Science & Industry

questions: mining ice or ore, and if ore are you mining null anoms or regular belts (regardless of sec status). What kind of barges are you using?

Aside from those, I suggest Setting up the window sizes for each client so you can always see the ore hold for each ship, and the HUD would nice as well. Just have hold next to fleet hangar window so you can simply click and drag into hangar with speed.

Unless you are using hulks, you might be able to use the scanner from the orca to figure out which asteroids are depleting,but that isnt totally necessary and kind of boring.

Also check the 2014 posts of New Eden Mining blog.

- For ease of use, change one of the mining barges to a freighter. That way you can sit in the belt without hauling.

- Flag CODE. and known gankers in your standings list

- Store a couple of skiffs/procurers in your Orca so you can swap ships between yield and tank based on local threats.

- Use a shield harmonizing module in your orca + train the leadership skills to boost your barges tank.

- Implants can boost your tank or yield for your miners.

- For ore, make bookmarks around the belts for warp in points

- Be careful with leaving an MTU out when not needed.

- Have one of your barges be a tanked Skiff. The drones bonus is nice & the speed allows him to position as the warp in for the rest of the fleet.

Thanks for the advice! I am talking high-sec regular ore belts. I have not decided which barge to settle on, but am temporarily using hulks.


Awesome, I never thought of using MTU's for mining. Thanks for all the tips.


Cool - reading it now.


Good luck. I made this char 10 minutes before making this post and will delete it as soon as I need the slot for something else.


All good advice. Thank you. Except why be careful leaving an MTU out when not needed?

Not even close. Aderkan is much safer than Endrulf, for example. It is not about being an island, it is about how far it is from trade hubs. And ice systems are more populated + being an island means pirats do not need to go far.

Solitude region is a miner paradize, but you will hardly be able to make any reasonable ISK out of it. Use Dotlan map and killboard to find your equilibrium.

True, but Sileperer, for example, has 20 belts and was ganked only once in this entire year. It does have station and is only 7 jumps from the Jita.

I personally use skiffs for their survivability (granted I mine null), but if you do settle on hulks, keep in mind the extra work load managing different strips miners and the smaller cargo hold. If you find this to not be a problem, then your next consideration is survivability. You'll need to determine how risky it is to sacrifice the tank vs how hostile you expect the space to be. If both of those concerns are resolved, hulks will definitely outshine the other classes in yield.

Now, i can't be sure on this, but I think there is a method to use freighter cans as a way to decrease hauling frequency. I'm not sure on the specifics and I imagine it to be a tad risky at times. So, again, if it works out properly, it can be a large gain in efficiency.

As others have mentioned, be sure to network with other miners and keeping Intel handy so you can easily tell when the climate gets more risky. This will be your most important aspect in keeping your fleet losses low.

confirming this. whenever I see a lonely MTU just sitting out there being ignored I just can't help but do my best to put it out of it's misery.

Stimulating the market and stuff.

That and I am usually drunk and/or bored.

Jetcanning has other funspects to it as well, a plucky venture pilot can swipe ice faster than it's mined if they're dedicated to it.