Mining drones aren't that great. I'd replace those for hobgoblins, and place a small shield booster in a midslot. ORE ships are shield tanks.

Third, what was said above, shield booster and hobgoblin drones for defense. And even better, a healthy respect of when to run. Also as soon as your in position and mining, align your ship to station. The venture is a quick ship, but sometimes seconds matter.

Hi!

I just started playing this game a couple of days ago and I quite like the mining aspect of the game.

So far, I have done all career agents quest except the advanced military.

But I have a problem related to mining.

When I go in 0.6 sectors to mine some Pyro, often there are NPC bandits waiting for me. Since I am using the Venture, I don't have any defense mechanism to kill them, I equipped the Venture with 2 mining lasers, 2 mining drones and a Mining laser upgrade. I could use a combat ship and equip it with 2 mining lasers and a combat laser, but I would lack the huge ore cargo space of the Venture (No ship that I own come even close of the 5000m3 of the Venture.

So my question is, what would be the safest way to mine in sectors where NPC bandits are around.
1 - Equip a shield regenerator (medium slot) on my Venture and just let them hit me while I mine.
2 - Remove the mining laser upgrade and replace it with a repairer so I can withstand attacks while repairing
3 - Replace one or both mining drones with combat/defense drones
4 - Use a combat ship and do A LOT of back and forth between the asteroid belt and the station (I could do some jetcan mining, but I am afraid people would steal my ore since I won't be equipped to fight back with a ship equipped toward mining)
5 - Whatever else I didn't think about :)

The only thing I want, is to be able to fill my ship without worrying about dying to NPC bandits. (currently with both lasers, both drones and the upgrade, it takes around 15 minutes I think, should be faster as I gain skills)

Thanks a lot!

You'll be out of asteroid range before the first cycle ends if you do that.

Make sure you pay your 10Mil to the New Order so you don't get ganked.

Get a shield hardener and run that at all times. Doesn't even matter what kind, just seeing one activated makes you look like less of a potential victim.

You'll be out of asteroid range before the first cycle ends if you do that.

Not if you align at minimum speed.

52nd to what was said above though. Hobgoblins (preferably IIs) and buffer tank in the mid slots for more Shield HP.

Ah, the old "dead align" myth rears its ugly head.

When will people stop believing this crap?

More people just need to put it out there. I have read in dozens of places to align to the celestial most "in your path" to avoid gatecamps etc, but only one time that when your ship is stopped, it doesn't matter what you warp to. Which makes all the posts discussing "align time" on a ship make much more sense. There are just too many idiots parroting misinformation.

The best way to mine aligned is to plot a pair of opposing "warp out" points in-line with your asteroid belt of choice with a fast ship, saving the bookmarks. You'll also want to bookmark the last asteroid on either end of the belt. Then when you mine, you align to "warp out A." When you reach the end of the asteroid belt you warp to "warp out A" and warp back to the end asteroid. Now align to "warp out B" and continue mining. When you reach the end of the belt, warp to "war out B" and then warp back to the asteroid on that end of the belt.

If somebody neutral lands or decloaks in your belt, warp to the "warp out" you are aligned to. If you do, you will enter warp immediately, appearing as "invulnerable" to your potential attacker. Every time.

Now you don't even have to tank your terrible mining ship. You're welcome.

Draft Stone, welcome to EVE!
You may not be aware, but many many of your fellow miners are cheating! They run programs that mine for them while they're at work and stuff, meanwhile, you make less money as an honest miner due to them flooding the market with their illegally obtained ore/ice!

Have you ever considered taking a more active roll in eliminating your competition? The New Order has sworn eternal jihad on these robots and you can help! With only 2 days training time, you can be killing these cheaters with the most lively, friendly, players in the game: the New Order of Highsec. Our dear leader James 315 will take you under his wing and show you the side of the game you've never seen. You can mine, and actuvely work to make the ore you mine worth more! :D

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I yield tank my mining fleet.

Note that you can slow your ship down to 75% of maximum speed and still warp out immediately. You can slow down further by fitting armour plates, but this restricts other fitting. Thus with a Hulk you will cover about 4km per minute. With a range of 25km you will have about five minutes to extract ore from any rock, just pick the ones furthest "ahead" of you and stop the laser when the rock falls too far behind.

Another option is to mine in mission space, especially when that space is accessed through acceleration gates: this buys you 30 seconds of advance warning. Either park a covops at the gate and watch that screen, or spam D-scan. If you are using T3 OGB, you could park that on grid with the gate, just keep it some hundreds of km away from the gate to avoid long range gankers.

put hobgoblins in your drone bay.

deploy drones, go afk until cargo is full. repeat until you can fly something that isn't as horrible as the venture.