EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hey peeps.

I rolled a Minmatar and started playing this game like, 3 days ago.

I grabbed myself a 'Venture' and started mining Omber until I had about 3 million ISK and then I stupidly blew it on a 'Mammoth'. I didn't see that it only had 1 Turret slot and thus would be useless for mining...

Anyway so I threw up my Mammoth for sale and stuck with my Venture but I want to buy something like a Cruiser or whatever to fly around in and do some Security missions. I know I am probably getting way over my head in jumping from a mining ship to a Cruiser ship. But still I figured it'd take awhile to train the skills and make the money anyway.

So my question is where can I mine some good Ore?

I started in Min space, in high sec and just found Omber kind of slow and not worth much.. I am not an impatient person but I also don't want to be sitting around for days wasting my time yeah? I tried some low sec stuff but got blown up 2 times before I could even click 'warp'.

So I decided I'll jump 21 sectors over to Amar space and try and find some Jasper or something, where it's available in higher sec.
Yeah well that was a bit of a stupid and scary decision. I almost got owned twice by some gate campers. Luckily I could outrun them before they got me in their Phantasms.

So there I was trying to find an Asteroid field in Faktun with no NPCs that had Kernite or something just to find that the price of it is ony a little higher than Omber back in Minmatar space... Well you live, you learn I guess.

Any idea guys? I don't really want to go charging into low sec just to get 1-shot by someone I can't even see... but I don't want to be stuck mining Omber forever. Would it be worth it trying to refine some of this stuff instead of just selling it outright?

Thanks for any answers.

if you want to find places to mine

http://eve-online.itemdrop.net/eve_db/universe/search/

set filters according to what/where your after
and have fun

If you're interested in sticking with mining, I'd highly suggest training up gas harvesting and looking around for some newbro friendly low class wormhole corporations. You'll be able to make a lot of money, and maybe dip into the wonderful world of reactions.

As you can see from the ore charts linked the price of Ore does not vary as much from high sec to null sec as one might think. What makes null sec far more valuable as far as mining is not the ore but the size of the roids and the boosts.

Smaller asteroids mean more changing from rock to rock and more partial cycles or full cycles with partial ore loads which come down to wasted time or missed m3. Also in null sec you can get Rorqual boosts which are not available in high sec. You can get similar boosts with an Orca but not as good. So value of the ore it's self is not everything.

If you like mining by all means stick with it but if you are only doing it to earn isk you should probably know that mining is not terribly good isk and it's probably one of the riskier means of earning isk in this game.

If you want to try missions or what ever you should do so. This early in the game your skills train very fast and you are much better off seeing more aspects of the game to find out what you like than you are specializing at one or a few things.

I'll give you a personal story. The character that is currently my main in this game started off as an alt. I focused my main too much trying to be really good at a very limited amount of things. My alt that was able to train whatever I felt like was a far more usefull character and at one point I had my first character with nearly a million skill points and was nearly useless and my alt had about 60 and could do anything that I wanted her to and do it well.

You can mine anywhere. The lower the security rating, the more chances of encountering hostiles...and beware of Code / Gankers anywhere.

Scordite / Massive Scordite will give you more of a return financially than other ores. You can find it mostly anywhere. It isn't found in the same quantities as other ores, but you will make more ISK.

Initially, ou won't make more money processing than selling until you have trained refining skills. So if you plan to use mining to earn ISK to fund your future initially, train some mining skills. You can upgrade to the Mining Upgrades and use better mining lasers which reduces the amount of time spent mining.

You can also train for specific ores which will help increase your return on selling Scordite. I could average, net, about 756,000 per 5,000M of massive scordite after training mining skills and scordite skills.

You can also train for drones and use them to fight off pirates while mining.

I used mining to earn ISK while training for other skills. After a few months, none of my toons mine any more.

Like others have said, do the mining career agent to get started. Then decide which career path you want to follow.

And always, always...keep orbiting, keep moving and keep your eyes open. When someone pops into your asteroid belt and they aren't driving a mining ship...be ready to warp out.

If you are hell bent on mining for money, you can try going null sec have giving that a go. If you chose to do this, I would find a friend to go along. Stick with NRDS regions like Providence. Talk to the locals and maybe make friends there. They may just try to help you out, give advice and even let you know if there are any reds in the area.

Personally, I would stick with tutorial missions and the maybe go for the SoE epic are missions. You will end up getting bigger and better ships as you go. If you are more into mining, work your way into a procurer. That is the best and cheapest mining barge you can buy. You can work your way up to a skiff from there if you so chose, but I find that the procurer is really good enough for the price.

If you have any questions, hit me up online or send me a mail. I'll give any advice I can.

Best of luck!

Epic

Indeed, some players even specialise in using innocuous industrial ships to murder the unwary, Marlona Sky springs to mind.

the thought has crossed my mind, but I don't have SP to waste on mining whatever ships right now. also seemed far enough outside the scope of the thread to not include.

the battle haulers always make me laugh, and the t1 explo frigs are pretty good in battle mode now that they all have drone bays

meh ... I luvs my Mastodon - Mammoth on steroids