2 weeks in, and loving it so far.

[pinotnoir]

Carbs and I are in a null sec corp that multiboxes. Carbs started his toons off for pve/pvp combat then to mining. I did the opposite. I went straight mining now I am getting to the point to train combat on all my characters. We are in an alliance that has several fleet doctrines and fits. My goal is to get all my combat characters able to fly the fleet doctrine ships. I found going mining first really saves real money. I can make enough isk to plex all my accounts each month. I have 11 accounts now and that would cost quite a bit of real money to do. You can run missions or rat for isk but you need to get your characters up to speed for it. Everything in eve training takes awhile. The game is massive and nothing is fast. Honestly, you should join us in our mulitboxing alliance. It will make the game much easier to learn being with other boxers. Since I switched from WOW I have been really happy with the game. It's so complex there is always something on the horizon I am shooting for.

[CDNProdigy]

I've always have been interested in this game and never really sat down to give it a good go. As a newer person in Eve it would you recommend one account and then move into multiboxing Eve?

[Mosg2]

Starting 10 characters out from scratch, how many hours the first month would it take mining (training solely for mining) to plex your accounts, roughly?

[Mokoi]

Now see I was told that ratting in nullsec was a lot quicker to make money, and I am able to do that within 2 weeks of play with 10 accounts.

[pinotnoir]

If you are mining in hisec don't even waste your time. If you are in a corp in null then it's well worth it. I would recommend you download evemon and create a training schedule. You can get into a mining barge retriever in a matter of days. From there on you would keep training towards exhumers. You can rat in null but you need to have some tanking and weapon skills. Just cause you have 10 accounts doesn't mean you can kill the rats. Remember everything takes time to train into. In addition to the ships you need the support skills to fly them with proficiency. I have a default mining character train in evemon I can send you. You can modify it however you wish but it will give you an idea of the skills needed. Don't forget if you are going to mine in null, one character needs to be overwatch for rats and one needs to work towards buffing your miners. Eventually one will be a hauler but for now you can have 8 mining 1 overwatch and 1 buffing. You would mine with 9 until your buffer can fly an orca to buff your group.

[Mokoi]

Right now im waiting on delivery of 10 ruptures. My main has a bunch of t2 fits and the alts are all t1. I shouldnt have too many issues doing asteroid rats.. and as i get better moving up. What kind of isk/hr is mining in null worth? On lowbie miners a week or so of training?

[pinotnoir]

It depends how much you play and if your alliance or corp has an ore buy back program. With my corp buy back for ore I can mine a lot of ore with mackinaws and 5 retrievers. The most I mined was a week ago for around 4b isk. I try to average at least 2b a week. If you play a lot and don't have neuts bothering you then isk flows fast. If you are camped then you are screwed. What you make depends much on where you live. The alliance and corp you join determines how much you will make. Lucky for me my corp CEO is a boxer and has logistics to buy our ore. You may not be so lucky. In null the grav site rats will kill your miners. You need an overwatch to protect the fleet. I use a domi but would prefer something better. It gets the job done because my mack pilots have decent drone skills to help kill the rats.

[Kicksome]

Hey Pino, I didn't even realize you were playing eve.

I played back in 2009 for a while. I remember going to nul sec and just getting wasted, so I setup a mining fleet and did missions, setup a base or something as well.

I think I have 7 accounts that I could reactivate. I know I had at least one orca, all my guys were decently trained and I made enough to buy some characters via their forums that were pretty bad-ass.

Is it hard to get into your corp? I never tried to get into a nul sec corp when I played before, it seemed so risky.

[Kicksome]

So I reactivated an account. It looks like I have 4 bil ISK, 10 mil skill points and a hulk on one of my guys. I'm not sure about the other accounts.

[pinotnoir]

My corp has several multiboxers. If you are interested in coming back I can ask my CEO about recruiting. I know we have been adding new players recently. I quit wow after the /follow removal. I really really miss our old days playing wow. It was the most fun I had in wow. Nul is very risky. But you make much more. One good thing is you know a neut who enters your system is there to kill you. So with good intel from the alliance and constant eye on local you can safe up to avoid them.