Hi-Sec mining & ISK

[Meeo]

i run 8 Toons total when playing.

depending on what i do they do various different roles.

Primarily for mining i run, 1 scout, 1 carrier (when in 0.0/or domi drone boat in highsec) for defense, then i run 1 Rorqual (or Orca depending on where i am with max boosting + Implant), then i have 5 Hulk miners.

I've been out in 0.0 so long, and i kind of miss high-sec to a degree, so i think its time i return to either my own corp/newbie corp/high-sec and have some other kind of fun

for Highsec mining i may turn the scout and defense guy into another miner, but im not siure i want to move them away from their current training timeline.


I also am getting into trading, i've found some pretty good methods to buy up ore and what not in highsec for cheap and then sell at market cost, its slowly builds up money, but once i get more skill points on my 2 trader characters who are training for it, i think i can do some money generating due to being able to use several freighters to move gear around.

[Grondir]

Thought about mining ice, seems like it would be 'less' managment than mining ore. May give it a go but not even sure how much ISK I make from mining as I haven't refined anything yet until I get more refining skills. Only need the next 3 weeks to go by fast so I can get into my hulks

[Meeo]

Thought about mining ice, seems like it would be 'less' managment than mining ore. May give it a go but not even sure how much ISK I make from mining as I haven't refined anything yet until I get more refining skills. Only need the next 3 weeks to go by fast so I can get into my hulks

If you need some help refining before the 3 weeks is up, just let me know here, or in-game. I can meet you at some place in caldari, and refine it for you i get 100% refine out there. My accounts are going inactive in about 15 days so i can play some Rift for a little bit.

[RobinGBrown]

I've only recently noticed that ice is worth substantially different amounts depending on where you mine - worth doing a price check before settling down. Tash-Murkon it's about 70K but near Jita I'm getting 100K per cube

[Grondir]

What Ice are u mining Robin? I started on White Glaze in Caldari space, but at 100k per cube I'll come mine what you are

[Grondir]

Just found out that White Glaze sells for 100k a block too, so I can stay put for now

[RobinGBrown]

Jep it's white glaze near Jita, fairly profitable, seems like prices for minerals are creeping up at the moment - probably people worrying about Hulkageddon. As they're targetting all industrial ships, including freighters and haulers, this time I think everyone will be stocking up.

Edit: Hulkageddon IV. It starts on Saturday, I'll be offline for the next week even though the risk is fairly small. Going to stop at downtime tomorrow to avoid the early starters. Can't do missions the way I play so just going to dock up and train some slow skills. Although I did consider swtiching one of my guys into a RR battlecruiser with defensive gang links and attempting to tough it out. After all the actual chance of getting ganked if you fit a tank and have some backup is much lower than if you just sit there AFK without even basic defense? Or not...

Edit: Grrr... As I was typing the above someone ganked one of my miners. Talk about jumping the gun!

[Meeo]

Edit: Grrr... As I was typing the above someone ganked one of my miners. Talk about jumping the gun!

How are your barges/exhumers fitted?

my Hulks can usually take 1 hit from a alpha tempest/maelstrom, sometimes maybe few if i have the boosters going, and am switch enough to get some speed going.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

How fast does CONCORD show up when this happens? Fast enough to prevent more than one alpha strike?

[Meeo]

How fast does CONCORD show up when this happens? Fast enough to prevent more than one alpha strike?

an Alpha BS can last a few seconds against Concord, enough to toast most semi tanked Exhumers.