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Dr No Game
Full Broadside
Deepwater Hooligans
#21 - 2013-02-04 21:36:12 UTC
Gorn Arming wrote:
Bow'en wrote:
Shokre O'Corwi wrote:
Argentaria wrote:
Third, what was said above, shield booster and hobgoblin drones for defense. And even better, a healthy respect of when to run. Also as soon as your in position and mining, align your ship to station. The venture is a quick ship, but sometimes seconds matter.

You'll be out of asteroid range before the first cycle ends if you do that.

Not if you align at minimum speed.

52nd to what was said above though. Hobgoblins (preferably IIs) and buffer tank in the mid slots for more Shield HP.

Ah, the old "dead align" myth rears its ugly head.

When will people stop believing this crap?

More people just need to put it out there. I have read in dozens of places to align to the celestial most "in your path" to avoid gatecamps etc, but only one time that when your ship is stopped, it doesn't matter what you warp to. Which makes all the posts discussing "align time" on a ship make much more sense. There are just too many idiots parroting misinformation.
Dave Stark
#22 - 2013-02-04 21:54:02 UTC
put hobgoblins in your drone bay.

deploy drones, go afk until cargo is full. repeat until you can fly something that isn't as horrible as the venture.
Darth Gustav
Sith Interstellar Tech Harvesting
#23 - 2013-02-04 21:59:31 UTC
Dr No Game wrote:
Gorn Arming wrote:
Bow'en wrote:
Shokre O'Corwi wrote:
Argentaria wrote:
Third, what was said above, shield booster and hobgoblin drones for defense. And even better, a healthy respect of when to run. Also as soon as your in position and mining, align your ship to station. The venture is a quick ship, but sometimes seconds matter.

You'll be out of asteroid range before the first cycle ends if you do that.

Not if you align at minimum speed.

52nd to what was said above though. Hobgoblins (preferably IIs) and buffer tank in the mid slots for more Shield HP.

Ah, the old "dead align" myth rears its ugly head.

When will people stop believing this crap?

More people just need to put it out there. I have read in dozens of places to align to the celestial most "in your path" to avoid gatecamps etc, but only one time that when your ship is stopped, it doesn't matter what you warp to. Which makes all the posts discussing "align time" on a ship make much more sense. There are just too many idiots parroting misinformation.

The best way to mine aligned is to plot a pair of opposing "warp out" points in-line with your asteroid belt of choice with a fast ship, saving the bookmarks. You'll also want to bookmark the last asteroid on either end of the belt. Then when you mine, you align to "warp out A." When you reach the end of the asteroid belt you warp to "warp out A" and warp back to the end asteroid. Now align to "warp out B" and continue mining. When you reach the end of the belt, warp to "war out B" and then warp back to the asteroid on that end of the belt.

If somebody neutral lands or decloaks in your belt, warp to the "warp out" you are aligned to. If you do, you will enter warp immediately, appearing as "invulnerable" to your potential attacker. Every time.

Now you don't even have to tank your terrible mining ship. You're welcome.

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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#24 - 2013-02-04 22:33:53 UTC
Darth Gustav wrote:

The best way to mine aligned is to plot a pair of opposing "warp out" points in-line with your asteroid belt of choice with a fast ship, saving the bookmarks. You'll also want to bookmark the last asteroid on either end of the belt. Then when you mine, you align to "warp out A." When you reach the end of the asteroid belt you warp to "warp out A" and warp back to the end asteroid. Now align to "warp out B" and continue mining. When you reach the end of the belt, warp to "war out B" and then warp back to the asteroid on that end of the belt.

If somebody neutral lands or decloaks in your belt, warp to the "warp out" you are aligned to. If you do, you will enter warp immediately, appearing as "invulnerable" to your potential attacker. Every time.

Now you don't even have to tank your terrible mining ship. You're welcome.

Along with this, you can avoid the long slow drive from beacon to 'mining range' by establishing a 'turning point' bookmark some 200 - 250km above or below the belt proper. Also set points along the belt at convenient distances. When you arrive, warp to your 'turning point,' then choose the belt point closest to the rock you desire, and warp to it. when all rocks in range have been melted, warp to the turning point, then warp back to the next BM. Won't help much in a Venture, but much faster for the slower barges. Especially useful for ice belts, which are pretty massive. Also provides more options for escape when teh genkers arrive - And they will arrive.

Get used to the idea now that you will be ganked - and likely podded, too. It shouldn't need to be said, but I'll say it anyway: Don't mine with expensive ships unless you're wealthy. Don't mine with expensive implants, either - unless you're wealthy.

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Bobo Cindekela
Doomheim
#25 - 2013-02-04 23:21:13 UTC
you can be in a real barge with strips in about 9 days from new character.

a real barge can be a retriever holding 25km3 ore and having 5 drones in the dronebay

venture is good for ninja mining, you dont need to ninja mine in a 0.6

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Terraj Oknatis
Project Sanctuary
#26 - 2013-02-04 23:54:23 UTC
This is simple and may or may not have been posted because i didn't actually read any of the posts. Just find a belt with a Hulk/ret/mackinaw that has their drones active. They will take out the rats for you. so long as they don't mind you occupying a small corner of their belt.
Heywood Djiblomi
Doomheim
#27 - 2013-02-04 23:57:41 UTC
Galaxy Pig wrote:
Draft Stone, welcome to EVE!
You may not be aware, but many many of your fellow miners are cheating! They run programs that mine for them while they're at work and stuff, meanwhile, you make less money as an honest miner due to them flooding the market with their illegally obtained ore/ice!

Have you ever considered taking a more active roll in eliminating your competition? The New Order has sworn eternal jihad on these robots and you can help! With only 2 days training time, you can be killing these cheaters with the most lively, friendly, players in the game: the New Order of Highsec. Our dear leader James 315 will take you under his wing and show you the side of the game you've never seen. You can mine, and actuvely work to make the ore you mine worth more! :D

See www.minerbumping.com


I fully endorse this product and/or service. Cool
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#28 - 2013-02-05 00:17:15 UTC
I yield tank my mining fleet.

Note that you can slow your ship down to 75% of maximum speed and still warp out immediately. You can slow down further by fitting armour plates, but this restricts other fitting. Thus with a Hulk you will cover about 4km per minute. With a range of 25km you will have about five minutes to extract ore from any rock, just pick the ones furthest "ahead" of you and stop the laser when the rock falls too far behind.

Another option is to mine in mission space, especially when that space is accessed through acceleration gates: this buys you 30 seconds of advance warning. Either park a covops at the gate and watch that screen, or spam D-scan. If you are using T3 OGB, you could park that on grid with the gate, just keep it some hundreds of km away from the gate to avoid long range gankers.

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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#29 - 2013-02-05 15:59:59 UTC
Mara Rinn wrote:
I yield tank my mining fleet.

Note that you can slow your ship down to 75% of maximum speed and still warp out immediately. You can slow down further by fitting armour plates, but this restricts other fitting. Thus with a Hulk you will cover about 4km per minute. With a range of 25km you will have about five minutes to extract ore from any rock, just pick the ones furthest "ahead" of you and stop the laser when the rock falls too far behind.

Another option is to mine in mission space, especially when that space is accessed through acceleration gates: this buys you 30 seconds of advance warning. Either park a covops at the gate and watch that screen, or spam D-scan. If you are using T3 OGB, you could park that on grid with the gate, just keep it some hundreds of km away from the gate to avoid long range gankers.

Well, this *is* a NewBro we're talking about / to. Hulks and cloaky ships are a bit out of his reach at the moment, though this is good advice for later.

Seriously, upgrade to a Barge - Procurer or Retriever are easy enough to get into, and the necessary skills won't be so SP-expensive that you're locked into a mining career.

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Karrl Tian
Doomheim
#30 - 2013-02-05 16:04:51 UTC
Dave Stark wrote:
put hobgoblins in your drone bay.

deploy drones, go afk until cargo is full. repeat until you can fly something that isn't as horrible as the venture.


Do this until you can fly a Mackinaw, then open alt account and repeat 3x til you have an Orca. Never leave highsec again.
LHA Tarawa
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#31 - 2013-02-05 16:12:28 UTC
Draft Stone wrote:

1 - Equip a shield regenerator (medium slot) on my Venture and just let them hit me while I mine.
2 - Remove the mining laser upgrade and replace it with a repairer so I can withstand attacks while repairing
3 - Replace one or both mining drones with combat/defense drones
4 - Use a combat ship and do A LOT of back and forth between the asteroid belt and the station (I could do some jetcan mining, but I am afraid people would steal my ore since I won't be equipped to fight back with a ship equipped toward mining)
5 - Whatever else I didn't think about :)

The only thing I want, is to be able to fill my ship without worrying about dying to NPC bandits. (currently with both lasers, both drones and the upgrade, it takes around 15 minutes I think, should be faster as I gain skills)

Thanks a lot!



In general, mining drones are not as effective as they may seem on paper. This is because of the travel time to and from. Even if you are sitting on a rock at 0, the drones orbit it, and are likely on the far side when they need to return to drop off ore.

I'd drop the mining drones and go with a couple light scout drones. Just watch them carefully as the NPCs now are very aggressive about attacking your drones.
Galaxy Pig
New Order Logistics
CODE.
#32 - 2013-02-05 16:19:57 UTC
Karrl Tian wrote:
Dave Stark wrote:
put hobgoblins in your drone bay.

deploy drones, go afk until cargo is full. repeat until you can fly something that isn't as horrible as the venture.


Do this until you can fly a Mackinaw, then open alt account and repeat 3x til you have an Orca. Never leave highsec again.


You sicken me.

Highsec is owned by players now. Systems 0.5-1.0 are New Order Territory. All miners and other residents of Highsec must obey The Code. Mining without a permit is dangerous and harmful to the EVE community. See www.MinerBumping.com
Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#33 - 2013-02-05 16:21:48 UTC
Galaxy Pig wrote:
Karrl Tian wrote:
Dave Stark wrote:
put hobgoblins in your drone bay.

deploy drones, go afk until cargo is full. repeat until you can fly something that isn't as horrible as the venture.

Do this until you can fly a Mackinaw, then open alt account and repeat 3x til you have an Orca. Never leave highsec again.

You sicken me.

EVE is cold and harsh and uncaring.

Just like ice blocks in highsec.

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Dr No Game
Full Broadside
Deepwater Hooligans
#34 - 2013-02-06 15:27:55 UTC
Darth Gustav wrote:
The best way to mine aligned is to plot a pair of opposing "warp out" points in-line with your asteroid belt of choice with a fast ship, saving the bookmarks. You'll also want to bookmark the last asteroid on either end of the belt. Then when you mine, you align to "warp out A." When you reach the end of the asteroid belt you warp to "warp out A" and warp back to the end asteroid. Now align to "warp out B" and continue mining. When you reach the end of the belt, warp to "war out B" and then warp back to the asteroid on that end of the belt.

If somebody neutral lands or decloaks in your belt, warp to the "warp out" you are aligned to. If you do, you will enter warp immediately, appearing as "invulnerable" to your potential attacker. Every time.

Now you don't even have to tank your terrible mining ship. You're welcome.

I'm not talking about mining. Just the fact that when your ship is at a dead stop, there is no time difference in warping to a celestial directly in front of you or behind you, the time to initiate warp is the same. I'm sure if I had mined anything after my first 24 hours in the game, this might be useful, so, uh, thanks?
Karrl Tian
Doomheim
#35 - 2013-02-06 16:09:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Karrl Tian
Galaxy Pig wrote:
Karrl Tian wrote:
Dave Stark wrote:
put hobgoblins in your drone bay.

deploy drones, go afk until cargo is full. repeat until you can fly something that isn't as horrible as the venture.


Do this until you can fly a Mackinaw, then open alt account and repeat 3x til you have an Orca. Never leave highsec again.


You sicken me.


Also, once you have your Orca, stay out of player corps. You don't really need them because the tax doesn't apply to mining. NPC corps are 100% better for miners, no war dec's or awoxing corp killers to worry about.
Ginger Barbarella
#36 - 2013-02-06 16:16:08 UTC
Galaxy Pig wrote:
Draft Stone, welcome to EVE!
You may not be aware, but many many of your fellow miners are cheating! They run programs that mine for them while they're at work and stuff, meanwhile, you make less money as an honest miner due to them flooding the market with their illegally obtained ore/ice!

Have you ever considered taking a more active roll in eliminating your competition? The New Order has sworn eternal jihad on these robots and you can help! With only 2 days training time, you can be killing these cheaters with the most lively, friendly, players in the game: the New Order of Highsec. Our dear leader James 315 will take you under his wing and show you the side of the game you've never seen. You can mine, and actuvely work to make the ore you mine worth more! :D

See www.minerbumping.com


Maybe you should do everyone a favor and stop playing the fool publicly? Just a thought...

"Blow it all on Quafe and strippers." --- Sorlac
Galaxy Pig
New Order Logistics
CODE.
#37 - 2013-02-06 17:24:02 UTC
See? You can tell we're a great bunch of guys by how much the carebear community hates us. ;)

Highsec is owned by players now. Systems 0.5-1.0 are New Order Territory. All miners and other residents of Highsec must obey The Code. Mining without a permit is dangerous and harmful to the EVE community. See www.MinerBumping.com
Dave Stark
#38 - 2013-02-06 17:39:18 UTC
Karrl Tian wrote:
Galaxy Pig wrote:
Karrl Tian wrote:
Dave Stark wrote:
put hobgoblins in your drone bay.

deploy drones, go afk until cargo is full. repeat until you can fly something that isn't as horrible as the venture.


Do this until you can fly a Mackinaw, then open alt account and repeat 3x til you have an Orca. Never leave highsec again.


You sicken me.


Also, once you have your Orca, stay out of player corps. You don't really need them because the tax doesn't apply to mining. NPC corps are 100% better for miners, no war dec's or awoxing corp killers to worry about.


aside from completely missing the king of high sec mining: the retriever.

i approve of this string of quotes.
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