Avian Gamers Network

From the Eve Guie: http://webpages.charter.net/paae/eveguide.pdf


Installing Items for Other Players

Yes you can do this and there are a couple of ways. But first a few notes:
1. You and the other player will both need to be near each other, preferably in or near the same station. It's just
safer that way.
2. You both need to have the right skills to fly whatever ships you use during this process.
3. Whoever is doing the installing will need to have the necessary skills for doing the installation.
WARNING: Do not do this with someone you do not know. Would you give your car to a stranger that you could not track
down? Exercise Caution!

PROCESS Nr. 1
If each of you has 1 ship, then you both need to exit the station, eject from your ships, and board each other's ships. Then
the installer can dock and do the install while the other guy guards your ship.

PROCESS Nr.2
If one of you has 2 ships, stay in the station and give the spare ship to the person who needs the item installed. Then he
can give the other ship to the installer. The installer can make that ship active and do the installation without ever leaving
the station.

NOTE: I don't think you can give someone your active ship, so you'll have to choose another ship before giving it away.
To give somebody something (like a ship), right-click that person's icon, and choose Trade.

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--The Hermit

SOLOING
1. Mine omber in a 1.0 security system. In other places the pirates spawn way too quickly. Even if you defeat them, they could respawn in under a minute after blasting the last group.

2. Get armor and hull repairers. Other than a lucky trade route, fighting pirates and recycling your loot is the only way you'll get money. Repairs are expensive and your armor and hull start taking damage at 66% of shields and armor respectively.
Even if you don't solo, get these suckers. Armor costs about 80 to repair per point and structure can run up to 1000 isk or more depending on your ship (I think for a probe it is about 1100 isk).

3. If you are not a minmatar but plan to mine or carry a lot of goods, get the minmatar frigate skill and get a probe. It could be a long time before you can afford a cruiser or an indy and probes have a lot of cargo space.

4. If you hunt NPC pirates, slowly work your way down from the higher security systems. Pirates can respawn quickly and you don't want to suddenly be taking 15+ points of damage a hit with weakened shileds against a stronger NPC.

5. Remember that the devs are doing a lot of things to satisfy the corps or to keep them from taking advantage of things.
In other words, there is a lot of a corp focus on the game at this time so being a soloer can be a bit tougher.

6. Consider joining a gang or a corp and "solo" with the group when you are on. You can also be a mercenary to help them out when they don't have enough members online.

7. Mine PlagioClase as your first ore isntead of Omber. you -wil- have a full hold that you can refine then.
Use that money to buy a Mining Laser I from the market, then switch to Omber. After you have enough cash (50K) try to get a better ship.

8. Find another noob or someone you trust that you can team up with to team mine in one day's work you will both be able to move on go solo get better ships whatever this will speed up your play fast but make sure you know what a load is worth so you can check to see that they pay the right amount... if you can take the extensive mining get in an indy quick and run cargo for others ... you can easly gain 500,000 to 2,000,000 a day depending where and what you mine... a few days of that and you should have the skills and the money for a cruiser.
For the non-miners... look for goods that everyone wants but isnt near the main stations... bring it in and mark it up... buy minerals cheep and sell them off.

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--The Hermit

What jobs make up a Strip Mining Operation

No matter how big your fleet is, the actual miner in a "Strip Mining Operation" is always in a Frigate or the smaller ship of your operation. (I.E if you have industrials hauling, use your cruisers to mine)....this is CRUCIAL.

The smallest ship(s) will jettison cargo containers small enough to be transferred in entire loads into a book-mark-warped cruiser....such a thing allows the cruiser to simply click-drag and warp back to station...a process of less than 3 min from station to station.

Hauling ships per mining ships
- Use one cruiser for every 2 mining frigs
- 1 Cruiser, 1 Frig for every 3 mining frigs
- 2 cruisers for every 4 mining frigs and so on (adding 1 hauling frig for every odd number of mining frigs)

Job Pre-Req
-A mining ship must have "Mining 5" "Drones", and "Mining Drone Operation"....We suggest Probes... since at "Minmatar Frig 4" A Probe Carries 315 units..(more than most other frigs)

The whole purpose of the mining frig is to mine as fast as possible.
Each Mining-Frig Group should have a leader. This Leader consolidates all of the cargo containers into 1 single container... BUT DOES NOT COMBINE THE MINERALS....just let the small batches stay separate this assists in dragging the smaller batches out into the haulers.

Too many containers will cause so much lag you will puke.
Be kind to your self, get a "leader," this is a position of friendly manner, no mining frig "leader" is your boss.... but being gracious to him/her for helping in such a way is customary.... in times of conflict the leader may be looked to to usher shipsback to station... if in the off time no cruiser is immediately available....
> A Hauling ship should be bigger than a mining ship. So far we use Scythes (a logical jump from our Probes, and an ability to then hand down our Probes to newer miners...) The Scythe can hold SIX cargo expanders...such a thing makes them slow as all hell, but much better than their original conception.
> Hauling ships must use well timed Book Marks...When first jumping into the system… go to the CENTER of the field and "Add New Book Mark".... such a thing will pop you up literally with 15m of the rocks... or sometimes directly under them.

As a hauling ship it is your job to drag as much rock from that container as possible, and jump right back to station.... USE CTRL, ALT, SHIFT and "dock" to inst-dock... throw all materials into corp hangar and exit station IMMEDIATELY... You should be able to complete 20 runs in 1 hour if you are on your game.

MORE TIPS
> Mining Grp Leaders need to make sure they are mining from the side of entry into the field...it does no good to have the container on the opposite side of a hauler's entry path...such a thing especially with slow ships IS WORTHLESS.

> ARM your Haulers.

> If you are not going to be miners as a cruiser....well pack some fire power, if anything happens to your crew you have a fully armed Cruiser...at times 4 armed cruisers...ready to Slaughter idiots.

> This is a key way non-busy military-skilled people can contribute to ANY mining team... simply haul...its stupid to think of yourself as just an escort... GET PAID for your HAULING and then use yer protection as an added bonus.

> Communicate. If not all miners/haulers are in your corp… set up a new channel… don't be lazy about this...

> Where as mining is sometimes relaxing… Strip Mining is NOT, you need to be on the BALL... can you have fun on the ball… of course you can....but time is money its also increased risk to your brothers mining in space waiting for you to come back and continually protect them...

> A lazy miner is not allowed in Strip mining.

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--The Hermit