EVE New Citizens Q&A

Yeah your ship needs to be moving

All discussion of retrievers aside, you'll certainly benefit from your time spent in the Uni. Best of luck.

No, it will not be safe. Remember, CONCORD does not exist to protect you from ganks, it exists to punish the gankers after they open fire.

There is no system security level that is high enough to generate a CONCORD response before 2 gankers in catalysts manage to blow up a Retriever.

The only safe places to use a Retriever are
1) Distant, remote parts of hisec such as hisec islands in lowsec that CODE and their copycats do not go to.
2) Nullsec, in safe systems firmly under control of your alliance and where you can get safe as soon as an unfamiliar face enters local.

Yeah basically either:

- Mine with a retriever and write the occasional loss off as part of the running costs.
or
- get a procurer which mines just as fast but does waste some time with more runs back to base to empty out

If your mining in 0.8 and above and really paranoid just run level 1 missions and mine them before handing them in. You can still be scanned down but at least its harder than gankers just warping to a belt.

Procurer

Tanked T1 and then later Tanked T2 are the ships you should be aiming for. It's a better choice even than the Skiff which, though it is more tanky, is a slightly more viable gank target because it is so much more valuable.

Don't mine AFK. (In fact, anything AFK in EVE apart from being in station will end in tears eventually). Max out your drone skills and fly with 5 x Hornet EC-300 and 5 x Light Combat drones. At your mining site, deploy your ECM drones set to aggressive. They are not massively effective, but they have a small chance of breaking the target lock of a ganker, which buys you valuable seconds until CONCORD arrive. When NPC rats appear, recall the ECMs and deploy your combat drones. If the rats have already targeted you, you will need to lock and engage the drones onto them manually. (Aggressive only works if the drones are active in space before you are attacked.)

In hi-sec you can probably tank belt rats all day, so its OK to replace one or two of your light combat drones with salvage drones if you want.

As safe places to mine in high-sec go this is about the safest: Mission Mining
Not much in terms of variety of mineable Asteroids, just the basics without the +5 and +10% variants.

All you need to look out for are Combat Probes.

Best way to survive in a retri? Find a silent place in highsec and mine your heart out.

Sometimes things come up and I forgot I had eve running, to get back to my retri and his drones sitting all fine after a few hours just floating in a belt doing nothing. always alive. : )

Closest thing to combat besides rats is the yellow flashing people trying to bait you.

At the bare minimum, they should read up on the basics. Even just being aware of the 'tricks' will help a ton for staying safe. Actually attempting to gank will make learning to counter it even easier of course, but simply reading up on how gankers operate should be 'mining 101'.

The same applies to doing PVE related stuff in lowsec, WHs or null. Learning how the 'predators' operate in each of their respective areas of space will do more for your survival while PVEing than anything else. Also D-Scan, never not D-scan. Out of habit, I try and D-Scan while I'm docked; it hasn't worked yet, but I won't give up hope. Same when I exit my building IRL, and then I remember there is no D-Scan button IRL, thats eyes and ears.

It's not so much a misconception as it is that I have not minned much since the tiericide. I totally forgot about ore holds. Much of my eve experience outside of the little niche that I have carved out for myself is old pre-tiericide info. I need to learn to silence myself on things that I've not done much recently. Thank you everyone for your patients and understanding.

Hands down the best possible advice.

EVE is all about the players: know them and you can beat them. Or join them. Or avoid them, strike a deal, be friends, help them, ... The possibilities are endless and way greater than game mechanics (which, yeah, you should also learn eventually).

Plus, learning this way is way more fun!