EVE New Citizens Q&A

- you could train for an exhumer as suggested above, but I think it's valuable to try some other aspects of the game before you spend the training time.

- buy a procurer so you can mine even when some of the people above are in your system. :-)

- buy a hauler so you can get your product to market

- train for and buy an orca. It makes a good hauler of goods to a market, but more importantly it allows you to move your ships and stuff easily so you can try different regions in the game.

- buy some BPO's if you have an interest in industry.

- buy a combat ship and try running missions (you many find them more boring than missions).

- buy 10 combat frigates with the goal of losing them in lowsec.

- buy an astero and try exploration

We aim to please.

When I have money outside of my safety buffer (usually the cost of replacing my most expensive ship x2) I usually just buy skill books and fill out the skill tree. Since when you discover you need to train a skill for something it's much nicer to find that you already have it and just need to put more points in than that you need to fly across the universe for something.

Of course, over the long run this can end up with some overkill, like how I have almost the entire science tree and industry tree filled in at at least one point even though most of what I actually do is exploration and small-scale pvp (plus a mission or two for corp standings and such). But on the upside, I can theoretically just wake up one day and decide I want to build T3 subsystems or something.

Start a new acct, make another miner toon, buy PLEX once trial period runs out, continue to mine until you can PLEX a 3rd acct, make 3rd acct toon a Orca pilot, keep going till you PLEX 4th acct, make that toon another miner. Then get into industry.

Whenever someone says he is enjoying mining ...
... I wonder if they stare at their lasers ...
... or in fact enjoy what else they are doing while not playing.

If you're going to do either of the above make sure that you tank them properly and don't afk mine, exhumers and Orcas are juicy targets.

If you want to mine as a profession it'd be worth your while using one of your character slots to create a gank alt and killing some of your fellow miners, most gankers will be more than happy to show you how it all works and in the process you'll learn what they look for and how not to become their target.