Bork Day 2C

So, a follow up on finding Megacyte, this is going to be my answer to it. Reprocessing. Here is a 5mn Microwave drive from a belt rat, if you look at the picture, you'll see that it will yield 4 Megacyte, but I will only get 50% back, so I get 2. I did do a little testing and I found that the amount you get rounds down, so there is no point in reprocessing something that only yields 1 Megacyte. 

Bork Day 2B

So I tried another L1 mission, but I got Smuggler Interception. Not something to do with a Rookie ship. Maybe I need to build more parts first.

Bork Day 2

Minerals. Since I am building a lot of my own equipment up front, I will need minerals. These I will get from two major sources. First, I can mine asteroids and refine them. Second, I can loot ships and reprocess the junk in to the base minerals, 

For the bulk of the materials I need, high-sec mining will be fine. Tritainium, Pyerite, Mexallon, and Isogen are all readily available in high-sec asteroid belts (0.5 or higher). Just to give you some perspective, the Magnate that I am going to build, those four materials account for 99.69% of the mass. 

There are four remaining materials I am going to needed on a semi-regular basis. Those are Nocxium, Zydrine, Megacyte, and Morphite.

Noxcium and Zydrine can both be found in low-sec space (0.2 or lower in either Hemorphite or Hedbergite ore) and racing in to low-sec this early on could prove challenging, not only because of other players, but the belt rats are very nasty as well. However, you can sometimes find small random spawns in high-sec spaces which should provide enough for most small projects. 

Megacyte can be found in Bistot or Arkonor ore in null-sec space (-0.6 and -0.7 respectively). Not only is this going to be dangerous to do but a single 100 unit load to refine or either ore is 1600m3 which right now would be almost 10 loads in my little rookie ship. More than likely the only source I will have for this material early on is going to be from reprocessing loot, but even then, the cheap garbage loot I am going to be getting. For my Magnate frigate, I only need 4 units of Megacyte. 

Morphite is going to have to come from reprocessing loot. The only other source of Morphite is to mine Mercoxit ore using special lasers and you need to go all the way to deep null-sec (-0.8 or lower). Just to add insult to injury, 100 units of Mercoxit has a volume of 4000m3.

The rare stuff was much easier to get in the past because Rogue Drones used to drop compounds that could be refined in to the rarer materials. This was affectionately called 'drone poop' but was removed from the game because it was a better source of rare materials than actually mining them with a barge, the process being referred to as 'gun mining'. 

One alternative solution to mining I will have to look in to is WH mining. I am not even sure if I could get away with it, but rushing in to a WH, finding the needed asteroids, and mining the ore before the sleeper spawn (or bad guys find me).

Uncle Bork Day 1B

Ok, I need to figure out a good first Frigate. Right now it appears to be the Amarr Magnate. Why? It has drones, missiles, and turrets. All around optional ship. If you are reading this and wonder why? I need versatility, even if it means mediocrity. It also has the largest default cargo hold, and mining is going to be a thing when playing this way.

Sure, it ain't pretty, but it works.

So, how much for the BPO? 2,775,000 isk... ouch. So, this is NOT going to be my first build.

sigh

Tonight I mine Kernite. Tomorrow I figure out the Level 1 Security Mission ship... using the Imparitor... argh!!!

Bork Day 1 Highlights

• Flew in a pod to a second station and grabbed a second Imparitor so I can get another gun and another miner. 
• I need starter equipment and I don't think I can pull off an L1 Security mission with 2x Civilian Gatling Lasers and no repper, so I am going to look for a few belt rats (I don't even have enough isk to pay collateral on Distribution missions)
• OH! The Imparitor has a drone bay and some nice soul left a blue wreck in a belt with a Hobgoblin (that I can't use yet). But that will set the training queue for tonight, Drones 3 is just over 4 hours and then in need Light Drone Operations (which I need to buy)
• Ok, about an hour in and I have 59,000 isk. I need that drone book, and it is 50,000 isk 2 jumps away. Up, up, and away...
• OK, going to see what the distribution agent will offer. 
• Good news, no collateral. Bad news, the starter ship is so small I need to make three trips to complete the mission. I'll finish this one and look for another option. This does however point the way to my first manufacturing item, Expanded Cargohold I. (yeah, not a lot of fanfare at that one is there, but since mining might actually be a 'big ticket' early on, I might have to bite the bullet)
• Going to try a level 1 security mission.. in an Imparitor, with civilian weapons, and no repper. Warp out 1 (I am in to hull and there are no player stations in this system...grrr)
  I finished it, but no loot dropped (which sucks)
• Picked up a BPO for the expanded cargohold I, now to get the materials and a place to build it. 
• I need Isogen (10) and Nocxim (1) per unit. Where do I find that?
• Isogen = Kernite hunting!
  Nocxium = Pyro!.... I can do this! All hail Amarr space!
• While mining I found I need to defend myself... so I am basically back in a stock rookie ship (corvette) with one miner and one laser. Tomorrow I'll have a drone!
• I need to be able to do level 1 security missions, so on that note I need a repper, real lasers, basic crystals, and a 1mn afterburner.... oh crap... rigs.. no idea what rig need... hmmm.....
• having done some mining (and not much) I have enough for 7 expanded cargohold I units... OH    Yeah!
• I just fired off the build order.... 2 hours... I need to sleep. 

Welcome to the first night. Tomorrow I'll be working getting the parts needed for security missions. I also applied to a corp that is doing this, so I might be part of a group playing this way... if they'll have me)

I need to mine more while I figure out what ship I need next... something with drones.

First kill

Sunrise on a new adventure!

Uncle Bork is now in the pilot seat. A default Amarr pilot that skipped the tutoirals. I have 5000 isk in my pocket and an Imparitor. I am sitting in Amarr trade hub and haven't trained anything yet.

RULES

• All ships and equipment must come from loot, mission rewards, or be player made. 
• No new player Experience, no Career Agents, no SOE arc.
• The only thing that can be purchased are skill books, corporation creation fees, applicable taxes, clone charges, and BPOs. (BPCs only if not seeded on open high-sec market).
• Loot can be sold on the market, but you may not buy equipment off the market. 
• You can collect LP all you want, but you may not use the Loyality Point store (so it is worthless)
• Implants may only come from mission rewards or loot. 

Here we go!

Mining notes

OK, you're new and you want to mine. I have watched a couple other Youtube videos while mining and I noticed that the player ignored the 'better' mining lasers.

If you are a new Alpha and you want to mine, the assumption is to use the Miner I. With training, you could eventually get to the Miner II (I think, I need need to be an Omega for that though). But, but... there are better lasers you can user RIGHT AWAY!

Civilian Miner - You get 6m3 a minute (I mention this here because people keep using them, get rid of them!)

Miner I - you get 40m3 a minute (range 10km)

Gallente Mining Laser - 45m3 (range 10km)

Particle Bore Compact Mining Laser - 50m3 (that is 25% more per minute that the Miner I)(range 11km)

EP-S Gaussian Scoped Mining Laser - 50m3 (that is 25% more per minute that the Miner I)(range 16km)

ORE miner - 65m3 a minute (range 16km) - Expensive and power intensive

Gallente Lasers can be found on market because players doing missions against Gallente NPCs. The ORE lasers come from null sec and are VERY expensive (250 million+ isk each).

The EP-S is cheap on the market, almost as cheap as the Miner I (people don't know what they are worth and be they time they figure it out they are using Tech II)

So, get a good laser early and earn 25% more almost instantly.