EVE New Citizens Q&A

The endurance and prospect are specialty mining ships, they aren't the next step after a venture. The endurance is only for ice mining, and really only for stealthily mining ice outside of high sec, from a realistic point of view.

After a venture comes mining barges, then exhumers.

I'd go with a procurer or retriever after the venture. Procurer has more tank, but a smaller ore hold. Retriever you don't have to dock up as much, but people kill them in HS for fun. The procurer has enough tank you will lose less ships.

After that are exhumers, the skiff and mackinaw, again with skiff being high tank and mackinaw being lower tank but bigger ore hold

I purposely left the covetor and hulk, since unless you're in a very experienced mining fleet that can defend itself, they will die to a stiff breeze

The Endurance and Prospect are for mining where you aren't welcome.
The Prospect is for ore and gas, and the Endurance is for ice.

They're small and fast, and both have bonuses to cloaking devices.

The Venture isn't quite so good at that, because it has to choose between probes and a cloaker. It can't carry a mobile depot and a cloak. It does have look-unimportant tank. It looks even less important if you "forget" to rename it.

Thanks for the guides! I'm still new to it all, so guides help and friendly people like yourselves. Appreciate it

A 300% bonus to a single miner II turret, whereas a procurer can use a modulated strip miner II with mining crystals. The endurance can't fit the strip mining modules.

Every time I read something like this I cringe.

This quote was right on the money:


Nothing about this game is linear and this is not a game about progression. There is no end game or end goal. The quicker you can let go of ideas of progression the sooner you will be able to "get" this game.

I came to this game from WoW which pretty much defined linear progression. I had a hard time adjusting to Eve in the beginning but once I was able to let go of what I learned elsewhere and play Eve as if it were Eve I did much better.

In other games that I've played you had to race to level cap and then work hard and struggle to get your gear score up as high as possible. Further in those games if you weren't level capped you could not do any of the fun stuff.

In Eve you are often trying to do more with less and you can be productive and contribute on day one. With there being no inherent end game goal Eve winds up being much more about just playing around which IMHO is what a game is. having to "work" hard to achieve goals and benchmarks to me is the definition of a job.

Anyway off of my diatribe and back to your question, like Vertexo said each ship is a tool. None is inherently better than any other some are just better suited for specific tasks. So you can ask the question which ship is better for a specific situation but you can't ask which ship is universally better.