EVE New Citizens Q&A

Try the Retriever, Procurer or Coveter.

They are mining barges. Retriever has a large ore hold for solo mining. Procurer can be fitted with a very good tank to stop you dieing and the Coveter can mine the most but has a small ore hold.

Choose which one suits you the best. Most people go for the retriever.

A mining barge. Depending on how concerned you are about getting ganked a Procurer or Retriever.

If you fear ganks, get a Procurer
If you barely have the ISK to buy a barge: a Procurer (it's cheaper, 15 millions vs 25 for a Retriever)
If losing your barge would traumatize you: a Procurer (and fit a tank)
If you are attentive while mining, have money to replace it and consider the occasional ship loss just part of the cost of doing business: a Retriever (bigger ore hold and slightly better yield thanks to one more low-slot for an additional Mining Laser Upgrade)

Thanks to everybody for the incredibly quick responses.

I hadn't thought of strip mining - I just assumed I could fit my existing lasers. Now I know. The base yields of Miner II and Strip Miner I are 60m3 v 540m3. That's a big increase - are there any drawbacks?

I hope that drones will take care of the NPC baddies in the higher security systems - I won't be going anywhere less than .5 for a few months.

A big investment calls for some platinum insurance. I've already lost half a dozen destroyers/cruisers through inexperience. I'm now building up a war chest for my first battleship.

MM

Do not just look at base yield, but also at cycle duration, because that base yield is per cycle. A mining laser has a 1 minute cycle, while a strip miner has a 3 minute cycle. Therefore a Strip Miner I does not mine 9 times more than a Miner II. But even 3 times more is still a very noticeable increase.

And then what J'Poll said.

Just a side note - if you stay in high sec, you need only one combat drone against NPC rats. They will be killed before they dig through your shields.
From what I've read in forums, it is not worth go mining low sec, since what you gain will lose due to lost ship costs.
Procurer has enough powergrid and cpu to fit 2 T2 mining upgrades. Which will be hard on Retriever due to low CPU of it.
Procurer fit, that I would use, if I would go mining:
Mining Laser Upgrade II
Mining Laser Upgrade II

Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Kinetic Deflection Field II
Thermic Dissipation Field II
Medium Shield Extender II

Modulated Strip Miner II

Medium Processor Overclocking Unit I
Medium Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Medium Drone Mining Augmentor I

4 mining drones and 1 combat drone according to what rats you expect

Retriever will temp you to go AFK mining. Which is not a good idea if you are not in Venture. Because of players like Sabriz Adoudel. Btw, do not trust much his advices where to go and what to do - he is well known to backstab people, who trusted him to make a laugh out of it.

Covetor is the most expensive mining barge not without reason. Yes, you will need to go to clear cargo each 3 cycles or use a jet - can mining, but you will not be tempted to go AFK as with other 2 minig barges and you can do mining missions quicker.

TL:DR version : go for Procurer if you like mining, forget about mining and start doing security missions if you want to fly battleship soon. Cause you will need to get your mining skills high enough to fly mining barge and those skills are not applyable on battleship you are building.

Umm, what? Read his invitation again:A Kronos really doesn't qualify for the later, you will most certainly be hurt by the loss of a 1 billion ISK hull. Bigger isn't better, especially when venturing solo into low-sec. Your first trips into low-sec should be in a dirt-cheap frigate, as you will lose that ship, even if it's a Kronos with a massive tank.

All good advice. Mining in lowsec, unless as part of an organized group with scouts is suicidal in anything but a Venture. Gas mining in lowsec in a Venture should pay pretty well considering the cheap ship you have to risk. You can also put an extra stab in the low which really ticks off the local pirates.

This is also some good advice - namely the part about having a group. An individual miner is easy prey. A group is less so. Finding some people you can trust (enough) and getting some protection can make riskier mining operations more appealing. After all, the average pirate is looking for the easiest pickings.

This is good advice - do not trust me. In EVE, you should not trust anyone unless you are sleeping with them in real life, and even then they may only be screwing you to screw you.

However, my advice in this thread was not intended to mislead a newbie but to be legitimately useful. I don't go after newbies as they don't have anything worth stealing. Fatten up the prey first before moving in for the kill.

This. Just because we play as villains does not mean that we in any way want to hurt new players. If anything, helping new players gets more people rich for us to later steal from. It really is in our best interest to encourage people to learn about the game. Anyone who takes advantage of new players really should be removed from eve. This is why there are strict rules in place for starter systems.



High sec is 0.5-1.0, low sec is 0.1-0.4, Nullsec is 0.0- -1.0 and wormhole space is -1.0
In low sec space you can be freely engaged by other players without concord (the galactic police force) coming to your aid. In low sec players lose security status when attacking other players and may be attacked by guns at stargates when doing so. In null sec and wormhole space, there is no security status loss, and additional weapons are allowed that are restricted in low and high security space.


For all of your star map needs this does a better job than I could: http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Star_Map

Killboards are websites, so just google them.
The last one is harder. If you have an api key ( http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/EVE_API_Guide ) that will give you this information, but the key must be given to you by that player. For research on hostiles, you want to use a mix of losses on killboards, http://eveboard.com/ and http://evewho.com/ . These sites will let you know what they fly (important), what their skills are (less important), and who their allies are (VERY important). You will want to figure out who their alts are and look up forum posts of players you are tracking. These can have useful tidbits of information. Finally, locator agents ( http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Locator_Agents ) are available in game to track other players locations for a small fee.