EVE New Citizens Q&A

Mine your heart out. Pick quieter systems and keep your combat drones out. This is EVE. Nothing is truly risk free but you could, with some luck, mine happily with little to no harassment.

Oh I won't!

And as far as mining with three accounts goes is three retrievers the best way of doing things ?

I don't know. I've never really looked into manufacturing. I do have PI set up.

How about a change of question - could I train up anything useful for manufacturing in a month?

You just behave to be aware that rats and players can come and bank you...that is the issue with semi faking and It happens to me too. SOsas long as your careful.

Thanks for all the replies! I think I'll do a whole bunch of reading up on manufacturing! Could be interesting but I am utterly clueless, let a lone knowing anything about the changes coming up

In my experience the biggest risk is not getting any work done.

What about hauling? Either from public contracts or one of the more organized corps like Pushx or Red Frog. It's pretty passive but you do need ~2.2 B ISK to start.

As said, heavily tanked Procurer with 5 hobgoblin II (Or I's if u have no skillz), the drones and tank will be fine against highsec rats, hell I've run anoms in these things. Setup a safe just off grid of the belt and warp there and jettison your ore there and when you are done mining, come in with that one Gallente indy that specializes in ore and haul it to station. This makes it much more time efficent since the warp time is reduced drastically (Just remember, jettisoned containers disintegrate in 2 hours, you may want large freight containers for prolonged mining.

Thanks for all of the fantastic replies! I've got lots to think about! I think I'll invest some time in manufacturing skills on all three toons. Hopefully when cirrus lands I can find some t1 stuff to build and turn a profit!

As far as traiding goes I'm a bit clueless but I'm going to save up some capital and give it ago!

And mining, I think it's not going to be as efficient as it could be, but if I'd just be floating in space anyway I may as well chew some rocks! And if I'm in brick tanked barges like you guys have advised I think I can keep my losses to a minimum. I had images of having an orca and two hulks in space - but looks like that is just a fantastic way to generate some lossmails!

I found Semi-afk ice mining to be the easiest option and still feel like you're doing something in space - and it's very easy to get into. I always mined in a tanked Procurer or Skiff along with a tanked Orca so the small hold didn't bother me. This made it very easy to semi-afk while I was doing work on my other monitor. Consider training one of your characters into an Orca -- it's a useful ship and will lead to lots of leadership skills. Most miners are out in Macks unless it's an area frequented by gankers.

Asteroid belts require a lot more attention because of changing rocks. Also, it's more lonely compared ice mining. Biggest problem with ice mining is if you're in a system that has one of the massive isboxer fleets that suck up all the ice too quickly. You can also get an explorer type ship and look around for ore anomalies in your area which is interesting and quite profitable if you come across one of the Large ones.

I've branched into mostly a manufacturing phase now. It requires a great deal more research and legwork to get things setup, not only in skills but in figuring out what to manufacture profitably, and then researching and inventing blueprints. And then you have to learn how to take everything to a trade hub and get it sold while buying the materials you need for the next batch. After you have everything setup, it's short periods of active time followed by time where you don't need to be logged in while things cook. It's closer to passive income than semi-afk in my mind.

I haven't done PI yet, but I get the impression it's more like manufacturing.

Trading can be semi-afk and has the most profit potential if you like doing it.