EVE New Citizens Q&A

I can't answer all your queries since I don't mine, but hopefully can shed some light on a couple:

The NPC pirates that spawn in asteroid belts get tougher as the security status of the system gets lower. NPCs in 0.5 asteroid belts are a fair bit tougher than those in 0.8, for example. If you feel your ship is not tough enough to survive in 0.5 system belts, try going back to a higher security system or having friends come along for protection.

The Market has a quickbar, which you can see in this older screenshot (I cannot login to get you a recent one), located next to the search function. You can add an item to the quickbar from the market by right-clicking it from the market (or the market search!) and clicking "add to market quickbar". That should help you store your common items. Or you can search with the search tab if you know the name!

tgl3 - Thanks for the posts, I remember seeing something about that quick-bar thing. That will help TONS thank you so much.. I figure the SEC level was my issue, crap guess I need to move to a more secure section.. That sucks but all good.

3 quick things as I should be working atm.

1. If you are in highsec. Drones...drones...drones...use them.
2. You dont need probes to see approaching ships. You are mixing D-Scan up with actual ship probing.
3. Any system of 0.7 and lower will SPAWN rats. See point 1 how to deal with them.

Always mix that up...lower then .8 or .8 and lower.

Also...OP, you were at your corps base of operation. You could have asked your corp members to help, at least thats why most people join a corp, to play with each other.

Just a few things to add here. The region you are in spawns Blood Raiders which do mostly EM and thermal damage (see this link for damage types http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/damage_types.php ). For drones to carry for defense I would recommend that you carry Hobgoblin drones (They do thermal damage which is good for a lot of the NPC rats).

For fitting a venture, I would recommend that you fit two Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I rigs and one Small Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer I rig to your ship. That little change alone will cut the damage you take from Blood Raiders almost in half. You need Mechanic 3, Jury Rigging 3, and Shield Rigging 1 to fit them yourself. (only takes a few hours of training). Alternatively you can see if a corpmate can fit the rigs for you (you don't need the skills to fly the ship with them, just to mount them yourself. (personally I would just recommend you train the skills).

Mount two mining lasers and let your drones kill any rats that spawn.

For your midslots consider using something like a small or civilian shield booster to help repair you shields while you wait for the drones to finish off the enemy. Another things to put it mids could be things either shield extenders or a shield hardener of some kind. I would recommend using a survey scanner if you are in a busy are so you can find the choice asteroids to mine.

For your low slot I would recommend a Mining Laser Upgrade unit so that you can get more ore per cycle.

Unless you are probing for the sake of finding explorations sites, I would recommend fitting a tractor beam (to pull in the wrecks you drones are making to loot them) or a salvager unit (fly over to the wreck when you are full and salvage the ship).

One last bit of advice, keep moving. Half of a Ventures defense is being small and fast. If you can't orbit your asteroid you ar mining, eject some random piece of garbage from you hold in to a jetcan and orbit that at 500-1000m.

Thank you everyone for the great info, I am at work and will read them in a bit..


J'Poll - that's good to know.. not sure why stealth mining is bad. I was thinking along the lines of " hi no can see me I am invisible mining woohoo" . I am guessing it means something else.. Will remove that link. :)

Trust me, We're quite good at laughing at people for no reason. Losing a ship and not complaining that it was unfair goes a long way towards gaining respect in this community.

If you like the idea of exploration, check out gas mining in wormholes. The profit margins are pretty high. The venture is the perfect ship for it, and there's always an element of danger. Just get out before the sleepers get you!

This.

The people who post in this part of the forum tend to be nice (exception threads apply). This is also because CCP and the moderators monitor this part of the forums quite closely for non new player friendly behaviour.

Drop down one into General Discussion and you will see the other side of EVE.
And even the people who post here do like to laugh at people, but you have to give them a reason to laugh at you. Fortunately for you, you failed to give us one as you do have the right mindset for EVE by not blaming anybody for an error and taking it like a learning experience.

LOL, ok thanks all. Now that I am home I can read through these posts much better . Whew I was hoping that I did not come off as complaining about EVE being the reason I lost my ship. I was definitely mad but I knew it was me and posted for help how to fix it.. Now I have a list of "do" and "dont" so lets buy another ship.

Unfortunately I think I'll move my tail back to a higher Sec and work my way to the .5 area. This is an amazing game and I am excited for the community and the future of EVE.

Thanks again all and I hope to provide good humor in the future because I will be laughing too.