EVE New Citizens Q&A

mining ships aren't really built for combat, so it's not especially advisable
but if you have to .....

pay VERY close attention to local
stay aligned at all times
warp directly to a station & dock

then blow raspberries in local

And use a Procurer or Skiff, alternatively use Ventures, because they're cheap, and awesome.

Or mine in Lowsec and ofc follow the above advice about watching local & be fast in hightailing to a station should pirates attend.
most WTs wouldn't go there.

that made me smile.

The usual practise would be for members of the corp to stay in dock until the wardec is over. Alternate methods are to engage another corp who like to PvP to join your corp and do the fighting for you. This may or may not involve payment. Another method is to get out there and fight them yourself but you don't want to be losing in battle if you take this option. Final choice may be to join another corp temporarily or join an NPC corp until the wardec is over.

One corp I have to keep an eye on has recently moved to alternate player corps three times and had a wardec issued on each one. So four wardecs.

I don't have time to list all the best tactics to avoid wardecs atm. Some points include NOT joining a player corp advertising itself as a mining corp or one that buys all ore. Not clearing all the belts out in a system or cherrypicking certain ores - certain to **** others off doing that. Don't mine AFK or use ISBoxer type software or fly multiple mining accounts all started at the same date and maybe with similar or boring char names. Ways to avoid wardecs are as you can see fairly numerous.

setup bookmarks within the belts your mining
best place would be at opposite ends of the belt
if a belt is 100km wide, this makes you 50km away from the default warp in spot
then just warp to bookmarks, instead of the belt


align to a station, set max speed to about 30% for quick warping
repeat as necessary to stay in laser range of rocks

safe spots can be probed down (afaik)
warping to celestials (planets, moons etc) is not advisable, as interceptors warp very quickly now
they will get there before you, even if they left after you

mining whilst under a war-dec is a risk
it doesn't really matter how careful you are
if they really want to get you
they WILL get you

Set traps. I wardecced a mining corp once, ran locates and saw they were mining in their usual home system. Thought 'yep, easy kills, they'll be in the icebelt, and I'll go there solo'. Jump into system (fortunately in a cheap ship) and boom, warp scrambled and popped before I get off the grid.

Came back prepared later and had a fight where we whelped them (lost a single Vexor, took out a Paladin, an Oneiros and a Vindicator plus a couple interceptors) so it ended well, but the trap definitely worked.

In a few weeks the prospect will be released. Just buy one and mine in nullsec.

If the wardeccers are competent, they will find you with locator agents.

Thanks all for your kind replies.

Overall I understand you could even attempt to mine under a highsec wardec if you're on the ball and the deccers are incompetent or lazy. I guess at least some of the corps that randomly wardec noob corps are.

OTOH, professional, dedicated merc corps - and Kane, obviously - would make mining all but impossible.

All this 'new player highsec survival' research inspired an idea that I posted here. I would appreciate it if y'all would have a look and maybe comment - even to say it's crap.

People - even zealous ex-CSM delegates - sometimes suggest abolishing non-consensual wardecs 'for the sake of the New Players' . I think that's bullsh*t so I tried to come up with a better way of helping out newbros with EVE's challenges.