All About EVE Online

Balancing the Books (3 of 10)

 

	Objective:	Mine and refine 333 Tritanum
	Reward:	Skill book “Salvaging”
	Bonus:	74,000 ISK

 

Mission Log: Lady D’Mentia (that’s me), Capt.  A simple mine and refine mission. It’s in a secluded belt in Deadspace. This means an acceleration gate, and most likely rats at some point. Since this a secluded belt I most likely won’t have to deal with can flippers or thieves so I can use a jet can. Just need to remember to name it and empty it before 2 hours goes by. Found the acceleration gate and went through it. Found a single rock of veldspar. I hope there is enough here for my needs, I’m not trained in ore processing yet. Target locked the rock, got within range of my civilian mining laser (cheap piece of junk) and started mining. Just as my cargo hold was getting full I jettisoned the ore into space in a jet can. Opened the jet can and now every time the mining laser cycles I can place the ore in there. Renamed it with the time I launched it, I think that’s what all the miners do. Ok there’s the rat, I swear they are attracted to mining lasers. He was easy to dispatch. Ok the rock popped and so that all the ore from this belt, now for the several trips it going to take to get it to station but I know it’s faster than running each cargo load one at a time as I’m mining. Ok all the ore is now at station and now it’s time to process it into trit. I know that if I had the skills I could do this with little or no waste. I got enough of the mineral and even some extra. So called the agent and collected my reward and bonus.

- End Log -

 

• Mining in normal system space is straight forward. You right click in space, asteroid belts, warp to, or select a downward triangle from the overview of a belt and click the warp to button above. This will send you to a belt. If you are in really high security space (1.0 or 0.9) then you may end up over 100km away. Simply find a rock in the belt, right click it and ‘Bookmark” it. Warp out of the belt, then right click in space and select the bookmarked belt and warp to it, you will go right to the rock. One thing to consider while mining in normal space is that if you jettison you ore and mine into the can (known as jet mining) you can become the victim of a can flip or thieves. In deadspace mining (like for an agent mission) you don’t have this problem much, but it can happen (it requires probes and lot of scanning).
• Can flipping is when someone warps in, goes to your can and takes your cargo and puts it in one of his. His plan is that you shoot at him, so he can shoot you, or that you try and take it back so he (or his fleet, corporation, or alliance) can shoot you. Best advice when mining alone, don’t jet mine.
• Each mining laser has its own set of attributes. These could be a limit on range or yield amount per cycle, or even cycle time. Most of the standard mining lasers have a 10km range and 60 second cycle time. Strip miners (that can only be mounted on mining barges or exhumers) have a 15km range but a 180 second cycle time, but a great amount of yield. Skills, rigs and modules can improve one or more of these attributes.
• It has been said that mining laser tend to attract rats. In 1.0 or 0.9 space you do not have this problem in normal space, only in deadspace.
• You can increase your cargo hold capacity by using Expanded cargo hold modules, but these will affect you speed. Look at the attributes of these units to see the bonuses and drawbacks.
• If you allow you mining lasers to over fill your cargo hold capacity the excess ore will be lost in space. This is called ‘Dirty Mining’ in EVE. If you see that you are close to full you can interrupt the mining laser and equal amount of ore for the time/yield will be placed into your cargo hold.
• Each ore has a ‘Processing” skill. These skills reduce the amount of waste you would lose in processing the ore. To see the amount you current are losing. Mine some ore and take it to a NPC Station. Open the reprocessing plant window by right clicking on the ore and select refine. You may need to stretch the window from side to side to get all the columns’. One column will be titles waste.
• When starting out you will only have frigates to fly. Some frigates have mining bonuses (as do other ships). You can find which ones have bonuses by reading the description of each ship. You may want to consider as time goes on making a dedicated mining ship. This is a ship that you use only for mining. Then also have a dedicated fighter, this one has your weapons and spare ammo (don’t forget your ammo).
• If you have the time and there is a few mineable asteroids during a mission you may want to mine what you can. Sometimes you may need some ore or minerals and when you go to the local/normal space belts they may be mined out. It’s good to have a small stock pile.