Training a Mining Alt: The Fastest Way into a Mining Barge by Asten

Training a Mining Alt.
If you have a free slot on your account consider training up an alt to at least fly a barge. You won't have to sit in a station and ship spin if you are outnumbered or out skilled during a wardec. War is a fact of life in Eve, get used to it and do something about it. Will you be taking training time away from your main? Yes, but in the length of a couple wardecs you could have been into a barge or Exhumer. It's totally up to you but I've always hated logging in and not being able to play an account that I paid my hard earned money for.

So, ship spinning or making ISK-it's your choice!

According to EveMon without the implants you can be into a mining barge in 8 days, 18hours, 28 minutes at a cost of 1,085,000 ISK. This could also benefit those of you who have been considering a second account.

wiki.eveuniversity.org/Creating_an_Alt_Miner

Take into consideration whether you want to start a new account or train an on-account-alt, depending if you may want to create an industrial alt in the future. You cannot train skills simultaneously on 2 toons on the same account without paying for Dual Character Training using a PLEX. If you choose to create an on-account alt and decide you want to go into industry, you have to retrain a new account or pay a character transfer fee.

Training a new toon to fly a hulk from scratch using this guide will take about 48 days or 42 days if you use implants. It can be done slightly faster if you're willing to spend 2 neural remaps.

The requirements are:
Brand new toon with no training
69 M isk
(approximately 40M isk for 4 +3 implants and approximately 29M isk for skillbooks)

This is reduced to about 1M isk if you only want to fly a mining barge.

Prepare your new toon for training by having these items available:
Implants: (+3s)
Ocular Filter-Basic
Cybernetic Subprocessor-Basic
Memory Augmentation-Basic
Neural Boost-Basic

Skillbooks:
Cybernetics
Industry
Astrogeology
Mining Frigate
Mining Barge
Exhumers

Remapping:
If you wish to save a couple days, remap your starting attributes to:
INT 23
PER 25
Everything else a minimum of 17
This eliminates 2-3 days off the training time and ensures the 48 day maximum training period. This is also a reasonable setup for learning many combat skills. It will leave you with another remapping to use.  If you're certain you will keep this alt for mining only, there's a different option that will shave off some further time (see below).

The Training Plan

• Cybernetics I: after training this plug in the +3 INT?MEM implants
• Industry I-V: This will take about 5 days.
• Science IV
• Mining III-IV
• Astrogeology I-IV: This is about 2.5 days of training

Note: No later than at this point, plug in your +3 PER/WIL implants

• Mining Frigate I-III
• Mining Barge I: This is about 8 hours of training

 Note: At this point you can fly any mining barge fitted with Strip Miners I and a survey scanner

• Mining Barge II-V
• Astrogeology V
• Spaceship Command IV
• Exhumers I-III: And you're ready to get into your Exhumer with strip Miner I