EVE New Citizens Q&A

True, but it is well worth it...

https://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/ore/gas.html

Some previous posts about gas mining are good, but it is only truly profitable in a worm whole and those are incredibly dangerous.

I repeat my earlier warning that mining ore in a Retriever is a really bad idea. Look at other posters' comments about it. You have to be absolutely paranoid or some ganker pops your barge. Lose that Paranoia and go with the tanked out Procurer I posted middle of the first page.

While this is true Catain, paranoid miners do mine aligned, especially in null and lowsec. The trick is to mine aligned to a celestial or safe spot while moving at 75% of your maximum velocity. Then if a hostile pops on grid, you can insta-warp to safety.

Of course this means trawling along the asteroid belt, in straight line towards your warp point, switching asteroids often as you move along so it is a more active way to mine. As you can imagine, this is one case where the range of your mining lasers actually does matter, so increasing that is useful. As well, the Higgs Anchor rigs have recently been added to the game which slows down your maximum velocity thus increasing the time you spend in range of a asteroid which is also useful for this type of mining.

This style of mining is probably not worth the effort in highsec though as there is little chance of a cloaky gank ship surprising you in a belt. Your Dscan is a much better tool to see the more usual incoming Catalysts so if you keep an eye on that and local you will likely to be able to get into warp before they land and warp scramble you even if you are at rest.

Still, moving in a belt is always a good idea as it makes the accurate warp-in of the gank ship more difficult. Orbit an asteroid or something if at all possible to make yourself a little safer. Personally, I take it as a challenge to land my gank ship on a target while they are moving (so don't think that alone makes you safe), but I will admit sometimes I have misjudged and been too far away for my very short-range blasters to hit so I have aborted the gank and the target escaped.

I wasn't talking about new players in particular.

You will be amazed how many older players still think it matters too.

What is such a big deal about losing a Venture? Even the cost of a Retriever is minuscule in the grand scope of things. The game is about fun, not doing everthing you can to not get blown up (unless for some reason avoiding interacting with everyone in an mmo is your idea of fun). If you get past your initial fear of losing ships, the game will be a lot more fun. Getting blown up is a learning experience that you can learn something new from every time it happens, everytime you learn something new you get better at the game.

See, another person that is stupid to not know the difference.


The "vector" has to be within 5 degree of your destination, not the visual front of your ship...

They are 2 totally different things.


Our "spaceships" are nothing but a dot to the server. To this dot, a velocity emerges that clasifies which direction your ship is traveling to. The length of the vector is the speed you are achieving.

So if the direction of the vector is within 5 degree of your destination and the speed is 75% of your max, you warp. Period.

But as we won't pay CCP to see some dots and vectors fly around in space, they gave these dots a nice visually pleasing surface.
But this surface has nothing to do with the whole warp mechanic.

J'Poll us just frustrated because that's something we have to explain to vetrans quite often. I once had a conversation with a 6 year old player who still did not know that.