hi new friend

scammed by his own brother so soon in-game for a damned heron....

Welcome to Eve !

it's really not a good idea to mine in a tayra. Unless you are one of those persons who enjoy watching paint dry. Also there are much better mining lasers than the civilian mining laser. You can only mount one of those because the tayra does have only one turret hardpoint.

You definitely should do the carreer agent missions to get an idea on the things you can do in eve. You will also receive the best small mining ship (venture) during this exercise.

Please be advised that each and every ship has a certain role to fulfill and excels in this role. Take a look at the ships bonuses to get an idea what it is designed for.

Heya newbro,

There are so many different ways to make ISK, and almost all of them are better than mining, so try to wean yourself off that ASAP.

The best advice I was given was to leave highsec, so that's what I am passing on to you. Find a large nullsec alliance, they are almost all new player friendly and they can teach you how to survive, and leave Empire space. Eve is not a solo game, and if you park that hauler in a highsec belt and mine, you are going to die. Horribly.


And while PVP is the best part of Eve, getting ganked while mining in highsec surely is not. Mining in highsec will make you rage quit, and we would rather have you stay and learn.

Anything you can do in highsec can be done in null/low for greater reward.

And don't be afraid to chat people in game, especially null dwellers. Most Eve players that are not bot-aspirant will try to help you. Take advantage of their hard earned knowledge, and make it your own. Just make sure the people you are getting advice from are not the scared type that are too afraid to leave highsec. You don't want to take advice from highsec carebears, they really don't understand Eve.

Initially the Venture is bar none the best mining ship you'll have access to because of the mining yield bonus and the 5000m3 ore bay. Any better mining ships require your account being in paid status (omega) to be usable and require some additional training. As for a good pair of early mining lasers to use? EPS-Gaussian has better mining yield and a 16k range.

That said, you can make significantly better ISK doing distribution or security missions depending on whether or not you feel like dealing with combat. Blowing up an entire mission and coming back out with a destroyer fit for salvage duty can rake in some pretty decent ISK. Especially when you move onto dealing with anomalies, faction spawns, and the occasional DED site.

The Tayra is a hauler, I wouldn't do anything in it but that or your asking for a long day of little return. They have a very nice and cheep dedicated mining ship called the venture that have major bonuses to mining and can defend itself with drones from small rats. I love the little ship and have 4 set up for different task.

The first career missions in or around your starter system should have given you a good amount of cash, a few good skills needed to get you started, a few ventures, and I believe almost a full set(or two) of frigates for your race for free.

*sigh* It has to be said. The Venture has two cargo holds. The tiny 50m3 one where you can put anything that fits and a massive 5000m3 one that only holds mined ore.

The Venture will out-mine ANYTHING else a new player or alpha character can use. And it has reasonable defenses once you put two drones into the drone bay and use them.