EvE Mining Ops, 3 users 11 Ships

[Gurblash]

Just a few screenshots from Morgannti, Valorian and Myself's Mining Ops last night in EvE. Junky SS's, so sue me.

Basicly we each had our own hauler.
Morg was running 5 ships, 1 hauler, 1 Battleship, and 3 omens think he had a total of 18 mining lasers? Might be closer to 20. Also had about 15 drones running around keeping NPC spawns cleared off us as well.
Val had 4 ships, 1 hauler and 3frigates I think. Believe he had 8 lasers.
I was runnin 3 ships, a Hauler, 2x Frig Miners, only 5 lasers *need more pewpew*



http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y225/BigOSI/20080304021540.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y225/BigOSI/20080304021146.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y225/BigOSI/20080304020920.jpg

[Skuggomann]

Pritty nice :) never seen eve multiboxed.

Wud ahve bing so much more efective with

1x Rorqual ('http://www.eve-online.com/itemdatabase/EN/ships/capitalindustrialships/ore/28352.asp)
1x T2 hauler ('http://www.eve-online.com/itemdatabase/EN/ships/transportships/caldari/12731.asp')
9x Retriever ('http://www.eve-online.com/itemdatabase/EN/ships/miningbarges/ore/17478.asp') or Procurer ('http://www.eve-online.com/itemdatabase/EN/ships/miningbarges/ore/17480.asp')

but then again that wud have cost around 2-2,2 blillon ISK XD

[Gurblash]

Aye that would have been ideal... but seeing as how Val and myself's accounts are just over 2 weeks old... we don't have the luxury yet. I'll be in my retriever Friday.

Baby steps :)

[Skuggomann]

Lol i think i have one acount that was created 04' :P

btw can you multilog acounts or did you get yourself 11 acouts?

[Valorin]

Hmm.. I didn't try multiloggin, just assumed I needed accounts. I've got different accounts all of them still trials. And yeah, my frigates are because I'm not to barges yet. Soon.. soon..

[The IT Monkey]

just talked to a friend who is big into eve and he said he USED to run two accounts but now that would require a comp for each account. Is that true?

[Gurblash]

Nope, I'm running 3 accounts on 1 Laptop currently.

[Morganti]

I'm running 3 computers and 5 accounts, so I would say no. I'm not using the improved graphics version however,which may be what he's referring to. Personally, I can't see using more than 2 accounts on one comp without having a huge spanning monitor (you cant tweak the resolution like you could in wow as much), and I personally had troubles with freezes running 2 monitors on one computer and playing a client on each.

[Gurblash]

Aye I'm not running the enchanced graphics. Am playing on a 15.4" laptop monitor. And have to alt tab through my windows so for PvP its not going to effective untill I can come up with a new hardware solution the wife will approve of.

[The IT Monkey]

interesting...
I've given him access to my account so that he can skill me up... haha. In exchange for the use of my ISK of course.

[Gurblash]

Hah nice we could use a few more US guys during the night out here :) Let me or Morg know if you decide to play play again

[gmbattletech]

I have a Miner toon in a hulk , when do u all play eve at night.. let me know woudl be nice to have some people to mine with..

[Gurblash]

I myself play around 6pm PST(-8) till Midnight PST

[gmbattletech]

want to get on adn mine with you all.. what are yoru toons name

[Los]

wts retriever!

hmm better keep it as backup if my hulk gets popped
;)


Is anybody up to speed with jump clones? Would love to make one close by and jump over now and then. Do you need an 8 standing with the faction you want to create one? Or is this different in 0.0 or low sec? Never used one myself, so hmm :). Trained the skill to use them to rankish 2 i think, now how to use them.

[TheHamburglar]

lol I just picked the game back up. Started playing about a year ago played for a month then quit. Now i'm back and really enjoying it. My guys are, Dougie Houser or thehamburglar.

[Los]

Oh darn i thought gurb was back to playing again :) shame, old topic :(

[Frojax]

This thread is just making me drool, when I played Eve, I enjoyed wasting hours away, shooting 'roids and making small profits. What put me off was the damned rats that would constantly own my ass :)

So, question time:

1. I'm currently running 5xWoW clients on a single machine, what's the group size in Eve?
2. Could I run 5 clients and get away with it? Would I need to?
3. Could a single party ofr 5 be effective is a mining group, while also being able to defend themselves from rats?
4. just how easy is it to box, do you use Keyclone or something like it, or is it a case of alt-tabbing windows?
5. Kinda greedy question. I know you can eventually use Isk to pay for your game time, would it be possible to have a mining group pay for itself and then still make insane amounts of Isk, just from mining?

[Zzyzxx71]

1. I'm currently running 5xWoW clients on a single machine, what's the group size in Eve?
2. Could I run 5 clients and get away with it? Would I need to?
3. Could a single party ofr 5 be effective is a mining group, while also being able to defend themselves from rats?
4. just how easy is it to box, do you use Keyclone or something like it, or is it a case of alt-tabbing windows?
5. Kinda greedy question. I know you can eventually use Isk to pay for your game time, would it be possible to have a mining group pay for itself and then still make insane amounts of Isk, just from mining?

1. There's no real group size -you make fleets. I I'm not sure what the fleet cap is, but you couldn't afford to box it!
2. I believe you could - I run 5 wow's on 1 machine, and ran 3 Eves at the same time with no issue - as far as would you want to? Not sure. I could see running 3-4...
3. Yes. The catch here is rats won't be your issue. Other players will be your issue.
4. The (lack of) keyboard bindings in eve make using something like Keyclone a null point - you could, but I don't see where you'd get any benefit. There are no macros, it's almost 100% mouse based. If you want to get somewhere - right click on it, set waypoint/destination. If yiou want to go to something in the same system youre in, right click, warp to 0km/5/10/20/etc. There's also no assist that I'm aware of.
5. I'm sure you could if you worked on it, get in a corp that has a decided presence in 0.0 space and you could rake in the cash - personally I never payed for the game with ISK, I enjoyed running missions - good cash there if you learn the market. Just stay the fuck away from Jita. :D

*disclaimer* ^^ that's my 2 cents,

[hardcoded]

well,
A) you need a ship (domi is the standard) to draw aggro from the rats for your miners when running in 0.0. Might want to start figuring out which char is going to be skilled for that.
B) in 0.0 or lowsec -- watch local and run at the sigt of neutrals or hostiles. Really. This is the most important thing you can do, and it will protect you against hostile players.
And grats to OP! It gets much easier with 3 minute timers! 1 minute timers are so frantic, you'll never even be able to imagine how you did it!
There are some important keybindings, for F1-F8, ctrl F1-F8, and alt F1-F8 for activating modules on the top, middle and lower bars, respectively. I used this to handle multiple combat roles pretty well.

[RobinGBrown]

In hi-sec space you only need combat drones to handle the rats. For low-sec you'd need a dedicated combat toon as backup.

But I wouldn't recommend multiboxing in low-sec, you'd be too slow to react if a PVPer decided to come in and nuke your barges.

I had about four mining accounts, one of which is about a month from the orca - but I'm not playing EVE any more - too expensive and not enough fun

I keep hpoing they'll make it better for PVE - but I don't think they EVER will, the devs are c*cks

[d0z3rr]

Here is my fledgling mining op. 4 ships:

http://thefinalwebsite.com/images/eve1.jpg

http://thefinalwebsite.com/images/eve2.jpg

[Souca]

Oh god, please no.

I have a character on EvE from back in the beginning. I remember pre 2.0 tech and when there were real pirate corps that controlled all of lowsec and would blockade warp gates. Hmm, I think I had a Thorax or some other cruiser as the pinnacle of my ships.

I keep getting emails from them trying to get me back, but I just can't get past mining for days while I wait to learn 10 slevels of skills so I can do something. Still a neat game and I'm always happy it's still around.

- Souca -

[Skuggomann]

Now this is how you mine:

http://images.hugi.is/eve/148801.jpg
(its a titan btw)

[RobinGBrown]

Is that Chribba?

[hardcoded]

who else would mine veld in a titan?

[RobinGBrown]

So Skuggoman is Chribba?

If so salutes from here, Chribba has always been an exceptional player - a million miles better than the typical run of the mill EVE players, they're such PVP scum.