EVE New Citizens Q&A

Been looking at loadouts for a Mackinaw and a lot of those show a Adaptive Invulnerability Field, Thermal and Kinetic Amplifier. Since a Mackinaw is a shield tank, would it be better to use a EM Amplifier instead of Thermal or Kinetic?

You also might want to consider what kind of damage the local rats are doing. If you are mining in SOV null sec you'll typically want to fit to resist the local rats since if PvP shows up and points you before you can GTFO then you are likely dead regardless of how much tank that you have fit.

There are exceptions and you can find people that go into low sec with barges fit with a point. There is also such a thing as bait, which in null sec can be accompanied by a cloaky bubble blower.

Anyway like ShahFluffers said there is no fit that is inherently good or bad in this game. Everything is situational.

Nope.

I can confirm that any "active hardeners" (see: resistance modules that need to be turned on in space) do not benefit from ((resistance)) Compensation skills. This goes for both armor and shield mods.

So no, Adaptive Invuln Fields do not benefit from the compensation skills.
However, resistance amplifiers do. But these modules don't see much use except in niche fits as they give lower resistance bonuses than their active variants.

Shah said it well in his first post. The Thermic and Kinetic resists are 'generally' better as the largest threat a barge 'generally' faces in high sec are gankers. That being said, if you are mining in .5 or .6 against rats using mainly EM damage, you may need to adjust for those. It's a choice aspect :)

Looks like they covered your question on Comp skills pretty well.

No HiSec RAT will deal enough damage to endanger a well equipped mining ship. If your ship has drones, you can handle HiSec RATs (as long as it's not Circadian Sleepers... just stay away from them, you can't handle them period.)

No, what Shah said was perfectly accurate, it's really about the suicide gankers and in a Mack, that's a reality. You need to fit your ship to survive for 15 seconds against a ship that is going to alpha you and try to get some decent follow on DPS.

Adaptive Inv is good as it's a damage reduction scheme, but just one is really not enough. My calcs show you need to be about 70% reduction on incoming damage before you blunt that Alpha and the follow ups enough to survive long enough with confidence.

Your best defense is to RUN when another player warps in with a combat ship. If I'm a little bored and want to bug other locals I know, I conduct 'drills' on the regulars. I warp in with my T1 Cruiser at 10km to a field. I catch Macks, Retrievers, etc. All sitting there happily mining away -solo. I wake up the miner and tell him to watch his Dscan and overview.

Recall your Mack at full load is more than 3 times the cost of my T1 Cruiser set up for high Alpha and it is disposable compared to the possible reward if you've been solo mining a while. A catalyst is even cheaper (but lower dps).

So watch Dscan and overview. I actually have the other ships 'Warp' sound effect turned to maximum volume and that sound is my queue to get ready to skedaddle. Normally it's just incoming RAT's, which are free salvage to me, but if it's a player and a warship, I'm outta there... and I'M in a Procurer.

HiSec mining is NOT very profitable, but it's steady income if you need some dough for something. However, those trying to make it profitable and flying weaker ships set themselves up as targets for the gankers. If you are going to do it, do it right and that means your best defense is not being there when the hit arrives.

I've had rats in a 0.5 point me and tear through my tank fast in a retriver, however that was before all the ship rebalancing. I've been living in null sec since then so I have no current experience on this.

The worst RAT I've had is a Guristas cruiser and one light drone took about 60 seconds to off it, the frigates die in less than 20 seconds. I have seen the Sleepers though and just stay away from them. Then again, the worst I've had a RAT do for damage in my Procurer was one ding on my shields. Macks/Retrievers are a factor of about 3 weaker than the Procurer/Skiff. Covetors/Hulks have tissue paper for protection.

Exploration mining (Lo-Null-WH), that's going to be go cheap (Venture, etc.) or go tough (Procurer/Skiff). My recommendation is a Venture. It's built in Warp Stab resistance makes it really hard to trap. If you can get a combat escort, then you can do the Procurer/Skiff.

Just my limited experience. Yes, I have lost a Venture in wormhole space.... (don't want to repeat that debacle!) losing the procurer there would've hurt more...

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