to play and continue.





So, I know some stuff about agents, skills, etc. Not much.

What I want to ask experienced players is.

If I want to solo mine, long time, should I start right after completing miner agent, collecting ore and buff my player with miner skills and eventually go for Retriever and so on?


Or should I go and complete other agents missions and that storyline arc missions?

I am not interested in other types of playing, like battleships, corps, warfare etc.
Maybe science and exploration eventually but later in game.


I am now with my venture mining and collecting ore, following this tutorial: https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Advanced_mining


Please, any advice and suggestion in further mining carrer, long term would help so that I can set that goal and go for it.

Thank you all in advance.

If you really like mining, you might want to do mining missions. I find that they're relaxing and that I can get 1k isk/LP out of the loyalty point stores from them also. ISK per hour isn't that great, but I was also doing it for the standings in order to get level 4 R&D agents and to be able to put up a POS.

http://eve-agents.com/
http://eve-survival.org/wikka.php?wakka=MissionReportsMining

If you're solo mining, I'd recommend mining missions as mentioned above.

Otherwise, mining solo is absolutely horrible ISK/hr (still pretty bad mining with full boosts and a hauler)... but the good part is it's largely afk- especially if you're using a retriever in mining missions. Target a rock, shoot it for a while- watch a movie in the mean time.

Yes, Was mostly using it to illustrate the point. If isk is what you are after there are better ways than mining to work towards.

Just remember that ISK is not everything.

Its a game and you are meant to have fun. If you really like mining and aspire to running you own massive mining fleets then good on you. Don't let all of the ISK per hour people get you down.

That being said mining can get really boring really fast (as does most PVE activities), unless you are watching a movie or doing something else. So dont lock yourself into doing one thing and dont be afraid to try new things.

PS join "RVB ganked" channel and come and pew pew, EVE really is about PVP and its about as non committal you can get, as long as you can fly a frigate and use the most basic guns ect (maybe 12 hours of training) you will have a spot. Then you will have a reason to make the isk.

mining is a good choice for new ppl comimng to eve its a nice and eazy isk gaining thing to do and alot of corps out thare are mining corps aswell but later on in game when i wanna start plexing and if using 1 account mining wont be enough ..

Hello players


I will consider everyones suggestions and advices in these coming weeks, really gratefull for all of them, thank you.

I even received invitations for joining miner corp I think, thank you also for invitation, I will think about that also and reply to you



Now I am running first military rookie missions because I will need some beginner skills and ships for some of them that I came across in level 1 mining.

So, yea I decided to go mining agents for now to collect status and influence for lvl 2 etc agents.

£5 says reverse-safari.

This is a good advice regardless of which way you think you will enjoy EvE.

Good ISK, free ships, free skill books and a tiny taste of some alternatives that are out there.

And if you intend to stay solo in an mmo environment then you will be dabbling with several different jobs.

My suggestion:

Take it slow, beef up your supporting skills before you 'go big'. This is true of mining as well as combat.

If you are fresh out of the airlock, I reiterate: TAKE IT SLOW.

There is severe temptation to train forty new skills to level 1-2 because they're so fast. Train what you need to fit out that Venture, and stick with those skills until they are maxed. Don't put it off or you will have entire months where you can't do anything new because you've got nothing but level 5 skills staring you in the face standing in the way of something you really want/need.

The part of the game that makes players hate life is that last level 5 stretch. Get the basics done and over with as early as possible.


Second, join a corp with similar interests. You can usually get much older characters (like me) to refine your wares for you for free, saving you a lot of training time early on. They may even buy your ore straight off without refining.

Remember. Focus, focus, focus. If you lose focus, you lose efficacy. There's more to a miner than just the hull and lasers.

lastly: Core Competancy. The certificate path has a lot of skills I STRONGLY recommend completely training, as they're useful for every ship you will ever fly ever.


Super lastly: Keep up to speed on pirate and ganker antics. Can-flipping and gang invites are old as veldspar. Stay up to speed on whatever new kind of mechanics and methods that can be used against you.

Super-duper lastly: take the time to learn how to shoot. I don't mean shoot back. I mean shoot first. Difference between a carebear and a gun runner is that carebears don't shoot you for popping into local.