Science & Industry

Statistically speaking, the overwhelmingly vast majority of people that genuinely enjoy mining are either those that play EVE mostly while doing something else (and they don't really enjoy the mining itself so much but rather the fact they can make some ISK while being semi-idle or chatting with other people while doing it) or those that are regularly part of a mining op where 99% of the fun is the chat channel. They could be doing anything else and they'd still find it fun, but they don't have the time for anything else.

The problem with newcomers is that they THINK mining MIGHT be a good idea just because they don't know better (ESPECIALLY people that want to do it solo or in a very small group). They THINK they like mining, but in reality, they're merely afraid of doing anything else. And yes, after getting their skill-less ass whooped in one of the few harder L1 missions or failing to follow the tutorial or career funnel instructions (if they even finished the tutorial or funnel missions), mining might LOOK like a vaguely reasonable idea, but it seldom is.

Almost every second freaking newbie (if not more than that) thinks at some point in the first few days that mining is sort of nice, especially if they don't bother running the career funnel missions.
Heck, back in the days I started, there was only a brief tutorial and then it was "do whatever", and I did (very briefly) consider mining myself.
Thankfully, I tried some other stuff soon enough, and then in comparison, mining seemed junk quite fast.

Mining is a McJob.
It's slow, it's boring, it's low-skills and low-pay.
If they TRULY want a McJob, then they can have it.
But if they THINK they want a McJob because they're afraid to try anything else (because they're afraid they'll fail at it) then it's your responsibility to point out the error of their way and slap them into EVE-reality.

Statistically speaking, the overwhelmingly vast majority of people that genuinely enjoy mining are either those that play EVE mostly while doing something else (and they don't really enjoy the mining itself so much but rather the fact they can make some ISK while being semi-idle or chatting with other people while doing it) or those that are regularly part of a mining op where 99% of the fun is the chat channel. They could be doing anything else and they'd still find it fun, but they don't have the time for anything else.

The problem with newcomers is that they THINK mining MIGHT be a good idea just because they don't know better (ESPECIALLY people that want to do it solo or in a very small group). They THINK they like mining, but in reality, they're merely afraid of doing anything else. And yes, after getting their skill-less ass whooped in one of the few harder L1 missions or failing to follow the tutorial or career funnel instructions (if they even finished the tutorial or funnel missions), mining might LOOK like a vaguely reasonable idea, but it seldom is.

Almost every second freaking newbie (if not more than that) thinks at some point in the first few days that mining is sort of nice, especially if they don't bother running the career funnel missions.
Heck, back in the days I started, there was only a brief tutorial and then it was "do whatever", and I did (very briefly) consider mining myself.
Thankfully, I tried some other stuff soon enough, and then in comparison, mining seemed junk quite fast.

Mining is a McJob.
It's slow, it's boring, it's low-skills and low-pay.
If they TRULY want a McJob, then they can have it.
But if they THINK they want a McJob because they're afraid to try anything else (because they're afraid they'll fail at it) then it's your responsibility to point out the error of their way and slap them into EVE-reality.

Yes, it's boring and not much fun, but WHERE on EARTH does this FREAKING HOSTILITY come from against people doing a perfectly harmless activity in the game? Does it really get under your craw THAT much ?? Weird. Seriously strangely weird.

Psychiotic even, the intesity of some. (12 Page OP the other day.....................sigh).

It's seriously worse than freshly ganked Carebear Tears.

Besides, if nobody mined YOU WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO FLY.


F***'in' idiots.

Not true, approximately 30% of minerals comes from refined loot and drone drops.

Quite the opposite in fact. Mining is a good profession for someone who wants to start up in eve and does not want to do combat. People who are invested in the game in the industry side of things would be doing production or trading. Mining is always the less profitable option.

There is no true hostility, it's all a facade for comedic effect. We just like blowing up defenseless people.

There are bots. You can wave your arms in the air yelling loudly all you want in an attempt to ignore them but the bots supply the majority of that 70% that is mined. Bots also supply a large part of that 30% that is combat gained too. Until those bots go away, it is not the most profitable choice to mine.

Leave mining to the bots and the simple-minded who enjoy their mcjob if you want to be successful.

its hilarious to see everyone get their collective panties in a bunch over mining.

yes, its slow paced, but that's part of the attraction. some of us have professional jobs IRL and don't want a career in-game. we want somewhere we can unwind and not think about all the responsibilities of RL or adding more for a damn video game. i giggle when i see chumps making this game into something its not. here's a tip, put down the mouse and Cheetos; go get a real career and life, then come back and see how motivated you are to be 1337 in your video game.

Since when is a Wal-Mart cashier a professional job?