Anyone here play EVE online?

[jumpy]

Originally Posted by Kapitanleutnant

If you're mining (and you shouldn't) - but if you are (and I must emphasise that you shouldn't under any circumstances) and you can't fly any of the ORE ships, then for the love of god don't do it in a Sigil - don't do it in any kind of industrial ship.
Get a Bantam.
You know how to jetcan mine, right? You don't need any cargo space in your mining boat - just dump all of the ore straight into a jetcan, then come and collect it later in your Sigil or your Bestower or whatever. A Bantam has the same number of High slots as a Sigil, but it has some really nice bonuses to mining yield and Mining Laser cap usage, so you're going to be much more efficient in the long term.

Perhaps you already know all this, but from the content of your post I'm assuming you're still relatively new to EVE?

New to EVE... yeh sort of hehe. Been using the time of late to re-learn some of the basics of using the overlay and navigation and other odds and sods I'd forgotten since my 14 day trial expired last year. Once some of the basics are sorted then I can think about efficiency in terms of what you were saying about mining and related stuff.

Basically the mining thing was for a bit of extra cash. A means to an end as it were; a relatively short term one at that. I found a station buyer that was paying a good whack over the regional rate for scordite, tens of millions of units of it and seeing as my reprocessing skills are still a bit naff at this point, it was easier to sell the ore for a decent profit rather than make a loss refining.
Still, all that time hanging about the asteroids in 0.9 space (hedion university school) gave me lots of time to read up on skills/tactics/ship fittings and the like. Plus there's the great EVE radio and chatroom to get involved with. Besides I was waiting for some new skills to train and didn't want to get a pasting before they were finished.

So far I have most of the basic and standard certificates in core/defence/gunnery (at least for frigate turrets etc). I figured these were best invested in early... also the learning skills - after I hit 1.6m skill points the 100% training time modifier is out, so I'm planning on using the freebie 100,000 sp that was given in the last server update delay to use on those learning skills - I think most of the basic ones are at L3-4 already anyway.

Been using EFT and EVE MON to figure out what is the best ship fitting for my skills and what I should be looking at getting/training next.

On the whole I accept that my current skill level makes me rubbish at just about everything lol so at the moment I'm like one of those tenant hill farmers, scratching a miserly standard of living out of next to nothing, always expecting the bank to foreclose on the smallholding whilst wistfully looking down into the valley at all those lush pastures and fat beef and dairy herds, knowing that if I go anywhere near most of it I'll be greeted by the farmer and his gun telling me to 'get orf moy laaand!'