Ships & Modules

So with so many things to do in EVE I decided to take advantage of the promo last month and started an alt for the sole purpose of doing the stuff that sounded really fun, but stuff I didn't want this toon to invest her time in yet.

Essentially my alt is focusing on industry, planetology, mining and exploring while this toon is working on more combat/support/mission running stuff.

But as my alt was progressing and I was getting annoyed with mining in a Burst while waiting the many days working towards getting Industry and Mining to 5, I saw that the minmatar have a cruiser with mining bonuses and I'm thinking maybe I should take a 1 day break in my skilling to have him work on training that cruiser as it'll be a lot better to mine in that than in the Burst.

Or should I just ignore that and keep him working towards that mining barge and eventually an exhumer?

Yes you should train minmatar cruiser, but for the reason stated by the poster above me, not for the reason of flying a Scythe.

[Unless you are for some reason entirely convinced that mining is the activity for you. If you are somehow entirely sure that mining is all you want to do in eve then it might make sense to train into exhumers first. However, even then at some point you will train Minmatar cruiser, albeit later.]

You see the Scythe is the ultimate piece of **** there is in the game. The CPU is horribly gimped, and CPU is important to fitting mining lasers. Also they gave it a drone bay of one lone light drone. Even the ******* Osprey of the Caldari, the race that is supposed to eschew dronage the most as preferred weapons gets a much better drone bay. So do not waste any ISK on a Scythe.

Train Minmatar cruiser because it will allow you to try some missions, or pvp (their real strength), as a possible change of plan. Train minmatar cruiser because it enables the Minmatar battlecruiser the Hurricane. It is not much more of an sp investment (gun sizes are the same). Trian some shield tanking (passive shield tanking) skills for your cruisers and battlecruiser. Those skills, and the drone skills, will help you competently fit a barge and later an exhumer that might have a chance of surviving a suicide gank if you decide to stay with mining.

The sp you sink into properly fitting a hurricane will not be wasted, even if not as much of an investment as tech II properly fitting the cane. These skills will allow you to do a little more in activities.

Also, aside from the BC, industrial (hauler), barge and exhumer, you may want to train frig 5 so you can get a cov ops frig for exploration. Additionally, if you go to null sec or wormholes your cov ops can act as a prober/scout to help your alliance in pvp engagements. Doing this will get you more respect from your corpies/alliance mates who will sometimes see a purely industrial character that doesn't contribute in any way to defense as dead wood.

Again, the Scythe is utter crap in comparison to the other races mining cruisers. Leave it alone. But the skill is worth training before going whole hog for exhumers.

edit- ( at me for not fully reading the op) Ok, if your alt is going industrial, then just go straight into haulers and barges then exhumers. However, it can help to train the alt in frig 5. You can dual box your alt as a scout for your main in many situations that way. The Scythe still being utter ****.