EVE New Citizens Q&A

What you're looking for is the Complete Miner's Guide. It's got pretty much everything you want to know about mining, and then some. Some of the prices in the guide are slightly dated (so run your own numbers for ISK/h based on current mineral prices), but all of the info in the guide is still completely relevant and still the go-to guide for miners.

Thanks for the help!

Oh and if you don't have it get EVEMON (google search it) and learn to use it. It will help you plan your character and equip your ships in a sound/tested way.

Bantam for 30 minutes then quit and do something worthwhile. I suggest RvB for a new player.

1) In your first few minutes in the game, go out and do mine and return, then sell the ore from your station for whatever you can get until you have 20-35k - then buy a mining frigate. Repackage your rookie ship then assemble it again. You will have an extra set of stuff for it in your items hangar. Put both guns on the rookie ship and the two miners on the mining frigate. Then look at the market and see where the best price is for Dense Veldspar - then fly over there and do mine and return with the mining frigate and sell your ore to that guy until you've got several hundred thousand ISK - then go do the training missions.

2) Do all the training missions but do the business first, mining second and combat 3rd. Note that the combat series has some really good asteroid fields in them. Complete the mission - but don't turn it in. Go back in your miner and mine into a jet can - which lasts two hours. Bookmark the jet can so you can fly back later and pick it up with the industrial you got from your earler career agents. Finish your career agent missions - then - go run Level I missions for someone and mine those missions just as you did these.

3) For solo mining - it is safest to mine in mission space as someone will have to scan you down to come get you. If you are solo mining into a jet can in an asteroid belt you can be can flipped. If you mine in a quiet system the chances of that happening are reduced. Use the map to find a quiet system.

4) An alternative to mining in mission space that has some degree of safety is using Giant Secure Containers. You can anchor these in a .7 or lower system and password them so no one else can use them. The down side is that while a jet can holds like 27000m3 a GSC holds like 3900m3 - much, much less. But it is sufficient for someone mining in a frigate or cruiser. You can place the cans 5000 meters apart - so go buy two sets of them, each set being as many as will fit in your industrial. Anchor one set then go get the other. GSC's are Planck containers - which hold 3900m3 but only take up 3000m3 worh of space - so - in order to emty the ore in a full set of GSC's you will need an equal number in your industrial (if you're not going to make more than one trip back to the station). Once you get into a mining barge - GSC's just don't hold enough to be worth while - and you'll have to go back to jet cans.

5) Most people go Mining Frigate > Mining Cruiser > Mining Barge > Exhumer.

The Bantam and the Navitas are about the same, the Tormentor has more cargo space but makes you chose between a tank and an AB. The Burst has no drone - so it's the worst.

Mining Cruisers go Osprey > Scythe > Vexxor > Arbitrator. Note the first two get mining bonuses to their miners while the last two get them to their drones. The last two are better combat ships though.

6) Note that when people make remarks about how this one smaller ship will outmine a bigger one - they mean if you have all your skills to V and do things like alternateing your mining lasers so you don't over flow you cargo hold. Several hours of alternateing your lasers and dragging ore out of your cargo hold and into the jet can every few seconds gets really old.

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It is worth noting that the prerequisites for the Covetor have/will be changed to Barge IV.