Why would this have any bearing on the discussion ?

Not sure how you can presume to know what someone else knows or doesn't know.

Also are calling someone else a girl in a derogatory manner as if somehow being female is a lesser state?

You know that kind of personalities - if female said something it is by default a silly or bad joke thing.

OP are you a boy oh just wanna be one??

Read module description properly then try it!

A bit of EFT warrior:

[Procurer, serios tank]
Mining Laser Upgrade II
Damage Control II

ML-3 Scoped Survey Scanner
Medium Shield Extender II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II

Modulated Strip Miner II, Veldspar Mining Crystal I

Medium Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Medium Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer I
Medium Core Defense Field Extender I

Mining Drone I x4
Mining Drone I x1

...gives you over 71 kEHP and 1110 m3 paper yield

[Procurer, Max tank]
Reinforced Bulkheads II
Damage Control II

Survey Scanner II
Medium Shield Extender II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II

Modulated Strip Miner II, Veldspar Mining Crystal I

Medium Transverse Bulkhead II
Medium Transverse Bulkhead II
Medium Transverse Bulkhead II

Mining Drone I x4
Mining Drone I x1

...gives you almost 87 kEHP and 1034 m3 paper yield. Cold. Overheating hardeners will get you 93 kEHP for 2 and a half minutes.

Average ganking catalyst manage to deal about 7-8 kEHP before CONCORD comes. That catalyst costs about 9 milions including fitting. Gankers hate to lose ISK war, so even this camikadze pure yield fit:
[Procurer, Max yield]
Mining Laser Upgrade II
Mining Laser Upgrade II

Survey Scanner II
5MN Microwarpdrive II
Drone Navigation Computer I
Drone Navigation Computer I

Modulated Strip Miner II, Veldspar Mining Crystal I

Medium Drone Mining Augmentor I
Medium Drone Mining Augmentor II
Medium Drone Mining Augmentor II

Mining Drone II x5

will require 4 catalysts to kill you (29 kEHP, 1431 m3 yield). Gankers will lose up to 36 milions and your procurer with all the fitting is hardly worth that much. So you can see much less procurers killed in high sec comparing to other barges - it is cheap and tanked. Simply not worth it. But if you are in war or gave gankers reason to hunt especially you, you will be ganked no matter what tank you will use.

This is fit for newbie miner, that I would use:
[Procurer, Newbie]
Mining Laser Upgrade I
Mining Laser Upgrade I

ML-3 Scoped Survey Scanner
Medium Azeotropic Restrained Shield Extender
Limited Adaptive Invulnerability Field I
Limited Adaptive Invulnerability Field I

Strip Miner I

Medium Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Medium Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer I
Medium Core Defense Field Extender I

Mining Drone I x4
Mining Drone I x1
Hobgoblin I x 5

It gives you about 46 kEHP and about 900 m3 yield, depends on your skills. Need 5+ catalysts to get it down and is so cheap, that gankers will gank every single barge around you but not you.

*Smacks Abraham's hand away*

Bad newbie! Bad!



Generally (as in, almost never), you don't want to 'dual tank'. You pick either shield, armor, or hull and stick to that, though there are a few niche PvP fits that dual tank. Quite simply, if you over tank, you're not going to be able to do anything.

Here is a recent article on the Mittani that covers this very concept.

I think the tank versus MLU question has been pretty well covered, but I wanted to comment on gender assumptions. Eve has one of the lowest percentages of female players of any decent sized MMO. That said, many players have characters of both genders. This is especially helpful when entering the scamming and corp infiltration sections of the game as female avatars often are more successful than male.

Fyi the eve community is predominantly adults,
most of the players I know both male and female have family's.

Bear this in mind.

Think that all you want but the median age of player is somewhere in the 30s.