Hello
everyone! This time we have a look at, how the dark side of wormhole
space works – earning a living while we are in one of the most
dangerous parts of Space.
I will start
and explain very basic ways to get those all elusive ISKs into our
wallet. There are some skill requirements attached to most of these,
but even at a very basic level you can start. I managed to get a
friend going and earning about double what he would make in highsec
after 1 day of training.
The training
wasn’t even specialized!
What you
will need, a sense of adventure, risk taking, some basic ships you
can replace. Also a good dose of paranoia helps keeping you safe!
First of we
go with the most basic way of earning ISK. Can you guess it? Yeah, it
is in fact mining. Don’t do it to long, or you go space mad. I
nearly quit when I started out, because of it, but it is easy,
available and earns you starting money to try other stuff.
Here is a
good ship to start with, the venture, you already get two of these
when you do the tutorials at the start, so why not make something out
of them.
[Venture, mining]Mining Laser Upgrade IConjunctive Magnetometric ECCM Scanning Array IResidual Survey Scanner IExperimental 1MN Afterburner ICu Vapor Particle Bore Stream ICu Vapor Particle Bore Stream ICore Probe Launcher I, Core Scanner Probe ISmall Low Friction Nozzle Joints ISmall Low Friction Nozzle Joints I[empty rig slot]Hobgoblin I x2
Don't worry
to much if you can not fit everything on it, basic things you want
are agility and yield first and foremost. Obviously everything helps
in its own way. As your skills progress, T2 miners will increase your
yield a bit, but even after 1 day and with this fit, you make about 1
mil per 20 minutes. That can easily be doubled with better skills.
So – how
do we do the mining part then? First we need to find a suitable place
to mine. Get in your scanning ship and find a wormhole, preferably a
c1 or c2, but it doesn’t really matter, ore sites stay the same
throughout all classes.
There are no
asteroid belts in wormhole space, the asteroids are found in
anomalies. Since the Odyssey Expansion those have been moved directly
into the Discovery scanner and show up on the list if you enable
them. Make sure to check that little box in the probe scanner and to
run the Discovery scanner option next to the capacitor.
Have a
closer look here:
Kara-tip, you can have the pics I have on my blog bigger if you click them!
I have
highlighted what information we need, enabling the scanner and
finding an ore site. Now we can look the site up in eve survival.
This will help us see what we can expect there.
Open up the
“Common Perimeter Deposit" and have a look. Initial group
spawns 5 frigates. OK, now that we know that, we are sure there are
no sentry guns, we can mine safely in this site for 10-15 minutes.
Guns can spawn as soon as you land, and they pack a punch, don’t
warp to those sites!
It might
have been activated before or it might be a trap, so you better dscan
it before and see if you find anything odd. If you see something like
warp disruption bubbles or the likes, it might be possible the ore
site is setup as a trap from the wormhole inhabitants.
I advise
learning by doing. Dive in and explore, failure will surely happen,
but you will learn from it for next time. So we found the wormhole,
bookmarked both sides, now we warp with the scanner to the anomaly.
Bookmark yourself the ABC ores, Arkonor, Bistot, Crokite, those are
the valuable ones in wormhole space.
Isn't wormhole space beautiful!
Bookmarking
them will save precious time, you would waste if you would always
warp in at 0 to the anomaly and slow-boat over to the asteroid, they
are usually a bit away from the arrival point.
Once this is
done get your venture and mine away, as soon as the rats spawn its
time to move to another site. Since they spawn after 10-15 minutes
after activation, the best way is to not warp to all sites first, but
to keep the other sides fresh. Don’t worry to much if you warp
somewhere and sleepers are already there, if you just warp out you
will be fast enough to evade them.
So scanning
with the venture might also be possible, c1s have a big signature and
can be easily probed down, even without bonus-ed ships.
So this is
the most basic way to make some ISK and mine away, next part will
have gas mining and more! Check in soon, I will try to do the next
one faster. This time around took me a while to make all the fittings
I had in mind, now that these are done, it should work a bit faster.
Scanning tip of this episode, double-clicking an anomaly or a probe in the probe scanner focuses the camera on the map view onto it.
Last words
of warning, make sure your clone is updated, med-clone is in the
right place and never fly anything you can not afford to loose!
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