EVE New Citizens Q&A

I've been playing for almost 2.5 years and I've never heard of any rules about asteroid belt rules.

There are only two things I can think about is that it's generally rude to mine rocks that someone else is already mining and that if someone's chaining belts in a system, it's better to continue chaining.

Where are you hearing about this?

Seems like something miners use, so I'm not an expert. That said it's propably just info about when it was created in EVE time and a possible tag for easy identification of containers belonging to your fleet. It helps people doing the hauling and lets them see what they need to haul first and what can wait. I'd wait for an answer from someone who actually does this though, since it might serve some purpose that is not immediately obvious to someone who doesn't do it.

When I was with the army we had that stuff too. The new radio operators where send to get blue frequency water (blue, not red). The mechanics where sent to get a set of click-plates for torque spanner. Alternatively they had to go and fetch a joint-hammer for hitting things around a corner.

Some miners are terribly possessive of "their" rocks. According to their rules, if they have anchored a can within 15km of an asteroid, that asteroid is "theirs".

These rules can be safely ignored, since these people would prefer to spin their ships endlessly in station while crying into their apple juice, rather than wardec or suicide gank an intruder. That's a terrible thing for me to say, I know, but it reflects my frustration at the number of people who display a feeling of entitlement along the lines of "I mined that asteroid yesterday, so it must be mine today." These are the types of people who are most disturbed when someone moves their cheese.

In fact, I'd go so far as to deliberately mine the rocks out from under them just to make the point: none owns asteroids. The only stuff you are in control of is the ore in your cargo hold. Mining is a PvP activity too.

Apologies for the rant.

Mine whatever the hell rocks you want and if someone gives you crap over it tell them to go cram a GSC up their ass, 99% of the time they will neither have the will nor capability to do anything about whatever behaviour of yours they disapprove of. Additionally train up some combat skills and when someone gives you crap about mining their precious asteroids or whatever declare war on them and take them to school.

Mine without being a carebear.

I've been a miner / industrialist for about 2.5 years now (2009-02-23).

There is one general rule of EVE etiquette : don't make people angry at you if you cannot deal with the consequences.

Of course, you can still expect to get a random wardec or suicide gank just because it was your turn. Don't take it personal. It is just EVE.

It helps to have some skill in a battlecruiser as well as a Hulk.

^^ This.

the only "unofficial" rules ive heard of regarding mining in belts was

1. if u warped into a belt and someone not in your corp or alliances is already mining there you move on to the next belt.

2. Always be aligned out incase a goon comes to gank u

3. Cycle your cans before the 2hr timer pops

Roid rules are of trivial concern, but this…….

It's terrible advice.

Mine whatever the hell you want wherever you want (just be prepared for the consequences).

Don't EVER can-mine. It's like putting a big "**** with me" sign on your back. I blew up an Osprey that was can-mining the other day, didn't lose my gank Thrasher, and made off with some sweet T2 loot (might resurrect my mining Domi if I get enough loot...)

If you MUST can-mine, don't bother renaming the cans, it just makes it even more obvious that you are can-mining on d-scan. There's a notepad in the EVE client you can use to keep track of the time when you dropped it.

If you MUST can-mine, have a hauler sitting on top of it and leave a single unit of ore in the can to keep it "alive".

If you get can-flipped, it was your own damn fault for can-mining. Telling local just points out that you were an idiot.

If you get can-flipped, it was your own damn fault; you should train Anchoring to I and get a couple of GSCs.

If someone leaves a bunch of wrecks lying around salvage them if you want to; it's p obvious they didn't want them. Just don't take the loot unless you're ready for the consequences.

Lastly, while politeness is generally a good thing, competition, even in mining, is the meat and bread of this game.