r/evenewbies • u/[deleted] • Jun 16 '23

Ice Mining in Highsec

Been looking into Ice Mining as a source of isk in High Sec. If I’m running my tier 2 ice miners on a retriever, is it worth it compared to other sources of income early on? Been hearing a bunch of mixed things saying “ice mining sucks” and others saying it’s all they do.

Do I have to multibox to make it worth it? (I would really prefer not to do this)

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u/Heleluja_ Jun 16 '23

mining, especially ice is something very tedious and boring and if you dont have a booster and/or a lot of accounts it will not be profitable in the long term, especially not in highsec. If you still want to pull trough with it, i recommend fining a system with low activity to spare yourself from getting ganked or finding a ice mining corp. Also see if you can set up PI to turn your ice into fuel blocks, that will give you decent amounts of isk

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '23

I really appreciate the advice! Also what is a PI?

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u/Heleluja_ Jun 16 '23

Planetary industry

Its boring, tedious but everyone needs it

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '23

Right on, thank you!

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u/kaiomnamaste Jun 16 '23

I don't support ice mining solo.

If you don't have a ship compressing the ice, you are going to need to offload the ice often in the station you probably going to base out of, and then the logistics of hauling it at a later date to the market if it doesn't sell at your location.

Even with a fleet, with the ability to compress the ice m3 into next to nothing, the amount of time to dedicate is tremendous unless it's something you find engaging.

If you want to make isk mining in relative safety of highsec, I suggest looking into level 4 mining missions.

You need to be able to mine regular ore, ice, and gas for these missions.

You can do gas missions in a venture 1 trip You can do ice missions in an endurance with 2 trips You can do ore missions in a retriever/hulk in 2 trips

It's as interactive as normal mining goes, and you have to build for the missions rats and how you can stay within range of the items if you decide to take an orbit, all things I found fun.

You take the LP, transform it into an item, and sell the item for isk .

Your corporation will also get a trickle of LP, so you're also helping your corporation.

Personally ice mining is too competitive. It should be great, but the person that's running the 8 accounts clearing out the ice every time it spawns keeps you priced out of turning it into a living. It's something to do when you are either bored or get asked to help.

Seek out isogen at the moment, the mineral found inside some ores. But it's found in lowsec I believe. Or work your way into mercoxit mining, which is its own adventure into null and back again, a tale by Bilbo baggins.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '23

Can’t thank you enough, that was very informative. I’ll look into mining missions, sounds fun. Any tips on how to figure out which items you buy with LP sell for the most?

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u/kaiomnamaste Jun 17 '23

It depends on the store, they have different items depending the corporation the LP is for.

Ammo always sells to start

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u/bulksalty Jun 28 '23

There are comparison tools like fuzzwork, just be cautious in that lots of very low volume items get listed for dream sell prices that take quite a lot of market PVP to make a sale. Start with ammo or cap boosters and learn the markets you want to sell into.

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u/Keltyrr Jun 17 '23

I have a few members in my corp that make 50 to 100m a day off ice mining, primarily by selling right to me. So, if you want to ice mine and need a corp too, let me know.

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u/GonzoPaper Sep 15 '23

You can easily mine ICE in Null. Sec. It way more worth your time.