EVE New Citizens Q&A

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You should learn the skills to fly a Retriever

Fit it like this:

Strip Miner 1
Strip Miner 1
Survey Scanner
Mining Laser Upgrade 1
Mining Laser Upgrade 1

Skills:
Mining 5
Astrogeology 5
Electronics 5
Engineering 5
Mining Upgrades 4
Drones 3 (5)
Refining 5
Refinery Efficiency 2
Scordite Processing 3
Veldspar Processing 3
Energy Systems Operation 3-4
Energy Management 3-4
Cybernetics ?

This should guve you 5-7 M ISK/hour in high sec

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Once you can do that train to be able to fly an exhumer

Mackinaw
Strip Miner 2
Strip Miner 2
Survey Scanner
Mining Laser Upgrade 2
Mining Laser Upgrade 2
Mining Laser Upgrade 2

And these skills:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=226142&find=unread

This should give you 10-12M ISK/Hour in high sec

I will admit its been a while since i have actually mined unless im forced to by corp members, but will add in what i can and others can correct me.

As some have mentioned retriever is a decent ship for mining, at least if your solo if i remember correctly.
There are people out there that will gank miners just for fun, so watch out for local spikes and preferably find a system that is more out of the way, and stay aligned to warp out of the belt at all times.

The mining missions i dont have much experience with, but i would say just stop doing missions and mine regular ore or ice, depending on which one is most profitable for you.
However you might want to grind enough missions to get perfect refining in the system(s) you mine in so you dont loose as much on taxes.
There are also skills that will help you with refining.

For how to sell it you have a few choices.
You can either just sell it on the market, or you can look around for a corp/person/alliance that buys minerals/ore in bulk on a regular basis and is willing to use you as their regular provider.

And dont worry about the people who are commenting on how your post is written. Most people here will be understanding of someone not being a native english speaker

Good luck and have fun!

I think you mean ganked. And if so I hope you mean procurer instead of covetor.

Procurer (Skiff): high tank. Avg cargo and yield. Tanked miner.
Retriever (Mckinaw): high cargo. Avg tank and yield. Solo miner.
Covetor (Hulk): high yield. Avg tank and cargo. Fleet miner.

My advice: try mining but dont make it your only goal. Most people will quit if they only mine as it is one of the most boring things to do in EVE. Only a select few can pull it off as their main thing to do.

Edit: that linked fit is terrible. ALWAYS fit a tank. Miners are prime food for gankers because they usually are the example of people who want to avoid PvP and want to max their ISK/hour income and whine when people show them that space is a harsh place.

^ This.

Barges go against the Gallente design philosophy, and are shield tanked. Since you're really tanking "PVP" and not
"PVE" style damage, you want buffer over active, so this means Shield Extenders instead of Boosters.

I mine on occasion, and kit out the exhumers with the best tank I can cram on there after 3x T2 strips.

On a hulk, this means

Hi
3x strips
Mid
2x Small F-S9 extenders (T2 don't fit without a 3% PG & CPU implant)
2x T2 invulns
Low
DCU II
Mining Laser Upgrade II

Rigs
3x CDFE

EHP is 26.6k against antimatter, and 28.7k with an all 5 squad booster (before ganglinks), or 30.7k with an all 5 booster in a vulture.

Mines alright -- with a T2 fit orca it's something like 2700+ m3 per minute. Sure you can get "more" yield by gimping your tank ... but that kind of defeats the purpose.

If you stick with those mining missions, at level 4, they will start to pay very well, especially if you can do them in more dangerous space outside of high sec. (below 0.5) It is slow going, at first, but level 1's and level 2's are easy in a Venture. Ultimately, they are just as good as level 4 combat missions, maybe better in some ways. For level 4's, you will probably want to learn Gas Harvesting and Ice harvesting, in addition to regular mining. It's worth it.

If you choose to mine regular ore in the public asteroid belts, you will probably find that your ship's tank is just as important as how fast it gathers ore. If you cannot comfortably sit in an asteroid belt and work your mining lasers, then it doesn't matter how much ore your ship COULD be harvesting.

As a newbie, you should probably aim to mine in 0.5 security space. Lower than that is MUCH more dangerous. Higher than that is less rewarding. The "rats" in 0.5 space aren't too tough. Any ship you mine in should be able to tank them long enough to fill your hold or kill them outright. Sometimes they drop good loot, too.

As you progress, you will have a choice to make. Do you mine more ore? Do you mine better ore?

If you choose to mine more ore, you just have to get better ships, up to Retriever is what I recommend, but you should try Procurer for a little while first, because other players will be less likely to try to destroy you if you fly Procurer than Retriever. Procurer has a much better tank, although it will not mine as efficiently. (Don't get greedy.)

If you choose to mine better ore, then you need to understand PVP very well, because the better ore is mostly found in unsecure space. You will face stronger NPCs, other players, bigger ore (more m3's). If you want to embrace that challenge, Venture is your friend. +2 warp strength. Frigate-fast. Big ore hold (for her size). Most importantly, she is cheap. Cheap is important, because you may lose a few Ventures in the begining. Don't even think about taking a mining barge there until you know exactly what you are doing and have 4 ways of getting out of any bad situation.

Good luck.

This.
Aggressive drones will only attack something that aggresses either your ship or the drones. Both which automatically makes thema legal target to shoot anyway.

The idea that aggresive drones get you CONCORDED is a myth helped into the world by people who dont understand the mechanics.

OP: Any advice for a new miner?
Me: Yes, don't.