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Mining v Ratting as a noob
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Ka'Narlist
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#21 - 2013-05-28 18:46:25 UTC
Just read your thread title. so don't know if someone allready said this.

Don't mine, really why would you want to do this?
If you train your new (and probably only) char for mining you will get next to no isk in the beginning and after putting a lot of time into mining skills to fly all those shiny mining ships to earn more isk the only thing you are able to do with your char is mining. Yeah very exiting...

Ratting as in killing belt rats is also pointless in high sec because they give no bounty thats worth the time.
Do Combat Missions instead. With Level 3 Missions you start to earn a realativly good amount of isk to put together some ships and try some stuff. Level 4 can bring good isk.
Running missions will get boring very fast too but now you have learned a lot of skills that help you with PvP and you learned some basic eve mechanics.

Now you can search yourself a nice Lowsec, nullsec or wormhole corp depending on you interests and star having funwith eve while learning how PvP works from your new corp mates.


Mining is something you can do with a second or third char if you really want to, to earn someisk while you are doing something else with you main char.
Inxentas Ultramar
Ultramar Independent Contracting
#22 - 2013-05-28 22:24:25 UTC
Just as you can train skills and use modules for pvp, so can you apply them to prevent pvp in the first place. While for a new player the first gate into lowsec may seem an insurmountable barrier, after a while even navigating through lowsec isn't all that hard and you can make yourself extremely hard to catch or kill. This comes with experience and a dash of SP. Sure, if you go out ratting in lowsec week 1 the probability of getting wtfpwnd is high. But you will learn various aspects of pvp and pick up player skill some people haven't acquired, let alone mastered, in years.

This is more valuable then the ISK made or lost, because after a few months you will laugh at the loss of your beloved T1 Cruiser anyway. At some point the need for ISK is capped by what you can efficiently fly, since ISK can only be applied in two ways: either to generate more ISK or to sink it, while sinking that of another entity, harder. Everything you do in eve accumulates into pvp. Every resource ever collected eventually turns into people getting popped and podded. Your ISK means nothing untill it's in space, doing something that doesn't amount to the generation of more isk, but the establishment of dominance and control.

Best get an early start. Twisted
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