EVE New Citizens Q&A

Started this game today and I'am yet another one of the hopefuls looking to be able to buy plexs in-game. Could anyone give me advice on skill orders for mining so i can best progress towards making enough money to be able to pay for subscriptions asap? Thanks.

Can you advise me on what to do then please?

Start here and read through everything. This will get you started.
Eve University Web Resources for Miners

Also, look into programs that will help you plan training, ships and fittings. I've used EVEMon since I started and it has always worked well for me. Others may have better suggestions.

The other replies were a bit crass but they are somewhat on the mark. Focus on the mining if that is where you think you should start (I did when I started) but when you feel you have a good grasp of it look at other opportunities.

As others already said you shouldn't grind for PLEX, that is a streight way to burn any shred of fun and you should play for fun in the first place.

However if you want to earn ISK to buy PLEX in-game and you are a newbie here are few ways to do it with moderate chance of making you run away from Eve:

- you can join corp that is doing mining - they will have fleet mining ops with maxed out bonuses so you will mine more than you would alone. they will also have buyback programs so you can avoid hassle of playing market by yourself. they will also have maxed out standings and skills for reprocessing so your ore will give max minerals.

- you can train for salvaging (all you need st the beginning is destroyer with 4 tractor beams and 4 salvagers, not long time to train those) and salvage and loot wrecks left by people doing missions. there is in-game channel dedicated to this activity and there is also corp doing this service for players. I will leave finding relevant info to you. I can tell that salvage/loot is usually worth more than bounties and mission reward but a lot of people prefer to leave wreck and do another mission instead so here is your opportunity. If you can team up with L4 mission runner I would be surprised if you couldn't fund PLEX after couple of hours of salvaging (assuming mission runner is doing his job right not frakking around in some overtanked AFK bitchslapping failfit)

- you can join FW and farm those plexes like there is no tomorrow to earn Loyality Points and exchange them for items you can sell on market. And with good corp you will have plenty of fun and pvp, too.

- you can join nullsec corp and do basically the same as in FW but with PVE being anomalies and pvp being - well, whatever your corp is into: blobs, camps, small gang raids. Have you ever see Titan class ship? Well, it is huge when you are in little frig :)

Probably there is ten other things you can do to earn ISK and buy PLEX but I will leave it for you to find out. Just don't lose yourself in that earning part and don't forget Eve is a game and it should be fun to play.

Also notice that all of my proposals involve interaction with other players. It doesn't mean you have to talk with everybody but if you do some nice things can happen. Because against common view most of players are nice and will help you if you don't approach them with sh!thead attitude.

I have deleted a form of recruitment post from this thread. Such posts are not allowed.

I started 6 months ago and put some points into mining. Here is my old skill plan

Ship> Retriever

Goto the market and search for this. Once you find it right click it and then click on > show info > prerequisites. It shall tell you what skill you need to fly this ship.

I think it should take around a week, fit a modulated strip miner, mining laser upgrade and a survey scanner.

Skill up for modulated strip miner II and mining laser upgrade II. Again search in the market and right click > show info > prerequisites.

Also choose one type of ore, I chose Pyroxeres and skill up for the mining crystal II which increase the yield from the strip miner.

At this point you should be able to mine and refine at an okay level for a noob. You can also achieve 100% refine rate by maxing out Pyroxeres Processing V and running missions to get a standing of 6.67.

The UI is kinda clunky, it's a mix of windows 3.1 and win 95, but once you get used to it, it's fine.

Forgot to address your skilling query ..

Get either EFT or pyfa and Evemon or just evehq

evemon & evehq will let you browse all the skills
eft, pyfa & evehq will let you browse all the modules and ships
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the ship skills

Mining Frigate
Mining Barge
Exhumers


then check the skill requirements for the following modules (Both tech 1 and 2)

Mining Laser Upgrade
Mining laser
Modulated Strip Miner
[xyz] Mining Crystal
Damage Control
5x Hobgoblin or Hammerhead

then you want the skills that directly increase, or reduce a modules usage/application, of the following ship attributes

Powergrid
CPU
Capacitor Amount
Capacitor Recharge
Shield Amount
Shield Recharge
Armour Amount
Propulsion Speed

nb
these aren't the only modules and skills you'll need, but they will give you a decent start on them.