Skill Discussions

ok i have mining 4, working on science 4, and industry. if u havent figured im training toward a retriever/ coveter.

what would some skills be good to train in other then the obvious for a miner?

i mainly mine kernite/pyroxeres and will train there refinery skills

any suggestions?

Forget about mining, it's job for slaves and bots.
Go for missions then incursions instead, at least you'll have some useful skills.

Then I strongly advice getting Stargate. All 3 movies and 17 seasons of them.

you are going to want all your support skills maxed. electronics and engineering have several that affect cpu and power grid. you will need them to get max yield.

Even once you get into a hulk it is nice to be able to fit two t2 mining upgrades and still have a little left for tank. Good shield skills really help as well.

Drones are important as even in a retriever you can hold 5 light drones which are more than enough to deal with high sec rats. 5 warrior II drones even give a decent defense against high sec gankers. They will waste a gank destroyer long before it breaks a hulks tank. And if you do not need the drones for defense 5 T2 mining drones with good support skills can give a decent boost to your yield.

Just ignore the idiots that say don't mine. It may be the lowest isk/hour profession in EVE but it is also the safest. And can be done semi afk with very little risk. I run a small mining fleet with 4 accounts 3 hulks and an ORCA. usually run them from work semi afk and run missions or exploration sites when I can devote my full attention to the game. Since the mining is done mostly afk for several hours at a time it actually brings in way more isk per month for me than mission running a couple hours a few nights a week.

Train what effects your mining cruiser first!

If it's a drone boat get T2 mining drones then skill the rest toward retriever.

If it's a mining laser boat focus on the lasers.

Then do everything else that gets you into a retriever the fastest.

Stay out of 0.7 and under since a destroyer can gank you solo pretty easy when your flying a retriever.

If you use GSC's stay in 0.7.

kk in a corp, low sec, have the cap skills(ty for the suggestion) and working on retriever so the others will have to wait

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If you are going to refine your own stuff, you will want to look at this chart(the bottom chart is the one you'll use in most NPC stations). Generally speaking refining is at 50% in NPC stations. This means that if you train Refining to 5 and Refinery Efficiency to 4 and each ore specific skill to 1 you will get at 100% refine on the materials (you still need standings to avoid the taxes at the station). The only reason you would train the ore specifics higher is for mining crystals, ore compression (Rorqual), or if you were refining at a POS.

Don't neglect training drones if you are a miner, as they are your only defense.

You should should train for at least a battlecruiser, because sooner or later you will be in a war.

You will also want to gain 6.67 standing with an NPC corporation with lots of 50% base refining facilities, and security (combat) missions are by far the best way to do that.