How many and what are you doing with them?

[Jwoz]

As far as mouse broadcasting goes, I use it for warps and then to drag ore to cans from my hulks.

You can do it without broadcasting mouse clicks at all. The amount of time I save doing a mass drag to cans, is probably about 20seconds, less than a strip miner cycle (mine run at about 104 seconds with my booster running).

I think my biggest recommendation for anyone who is mining on a large scale is GO TO NULL SEC. I have been playing for about 6 months now, and I started out doing asteroids in high sec. To me that was hell. The Roids pop every two seconds, and every time I saw someone warp to the belt I was nervous that I was going to get ganked. Null sec is incredibly safe.... if your willing to pay attention to local. Sure you get cloaky campers every once in a while, but to me the benefits out weigh the negatives. I have never lost a ship while mining to a gank in null sec (I did however lose one hulk and 2 retrievers to rats, however it was just me being dumb and having the wrong fit) I have lost ships mining in high-sec to suicide gankers.

Another thing I wish I had done earlier is: train mining crystals! I thought it would be too much of a hassle switching crystals constantly, but the amount of yield bonus you get is just too good to pass up.

To me the only way you can run more than 6 accounts mining in high-sec is if you are doing ice, which right now is really good. Its hard to say if it will be as good once the patch comes out.

Here is a nice article about null sec belts:
http://go-dl.eve-files.com/media/100...dex_Report.pdf

If anyone has any questions about null-sec mining feel free to send me a message on the forums, and ill try to answer as best as i can.

[pinotnoir]

I upgraded to 5 accounts living in Null Sec mining and doing PI. I just setup about 20 planets with PI for POS fuel. I hope to pay for my accounts plex with mining and PI. After that I will explore other things. Training is so long to reach a goal. I have 4 miners one guy trying for an Orca. They are all pretty new but even with ventures mining in null you make money. So far I love the game. The best thing about the game is you can pay for it with in game money making it free every month.

[Meeo]

I upgraded to 5 accounts living in Null Sec mining and doing PI. I just setup about 20 planets with PI for POS fuel. I hope to pay for my accounts plex with mining and PI. After that I will explore other things. Training is so long to reach a goal. I have 4 miners one guy trying for an Orca. They are all pretty new but even with ventures mining in null you make money. So far I love the game. The best thing about the game is you can pay for it with in game money making it free every month.

Good thing that the orca training is getting cut down drastically in 3 weeks. If you have already started training for it may want to review where you can get some of that time back by training the boosting skills more so then the mining barge skills.

[pinotnoir]

Good thing that the orca training is getting cut down drastically in 3 weeks. If you have already started training for it may want to review where you can get some of that time back by training the boosting skills more so then the mining barge skills.

Where is the changes to training listed? I would love to have a cut down on that long road of training.

[moog]

Where is the changes to training listed? I would love to have a cut down on that long road of training.

http://community.eveonline.com/news/...-blessed-2013/

Orca is coming down to under 18 days by replacing Mining Barge 5 with ORE Industrial 3...

[pinotnoir]

The Iteron Mark V is going down a ton too. That will be a good hauler ship with the max cap for alts.

[Redbeard]

Decided F it and grabbed the last 3 while power of 2 was still going... that rounds to 10.

Next step is for work to stop pwning me so I can get on and actually play them.

In the meantime, they train mining stuff.

[Redbeard]

So I've got the 10 cooking... I have 5 who are well trained for combat, 2 who are well trained for mining but no combat yet, and the 3 i just got who are not well trained in anything.

I am trying to decide how to set this up. For mining I am planning on splitting into 2 groups, 4 miners and 1 orca each.

For missioning, I am not sure if I should stick to the same thing... 10 is obviously way too much for an L4, but I am not interested in doing any content beyond l4s for now.
I was thinking of 3 3 man groups each doing their own mission, but I dont know if I will be able to control that effectively or not. 2 4 man groups with 2 dedicated salvagers might make more sense, and just pad the setup for added survivability.

Do you guys have experience doing more than 1 mission at once? Thoughts?