Mining OP progress

[Duane]

No, to be honest I dont know much about that. Do you mind giving me/us a run down?

- How do you do it? Skill intensive?
- Dangerous? belt rats / other players etc
- Can be done in high sec?

Thanks.

This is all off of memory since I haven't played in a while.

-Exploration isn't very skill intensive to start. You just need one of the racial frigs with scanning bonuses. More skills just shorten your scan times and make your scans more accurate.

-I don't remember seeing anything in a grav site that was bigger than a frig.

-I did all my exploration in high sec.

[Meeo]

To further expand

the general rough rule of thumb for high sec grav sites is that the ores will be the equivalent to a system of one or two security statuses lower.

Ie, in a 0.9 you'd expect to find stuff like Omber, which you'd find in a 0.7.
In a 0.8 you'd find something like a bit of Kernite, obviously found in 0.6 and below.
In a 0.6 you could get some Jaspet or similar.

Or you just find bigger roids.

The rats that spawn in the belts will not be harder then anything currently in the system.

Also, Gravs sites have to be probed out as stated above.
To probe things out you will need Science 2 or 3 and the Astrometrics Skill, you generally want astrometrics 4 or 5, to be able to launch enough probes to scan it down faster.

There are several youtube/guides online for probing, i currently do not have know of them offhand, i would also have to look them up.

Edit: Also take note that you may run into other anomalies when you start probing things. I would highly recommend staying away from Wormholes, until your are more comfortable with the game.

[Yopie Ismypie]

I started playing Eve about 6 months ago and I can honestly say it has the steepest learning curve I have ever experienced in a MMO!!

Right now I am playing on 7 accounts with a setup of:

3 Hulk miners
1 Orca/ trader
1 Freighter/soon to be hulk miner
1 inventor/manufacturer
1 Pvp pilot

6 of my guys are into PI and they live in 0.0 space.

The indy stuff is good, but for me the pvp is where I am having the most fun.

All the other toons are there just to support my pvp habit...lol!

[RobinGBrown]

This is all off of memory since I haven't played in a while.

-Exploration isn't very skill intensive to start. You just need one of the racial frigs with scanning bonuses. More skills just shorten your scan times and make your scans more accurate.

-I don't remember seeing anything in a grav site that was bigger than a frig.

-I did all my exploration in high sec.

Spawns at exploration sites will be in line with the security rating of the system and the size of the site. There's some exploration guides on the evelopedia site - look in the main EVE site forums for the guides section there will be links there.