Amanda Chan
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Posted - 2015.05.04 18:04:13 -
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There is 1 rule to mining/doing anything "safely".
Abuse EVE's absurd Meta-game info. Websites like http://evemaps.dotlan.net/ holds so much information it's obscene. It tells you what ore you can expect to find, the number of belts, how often it's traveled, what services are there at the station and what's near by BUT most importantly.... Who has died there and who did the killing.
Take that list of people who suicide gank, look at the corporation is it just that person or everybody? If it's everybody set the whole corp to negative standings. Guess what? Next time they're in the system you just got intel that a possible ganker is in the system and you need to decide if you want to stick around/move on.
Most people, with jobs/school/life play around the same time. This shows you a pattern of behavior. You know when and which gankers are active in your area by what time they usually get kills, lose rookie ships to Concord, etc. Make note on their character sheet, you know when you look at pilot info and see the notes tab? It's there for a reason. Hell you can stalk them on zkillboard and other such websites.
With that list, of people who suicide gank, add them to your watchlist with a negative standing. No need to send them a notification that you did so...although if you wanted to I guess you could. Now you have the added protection of getting a notification when a known ganker is online.
What does that leave us? Well you did your homework and picked a nice and quiet system. You've kept tabs on known gankers in your area. Those gankers, and their corp/alliance if need be, have been granted negative standing and added to your watch list. You did your home work and have an estimated time for each ganker and the areas they like to frequent.
This means you.
1) Log in
2) Get notification of people on your watchlist that are online
3) Know where those people frequently gank because you did your homework and compiled relevant information in their notes
4) Bought a mining permit....j/k
In all seriousness though even having this much data will only prevent suicide ganking only so much. You still need too pay attention, investigate neutrals(with your new found knowledge of the ******** metagame that is EVE). You can mine aligned, higgs boson rig helps you do that.(Just warp in at a belt, align to where you want to warp and set your speed to 75%. That way when you click warp poof you're gone)
TL:DR Do your homework, pay attention while mining and you'll hopefully reduce the number of times you get suicide ganked.
P.S Why are you mining anyways? If 9/10 when mining your watching a movie or playing another game....you're probably not enjoying EVE as much as you could by doing something else. Please don't be pigeonholed into something that other people say newbies should do.
The other 1/10 of the time, hey sometimes its nice to sit back, and just make some mind number isk without constant click/twitch.
There is a number of ways to make isk as a new player and mining is probably one of the most non-interactive/worst.(Market .01 isk PVP gets real serious).
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