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- "Warp to belt in xx
seconds" - That's aproximately how long it takes for your ship to warp from station
to the asteroid belt. Usually 75 seconds works well for most ships but you may need to tune
this option to match your specific setup and take lag into account so add a little overhead
for safety. TinyMiner will always detect on its own when the warp is over so no time will be
wasted if you choose a slightly bigger value for the warp time but things will start to go
wrong if you choose a warp time which is too short. Better safe than sorry!
- "Target fresh asteroids
without unlocking first" and "Unlock the asteroids after each mining
cycle" - TinyMiner can either unlock the asteroids after every mining cycle or
target a fresh batch only after an asteroid had popped during the previous
cycle.
- "Docking options" -
TinyMiner can either unload the cargo to a Station or a POS Corporate Hangar Array or
Jettison the ore in belt or at a safe spot after each mining run. Since jettison cans cannot
be probed out, you will be safe from those pesky can flippers if you jettison your ore to a
safe spot just outside the grid. Also if you happen to be a POS owner you could unload your
cargo into the much more spacious "Large Ship Assembly Array" instead of the common
"Corporate Hangar Array" so you'll have over 10 times more storage space at your
disposal.
- "Use shield critical damage
check" - If you check this option TinyMiner will monitor if the shield receives
critical damage and will quit EVE immediately so that your ship can automatically warp off to
safety.
- "No station system (Gate
Mining)" - Added the "Gate Mining" option for those juicy systems full of asteroid
belts but no station. You can now mine them and unload the cargo in a nearby system and at
the same time stay safe from suicide gankers. Make sure to add the stargate bookmarks to your
mining folder as described in the tutorial! This option is only available for TinyMinerPlus
members!
- "Warp directly to the
asteroids from bookmarks at 200km away in each belt" - If you wish to use this
option then make sure all your bookmarks are made at a distance of 200km from each asteroid
belt. In order to make such a bookmark you would first pick a belt and warp to it at 100km,
then bookmark your current position and warp back to the station. Then warp at 100km to the
spot you've just bookmarked and you will be at 200km away from the belt. Now TinyMiner can
always warp directly to the first asteroid in the Overview thus eliminating any approach time
and maximizing your profit.
- "Every xx to yy minutes take a
break in station for x to y minutes" - You can specify how often and how long are
the random breaks during which TinyMiner waits inside the station.
- "Monitor local chat for
hostiles" and "Wormhole mining (monitor the onboard scanner)" - You
can select which types of hostiles you wish to monitor (can choose from Horrible, Bad,
Neutral, Good and High standings as well as war targets, corporation and alliance members).
You can also select what happens when a hostile is detected (quit EVE immediately, dock to
station or warp to pos and quit EVE or wait for system to clear). Wormhole monitoring works
in a similar way only you use the onboard scanner window instead of the chat window. The
program will take an initial snapshot of the scanner and then constantly monitor it for
changes so make sure you don't cover it with other windows by mistake during its operation.
If the snapshot changes it will also be saved as a bitmap file in the "My
Documents\TinyMiner" folder for you to view later on.
- "Monitor the local and private
chat log files for the keywords you specify" - This option performs real-time
detection to monitor the local chat logs and private messages log files for keywords you
specify and even type a random answer from your selections (samples are included) to prove
you are a real person mining peacefully and then Quit EVE to avoid human detection. Alarm
sounds will be played when keywords are found or when the program quits EVE. This feature
will ensure your safety when mining afk!
- "Drone options" and
"Select which modules you wish to activate" - If you wish to mine in systems
with security status of 0.8 or lower then the asteroid belts might have NPC pirates so if you
check these options your ship will launch drones when arriving at the belt and it will also
activate modules of your choice (shield boosters, armor repairers, active hardeners, etc) to
help protecting your ship while mining. Before warping back to station it will return the
drones to the drone bay. Make sure your ship's capacitor can support the active modules
running or you may not have enough capacitor power left to activate lasers.
- "Always activate" and
"Only when damaged" - TinyMiner can optionally detect shield damage and only
then activate your modules of choice instead of always activating them upon arrival at the
asteroid belt.
- "Fleet, Wing or Squad
Commander", "Squad Member" and "Not in a Fleet" -
This selects your position in a fleet so that TinyMiner can click the correct menu options
when docking or returning drones. Gang mining in a fleet can increase your mining yield
considerably.
- "Options especially useful
when mining ICE" - The ICE rocks are huge in size and they never get depleted so it
may be useful to set all lasers on a single piece of ICE and also disable orbiting it. When
mining ICE the cycles can be pretty long so during this long period of inactivity you can
choose to Minimize EVE and do other things on your computer. When the cycle ends TinyMiner
will restore the EVE window so that it can warp back to station, unload the ICE and start a
new cycle.
- "Mouse Speed" - This
lets you configure the speed of your mouse cursor from rather slow (for fast computers) to
blazing fast (for slow computers)!
- "Insta-Mouse" - Only
for the few users with slower computers or who experience the odd issue with a general slow
mouse speed. This won't affect the main majority of users and shouldn't be used if your mouse
speed is already very good.
- "Voice and PC Shutdown
options" - Tiny Miner can read log messages out loud if you so desire! You can also
choose if you want to shutdown the computer after the mining session is over or if an
emergency exit is encountered.
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