Science & Industry

Wormhole routes to Null.
Jump drives. You'll need someone on the other side of the lowsec gatecamps to light a cyno and hop you through.
Jump clones. Usually obtained through someone with a rorqual. You'll probably need to have your junk couriered there.
Stop being solo. Join a corp with access to null, use one of their methods of getting there.
Pod jumping. Get a blank jump clone, hop into it. Update and set your medical clone to somewhere your corp has an office, go into space, and self-destruct your pod. Suddenly, you're in null.

Otherwise, the market is what you're after. Buy orders in highsec systems near routes to nullsec. Jita. Other trade hubs.

I highly suggest finding a corp or alliance that'll put up with you being casual and largely DIY, though. EVE is multiplayer, after all.
And at the very least, you can sell them stuff.

If you are willing to brave the dangers of null-sec, I would head to a C-1 or C-2 wormhole system. No local to inform people you are there, and all the mining sites have to be scaned down, so no hoping to belts till they find where you been hanging out. The differnce being that you will need a scanner alt there at all times basicaly, and just wait for a WH to hi-sec to open up, but with C-1 they almost always if not always have a staic to hi-sec, and C-2 has a little bit lower of a chance.

Just always keep your hauler cloacked, and if you see anyone on d-scan head out and cloack up.

Edit:

Just want to add that you can even keep a collection of Giant Secure Cans in a safe spot with ammo and probes and the like in them, and use them as a mini-hub of sorts. I am not sure if they can be scaned down though, and if they are they have 500k hp so it will take a while to burn through them. Addtionaly, your hauler with a sisters launcher, sisters probes, and rangefinding at 4, you should be able to scan down most sites so it can act as a backup scanner.

I forgot to think of that, knew a battleship wouldn't fit, oh well. How would you fit the hulk if you bring it through in an indy? I guess you can bring along a small control tower and ship maintenance array the first time. If that route is taken, a Covetor is a small drop in mining effeinceny and small intial isk investment.

Well another option he has is to head to providence and mine there, I am pretty sure you can mine in those systems with the CVA and their allies being NRDS.

Mine in Hurricanes :P



A fleet of 5-7 mining hurricanes does not look that delicious on D-scan. In any case it is lulz worthy.

I don't get what you are asking/trying to do. Morphite is your issue? If so, you won't find that in wormholes afkik. If you go through to null sec, you will probably be in someone else's space. You won't last long there. Plus, the system you end up in won't guarantee you will find mercoxit anyway. True sec of the system is important. I'm in 0.0 and I get morphite from drone poo, not mining. It will show up in grav sites through industry upgrades but you would need to be in the corp/alliance that holds the system to let you have it.

Again, I'm not really sure what you are asking. If you are just looking for morphite for use in industry, then you should just buy from market. If you just want to mine high ends casually, then join a null sec corp or go to a wormhole.

I've been searching for just such a thread as I think a lot of us are thinking about ways to capitalize on the pending changes with Inferno.

Solo Mining in 0.0 and/or WH space sounds like a logistical nightmare and problems include:
1) Just getting in and out requires (for example) a recon ship + jump freighter (so you aren't really soloing anyway).
2) running operations once there - a POS is recommended
3) staying alive in clunky vulnerable industrial type ships.

And I just saw a recruiting ad from the 0.0 Vitriol Industries (or some such corp name) looking "experienced" miners. This option is sounding a lot better at this point because it would solve all the problems listed above and you will be working with people that can educate you to life in 0.0.

I'm just wondering though, are there any guides posted on this topic ?

No problem man if you have 2 accounts and a bit of of a "risk-on" attitiude. Nullsec mining is easily achievable for a solo guy. This is what I used to do. I used two accounts.

1st char in a Rorqual with a Clone Bay, cloak, Industrial Core, and drones. I fill up the Rorq with mining ships. You can get a few packaged frigates in there too for a bit of ratting.

On your 2nd char you need a cyno alt char and a mining character.

Have a look on dotlan maps for a quiet system in nullsec with the ore you want to mine. I was looking for Arkonor. I found a nice system in Etherium Reach that had, perhaps 1-2 jumps per hour. A big system is best, where the belts you're mining in can't be seen on dscan from any of the gates.

Use your cyno-alt and jump your Rorq into null. It took me 3 jumps to get there. In lowsec I jumped in right outside a station, and in null I just waited til the system was empty to do the jump. Most null systems seem to deserted, so you don't have to wait long.

When jumping into null, for the love of god, move your rorq away from the alt and cloak up. And make a safespot that is further than 14AU from anything on overview and jump to that. I found it was worth using my drones to destroy the cyno-alt, because the Rorq's top speed with a cloak on is slower than your average garden snail. And a KM in a Rorq always looks good. One time I had a pilot find the cyno-alt and start circling outwards. He was only inches away from decloaking me - I nearly s**t myself. So pick an odd angle to move your Rorq away.

For your mining pilot, just jump your clone to the Rorq and get to it. The rats are a bit problematic but I just warped to another belt when if I couldn't tank them.

As for trouble from the locals. I hardly saw them over the course of weeks (hello Bloodbound alliance). I rarely saw anybody actually. The jump would occasionally rouse some attention, but by the time they arrive your cyno-alt is safely off-overview and podded back to highsec. If only they knew :)

Compressing the ore is potentially a danger window - the Industrial Core freezes your Rorq for 5 minutes (no cloak) however because you're off dscan range, the odds of being discovered are slim. And nobody is looking for highsec carebears on their own in a Rorq :)

Finally, keep your head down: don't post your cyno-alt KMs. If someone spots you in null and checks you out and sees you killed a Slasher in Rorq in their system then they will investigate! Don't talk to people, don't blab about what you're up to. Who wouldn't want a fat juicy Rorq on their KB.

And remember if you think you can get your Rorqual/any other mining ship (in carrier for example) in a system in "unused or hostile" 0.0.

Anyone whose seen your Rorqual can bring his dread/carrier and/or friends to get the juicy Rorq KM.

So make sure you have a cyno alt ready at all times in some place safe to whisk your precious capital out.

I'm all about multiple ways of getting things, as well as learning how to 'do that part of the game that I haven't played before'. Granted, learning EVERYTHING in EVE is a multi-year project, and just when you *think* you've learned it all, something new comes along.

And right now, the 'smuggling' involves going through potential gatecamps in low and on the low/null borders, so I'll likely have to be content with market hubs. (I haven't learned the wormhole mining zen yet, trying to use my mining pick-ax in a dark corner while constantly looking around for that hungry Morlock/Troll of a wormhole dweller... yeesh!)

the 20 red gangs moving through providence every day does not help security.

also CVA shooting blues often does not either.

please dont drag unknowing pilots into your shithole.