Eve Mining Guide

Hey all,

If you read my previous post, you will know what this post is all about, and yes, I am providing the free skillplan for download in this post

First of all, this is part of an Eve Mining Guide, if you are looking for a general isk making guide then click here.

Now, to get started with this post, I’m going to give a quick run down of what the free skillplan includes and a short description of each section of skills within it.  You will notice that I have no included ship training in this free skill plan, and it is purely mining and refinery related skills.  So you might wish to pause the plan part way through so you can train for new ships etc.  Now, let’s get started.

• The plan is 307 days long, so just short of a year’s worth of training.  This sounds like a considerably long time, and it is, but you must remember that this includes training almost every mining and refinery skill to max level, and to have a perfect mining character with the most isk yield per ore.
• The first 9-10 days of the plan are all learning skills.  I very highly recommend you keep these skills within it as they are perhaps some of the most important skills within the plan.  Whilst they don’t effect mining directly, they vastly reduce the training time of other skills, so it is important these are trained before anything else.  By adding these learning skills to the plan, I managed to shave off around 100 days of training time which is a huge amount.
• After the learning skills are complete, the real beef of the plan comes into action.  We start by getting your basic mining skill to level 5.  Each level of this essential skill increase the yield of each of your mining lasers by 5%.  So by training it to level 5 we will be increasing the yield of each of your ship’s lasers by a total of 25% which is quite a lot.
• Next we proceed to learn the mining upgrades skill.  As if the 25% yield increase wasn’t enough, you can further increase your laser yield by attaching mining upgrades to your ship, these require this skill.  By training this skill to level 5, we will be reducing the CPU need of your mining upgrades by 25%, thus, allowing you to fit as many mining upgrade modules to your ship as possible.
• That is the main bulk of the mining skills done already, you might think “is that all?”.  The main isk revenue from your mining is effected by your refinery skills which we will talk about next.  But yes, this is about it for the specific mining skills, other things that can effect your yield are implants, and also leadership skills such as mining foreman, however I will talk about these another time, as they are nowhere near as important as these core skills.  The total time to get to this point is just over a month, so already you have a pretty beasty character yielding tons of ore from mineral mining.
• Ok, so now we are onto the refinery skills.  The plan begins here by training your refinery skill to level 5.  It is so important that we get this skill to level 5 to increase your profits and it is also the basis for a lot of other advanced refinery skills.  Getting this skill to level 5 will reduce your refinery wasteage by a total of 10%.  This is a considerable amount and without it, you would lose out on a LOT of ISK.
• Next the plan proceeds to training refinery efficiency to level 5.  This skill requires the basic refinery skill to level 5 and it is totally worth it.  By getting the refinery efficiency skill to level 5, we reduce the refining wasteage by a total of another 20%!  On top of the original 10%, that’s a total of 30% extra minerals you will be getting from your ore when you refine it.
• The final set of skills in the plan are all ore specific refinery skills.  Each of these take a considerable amount of time to train and I have done them in order of ore qualities, so starting with veldspar processing all the way down to arkonor and mercoxit in the final leg of the plan.  Each of these skills to level 5 reduces the wasteage of that specific ore during refining by a staggering 25%, on top of the original 30%.  As you can probably imagine, this increases your profit margin against time, by a huge amount.

That is a basic run down of what this skillplan provides, if you have any more questions on what the skillplan involves, please do not hesitate to leave a comment on this post and I will do my best to answer your questions.

Now, I have told you about the skillplan, but “just let me download it for heaven’s sake!!” I hear you shout.  Well OK, here it is.

Download the Plan:

First of all you will need to download the plan and save it to a memorable place on your computer.  You can download the plan by clicking here.

How to Use It:

Once you have downloaded the plan, open EveMon, and select your character, and follow the steps below to load up the plan:

1. Click Plans > Manage
   
2. In the window that pops up, click File > Load Plan From File
   
3. Find where you saved “Eve_Mining_Guide_skillplan.emp” and select it
   
4. Enter a name for the plan then click Ok
5. Double click the plan and the Skill Planner will pop up with all the details of the new skill plan.  Ensure that the correct plan is selected by clicking select plan in the top left of the window.

That’s it, you are done, minimize EveMon, and it will run in the bottom corner of your screen and notify you when you need to change skill.  To start the skills, go to the plan, and click the plan queue tab, look for the first skill in the list, log onto Eve and start training that skill, from this point onwards, EveMon will notify you whenever you need to swap skills.

I hope this post is of use to you, again, any questions, leave a comment and I’ll get back to you.  If you enjoyed this Eve Mining Guide and free skillplan, please subscribe to our RSS for future updates.

Also be sure to check out this link for a guide to making isk in Eve Online