EVE Multiboxers

[Thulos]

Well that's incredibility stupid. Is there some way I should have know this before I spent all the time training for a freighter? Any other gotcha's I should know?

• Can scoop and launch POS modules at an online Control Tower. However, you can only launch for corp, not jettison. So if the tower belongs to another friendly corp, one of that corp's members will have to scoop and launch for corp before anchoring the module.
• Can scoop cargo from a jettisoned container at an online Control Tower.
• Can place cargo in a pre-existing jettisoned container at an online Control Tower ONLY if the can was created by a fellow Corporation member. (Same Alliance is not sufficient, though being in fleet/gang may circumvent, needs testing)
• Can scoop and dump cargo in a Corporate Hangar Array at an online Control Tower.
• Cannot jettison anything, even at an online Control Tower, that requires the creation of a jetcan.

[RobinGBrown]

Can a freighter take cargo from the corporate hanger of an Orca? Not sure how corporate hangers work frankly.

This is one of the problems with EVE, you have to spend a lot of time and effort to discover that things which you should obviously be able to do (e.g. open cans with a freighter) aren't applicable to a specific ship/situation.

The mainstream EVE players (not us cooler multiboxers) seem to have a 'learn it the hard way, _I_ did' attitude thats really nasty.

There's a ton of gotchas in EVE, I know some at the lower end, but nothing about corporate affairs, POS setup/running, 0.0

Here's a big gotcha with drones that I found out the hard way: repair drones can't be used to repair yourself - how stupid is that!

Rigs gotcha is that if you repackage a ship fitted with rigs the rigs are destroyed! The game does warn you but it's not obvious.

Wonder how many Hulks I could multibox if I had an Orca to grabs up full cans... Cause I'm thinking that once I get my chars in Hulks I will transfer them over to existing accounts as tehy won't need anymore training. That way I could have a large fleet of miners without having subscription fees for them. When i wanted to mine, I play the miners and strip belts dry.

Thats been my plan all along - train up characters to the point where they can fulfill a particular role (e.g. mining in a hulk, flying an Ishkur) and then transfer them onto an account that has been training for something else (e.g. running missions, PVP). That way one account is much more flexible and its quicker than trainign a character to do mining, then training them to do missions.

TLDR: Specialised alts for teh EVE win!

I'm off on holiday this weekend but back around on Monday if anyone would like to get together for a big mining op - I have either two hulks or 1 hulk and a hauler, plus a defender - unless someone wants to give me 500K for an Orca!

[Thulos]

Can a freighter take cargo from the corporate hanger of an Orca? Not sure how corporate hangers work frankly.

No they cannot. Basically Freighters can only load or unload at a station or corporate hangar from a POS. Forget about using them at all in space unless you have a POS.

[RobinGBrown]

I take it the same rules apply to jump freighters?

At least they'll be good for hauling megatonnes of veldspar to the highest bidder and logistics operations (i.e. moving packaged ships around)

[Alptraum]

I know nothing about freighters, but orca's are super handy, you can park your combat ship inside the corp hanger..and ship hop between haulers/mining barges and so forth....true that some players might try and suicide against you in Hisec, however it's going to take them great effort considering the shields and HP that an orca has, so you should be fairly safe in highsec from gankers, unless you go AFK ..and well then I believe you get whatever comes your way.

I have a orca pilot training up with the intention that the orca just sits in a station untill needed, make that pilot your mining gang bonus leader, and warp out as needed, if u want you can park it right in the middle of the belt with your battleship inside, and if a punk shows up just pull one of your hulks into the hanger, switch ships..and teach the person not to touch your can's or what have you.

[Souca]

unless someone wants to give me 500K for an Orca!

Already said I would. PM me with how much you need and I'll get it to you tonight or in the morning.

Yea, Orca sounds like the right solution, shame I hadn't trained toward it in the first place. It's now faster for me to train a trial up to an Orca than to piggy back off an existing character since they are almost past the 1.6 mil SP mark and don't get double training anymore.

- Souca -

[RobinGBrown]

Cool. As I said I'll be awya until Sunday so we can sort it out then.

Have a nice weekend guys.

[Physics101]

To all you guys mining it up, I highly suggest you at least train a pvp alt. It's by far the most intense part of the game, and can be pretty profitable. When you do start to get interested in pvp, look up the Agony Unleashed guys, they offer great intro to pvp classes that are well worth the small isk they charge.

http://www.agony-unleashed.com/e107_...iewforum.php?2

If the pvp stuff really sparks your interest get get in contact with me in gang and I'll see if I can't get you in on some excitement that will make your forget all about mining.

[Souca]

To all you guys mining it up, I highly suggest you at least train a pvp alt. It's by far the most intense part of the game, and can be pretty profitable. When you do start to get interested in pvp, look up the Agony Unleashed guys, they offer great intro to pvp classes that are well worth the small isk they charge.

http://www.agony-unleashed.com/e107_...iewforum.php?2

If the pvp stuff really sparks your interest get get in contact with me in gang and I'll see if I can't get you in on some excitement that will make your forget all about mining.

I have a pvp alt. She's a pirate and I've been slowly learning the ropes with scanning and safe spots. Some real good stuff out there in the guides. I've been planning on playing her a month or more solo before I look to get her into a corp, as I'd like to know what I'm doing before I start getting assigned to tackle or be primary. I'll likely end up going EWAR and logistics, but right now I have so many basic combat skills to work on I'm not worried about it.

I'll send you a PM with her name, I'm keeping it seperate because Eve is a very meta intensive game and I like to keep my houses seperate

- Souca -

[Alptraum]

Im getting off to a pretty good start with mining, first hulk is trained and purchased and was ripping up roids last night stripping belts clear well under an hour, mind you there weren't a lot of respawned roids yet, I think the area im working in gets picked clean pretty regularly. But with 1 hulk and 4 haulers I had no issues with can flippers, and the rat's that spawned were decimated pretty quickly with my drones. Im looking forward to 3 more hulks in the coming future and a orca with mining bonus mods, will definately sweeten the pot.

I pulled in about 2-3 million isk in the first hour and some after I was setup in just junk ores, so 0.5 isnt extremely profitable, but it's very little risk and one can almost afk mine if you keep ontop of the hauling.