Hi. I have been away from the game for a bit and was wondering if something was added recently that creates fleets of AI drones that rove through High Sec mining belts? Each time there was a sudden appearance of 20-ish Serpentis drones that just appeared and blew my ship up in seconds and then warped away just as fast as they arrived. I have had 2 Ventures destroyed in the past 2 days by these roving fleets and there was nothing I could do to prevent it.
Does anyone know anything about these fleets or are my days of solo mining in my Venture in HS over?
Ok, so it wasnât drones after all but the ship that killed me was a Kesteral. Turns out there is Pirate FOB in this system. Guess I will have to sit out of the game until it goes away. I canât afford to keep losing ships.
I canât afford (either in ISK or skill points) to do much else and mining was a way to try to earn some ISK. I donât know where else to goâŚall the systems I have been to but this one is heavily mined by big mining ships and there isnât enough to go around. I donât play that much because mining is kind of boring but it is a steady income, albeit not much.
I am pretty risk adverse so I donât do PvP. I just dieâŚquickly.
I considered that but I have heard that those big corps only want meat shields for their fleets. I was going to be salvager but canât find work doing that. I joined this corp since they said they were an industry corp but there is only like 2 or 3 other members and no one has built anything.
LOL. F for ur current corp. They only want meat shields for their fleets. i think thats âgonswarmâ Pandemic horde is a newbie friendly alliance that promotes the newbros to get into nullsec. and earn much more isk there. like null sec ratting,small pvp gang, mining,industry,explorin. Everything is in nullsec so u should join it or u stay like a carebear in High-sec
I have a hisec corp with ties to a .5 moon. Every weekend I try to go mine the moon in exchange for the goo, I keep other materials to build small ships. I can help you out with allowing you to salvage my l4 sec missions and mining missions as well.
EVE Uni is good. i donât know much about pandemic but as a former black ace ( part of goons) i was never considered a meat shield, until i worked on my skills for doing fleets, i spent most of my time VNI ratting. My second venture (no pun intended) in Null, I was associated but not apart of black aces, and I was a null miner helping to build a market in fountain. But i find more comfort for my playstyle in hisec. and iâve helped get a few people ready for null or whatever areas they wanted to get off into.
I canât say I âenjoyâ mining but it is a steady, relatively risk free activity that makes a bit of ISK. I wouldnât mind trying my hand at ratting but there is so much competition in HS that it isnât very fun. Not to mention my skill points are spread all over the place and I canât reset them and start over. I might just have to start an entirely new character and skill them out better for combat.
I am not really excited about doing PvP but I would try ratting. Salvaging is better than mining in terms of ISK but there is the whole âneed to take it somewhere to sellâ part.
The Venture canât defend itself against serious opposition. Operating alone moving to another system seems likely option . If you can get a probe or other light frigate and use it to survey your ânewâ system to survey jump in points for specific asteroids in each of the belts. This lets to spend less time traveling around in belts and lets you jump from belt to belt without losing much time before you can restart the drills. A full Ore hold is a full hold regardless of which or how many belts it fills from. With surveyed jump in points you can keep drilling yet jump to safety.
Optimize your Venture rigs for quick jumps. Keep your cursor on a jump location and click in the instant the screen shows something red inbound. My experience is the incoming redâs are foreshadowed in General information screen very briefly before they materialize in the system.
There is a lot to be said for finding an organization to work with just do not stay if its not working for you.
Agreeing with Kizador aboveâfit your Venture for quick jumps. In a Venture, your best bet is to warp out when you see danger. But also make sure you have strong shields.
That being said, if you disliked being shot down by NPCs in highsec, I doubt youâre going to like mining in lowsec or null, and I really doubt that youâre gonna like PvP. There are lots of mining corps out there. Use the Corporations forum here to find one with more active players and who can teach you more strategies for dealing with this kind of stuff.
For now: fit your Venture for defense (Alphaâs Guide has lots of good rookie fits), train up the relevant Skills, and when you start mining, make sure you have a route set so that you can warp out and dock somewhere immediately. Donât go AFK either.
Best wisdom Iâve gotten as a newbie: The only place youâre safe in EVE is when youâre docked, but then whatâs the point of the game?
Also, skill up on some drone action. I explore a lot and Iâm always coming across lone Ventures with attack drones flying around a pile of dead pirates.
(Iâm not really sure on how all that works, so thatâs your homework)
I managed to pull over 10M /h running l2 missions [w/o counting lp]. This is at least 2x what you get mining with vent in hs. Small caveat - when I was doing this my dps was very weak, with better skills you are likely to get even more.
