Testing, version the third.

It's alive, yes, but can it do backflips?

"Mining involves the harvesting of various minerals, gasses, or ices. You can mine minerals such as Veldspar, Omber, and a handful of others ranging from “common as dirt” to “dangerously rare.” All in all, I found mining to be about as fun as smashing my forehead in with a rock, but to each their own and I suppose it wouldn’t be a bad activity while AFK or on an alt account.

My favorite method of PvE has so far been mission running: NPC “agents” in various stations will give you missions to kill pirates, rescue stolen goods from pirates, rescue stolen damsels from pirates, perform several dozen more acts of violence against pirates, or bring cargo from one station to another (this last option is considerably more boring than the above options of killing pirates). NPC combat is fairly simple and I’ve adopted a method of shooting and flying away that works every time, but there’s some variety of tactics when it comes to different opponents. The wise mission runner refers to sites such as Eve Survivor (http://eve-survival.org/missions/) to guide them to the right damage types and tactics to succeed in a mission without getting blown up!

As a note to those who don’t want to kill pirates, you can also run missions for them and kill CONCORD instead.

If you don’t want to do missions, there are often pirates hanging out at local asteroid belts and sometimes even gates! While these ‘rats are fairly harmless in hi-sec and even low-sec space, the ‘rats you find in 0.0 pack a mean punch but a worthwhile bounty.

Once you’ve spent some time training skills, another PVE option opens up: exploration. Exploration involves scanning systems for unmarked anomalies or signatures of hidden systems or complexes. Exploring is more luck-based than your average pirate killing; one can go for days without finding a lucrative exploration site, then find paydirt in a complex worth upwards of 300 million ISK. One of the plus sides to exploration is that those scanning skills can be put to work in PVP, too, in scanning down enemy ships!"