J'Poll wrote:o/ C.P.
Let me start by pointing out you made 1 big mistake, Don't use an Orca to mine.
The orca is ment to be a boosting platform for mining ships in your fleet.
Any racial cruiser can outmine an orca as the only mining capability that the orca has are the mining drones it can launch.
If you want to become a miner I would suggest training for the following ships, Retriever, Covetor and last one the mighty Hulk.
If you want to mine in the meanwhile stick with the racial ships (frigates and cruisers) that have a ship related boost to mining lasers.
On training times I disagree with you about them being to long. Very short skilltime and EVE will end up like a WoW clone, all "level xx" characters bored and also the whole idea of veterans vs noobs will be lost.
I like the way CCP has implanted character progression, I think it's more fair then any hack/slash=grind XP MMO where people who play 24/7 advance way quicker then any general player.
Also as being fairly new, cherish those what you call long skill times, sooner or later you will find the 14x multiplier skills which will take over a month easily to train.
Best to keep boredom away is to remind, EVE is a sandbox. You can do anything you want, anytime you want, at any skill-level.
True, higher skills make some stuff much easier.
But best to not look at your character screen and skill queue 23/7.
Just go out and do stuff you like while you train skills and if you get bored, it might be time to broaden your view on EVE and try out different things.
EVE online is much more then just mining, missioning and pvp. You can try exploration (look for signatures in system, probe sites) or if you can fund it try some small bit of trading.
On your issue with the corp. My advice, search for a new one.
There isn't a rule against switching corps, though don't switch too much or you might find it difficult to get into a corp due to nature of some EVE players (Spies, Corp/Alliance thiefs, gankers etc).
If you are looking for a corp my suggestion is:
1.) Always talk to a recruiter/director/CEO, never join just cause you found their corp advert.
2.) Ask how many members they have, and how many are active atm (corp chat count). This can give you an idea on how active the corp is during your timezones.
3.) Ask when their prime time is (so in which timezone they mainly operate) and what they as a corp like to do (not much use as a indy toon to join a hardcore FW / PvP corp).
Kind regards,
J'poll