Science & Industry

In time you will learn that as in this forum, genpop eve goes about things mostly in the "who cares way", but they DO CARE.

Why someone will amass all the effort needed to gank someone that cant offer much, and if they do, often is less than the ganker has to lose, just to bother that person. It is sure someone that instead of not caring, is caring a lot to draw his real life feelings into game actions. Again, concept war on the rise.

"Any how", ganking has a rule of thumb: It doesnt matter how long you make your mining ship resist, when people are out to gank, they will gank and you will lose, unless they are bad on what they are doing and either barge or exhumer would survive anyway. The is no way you can use the fitting scheme of any mining ship to be reasonably resistant to ganking when well done.

What people usually do to avoid this bothers is to move.

Seek a system which is out of routes or large "any reason" hubs, like trade hubs, mission hubs, ice hubs. Preferably a system which has no reason to have people unless they are going there specifically. These systems usually have fixed people and soon you get your neighbours, so you can see anyone new and prepare accordingly. Avoid systems with no stations if alone and monoboxing.

But the most valuable advice someone can give you in New Eden is: DO NOT DO ANYTHING ALONE.

Simple fleet bonuses from a good fleet leader can make your ship more agile, give better defenses, and alert on danger.

The isk/hr vs tank debate is an old one but boils down to how often gankers are likely to attack and how much attention the miner is paying to the game. At a certain point the lost yield exceeds the cost of replacing the mining ship.
That said mining is rubbish isk/hr.
Mining is so dull that you do it semi afk whilst doing something else.
everything else in eve is more fun.
i strongly suggest trying other eve activities for a while and see how you like them.