Anshio Tamark
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Posted - 2011.07.03 18:01:00 -
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Hey all.
Me and my corpmates (mostly miners and industrialists, the rest are mission-runners) have been wanting to try a low-sec mining operation, for a while now, but neither of us have any actual experience in Low-sec. I am the only member of our corp who has actually been to low-sec and both times, it resulted in me losing a ship (First time was in a Burst on my primary account while I was still a newbie and didn't know what low-sec was, second time was in an Osprey on this account). Due to the fact that I am the only one who has been there, have been appointed the leader of the mining operation.
Now, I know the basic rules of EVE (such as "Don't fly what you can't replace") and as such, we have taken the precautions we can come up with. We've found a semi-secure low-sec system (same as where I lost my Osprey), we have made sure to keep our clones up-to-date (at least one grade higher than necessary), and we've made a basic strategy for how things will be done.
I do not want to give too much information that could potentially compromise our security (Such as System-name), but I will give enough vague info, so you can give me any suggestions you may have:
Our plan is basically to have a Cov-Ops frigate jump in, warp cloaked to a random area, try to find a Gravimetric Site, and then warp our fleet of cheap-ass Mass-Produced Bursts with Miner I's in to mine it, and have the ore being hauled back to station (there are none where we'll be operating, so "back to station" means the station in the neighboring High-sec system) in a cloaked Transport Ship. While the Miners are mining, the Cov-Ops will be orbiting the one of the gates at more than 150km while still cloaked, so he can see any potential threats and warn everyone else ahead of time.
Another plan we consider executing would be to have every Burst replaced with a Covetor with 2 Strip Miner I's and one cheap Cloaking Device and as many Expanded Cargohold II's as physically possible. This plan, however, will not be executed until we are more experienced with our kind of Low-sec mining.
I sincerely hope that somebody out there will be helpful enough to give me an honest answer, and even better would be, if you could please give us some constructive feedback. As mentioned in the beginning, we are a bunch of Industrialists and Miners, who'd like to try mining in low-sec, but we are not willing to go into null-sec or Wormholes yet.
Please reply with any suggestions or tips you may have, because we want to be as prepared as we can be.
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