Hey all, old player returning after a 12-year gap - coming back is the greatest mistake ever haha.
I played from around 2010 to about 2014. I got my friends to come back, and we restarted our corporate mining operations, with four hulks and an Orca. During our first OP we were ganked in .6 sec space. Either we got lucky back in the day, or things have changed because that happened so rarely to us in mid to high sec.
We eventually moved to low sec and had to worry about frequent ganks out there, but high sec was always semi-AFK for us. We aim to enter the manufacturing sector for profit and are working to build our financial resources to support expansion. No idea if we plan to go back to low or even null any time soon but low sec mining kinda was our thing. We aren’t complaining or ranting by any means, just genuinely wondering as a 5-man mining corp how to position ourselves. Any advice or help would be appreciated.
Also does having the words “Mining Corp” in our Corp name put a target on ourselves? haha
TLDR: Help with returning mining corp on advice to reduce ganks in mid and high sec.
low sec mining is pretty risky. high sec just find a system in low travelled areas but profit is pretty poor. null sec is good profit and safer than low sec.
if you want semi-afk mining while making decent isk, you should consider gas mining in wormholes. a cheap venture with t2 gas scoops can make 50-100m isk per hr. people don’t usually hunt ventures since they’re cheap and annoying to hunt.
This is not correct. We always try to find out if the pilot is afk or awestruck.
So about 30% of the Ventures we find we manage to kill.
They are cheap, they are fast, they are stabilized - fine ships for that task. But the killmark is the same size and the kill count the same amount. It’s considered to be a training session to hunt a Venture.
So you gonna lose ships, but as these ships are cheap, the loss isn’t too hard, although the gas scoops are the most expensive part.
yeah the mining Corp label probably makes you a Target throughout all my accounts I get ganked maybe once a year and have to buy a new mining barge areas you’re more likely to get ganked in ice mining systems also if you’re near any trade hubs you’re more likely to get ganked if you find a quiet isolated spot the likelihood of that happening is practically zero and high SEC but you’re going to be targeted even more now cuz you mentioned this on the forums you basically made a scene so you’re going to be targeted probably more now if this character is also your minor the key to mining in peace is making yourself invisible and not drawing attention to yourself if you’re actively recruiting people in game or bragging about mining certain ores you’re going to be targeted more if you keep to yourself you can make profit in peace
here’s a way to minimize losses a porpoise maxed out is only 1.7% lower on cycle mining speed then the Orca and that’s with the ore mining mind link and Max bonuses on both paying 2 billion for a 1.7% Improvement it’s not really worth it with like five characters and one operating a porpoise with or compression in a 0.5 high sex system with like 12 asteroid belts the most will probably be able to minus six or eight and you’ll still will not fill up the porpoise and you’re going to probably dock after you empty each asteroid belt so it has enough storage capacity if compression wasn’t in the game I would still go for the Orca myself but cuz compression exists the porpoise is actually better
I’m sorry for Reviving this post it was basically dead I didn’t realize it was over 2 months old but this still can be helpful to other new players and people I didn’t mean to revive something was basically dead I should have paid attention to the last time somebody posted