EVE General Discussion

Did mining in highsec for a while, as it was the best way out of everything I tried to get money. And it was totally boring looking at the same low-grade ore for hours, days, and weeks on end. "Oh look, another veldspar!" The most exciting thing was maybe finding some pristine massive scordite that hadn't already been chewed on, which I could suck on for a good long while without having to reset a laser.

Always coveted these other ores I'd heard of but never even seen - stuff like dark ochre, or golden whatever. Well, upon getting into nullsec and finally getting a chance to mine some of this stuff, what I found out is, much to my dismay, a lot of the stuff is actually LESS lucrative to mine because of the volume the stuff takes up. Or, the lucrativity will be on par with boring highsec stuff, give or take.

There's a few of these exotic ores that are somewhat better than the highsec stuff. But when you factor in the other elements - having to constantly be on alert for belt rat spawns (hint: these things can't be killed by a few measly drones, i.e. they are battleships), having to constantly be on alert for some ganker, never being able to afk mine, etc. it totally isn't worth it.

Is there something I missed? Was my return-on-investment calculation off?

No. Apparently, people mine mercoxit well enough to devalue it.

Althought its also found in WH and else where, people in null sec seem to make more than enough of it to sell it to hi-sec to make it less profitable than mining hi-sec ores.

I suppose if you got everyone outside of hi-sec to stop mining it, then the price would go back up, but I doubt you would ever get that to happen.

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Hrm... If you don't actually like mining, why don't you spend $15 on a plex and just use that for a while.

I personally find mining relaxing, so I do it, but if I didn't I'd just spend the money to go PvP.

I mean, if you had money from mining, what would you be doing? If you can tell me that, I can tell you how.

Same old argument I've seen before. If people really want to fix the disparity in price for hisec/nullsec ores, we need lots more people mining in Hisec, and far less mining Null. Maybe even more Null miner ganking.

Couple years back I once saw a Goon state that he would gank any Goon he caught mining. I wonder if he ever did.

but, it's already like that.

actually, due to recent price shifts, null sec mining is once again more profitable than high sec mining. a few months ago the reverse was true.
however, i feel this is temporary due to odyssey speculation.

how can you tell? it's practically 0 for both sectors of space all year round.

it's devalued because it's produced by cycling grav anoms, so it's overproduced

essentially it's a junk product of a grav anom instead of something people deliberately mine

Sadly, we have often read that the word fun does not appear in CCP design documents. Instead they cover making things feel real. I wonder if as an unintended side effect a new game mechanic was created? It functions whereby the more boring a game job is the more it pays and thus the more exciting a game job proves the less it pays...