So you are new, and you want to get into mining, so here is a really basic guide on what you need. I suggest if you havent done them already to go through ALL of the starter career agents, they will give you ships, items, cash and skillbooks, quite few of which you need to get into mining as well as teach you about the basics of the game
While you mine I suggest that you read up on all things EVE, to decide where you want to go with your character. If you like planning out ahead, I highly suggest EVEMon to sort out your skills, and EFT - EVE Fitting tool for ships
With EVEMon you can simply download and insert the whole skillplan listed here. You can also shorten down the training time by buying implants.
Note: I suggest you stay in high-sec all the time while mining, I myself stayed in the starter system till I got my retriever running, and now parked in a 0.6 security system, low-sec is not worth the risk
Now you can make this Venture fit. This should allow you to bring in about 2mil ISK per hour mining Scordite. You should have gotten most of the items including the ship from the starter agents.
You are now able to fit Miner II's and income should be around 3mil ISK per hour. Pretty decent =)
You are now able to fit and fly this Retriever. That is if you have the ~30mil ISK needed for it and the fittings. If you do then you should now be able to make close to 9mil ISK per hour!
You probably want to have a little more defense, so skilling Drones IV is not a bad idea. If you plan on joining mining fleets, getting a few points into Leadership makes you able to control a squad in a fleet up to 6 persons, makes it much easier for the leader. But now you have a steady and pretty safe income, what you want to focus on after this is up to you, whether to go for T2 modules or for an exhumer like Mackinaw or you want to skill something else entirely now that you got your basic income
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Created by Aliana Heartborne. Last updated: 2013-11-09