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What Is The Point In Mining?....
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Darth Gustav
Sith Interstellar Tech Harvesting
#61 - 2012-01-13 17:14:03 UTC
Rhonda Monty wrote:
At this point in the history of this game I honestly do not understand why anyone would want to mine or train all the skills to become good at mining. Where ever you go in EvE these days, it seems it’s just a matter of time before being harassed in some way weather its suicide ganking or people stealing from your jet can it just seems like you really end up losing more isk then you can make…..sooooo what is the point? Loose a few Mac’s get kill rights on some guys that suicide ganked you….now what? Try and kill them with an industrial character that isn’t trained for PvP? Oh oh no that’s right put a BOUNTY on them! Yea that’s it, so then the guy that ganked you and his buddy can fly to 0.0 and blow up a cheap ship to split the isk you just put on his head. The whole mining aspect of this game just seems broken and pointless to me and with the amount of obvious MACROING going on out there it’s no surprise to me that EvE is losing subscribers and CCP is laying off employees…..WAIT WAIT! Mining can be fun! Just train up some more alts to be logi pilots so they can constantly remote rep your ship and maybe you will be able to hold out against those suicide gankers! lol


o.k so now that I have made my smart ass comments, please please give me yours Lol


There is NO point. Eve's a game. Mining is an activity in Eve that has about as much value in-game as, say, doodling does in real life.

Like doodling, another worthless activity which you are unlikely to be paid well for, you should only mine if you enjoy it.

It sounds to me like you don't.

He who trolls trolls best when he who is trolled trolls the troller. -Darth Gustav's Axiom
Ioci
Bad Girl Posse
#62 - 2012-01-13 17:37:38 UTC
High Sec mining was meant to be the gateway profession for Industrial enthusiasts coming to EVE.

The PvP bears decided they could do that with thier alts and told the Industrial enthusiasts to GTFO, EVE doesn't need them

/end story

R.I.P. Vile Rat
Akinesis
Black Rose Inc.
Black Rose.
#63 - 2012-01-13 18:59:01 UTC
Steve Ronuken wrote:
I'd be interested in seeing stats about reprocessing.

How much of the output comes from Ore, modules, drone poo, and so on.


Agreed
Dragon Outlaw
Rogue Fleet
#64 - 2012-01-13 21:07:23 UTC
I will mine on occasions when I feel I want to relaxe, enjoy nice soothing music and admire the graphics the game offers. My 9 year old daughter sometimes joins me in a hulk on a 2nd computer. Recently, she watched this video. Now she says she wants to be a Goon and that mining sucks.

I pictured her becoming the next Mintchip... I guess becoming the next Mittani will instead be her longterm goal.

Kids!!...they never become what you expect.
Mintchip
Catocalypse Meow
ZOMBIE KITTY FORCE
#65 - 2012-01-13 21:26:20 UTC
Despite what people say, I think your daughter could become worse things :D

Although blowing up noobs is probably very near the top so my statement is sort of redundant.

xoxo mint

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Rhonda Monty
Temporal Progeny
#66 - 2012-01-13 22:02:04 UTC
Ursula LeGuinn wrote:
Even halfway-decent L3 missions earn significantly more ISK than mining (in highsec, at any rate), and are arguably more stimulating.

I have a mining character myself, but at the moment I only log it in to mine with a group of pilots who just want to relax and socialize, and/or who have nothing better to do for a while. It's a way to do something productive without paying much attention.

I don't even think it's a good profession for brand-new players — just the opposite, because training for a Mackinaw or Hulk (or any mining barge, really) and a decent ISK/hour ratio is a serious waste of time. Much better to train for running missions, since the skills needed overlap somewhat with skills needed for Incursions, PvP and so on. Make a handful of billions and then buy a mining character from the Character Bazaar, if you really want to go that route.

Is this a problem? Not really. Just do something other than mining.



I think your totally right on that point "just to relax and socialize" because no matter how hard i try there is no way i can make anywhere near the is mining that i do running missions / incursions....ooooh well, guess i will just forget about all thoes SP invested into mining and start running missions again lol Roll