EVE New Citizens Q&A

I believe, the Porp has never been intended to be a solo mining ship. For solo mining, you have - you know - mining barges. Mining foreman ships' potential lies in providing boosts to the fleet, and the mining yield is just an added bonus to make its role more active and encourage its use in small fleet compositions.

You didn't discuss skills or fit. Nor did you mention whether you were using T1 or T2 drones.

Mining drones will benefit from Drone interfacing (up to 50%) and the new mining drone specialization skills (up to 10%)

They also benefit from the drone mining augmenter rigs (T1-10%, T2-15% each)

With maximum skills/rigs you can probably double your yield - newer players can realistically consider T2 drones, T1 rigs and level 4 skills if they intend to use the ship as a solo miner.

For solo miners, isn't it better to suggest not using mining drones, and sticking strictly to lazers for extraction, and drones for defense?

AFK in a Venture is generally not a good idea, and not viable in 0.5. Besides the Venture's fill cycle is fairly short, so, it doesn't create a large enough time window to do much else.

Scout drones can allow you to stay out for a full fill cycle in 0.5, but for most sec status above this you can easily ignore rats and use mining drones. Even a Venture with only civilian shield modules could safely ignore rats in 0.6, and they are non-existent in 0.7 and above.

As for the PvP threat, no one is going to trouble themselves ganking a Venture. It is simply not big enough to worry about - and if they did, a pair of hobgoblins is not going to save you :)

Mining in 0.4 and below I don't recommend drones at all. They have a signature which is more easily probed, and they also show up on D-scan. When mining in lowsec, you are likely to have attackers warping in regularly. The last thing you want to worry about is recalling drones. You need to be able to warp ASAP.

Thank you, was just curios. I'm not a miner but I sometimes have to answer questions from newbie miners. I've been telling them to not use mining drones and use scout drones to discourage gankers. But I guess that has changed.

I never recommend afk anything to anyone.

I mined when I played along time ago but just coming back I'm rather new again

a guy left two hobgoblins in my my belt and when npcs showed up again I had my mining drones return to me and orbit then I abandoned them and scooped the neutral hobgoblins to drone bay and used them to fight the npcs then I abandoned them again and scooped them to cargo hold and took my mining drones back and sent them back out to mine.

Somehow I accidentally got 1 hobgoblin back into my drone bay tho. Not sure if I accidentally hit scoop to bay instead of cargo or if I somehow switched him from cargo to drone bay which shouldn't technically even be possible.
But for a minute or two I had 4 drones out at once switching between them lol. Either way I ended up leaving with 4 drones instead of 2 and a full jetcan worth of ore I made a few trips for.

Drones are great for mining assuming you don't need to defend yourself constantly. it's like having and extra mini turret.
I wish the venture had three turret hard points though for a third miner. Not sure why it doesn't when the ship was clearly designed to have three hardpoints on the front sides of the ship.

There are many non-turreted high power modules which can use that slot. Some times a salvager can come in handy. Or a probe launcher if you're into WH's. I'm fairly certain that the Venture does not have the CPU to fit 3 mining lasers, even if the turrets were available.