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Goddard Freeman
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Posted - 2006.07.20 23:16:00 -
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im new to this game and trying the trial version, and wanted to kno whats a good selection of skills and stats to start out mining, and good ships to get for mining.
on a side question, are drones good for quickly gathering ore?
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Rumbaar
Royal Society Of Khanid
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Posted - 2006.07.21 00:40:00 -
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Mining IV
Cruiser 3+
Mining Upgrade
-> Sycthe (Sp?)+ 3 X MinerII's + Mining Upgrade Module.
Tho for my liking Minmatar characters start with too much base charisma.
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Sharupak
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Posted - 2006.07.21 18:07:00 -
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Right off the bat, I would get the skills to fly a probe. You can use two mining lasers and they have a good cargo hold plus they can hold a few mining drones. That should keep you a while so that you can mine effectively and train skills for better ships.
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Mr Xofar
Minmatar
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Posted - 2006.07.22 16:21:00 -
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I've worked my way up to using 4x Dual Diode Mining Laser I on my Thrasher, tomorrow, after installing 2x Coprocessor II's I will be upgrading to 5x Xecl Mining Lasers. Anchoring 3 Giant Secured containers, filling them up and swapping out with my Wreathe for three trips back to the station, with Expanded Cargo holds.
I'm pretty much on my own, So I set up instas at the station and at my secured cargo containers to speed things up during shipping.
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Joria Klex
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Posted - 2006.07.23 12:40:00 -
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I dont know if u have looked at any Mining guides yet. I found one a while back, said that the best ship to mine in is the Covetor. Now i know it's really early but it didnt really take me that long to get my retriever (im working on getting my combat up a little) up, but getting to Mining Barge V is a pain in the arse. Industrial ships are pretty handy in mining to as well. For the short term i would stick to agent missions while training for Mining barges imho 
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Dahak2150
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Posted - 2006.07.23 20:59:00 -
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Edited by: Dahak2150 on 23/07/2006 21:03:18
If you're going for minmatar-only mining....
Start with the probe, it's got a nice cargohold for a frigate.
Then upgrade to a scythe. It's got the bonuses to mining lasers that make it very efficient.
Cyclone....only for when you need more protection. At minmatar cruiser III the cyclone with 5 miner IIs will outmine the scythe only by a very little bit. At cruiser IV the scythe wins hands down. Plus the cyclone is several times more expensive.
BS mining you'd go with a Tempest, as it has more turret slots than the 'phoon, but it's not great. Looking at the math, if you've got minmatar cruiser V, the scythe will actually mine the exact same as a tempest. Half the number of lasers, but the bonus will double the efficiency. If one includes drones the tempest would win, but only by a little. And it costs 20 times as much..
If' you're really serious about mining go with the mining barges. A covetor with minimum skills and Strip Miner Is will pull in 2794.5 cubic meters every cycle. There's huge room for expansion in that number as well, counting increased skills, drones, more efficient equipment, etc. Plus there's the hulk, which has another 15% increase to strip miners, in addition to all the extra skills listed above.
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Tachy
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Posted - 2006.07.24 10:28:00 -
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The Burst is the Minmatar miing frigate.
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SengH
Black Omega Security
E.R.A
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Posted - 2006.07.24 12:19:00 -
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You could always use the slepnir to mine with 7x turrets, but I think sarmaul would prolly have an aneurism if he saw it.
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Evil Sulu
Sanguine Legion
Atrocitas
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Posted - 2006.07.24 20:25:00 -
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 Originally by: SengH
You could always use the slepnir to mine with 7x turrets, but I think sarmaul would prolly have an aneurism if he saw it.
lol. Don't tell him about it until the Khanid MKII idea gets dev support, we need him in good health until then. 
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Gohl
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Posted - 2006.07.25 04:53:00 -
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I feel sick and violated now.
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Dahak2150
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Posted - 2006.07.26 23:24:00 -
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Originally by: Tachy
The Burst is the Minmatar miing frigate.
But it has a smaller cargo bay and no bonuses towards the size, so he's going to be warping back and forth a lot more than in the probe, which is the thing that bugged me (and still bugs me) the most about mining.
Either way you're making your operation more efficient, be it gathering more ore before leaving or gathering less or faster and going in and out.
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Tachy
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Posted - 2006.07.27 05:30:00 -
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Team up with one or two other pilots.
Try to get one pilot with a hauler. Mining into a frigate's hold is urks.
Do not mine into a jetcan in a high traffic system. The chances are good you'd get the ore removed by unauthorised personel.
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