Welcome to Providence! Home to the penguins of LinkNet alliance and open to the rest of the LN community!

To stay alive when mining or ratting, there is one major thing to know: ALL NEUTRAL PLAYERS ARE OUT TO KILL YOU. You must dock up or tether to a station when a neut enters system. You have about 5 seconds from when they enter to the time they can find you and lock onto you. It usually takes about twice as long as that, but in worst case, they can be that fast.

How to know when neuts enter system?

• Open your local chat window. You must have that window open at all times.
• Resize the local chat window to do away with all but the member list.
• Put that member list close to the middle of your screen.
• Then, you can click your mouse in the member list and hit Ctrl+A so that it will highlist all the names. That way, when someone enters local, it will better call your attention to it.

If you're in SEADC, everyone will see you as a neut and will attack you. If you decide to stick around more permanently, joining the null corps will make 90% of other pilots see you as a blue (or purple if you are in same fleet).

The second major safety issue is when flying gate to gate. When you are aligning in a slow ship, a neut can enter and lock you up. Your PVE ship will be no match for a PVP ship, even if it is much smaller. Therefore, it is important to know if neuts are active in our space and if they are in systems near you. The only way to do that is to watch local intel at LinkNetNS.Intel (ingame channel). It is your early warning system radar. You can also help everyone else survive. If you notice a neut enter system, warp to safety then drag the system name into intel along with the neut name from local and let everyone know. Keeping an eye on your directional scanner will also help identify the ship they are flying. It makes everyone safer.

It is also important to be in our standing fleet whenever online, especially if you are not in a null corp yet. At least some of us will see you as purple and not neut. Look for the fleet named "Linknet Providence Fleet" in the fleet finder window. (Alt-M)

Also, stick to small cheap ships for the time being. Gnosis, Vexor, Osprey. Big stuff are too easy to kill.

Exploring is probably the best money maker to start with. It is much safer and you will learn how to navigate safely around our systems. You will get to familiarise the region and possibly make up to 200M an hour.

If anything is still too confusing, don't hesitate to ask questions in fleet.

Ratting tips

If you have limited ship skills but want to try ratting, the desolate asteroid provides variety of 3-8 targets every 30 minutes after you kill it. Land on 50km and see what is there.

For the easier sites, the general tips for the right ship to use are:

• NO BATTLESHIPS/DREADS... they get caught too easily
• T2 cruisers and battlecruisers are very workable
• Drone boats make things super safe and easy
• Drone config: 1 small, 2 med, 2 large for maximum drone survivability to dmg
• Your ship needs to have an afterburner - not MWD - and be able to go over 400 m/s minimum speed to dodge most incoming damage (if you arent charging at them like Leeroy Jenkins)

Order of NPC kills to minimize your incoming damage/drone damage:

1. Setry guns/turrets
2. Any rat with 'Loyal' in its name.. they hurt really bad and tank so hard
3. Frigates/destroyers
4. Cruisers/battlecruisers, with the exception of 'trigger rats'
5. Battleships
6. Trigger rats - those that would trigger and spawn the next wave of NPCs

For harder sites/escalations, it's best to get a run through with someone experienced to show you the order. T3 cruisers are often used - build up to this once you are confident about operating safely and get the fits just right.

If you get escalations, ask in EVE LinkNet NS and fleet chat if people want to buy or maybe run those as a fleet. With an experienced pilot leading the team, 4-6 pilots can quickly make lots of isk in a relatively safe way.

Mining tips

Jumping barges gate to gate is really dangerous. If you dont know what is in the next system and you are travelling, dont warp first. Ask by typing '[system name] status?' in the intel channel and wait for a response. If there is no response, dock and check in a clean clone capsule... but rarely it is a problem.

If you intend to multibox, please speak to Mysticmotorhead, Aerial Rhymes, or Kuecke Aulx-Gao about setups/fits that work and strategies to employ in keeping your ships and ore/ice safe. For solo miners - joining the standing fleet will usually find others.

If you are an industrialist and need to haul ore to process/build, ask in fleet if someone can arrange to be a scout for you. Communication keeps us alive. But if you have waaay too much ore (freighter loads) - talk to the jah zippy and we'll try to get something arranged for safe moving.

Any other concerns regarding alliance recruitment and diplomatic concerns, please contact:

• Sierra Sin - Alliance diplo
• LilMissCuddles - Logistics
• Lea Mei / Skipp Doe - Recruitment