In this guide ill give some tips for mining in low and high sec. there are 2 different types of mining: - quantity mining - quality mining quantity mining is mining in high sec sectors, where rats (enemy NPCs) are really easy to kill or where there are no rats or any pirates (players) who might kill u and steal ur ore. there are no rats in 0.9 and 1.0 systems and normal rats are in 0.5 - 0.8 systems. i suggest mining omber in 0.5 and 0.6 systems if u wanna go quantity mining.
if u are a beginner u have to start with quantity mining, cause u arent strong enough to go to low sec, if u are a caldari i suggest u train ur skills until u can get a cormorant (a destroyer) and get 5 mining lasers on it. and u should get an hauler, an badger mark 2 isnt bad for it and u dont need much skills for that... if u got this 2 ships and a weapon on the cormorant to defend urself against rats, u fly to an asteroid belt with the cormorant and start mining there. if u got the first ration of ore, u jettison it into space (rights click on the ore, then jettison). now ur ore is in a can next to u. open the cargo space of the can by right clicking on it and then "open cargo". from now on u drag n drop all the ore u mine and move it into the can. but be careful, this cans disappear (implode or explode) after a bit more than 2 hours. if u got loads of ore in the can, u fly back to the station and take ur hauler, f.ex. the badger and fly to the belt and get the ore out of the can into ur ship and bring it back to the station. repeat that until u got all ur ore in the station.
quality mining is mining in low sec space with security from 0.0 to 0.4 if u havent got a good ship with some weapons and/or drones i wouldnt go there cause else u'll be killed really fast in there. but if u have a good ship and some weapons, u may mine there. theres a bigger risk when mining coz of strong rats and player pirates, that can attack u in low sec space, coz there wont be punished for that as they are punished in high sec systems. u need to have some weapons and in best case loads of drones to defend urself. get a place to mine far far away from the place, where u are when u warp to the belt, so that u have enough time to react when a pirate comes. put at least one warp core stabilizer in ur ship, that the enemy cannot prevent u from warping out that fast. More info about mining could be found from the site below: http://www.cheap-eveonline-isk.com so, this tips have been for solo mining. if u go group mining, there are some things changed... u have to be an hauler or a miner (or a defender against rats) the miners mine ore and put it into a can, the hauler gets it back to the station and the defender destroys rats and pirates.
mining lasers are one thing u need to mine in eve. be carefully when choosing urs. ill give u some tips here to find a right one for u. the XeCl Mining Laser is an expensive but good laser beam for mining in high sec. it has not that much cpu need and mines 47 ore units per minute. You can see other strategies in this regard at this url: http://www.buyeveonlineisk.net the miner 2 mines 60 units per minute but also has an higher cpu need. if u wanna go quality mining i would use deep core mining lasers to mine mercoxit or some other deep core ore. if ure running a mining barge u should use strip miners, which are really fast in mining but mining barges are not that good for low sec, coz they cant defend themselves that good.
if u wanna mine successful u have to train ur mining skills, too. they increase the amount of the ore u mine really well. Of course, you can head over to http://www.mmobux.com/compare/eve/eve-online-isk if you don't find this making you enough ISK.
