EVE General Discussion

One day someone will go through the exhaustive testing procedure of pointing their ship away from an object before warp and then pointing it towards it.

Dude, they are mining your ship for tech 2 salvage.

Yoink.

Vernn, it's pretty difficult to tank a retriever against just about anything, they aren't designed to take very much punishment at all. But I would suggest having combat drones out at all times. Back in 2006 i mined in low sec and this flashy red interceptor warped into my belt to blow my retriever up. When he agressed me, my hobgoblins agressed him back and forced him to warp off in low structure before I died. Drones help.

But back then my corp would also have a couple dedicated combat ships to watch over the barges in case some fool decided to warp in and cause trouble.

Anyways I don't think the game mechanics for high sec will change any time soon. I'd suggest looking into how long it takes CONCORD / Faction Navy ships to respond to pirate agression in high sec...actually let me look into it for you..

1.0 = instant response
0.9 = 2 seconds
0.8 = 4 seconds
0.7 = 6 seconds
0.6 = 8 seconds
0.5 = 10 seconds

Honestly I never bothered mining ice, the cycle delay was too long and the value of isk / time was laughable.

But if you really want to mine ice, first thing to do is research which systems are the best. Higher security status is a given but you've got to think about why you're a target. Being in a system with a low player count means you're isolated and easy to find. If you find an ice belt with a bunch of barges in it, there's a better chance that they'll get targeted instead of you (since they're probably using exhumers). Ice rocks have an infinite supply of ice so there isn't really a reason to find an ice belt that's out of the way.

If you decide to mine with other neutral miners, I'd suggest staying away from blobs, they're a target for bigger ganks and it's honestly really fun to warp right in the middle of them all and turn on a full rack of smartbombs. Also you're probably already aware, but ice belts are huge. They can span as much as 300 - 400 km in the same grid. I would warp to an ice rock further away from warpin to give you some time to react.

You can also set up your directional scanner to pick up combat probes if you're finding that people are warping right on top of you. Set the distance to max and periodically refresh your scanner. If you see combat probes, stop harvesting and warp off (yeah, wasting a 10 minute cycle sucks, but refitting is a bigger waste of time)

IMO if you're mining solo, don't mine ice. Strip mining has a much lower activation time and you still get a fraction of the ore you mined if you interrupt it. Sure it's not as passive of a task as ice mining but it will give you a lot more isk / time

This thread is fabulous. If only there were more like it clouding up the forums with the terribleness of people bad at EVE.

The truth been said, Nullsec is safer than high/lowsec.

And every mechanic will be exploided by some anti sozial wannabes.

If this is still the case


And the ganker can survive this Police in Destroyers ... this Police is by far not strong enough.

On the other hand .... if he is -10 and the infos from above link are still right ...
Build the absolut best buffer tank on a mining bark and ask some friends to farm him as you are allowed to kill him and no CONCORD will help him ;).

Or maybe better ... just perma scram/web using a T1 tackler. His ship will not warp away anymore even when he lock out.

Just throwing this out there, the empire police forces are pretty much a death sentence if you get caught. Its not particularly easy to get caught, but any sort of logistics in high-sec is completely boned.

Vernn you make me sick. At least learn from your mistake and put a tank module on your ship.


Seriously, I'm going to go throw up.