EVE New Citizens Q&A

Can't help with mining details but I would advise you to join a mining corp. They would help you with ship fits and what to mine. Good corp will also have scheduled mining operations with fleet and bonuses from orca or whatever is used to boost mining yield. They would also provide you with protection from rats and if they are really good also from other players.

Anyway if you decide to use mining drones your only protection against rats would be your ship tank which usually means passive regen of your shields.

To get the maximum profit from mining and refining, you will want to have Refinery Efficiency trained and have NPC standings above 6.67 with the corp whose refinery you wish to use.

To make the most profit per hour while mining, you really need to build "The Spreadsheet". In this spreadsheet you will want entry fields for each mineral, then a breakdown of how many of each mineral will be generated from a refining batch, along with a value per cubic metre for that ore. Then you just go and mine the ore worth the highest ISK per cubic metre.

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Having fun in mah Eve? Imposibru. We have quotas and deadlines and stuff.

Ok, I'm actually going to answer a question about mining. In order to retain some level of self respect I feel obligated to preface this post with this:

Do not mine. Do gank, bump, can-flip, and harass miners. It is more fun.

Ok, you have a Venture. The usual progression used to be from mining frig to cruiser to barge, but they have removed mining bonuses from the cruisers, so it is better to move directly from your venture to a mining barge. Don't mine with an industrial. Mine with a fleet of cool people so it is less boring.

Mining drones improve your yield, but you need something to kill the rats, so stick with the hobgoblins unless your fleet mates can take care of the rats for you.

Stick to highsec for now, then maybe look into a nullsec mining corp in a stable alliance. Lowsec mining is generally less profitable, though it can be fun to dodge the pirates. If you want to mine in lowsec do it in gravimetric exploration sites and learn about dscan and bookmarks.

When you can't stand any more mining, consider taking up miner ganking.

Best ore to mine: depends on mineral prices at the time. This is why people keep answering you with "it depends". You can use a spreadsheet such as grismar.net/ore and plug in the current mineral prices for trit, pyerite, mexallon, etc, and it will tell you what's the most profitable ore.

Note that you can only get the first 4 ores in high-sec. Roids for omber and lower don't appear in high-sec.

As far as mining ship progression, "Industrial" does not mean "for industry". "Industrial" is just the name they chose to give some of the cheaper transport ships.

For mining, you want to be able to install as many mining lasers as possible. Mining lasers are turrets; a ship has to have many high slots, and has to have many turret slots, for you to install multiple mining lasers.

And on top of that, even if you take a battleship with its 8 high slots and 7-8 turrets, mining lasers require a lot of CPU to fit, and most guns require a lot of Power Grid. Thus, if CCP wants a ship to be used for battle, it will make that ship have a lot of grid, and very little CPU. You won't be able to fit your 8 lasers quite a few of the battleships, due to small CPU.

So, to sum it up, your best bet is the mining frigates -> mining barges path. Or, you can stop at mining frigate, and train for combat, and you may be able to convert the odd cruiser or battleship to mining, but even the cheaper barges will beat it hands down in terms of mining output.

I always used Cerlestes.de to find the best type of ore. Sort by ISK/m3 and use the best value.

Do NOT mine with a bestower, unless you hate your life. Use the new Venture mining frigate until you can use a barge, and then pick based on whether you tend to find yourself wanting more tank, more yield, or more ore bay capacity.

Omber appears in Gallente and Minmatar highsec. Kernite in Amarr highsec

Omber is worth less than Pyroxeres per m3, about the same as Plagioclase. Since mining lasers pull a fixed m3 per cycle, it's the value per m3 that's important, not the value per unit.

Pyroxeres - 64.83 per unit (Jita sell), 0.3m3, 216.1 ISK/m3
Plagioclase - 72.7 per unit, 0.35 m3, 207.71 ISK/m3
Omber - 125.0 per unit, 0.6 m3, 208 ISK/m3

they do not reduce in yield as the crystal gains damage.

however; the tooltip shows the yield of your strip miner without the crystal's bonus applied to it [i'm assuming that's a bug]. where as if you "show info" and go down to the specialised yield or whatever it's called, that's how much you mine when you're targeting the correct rocks with the proper crystals loaded.

Believe it or not, Veldspar is quite profitable for a highsec miner. Industry requires vast mind bogglingly large amounts of Tritanium. A hefty source of it comes from the Veldspar asteroids. I also hear Kernite is profitable as well and it's found in highsec mostly in Amarr space.