EVE New Citizens Q&A

In the upper left corner of your interface, there should be your portrait, if you click on it, it opens your character sheet, there you will find a kill log in the bottom, where you can find your loss and who killed you. Whether a NPC or a player, when your ship blows up, only a few items drop in the wreck. What's lost is lost, you can salvage the wreck for some components, but you won't recover all of it. A wreck is like a container, what is in, can be looted but if it doesn't belong to you, you will be flaged suspect and any player can engage you for 15 min.

A wreck usually stay there for an hour or so and the content can be stolen by others. If a player blew you up, you will find a kill right in the character sheet, that will allow you to seek revenge or can be transfered to others to do so upon activation.

These belt rats can be annoying early in your EVE life, but they'll soon become similar to a mosquito splattered on a windshield, train your tanking and drone skills, they're not the real threat for an afk miner.

Thank you both for the replies and information...I'm learning.

Combat Drone Operation is a support skill that you can train that will boost your drones' damage, as well. This is definitely something that will come in handy as the 'rats in asteroid belts get tougher and tougher the lower the security rating of the systems you're in; in 0.6 and 0.5 systems you'll even occasionally see them come in groups of 3 or 4.

While it might not be what you are looking for, this is a bottom end fit for starting a Venture that I recommend. There is a lot of resistance here with very little skill training. The salvager is for that extra bit of loot while mining from the dead rats. Obviously you could improve the ship with better gear as you go along, but this one has shield resists of 58.6% for EM, 60.1% Thermal, 40% Kenetic, 50% explosive just to start, and is pretty good at letting you be AFK (Civilian Shield Boosters are underrated by many)

Also, don't forget to orbit something (a different roid, wreck, or can) while mining to keep your speed up. A Venture is a fast ship, use that speed to keep the rats working for their meal.

[Venture, Starting point 2]
Mining Laser Upgrade I

Civilian Shield Booster I
EM Ward Amplifier I
Thermic Dissipation Amplifier I

Miner I
Miner I
Salvager I

Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Small Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer I


Hobgoblin I x2

I would try very hard to get the AFK mindset out of you as soon as possible. NEVER leave your ship unattended. If you need to be away, then dock up or fly to your safe spot (actual term that you should look up and understand) and cloak up but docking would be better.

I'd forget the autopilot button while you're at it.

There are many people out there that will go for easy kills for those that AFK mine/ AFK autopilot through gates. It may not be as lucrative as suicide ganking a fully packed hauler but I'm thinking about those that just kill for the "lolz" of it. And yes, this will happen even in highsec. Granted, not nearly as often as lowsec but it will happen.

I'm not saying this to scare you away... this is to make sure you are safe out there.

As for the ship and skill, you'll see results in longevity and efficiency as you train up your core skills. If you're just going to be mining, you probably don't need the afterburner. The scanner can help you pick out the right rocks to shoot at, but until you get into something with a reasonably sized cargo hold, it probably won't matter. So, I agree you can probably swap out the AB and scanner for some more tank. I'd pick something that will resist the rats (NPC pirates) in your area. For example, if you're getting tagged by Blood Raiders, you'll want EM and Therm protection.

This.

NEVER mine AFK.

I view gaining resources while AFK as no different to botting or any other form of cheating, and so any time I see someone AFK mining, I will go out of my way to destroy their ship and pod (or if that isn't feasible, bump them out of mining range). And there's people that gank a lot more than I do - I only have around two billion ISK in kills of AFK miners, some people have 30b+.

Thank you again for information/replies.

I agree about AFK Mining being close to botting, etc., and don't as a rule...but my little buddy needed to go out and I took the chance...gotta love the RNG gods eh?

The cpl. minutes it takes to dock up, hide, etc. is worth taking, rather than gambling with having to replace the ship and equipment. (Great that hindsight is always 20/20, lol) I'm very new and was lucky in that it was "only" a Venture and low-lvl equipment. My fantasy is to one day be able to move into the Exhumers class of mining -- what a shock it would be to lose something like that, so as the saying goes "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger..." and this mishap was a lesson learned (hopefully other Pilots read through this thread and gain from it also...)

@Sabriz: I know my bank account will grow as my characters grow/age in the game (I'm barely bit over 2-weeks old currently), but it's still a shock to new Pilot to hear numbers like that (2 Billion just from AFK Miner kills) nearly choked on my coffee -- I was happy when I hit the 20 Million mark. So much to look forward to, , and hearing something like that makes me realize how naive/new I truly am, ha-ha.

Thank you again to all who gave their advice, feedback and suggestions...I learn from your experience.

@Sin Pew: Thanks for confirmation. I'll have to look on those skills as well.

Does using web (or EWAR etc.) trick the NPC AI so that they target me rather than drones?

Two billion ISK is only eight or nine fitted Mackinaws or Hulks. Less if you get the pods too.