Askgar

A few nights ago our new player discovered a gravimetric site in eve and went in to mine it, however his ship had no defences at all and couldn’t cope with the rats that were present at the site. I checked with him and I was only a few jumps out so I jumped across and started protecting him.

It started off as me transporting the loot back and forwards while he was mining into a can, this worked well for a while, however I decided that it would go a bit quicker if I grabbed a mining laser and did a bit of mining as well.

I noticed I could use miner 2s so ended up picking up 4 of them, as well as replacing all of my low slots to make a bigger cargo hold. Back I go to the grav site and start mining. We do this for a while, dumping into cans, until we both have to go, the trouble is there is quite a lot of ore in cans now so I look and see my hoarder only a couple of jumps away. I dump my cane and do a 6 jump roundtrip to get my hoarder to get all the ore, a couple of roundtrips and it’s all in and we’re done.

I had a lot of fun doing this and decided to have a look into getting a more dedicated mining ship, I look at the barges and decide to go for the middle one, forgotten the name, as the difference between that and the basic one was a day or 2s training, but for the max one it was an extra week or 2.

Since this mini excursion I have gone out another couple of times, mainly solo, but only for a small period so I don’t get too bored of it.  I tend to take a couple of autocannons for defense, however I usually end up using combat drones to defend from rats as my medium autocannons can barely hit them.

Another thing I am getting more into is the scanning side, I have gotten my scanning tactics to a very reliable point and can now scan down most sites in much less than 5 minutes.  I’ve had a couple of good radar sites as well, netting me 4-5 million per site.

The thing that continues drawing me into eve, is the fact there is such a variety of stuff to do, I can go out, all guns blazing for a fight, or I can sit back and casually mine, or I can do some scanning for something a bit different from most games entirely.