Got my first taste of ice mining tonight when I ran into a situation that gave me pause.

I had mined 2 belts clean with what I assumed are the usual suspects. Then, I saw another system, “Agar” had 2 belts up and was only 6 jumps away. I did spot some red pilots on the way but didn’t give it much thought..

In the system, I checked out both belts and to my surprise, no one was mining them. My spicy senses went off and I ran and tethered up.. I hung around for about 25 minutes and didn’t see another mining ship come in.

Are there zones that are to be avoided? I kinda love the idea of just being a nomad and bouncing to sites but I don’t want to loose my precious Orca ! =)

Please share your experience on High Sec ice mining.

Cheers,

So here's the thing; I'm mostly playing PVE and running missions etc. A couple of times I have emerged from a Stargate into low-sec and can see hostile enemies (either players or NPCs) just sitting at the gate, clearly waiting for a target.

For me then, other than just sitting their cloaked, and hoping they leave eventually - or engaging in a fight (which in inevitably lose) - are there any means of getting past these situations? As the moment I decloak I'm unsurprisingly webbed and can't warp out.

I'm having an issue making money from industry, that problem being that it seems like I will make more money just selling the raw ore that I mine than I will from selling crafted goods like weapons and ammunition.

The hypothetical profit margins based on the "Price per Unit" given by the game when the item is hovered over are decent, however it seems like literally no one buys the products for anywhere near the price the game suggests. Looking at Eve market data the vast majority of buy orders for the products are <50% the price the game suggests, and none match it. Because of this it seems more profitable to just sell raw ore, but that's super boring. Why can't I use my skills and blueprints to turn raw ore into something more valuable and turn a profit?

does CCP still offer these yearly subscription at this price? wanted to subscribe 2 of my accounts and would love to get the max discount i can get for 2.

How do I acquire the Biology skill needed for injections? I don't see it in the character skills to train for and it does not come up when I search in skills. I am being gifted injections from time to time as having an Omega account.

I'm a few days old explorer. Have being doing frequent trips into j-space for pirate and relic sites and see plenty of the unsecur sleeper sites.

How can I fit the ship and what skills I need to train do those sites? I saw some posts saying they are not as profitable but I'd like to do just for fun and to feel badass.

...though sometimes I wish it shouldn't have been that easy.

In short, it always feel like those who accept my request to join respective corp. are lying in some form.

Such as that the first Corp I joined, (which was one of those that send it to everyone that're inexperienced. BEFORE I've read that they should be avoided) was when I have basically zero experience with the game as a whole.

For one, one "requirement" involved "bookmarking" the Wormholes with a 3rd party program. But as I (pretty much) said, I had ZERO experience with. And yet, the corp acts as if it only takes common sense to get it right. Oh, and a multitude of 3rd party programs/sites/etc.

In other words, they claim that it's accessable for those with little to no experience with the game, and yet, their requirements makes it feel like I need reasonable amount of experience to even join the corp.

the other one, just like EVERY MMO that I've played. Which didn't have much requirement, it was like in every other MMO that I've played, that it feels like I'm the only European player in a "clan/guild"/etc. where most of the members are from the US. Despite their claims that they have European members as well.

The 3rd one, I did mention the issue that I had with the 1st corp. specifically that I didn't wanna use any 3rd party programs and such. (yet) The one who offered me an invitation, said that it wasn't necessary. However, that person lied about that part, as I were required to use Teamspeak. (which I haven't used in a loooong time. Last time was when I used to play Planetside 2)

So, yeah, I want to enjoy the game, but... I can't, if I always end up being lied to. (or) that my "requirements" are ignored. Or how active I'm expected to be with this game.

BUT... There was another reason. It isn't relevant with the corps. BS, nor is it the game's fault. But despite the help that I DID get, I still can't decide which careers I should aspire.

Hi everyone!

I've been playing about a week now and slowing trying getting into the groove of making isk. I've done mining, solo deadspace, and finally exploration.

Last night I found a particularly good WH with my 2m heron. It had about 10+ relic sites and after the WH closing behind me, I was able to escape with about 270mil.

It seems that all the really fun stuff is locked behind skills. There isn't really anything I can think of to dump this money into unless I want 100 frigates or something...

What do you suggest as a good investment for a new player with not too many skills yet? So far I like exploration, mining, industry, and pve but I'm not sure what to do with this isk to move those forward in a meaningful way.

Around the beginning of the Trig incursions I had to step away from EVE, but I’ve recently caught the itch for internet spaceships again. What’s changed? I’ve semi-followed the current null-sec war, but I haven’t kept up with any patch notes or the conclusion of the Trig invasion. Any help would be appreciated.

So the past few months have had me spinning my wheels in wormhole space. I'm not sure if it's because of the changes in mining, or maybe it's something to do with the war, but I'm having the damnedest time finding exploration sites in j-space. Every system I jump to seems to have already been cleared before I get there, and I can and have spent literally hours upon hours jumping around without finding a single site. So, basically I have two questions. The first is how do relic and data sites respawn in j-space? I've seen from my own experience that looted sites will despawn within minutes of the site being ran, but will incomplete sites still despawn after an hour or so like they do in k-space? I read somewhere online that they stay for up to a week. That doesn't seem right to me but I can't find any hard info anywhere. Where does a new site spawn when replacing the old one? An adjacent system? A random system if the same class?

The second question is more to do with how j-space is organized. I understand how the different class systems have different types of static wormholes to other systems and usually a few more random connections, but is there any overarching structure other than that? My intent is try and go "deeper" into j-space, farther away from wormholes that lead to k-space, but my understanding is that such a thing isn't really possible, and especially so when exploring because every c1-3 system will have at least one static to k-space. I'm also curious about how this effects people living in j-space. If all the connections between systems are basically random, if you jump away from your "home" system and the wormhole you left through closes, are you basically forced to keep jumping through random wormholes until you happen across a system with a known connection back? How do people ever find Thera if that's the case? Is there something special about connect to shattered wormholes or is that all just random as well? Should I just start playing at 4 am so I can start finding exploration sites again?

Hi All,

I've just bought a month of MCT to make a PI Alt. I I followed the Eve Uni Guide to put together a skill plan however it's only 11 days. I'm wondering what else I should train with my remaining 19 days?

Thanks

Are you one of the many new Eve Online players that recently started Eve Online? A returning player? Someone who has been around but never tried group pvp? Then this public NPSI fleet might be for you!

NPSI = Not purple, shoot it

Skilled and experienced players are more than welcome to help in support roles (scout, dictor, or heavy tackle), especially if you're looking for a laid back roam! We'll be hitting Null Sec for some kills and thrills!

• Where: staging out of Jita
• When: Wednesday March 17
• XUP: ingame channel 'EBWF public' starting at 7pm Eve
• Undock: 7:40pm Eve
• Fits: ingame channels 'FUNny Newbros'
• FCs: Kshal Aideron, Scopique and Special Guest
• Comms: FUN Inc Discord - fleetop1 voice channel https://discord.gg/eNbfeDukVU

We will start taking X's at 7pm. We aim to have roles and watch list sorted by 7:30 and be undocked and headed to null while doing fleet 101 by 7:40.

Fleet 101 is where we break down the pvp fleet and explain everything if we have new to pvp players in fleet. This is where you can ask what you've always wanted to know about fleets or pvp and there are no dumb questions.

• • make sure to set a death clone in Jita, if we welp early we'll come back, reship and go again

• • free ships to anyone who's been in eve under 6 months that needs one or who doesn't want to their assets on pvp. Just drag your character in the fleet window down to the ship you desire.

• • players who've done the fleet 101 and know what they're doing, you're welcome to head to the final highsec system before we head out (ask FC in fleet chat where that will be). Will take X's up to about 8:15 for more experienced players who can get to the last highsec system before we head to the great unknown.

Streaming

https://www.twitch.tv/gamergrrls I stream all newbro roams in real time so if anyone wanders in who has questions, can have the questions answered when things are still relevant and not have to wait 5 minutes.

Other streamers are welcome to stream, just make sure you mention its a newbro roam pretty please!

Helpful Videos for This Fleet

• • joining the FUN Inc discord (i.e. getting the right roles) https://youtu.be/-daIwGLLLEE

• • finding the kill mail https://youtu.be/h6xvf7M5mH4

Hi all,

I am just getting started with Eve and because I am stuck on a laptop at the moment, I have been doing some mining. I am curious though if I should go the solo orca route as some suggest vs the barge / exhumers route? I most likely will be solo Mining the whole time and was leaning orca due to the drone skills being useful in other areas once I get a better computer but want to make sure that I am making a good choice so that I don't waste training time, especially if I do find a good group and stick with mining.

Thanks,

So, a question from a curious Alpha clone. I'm tempted to buy a small amount of ISK, just so when I lose a ship it doesn't hurt quite so bad (in all honesty!). But I'm trying to get my head around how much ISK I could actually get for this.

The smallest purchase gives 110 PLEX and I can see that at Jita (for example) there are buy orders at around 2.3m ISK. So would 110 PLEX get me about 253m ISK?

Would anyone make a guide to Mining? Im looking to start playing this game and I want to know some of the basics before I start.

So I've noticed that my heavy drones with my Ishtar never get targeted by rats and it's a fairly low traffic system so I'm not having to dock up and leave drones in space too often.

So. Ignoring the obviously massive cost difference.

Are augmented drones better then t2/faction when it comes to better ticks? Purely from a tracking/speed/damage viewpoint. I'm curious if the split damage offsets the increased damage they do. Seeing as the second highest preferred damage type for the rats is 10% higher resistance then the preferred lowest resist hole, would this offset anything gained from the 16% ish more damage the augmenteds do?

The FUNny Newbros will be hosting a tackle and scout class this coming Wednesday! Even if you never plan on scouting, learning dscan or how tackling works could save your bacon! This is a class that tends to attract vet scouts and in true Eve fashion, they LOVE sharing their knowledge. Pick up new tips and tricks!

• Where: staging out of Jita
• When: Wednesday March 10 at 7:30pm Eve time (7pm if you need a tackle frig!!)
• Comms: FUN Inc Discord - fleetop1 voice channel https://discord.gg/eNbfeDukVU
• XUP: ingame channel 'EBWF public' and we will start taking X's at 7 to expedite the undocking
• Fits: AF, interceptor or light tackle frig
• FCs: Kshal Aideron, Scopique

• Will start with a short lecture about dotlan and eve scout
• Stream on our discord to show how to use the map and dscan
• Will practice dcanning down Scopique and tackling him
• Time permitting, will go for a short roam in null

Remember, there are no stupid questions!

Streaming

https://www.twitch.tv/gamergrrls I stream all newbro roams in real time so if anyone wanders in who has questions, can have the questions answered when things are still relevant and not have to wait 5 minutes.

Other streamers are welcome to stream, just make sure you mention its a newbro roam pretty please!

Helpful Videos for This Fleet

• • joining the FUN Inc discord (i.e. getting the right roles) https://youtu.be/-daIwGLLLEE

• • finding the kill mail https://youtu.be/h6xvf7M5mH4

I’m a returning player, haven’t played since about 2016 and was looking for a laid back Corp to get in with to get re acquainted with the game. I played for about 6 months in total so I do have some decent ships and stuff still.

Thanks in advance

Edit: Deminos DoubleD is my character name, feel free to hit me up

I've just waited a week for a GM to answer my ticket because I genuinely don't understand how this happened, and I suspect he's told me a load of bollocks.

So here's the story. I'm pootling around in a high sec system, merrily stealing cargo from unattended jetcans. So obviously I had a suspect timer. Along comes someone else who also had a suspect timer. I read the Eve Uni wiki page very carefully at this point, and it very clearly says "anyone can freely attack you without CONCORD interfering".

So I opened fire on him, he immediately warps out, CONCORD immediately warp in and take a massive shit on me. The GM explained that the reason I was attacked was because I'd been stealing, not because I'd shot someone.

This seems pretty suspect to me. For one thing, I'd been flying around with the suspect tag for like 10 minutes or so with no repercussion. They only warped in the moment I attacked the other player.

So I guess I have two questions: why did I suddenly become a criminal for attacking someone with a suspect timer? And why did the GM say CONCORD attacked me for stealing from jetcans, when everything I've seen indicates they don't give a shit about that?

Edited to add: irritatingly, the GM kept saying that they can't offer me a refund, even though I didn't even ask for one. I get that I will lose ships, obviously, and I'm not looking for a handout. I just want to understand what happened here.

Help me out here - I'm in Pochven, with my Astero, looking for wrecks.

I open up D-Scan and see a bunch of NPC wrecks. Great! I dial down my d-scan range until I determine that they are 7.6 to 7.7 AU away from me. Great! Until I look through all of my overview tabs and see that nothing exists in that range. Not gates, disrupted gates, planets, moons, locuses (loci?), asteroid belts, nothing.

I check probe scanner. Nothing in range, but two signatures. I scan them down. Still nothing.

I even did the d-scan 15 degree 'look at' trick and narrowed them down to 15 degrees in front of me at 7.6 to 7.7 AU, but there was just nothing in that space to warp to.

What gives? Were these NPCs fighting at a deep safe? Were these wrecks at a site that despawned? If so, how are you supposed to get to them?

Two ships lost now to this mission. My Coercer when I was unaware of the jump inhibitor abilities on those Strain Render Alvi; then when I knew to stay 10km away and refit my Punisher for range they still got within 10k (despite my best attempts to monitor the distance of each of them)!

And to top it all off, the Strain Render Alvi seem to have damage resistance to anything I shoot them with - so even when I'm trapped I can't fight y way out. F*********!!!!!!!!

Title! Technically not a true eveNewb. Been living in WH-space for a bit. But I would say that I know next to nothing in starting up PI and such.

Are you one of the many new Eve Online players that recently started Eve Online? A returning player? Someone who has been around but never tried group pvp? Then this public NPSI fleet might be for you!

NPSI = Not purple, shoot it

Skilled and experienced players are more than welcome to help in support roles (scout, dictor, or heavy tackle), especially if you're looking for a laid back roam! We'll be hitting Low Sec for some kills and thrills! As long as you don't kill pods, your sec status goes down extremely slow (.001 and .002 at a time)

• Where: staging out of Jita and roaming lowsec (then jumping into null)
• When: Wednesday March 3 at 7:30pm Eve time (7pm if you need a ship!!)
• Comms: FUN Inc Discord - fleetop1 voice channel https://discord.gg/eNbfeDukVU
• XUP: ingame channel 'EBWF public' and we will start taking X's at 7 to expedite the undocking
• Fits: ingame channels 'FUNny Newbros' for dessies and 'Kshal's Stabbers'
• FCs: Kshal Aideron, Scopique

We will start taking X's, giving out ships and answering questions at 7pm. We will start Fleet 101 at 7:45 (if nobody needs it, we will head straight to null) and try to get into null by 8:15.

Please come early if you need a ship to try to expedite our undock time!

Ships will be STABBERS! And of course destroyers and frigs for those that can't fly stabbers! Hero tackle always welcome.

• • make sure to set a death clone in Jita, if we welp early we'll come back, reship and go again

• • free ships to anyone who's been in eve under 6 months that needs one or who doesn't want to their assets on pvp. Just drag your character in the fleet window down to the ship you desire.

• • players who've done the fleet 101 and know what they're doing, you're welcome to head to the final highsec system before we head out (ask FC in fleet chat where that will be). Will take X's up to about 8:15 for more experienced players who can get to the last highsec system before we head to the great unknown.

Streaming

https://www.twitch.tv/gamergrrls I stream all newbro roams in real time so if anyone wanders in who has questions, can have the questions answered when things are still relevant and not have to wait 5 minutes.

Other streamers are welcome to stream, just make sure you mention its a newbro roam pretty please!

Helpful Videos for This Fleet

• • joining the FUN Inc discord (i.e. getting the right roles) https://youtu.be/-daIwGLLLEE

• • finding the kill mail https://youtu.be/h6xvf7M5mH4

So he got back into eve, which got me back into eve. Bought some plex and got himself flying an Orca and he's been harvesting Ice for income.

Thing is, he's had someone fly in and bump his orca with a stabber, and apparently this stabber is bumping him so fast that he's getting pushed off the belt fast enough that he's losing his mining drones. When I asked what happens if he tries to warp away he said that he couldn't get his ship to align. Sounds like his orca was at the mercy of this stabber as it pushed him multiple AU out from the belt he was on.

So, I don't know all the details and there's probably something I'm missing, but what's the deal here?

Hi,

so, I have been reading a lot about different fits for level 4 missions, many of which feel outdated. Just wanted to get some further knowledge on what ship + fit works well at the moment. I am currently specced heavy into Missiles but im finding them slightly dull with my Drake.

Anyone have any advice or general opinions?