Eve Online- How to steal ore and get rich……

  1. Firstly. You must understand that although that stealing ore from other players is legal and us part of the game in Eve. Other players won’t like you,
  2. Best thing to do is fit out a Frigate and fit it with an Expanded Cargo module in the low slot and in the mid slot either an After burner of Micro Drive.
  3. Ideally… locate yourself in one of the starting player systems – this just makes it easier on you as the other players will be newer to the game and not twig whats going on. Warp to an Ore belt… any will do and have a look around.
  4. Your looking for another player who is mining into a jet can. It should be labeled on your overview as a cargo container. You can aproach it and open it by double clicking on it in the overview or picking the open option from the overview options….
  5. Open up your own cargo window and get ready to transfer the ore from the other players to yours.

Important! Once you take the ore you will be flagged to the other player. This allows them to fire on you for 15min. You can then fire back if you want to… but this isn’t the point at this stage.

Its a good idea to just have a look through the employment history of the cargo container owner to make sure they are not a 2year old player… or you may find yourself in a world of hurt. Do not fire on the other player untill they fire on you – or you WILL be killed in high sec by Concord (eve police).

Alternatively, and with some practice you can pull the ore over in warp… or just before you go into warp. To do this… you need to have both cargo windows next to each other. Pick a station or sun to warp to and initiate the warp… you will have to be quick, but with practice you can move the ore over just as you enter warp and simply vanish.  The other player will be left scratching their heads if done correctly. Just remember that for 15min you will be flagged to that player and they are free to fire upon you if they want to without any Concord recourse…. so probably better to just systems to stay out of the way.

What can go wrong?

  • You can steal ore from a player with a fit-out that has wps and get killed. This can happen if you pick the wrong can to steal and the owner takes offence and have the ability to do something about it. Most won’t, but be warned. Some do.
  • You return to the same belt too soon and are still flagged… or you get followed. End result can still be the same.
  • You are not within range to pull ore over. Must be max 2,500m
  • You steal an amount of ore that wont fit into your cargo bay, thus get a pop up and simply take too long about things to notice your warp scrambled and dead in the water… again – you can get killed.

Does this work?

Yes. But after you learn how to do this.. you will need and or want to take things up a notch and simply won’t be happy stealing a few hundred m^3 of ore at a time. Then you need to move into industrial ships and wait for nearly full cans… again more gain = more risk.

You will gain a bad in-game reputation if you constantly do this at the same belt and systems.

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