Creating an Alt Miner: Difference between revisions

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'''Creating an Alt Miner''' can help you get started mining and fly a [[Retriever]] in 7 days or a [[Hulk]] within a month and a half.

Take consideration into whether you want to start a new account or train an in-account alt, depending if you are interested in creating an industrial alt in the future. You cannot train skills simultaneously on the same account between two different characters without paying for [[Dual Character Training]] with PLEX. If you choose to create an in-account alt and decide you want to go into industry, you'll have to retrain a new account or pay an account transfer fee.  

 

Training a new avatar to fly a [[Retriever]] from scratch using this guide will take about 7 days 17 hours, or 6 days 17 hours if you use +3 implants.  

Training a new avatar to fly a [[Hulk]] from scratch using this guide will take about 49 days 12 hours, or 43 days 1 hours if you use +3 implants.  

These can be done slightly faster if you're willing to spend two neural remaps.

*Brand new avatar with no training  

*69M ISK  

**Approximately 34M ISK for four +3 implants (except for CHA)  

**Approximately 30M ISK for skill books  

***This is only about 1M ISK if you want to fly only a Covetor

 

*Implants (+3 Implants)  

**Ocular Filter - Basic  

**Cybernetic Subprocessor - Basic  

**Memory Augmentation - Basic  

**Neural Boost - Basic  

*Skillbooks  

**{{sk|Astrogeology}}

**{{sk|Mining Barge}}

**{{sk|Exhumers}}

If you wish to save a couple of days, remap your starting attributes to:  

*Everything else minimum (17)

This eliminates 3 days 2 hours off the training time and ensures the 48 days maximum training period. This is also a reasonable setup for learning many combat skills. It will leave you with another remapping to use, but if you're certain you will keep this alt for mining only, there's a different option that will further shave off some time (see below).

#{{sk|Spaceship Command|IV}}  

#*18 hours

#{{sk|Industry|II-V}}

#*5 days 2 hours 33 minutes

#{{sk|Mining|IV}}  

#*18 hours

#{{sk|Astrogeology|I-IV}}

#*2 days 17 hours 35 minutes

#*19 hours 19 minutes

== Alternative plan ==

Note that if you're determined to produce a mining alt before switching to your main again forever, you can make use of the two neural remappings available to new characters in different ways. The most direct way is to use the first remapping to max out Intelligence and put the rest in Memory. The other three attributes are kept at the minimum 17. Then train the industrial and science skills:

{{SkillQueue

|name=Alternative Plan

|width=400px

|Industry II

Industry IV

Industry V

Mining IV

Astrogeology IV

Astrogeology V

Spaceship Command IV

Mining Barge I

Mining Barge II

Mining Barge III

Mining Barge IV

Mining Barge V

}}

#{{sk|Industry|V}}

#{{sk|Astrogeology|V}}

*{{sk|Exhumers|V}} (For the best yield, lowest cycle time on ice)

*Ore Processing IV (for T2 crystals): All highsec ores, especially {{sk|Veldspar Processing|IV}}, {{sk|Plagioclase Processing|IV}}, {{sk|Scordite Processing|IV}}

**Also {{sk|Omber Processing|IV}} if you're in Minmatar space; {{sk|Kernite Processing|IV}} if you're in Amarr space

*{{sk|Ice Harvesting|V}} (if you're an ice miner)

*{{sk|Mining Drone Operation|V}}

*{{sk|CPU Management|IV}} (if you want to fit a full load of strip miners IIs in the high slots, a survey scanner II in the medium and full load of mining laser upgrade IIs in the low slots on any mining barge then you will find you need level IV of this skill.  Additional skill might be needed for depending on how you fit your exhumer)

*{{sk|Capacitor Management|IV}}  

*{{sk|Capacitor Systems Operation|IV}}  

*{{sk|Shield Operation|III}} (or higher)

*{{sk|Shield Management|III}} (or higher)

*{{sk|Shield Compensation|III}} (or higher)

*{{sk|Tactical Shield Manipulation|IV}} (allows for Adaptive Invulnerability Field II)

*{{sk|EM Shield Compensation|III}} (or higher)

*{{sk|Thermal Shield Compensation|III}} (or higher)

*{{sk|Explosive Shield Compensation|III}} (or higher)

*{{sk|Kinetic Shield Compensation|III}} (or higher)

*Inherent Implants 'Highwall' Mining MX-1001(-1003/-1005) (Slot 10)  

**1-5% improved mining yield, costs 1M-150M ISK (as of this writing)

*Michi's Excavation Augmentor (Slot 7)  

**5% improved mining yield, costs 1.1B ISK (as of this writing)

=== Other useful skills ===

*Refining skills (for refining your ores)

*Trade skills (for selling your minerals)

* [http://newedenmining.blogspot.co.uk New Eden Mining]

* [https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/dual-character-training/ Dev Blog: Dual Character Training]