Mining Ships

As a pilot, new to Eve Online, there is an overwhelming choice of ships and modules to cater for every possibility, and as mininer's we have been given a series of ships that give us an edge. This section is going to take a look at the Frigate and Cruiser ships that haven been given a mining roll bonus, as well as the modules that you might want to invest in. It is recommended that before you choose a ship, you read about the basics of mining as it gives a good overview as to what asteroids are, and how we deal with them.

My First Mining Frigate

• In general any ship that has a free turret and high power slot available is capable of becoming a mining ship. Caldari ships typically make good mining ships because of their CPU capacities but each race has a frigate with mining bonuses and typically players will receive one upon completion of the tutorial mission.

Factors that make a good Mining Ship

• Mining modules have quite a large cpu requirement, and a low power requirement so although a ship may have many turrets capable of holding a mining module, the ship might not have the cpu to fit them.

• Ships that have a mining role bonus are very important, the table below shows the faction frigate ships that gain the following bonus: 5% bonus to cargo capacity and 20% bonus to mining laser yield per skill level and -60% mining laser capacitor use. This make any of the 'mining' frigates a good starting ship as the pilot will receive not only a cargo hold bonus, yield bonus and a permanent reduction in capacitor use.

	Amarr	Caldari	Gallente	Minmatar
Frigate	Tormentor	Bantam	Navitas	Burst

My First Mining Cruiser

	Amarr	Caldari	Gallente	Minmatar
Cruiser	Arbitrator (drones)	Osprey	Vexor (drones)	Scythe
Bonus	10% bonus to drone hitpoints, damage and mining yield	20% bonus to mining laser yield	10% bonus to drone hitpoints, damage and mining yield	20% bonus to mining laser yield

Mining In An Industrial

So as we have said, you can Mine in absolutely anything with a high power slot and a spare turret. One mistake that many pilots will make is that only high slots are required to fit a mining laser and as an example an Iteron III can in theory fit two mining lasers with a 4875m3 cargo bay. This is of course wrong, only one mining laser can be fitted which comes as quite a surprise to many miners.

I don't think there is a miner in the verse who would recommend mining in an industrial, it may have a large cargo bay but filling it with just one mining laser takes an extremely long time and is unprofitable. If you really want to involve an industrial then either Jet Can Mining, Combo Jet Can Mining or GSC Mining

Whats next then?

Simple, if you believe you are ready to make the time and isk investment to move on up, then see here