Science & Industry

Soon I will be able to fly the Orca industrial ship, and with that I want to set up atleast one or two more accounts.

They will be miners so I can have myself a little fleet and some mining on a larger scale.

I assume some of you that reads Science & Industry forum have been doing this for a long time, so I'm looking for tips & tricks.

first off I want to get the new characters into barges, then go for good yield skills.

thanks!

I have good refining skills on this character, working on standings now.

Tank your orca, mine in tanked procurers, run a resist Gang Link on the Orca. Your Orca can kill the NPCs, so your Procurer can run Mining Drones.

Tanking the Orca means not using your low slots for cargo expanders. Most Orca's that are ganked only have about 80K EHP. Create a travel fit for the Orca so you can do the fast warp trick when not mining.

Train one of your miners for a miasmos & kryos. Then think about training him to a freighter long term.

A Skiff has a minimal yield increase over a procurer, but the faster travel speed is very nice.

You can keep a mack in the ship hanger on the Orca and have your miner switch ships depending on if you think there is danger around and you need the procurer.

Many people think mining drones are not worth the training time/effort/minimal yield when running a mining fleet.

You only need 1 Hobgoblin to take out the belt rats.

You can fit 1 cargo expander on the orca but put a dcu in the other low. This will give you over 160k ehp. You can put expanders in the rigs but this will hammer your ehp. Before you go to an area look at dotlan and the kills for that area. That way you can put gankers and their corps with a terrible rating. This is the better way to find out who is hostile. Procs and skiffs are great but don't be afraid to use hulks just be very watchful on local. Mining drones do take time to skill up but they do make a small noticable difference . Research siege warfare too. Every bit of shield helps. Two alts mining are better than one. Also get the basics to 5 it still shocks me when I see a mac go down with less than 10k damage taken. Because not all cats have scrams that extra 1 or 2k ehp can make the difference.

once you have some money going dont be afraid to set up a couple other home stations. This really helps when gankers are harrassing a certain system and makes a move easier. Escpecially in null when a system gets camped for weeks on end.

we just set up a POS in high sec so were not going to null in the near future, thanks for the tip tho :)

So keep it there. Use a jump clone to travel safely between null and hs but keep all your mining stuff in 0.0.

There are groups you can join that mine pretty well 24/7

Literally useless

micro managing 3 accounts with 2 hulks is certainly doable.. I've been doing it for years. don't neglect your support skills.. shield tanking, energy, navigation etc.