I am just starting EVE as something to do when not raiding in WoW, and need to ramp up my funds. Right now I have 2 ships, a mining frigate and a combat ship. I have been running both mining and combat missions all day. So my question is, is it faster/easier to just run agent missions that do deadspace runs and kill the pirates inside, setup a mining operation with a cruiser while I train combat skills up, or is there some other means I can go about earning money at this rookie stage of the game.