EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi everyone,

I feel like mining is the profession I'd like to go into as I start my career in Eve. For the first few days I hung around in 1.0-.8 space mining the 3 basic ores, trying to figure out how to get the most out of my time and cargo hold space.

Today I decided to try an area of space a bit riskier, .7 - .6 still high sec sure, but hey, baby steps. I found a new ore type there, Omber.

I'm trying to figure out how this works, because when I read the description of a particular piece of ore, it tells me what the approx. cost per unit is. Omber by far has the highest value per unit that I have seen so far. And yet, a cargo hold full of Massive Scordite is more valuable than a cargo hold full of Golden Omber.

I guess my question is, are there skills I need to be training to get better results from mining rarer ores, or is there equipment I need to be buying? For context, in 1.0-.8 space I had been using a Venture fitted with two Miner ii lasers. When I traveled to mine for Omber I only used Miner i lasers (I wanted to see what the area was like before I risked what to me is at this time a big part of my wealth). Is the answer as simple as that? I've looked around at various wiki articles, but haven't found anything specific yet.

Thanks for any input

different ores take up different amounts of space

1 unit of veldspar is 1 m3
1 unit of scordite is 2 m3
1 unit of omber is 5 m3

just examples ... you can look up the actual values by right clicking and selecting 'show info'



how much isk you make mining is a combination of

units mined per cycle
volume per unit stored

Thanks for the advice everyone. It sounds like, for now at least, there isn't much benefit to going to the lower sectors of high sec. I'll be saving my ISK for a barge or exhumer, as Jonah suggested.

Excellent point. Even though I occasionally mine, I for one will pay pretty much whatever when these missions come up so I don't have to be inconvenienced with mining, especially if I am more then 1 or 2 jumps from home.

Related follow up question - is there a way to mine more than one asteroid at a time? Ie. Mining one asteroid with mining lasers and another asteroid with mining drones? I feel like there must be. I just saw for the first time an orca and a herd (flock? gaggle?) of hulks, pretty sure they were doing it. By the way, it was an impressive sight, me wants

Any good Youtube channels with instructional videos for this sort of thing? Or any sort of newbie thing? Each question I have raises 2 more.

Thanks!

Well I guess my question is, how? I've tried locking onto a 'roid and mining with lasers, then locking onto a second 'roid and mining it with a drone(s), but the drones always head on over to the 'roid my lasers are harvesting. How can I tell it, 'Lasers mine 'Roid A, Drones mine 'Roid B'?

I feel like this is what I have been doing, but I'm not connecting the dots somewhere. Everything mines the first thing I lock on. I can't get them to mine two different targets.

1.) Lock onto asteroid.
2.) Right click, tell drones to mine repeatedly.
3.) Lock onto second asteroid.
4.) Tell lasers to mine. Lasers mine first asteroid .

In my barge I have 2 Stripminer IIs, and 5 Mining drones flying around:

1. Target 3 Asteroids (any). After targeted, they will show up in upper R-hand corner of your screen circled.
2. Select/click on first asteroid (again, upper r-hand corner of your screen). Send drones to "Mine repeatedly"
3. Click on second asteroid. Click on ONE miner. That one mines only that one.
4. Click on third asteroid. Click on SECOND miner. That second miner only mines that one.

Voila!

You can put both lasers on one asteroid, one laser on 2 seperate asteroidx, or one laser plus drones on one asteroid while other laser is on another asteroid.

Hope this helps

Agree with this post. You're not really mining until you've got a barge or better. Works even better if you fleet up with more advanced players in a corp who can generate mining bonuses such as more range on your strippers / lasers and better yield in shorter cycles.

In a Retriever, for example, you have room for 5 drones and a 25,000 m3 ore hold. That's usually good for 3-5 million ISK per load depending on what you're mining. The shield and armor reserves also help you shrug off NPC rat attacks while you destroy them with your drone compliment.

Having said that, the Venture is still good for exploratory mining in lower sec spaces. But you have to be careful as it's pretty thin-skinned.