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While mining, a miner made me hate myself for mining.
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Lfod Shi
Lfod's Ratting and Salvage
#41 - 2012-10-24 14:54:52 UTC
Metal Icarus wrote:
Yeah because **** going to another system, to much effort.


psst. First sentence.

♪ They'll always be bloodclaws to me ♫
Rordan D'Kherr
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#42 - 2012-10-24 15:01:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Rordan D'Kherr
Lfod Shi wrote:
Spent the past several months finding one quiet hi-sec system with one quiet belt to do small scale mining for materials (not for cash) in my retriever. Everything was going well till one day all the Scordite went missing from all dozen belts in the entire system.

I was trying to figure out what the hell, when a dual boxer with a Hulk and Orca popped into the one quiet belt I habit and proceeded to suck every drop of Scordite dry. When I protested he had the balls to claim the belt was big enough for both of us.

Yeah, as long as I don't need Pyrite in any significant quantity.

Anyhoo, this guy's characters have been in game for 9 years and neither have ever left their birth school. Purchased characters perhaps? I dunno. Everything just seems... odd. Or lame... or both.

The good news is I was drunk (really drunk) on Apple Pie Moonshine and decided it was time to lower my security status. Grabbed a 50+mil cruiser and opened fire. Of course the cops killed me. They really like to put you in a straight jacket before the pummeling don't they? After 15 minutes i went back out in another ship and just played bumpity bump till he left.

I was so disgusted with him and myself that the next day I melted my retriever and decided hi-sec belt mining wasn't for me. Back to ratting, etc. Mining is dull as dirt anyway.

end transmission...


I am sorry dude, but after every paragraph your wrote, I had to giggle. Which transformed into loud laughs. Really funny story haha (not for you though). Maybe you join a hisec ganker corp and pop this guy? Or just wait for the new bounty system to get your revenge Pirate

Lfod Shi wrote:
Kitty Bear wrote:
Lfod Shi wrote:

Roids ain't worth the fight. The new bounty system, however, may see some action when it takes effect. I'll never forget his name.



"Hello. My name is Lfod Shi. You mined my Scordite. Prepare to die."



Hahahahahahaha! I'm so lame. Big smile


Not really. Maybe you would be a good pvp pilot? Think about it.

Don't be scared, because being afk is not a crime.
Samwise Everquest
Plus 10 NV
#43 - 2012-10-24 15:06:45 UTC
To OP,

Great story, probably one of the better ones to have graced these forums in a while. I will gladly lower my security sec should you decide to murder this peon. I offer my hybrid turret to the cause.

Pras Phil.
Kult Altol
The Safe Space
#44 - 2012-10-24 15:19:56 UTC
Well thank goodness the new bounty system is on the way, you can put all that bounty on him and make his life bad. yay.

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Twoso
Doomheim
#45 - 2012-10-24 15:26:34 UTC
Lfod Shi wrote:
Spent the past several months finding one quiet hi-sec system with one quiet belt to do small scale mining for materials (not for cash) in my retriever. Everything was going well till one day all the Scordite went missing from all dozen belts in the entire system.

I was trying to figure out what the hell, when a dual boxer with a Hulk and Orca popped into the one quiet belt I habit and proceeded to suck every drop of Scordite dry. When I protested he had the balls to claim the belt was big enough for both of us.

Yeah, as long as I don't need Pyrite in any significant quantity.

Anyhoo, this guy's characters have been in game for 9 years and neither have ever left their birth school. Purchased characters perhaps? I dunno. Everything just seems... odd. Or lame... or both.

The good news is I was drunk (really drunk) on Apple Pie Moonshine and decided it was time to lower my security status. Grabbed a 50+mil cruiser and opened fire. Of course the cops killed me. They really like to put you in a straight jacket before the pummeling don't they? After 15 minutes i went back out in another ship and just played bumpity bump till he left.

I was so disgusted with him and myself that the next day I melted my retriever and decided hi-sec belt mining wasn't for me. Back to ratting, etc. Mining is dull as dirt anyway.

end transmission...

Awww. You missed out on the most fun part of mining in high sec. When one of these jerks who cherry picks and mines in your belt when there are plenty of others shows up, you don't kill them. You mine their rocks. Just watch which asteriods he chooses, lock them, and every quarter cycle or so, stop your strip miner and restart it. You'll get a small pile of ore, the roid will have less. If you do this diligently, you can pop roids out from under him, wasting his mining cycles. It's great fun. The best part is you can do it in a nice 5 day old retriever alt. Bring 3 or 4 and really **** him off.
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#46 - 2012-10-24 15:46:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
Kitty Bear wrote:

"Hello. My name is Lfod Shi. You mined my Scordite. Prepare to die."

I lolled irl


Twoso wrote:

Awww. You missed out on the most fun part of mining in high sec. When one of these jerks who cherry picks and mines in your belt when there are plenty of others shows up, you don't kill them. You mine their rocks. Just watch which asteriods he chooses, lock them, and every quarter cycle or so, stop your strip miner and restart it. You'll get a small pile of ore, the roid will have less. If you do this diligently, you can pop roids out from under him, wasting his mining cycles. It's great fun. The best part is you can do it in a nice 5 day old retriever alt. Bring 3 or 4 and really **** him off.


^^ This is always amusing, I've seen people who multibox bring a bumping ship as well to knock them out of range.

Another fun one is to figure out what time of day the jerkoff "this belt is big enough but all the x is mine" miner logs on, get there before him & take the last possible full cycle out of all the +5 & +10% variants but don't pop them, leave the nearly depleted roids there so when Mr Multiboxing AFK Orca +macks/hulks comes along every +5/+10% roid pops somewhere in the 1st cycle, he's then left with the shite and you have a decent return on your time (as mining goes). A survey scanner and knowing what you can pull in a full cycle is very handy sometimes Twisted

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#47 - 2012-10-24 16:05:00 UTC
Lfod Shi wrote:
Spent the past several months finding one quiet hi-sec system with one quiet belt to do small scale mining for materials (not for cash) in my retriever. Everything was going well till one day all the Scordite went missing from all dozen belts in the entire system.

I was trying to figure out what the hell, when a dual boxer with a Hulk and Orca popped into the one quiet belt I habit and proceeded to suck every drop of Scordite dry. When I protested he had the balls to claim the belt was big enough for both of us.

Yeah, as long as I don't need Pyrite in any significant quantity.

Anyhoo, this guy's characters have been in game for 9 years and neither have ever left their birth school. Purchased characters perhaps? I dunno. Everything just seems... odd. Or lame... or both.

The good news is I was drunk (really drunk) on Apple Pie Moonshine and decided it was time to lower my security status. Grabbed a 50+mil cruiser and opened fire. Of course the cops killed me. They really like to put you in a straight jacket before the pummeling don't they? After 15 minutes i went back out in another ship and just played bumpity bump till he left.

I was so disgusted with him and myself that the next day I melted my retriever and decided hi-sec belt mining wasn't for me. Back to ratting, etc. Mining is dull as dirt anyway.

end transmission...



This wasn't Chribba, was it?


Bring back DEEEEP Space!
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#48 - 2012-10-24 16:06:51 UTC
Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:


This wasn't Chribba, was it?



Heresy, Chribba wouldn't stoop to mining in a hulk, or mining Scordite.


Veld for the Veld God.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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Lfod Shi
Lfod's Ratting and Salvage
#49 - 2012-10-24 16:13:09 UTC
No, not Chribba.

And those sneaky mining ideas never even occurred to me! Drat. Live and learn... damn straight!

♪ They'll always be bloodclaws to me ♫
Twoso
Doomheim
#50 - 2012-10-24 16:17:58 UTC
Lfod Shi wrote:
No, not Chribba.

And those sneaky mining ideas never even occurred to me! Drat. Live and learn... damn straight!

It's never too late... you know his name and where he mines.

Hell, tell us who it is so that we can go mess with him!
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#51 - 2012-10-24 16:24:58 UTC
Lfod Shi wrote:
No, not Chribba.

And those sneaky mining ideas never even occurred to me! Drat. Live and learn... damn straight!


Do it, you know you want to.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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Lfod Shi
Lfod's Ratting and Salvage
#52 - 2012-10-29 13:29:21 UTC
I've decided you are all correct.

Operation Harass, Annoy, and Lull (HAaL) is nearly complete. Intel has been gathered, patterns have been established, and the SJS Lambchop has been fitted, tested, and is ready for deployment. BBQ PvP. Slow and steady till the meat just falls off the bone.

Thank you for the scolding and advice.

...end transmission...

♪ They'll always be bloodclaws to me ♫
Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#53 - 2012-10-29 13:33:26 UTC
Lfod Shi wrote:
I've decided you are all correct.

Operation Harass, Annoy, and Lull (HAaL) is nearly complete. Intel has been gathered, patterns have been established, and the SJS Lambchop has been fitted, tested, and is ready for deployment. BBQ PvP. Slow and steady till the meat just falls off the bone.

Thank you for the scolding and advice.

...end transmission...


Lfod Shi- Doing it Right since 10/29/12

Good luck and Godspeed, brave internet spaceship warrior!


I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.
Nexus Day
Lustrevik Trade and Travel Bureau
#54 - 2012-10-29 13:40:33 UTC
Why do we fall down?

So we can get back up.
Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#55 - 2012-10-29 13:41:58 UTC
Nexus Day wrote:
Why do we fall down?

So we can get back up.


This.

This and gravity.

I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.
Dave stark
#56 - 2012-10-29 13:46:21 UTC
wait, so there's a 3 page thread because some one decided to maximise their isk/hour in a high sec belt by cherry picking the most lucrative ore?

or is there something more important that i'm overlooking?
Iosue
League of Gentlemen
The Initiative.
#57 - 2012-10-29 13:52:43 UTC
haha, nice thread OP. You've stumbled upon my favorite past-time in this game. No it's not mining, ratting or pvp; rather hatching plans and seeing them thru to fruition. gl on your retribution, regardless of what the haters say, your doing it right ;).
Nanatoa
#58 - 2012-10-29 14:06:30 UTC
OP has learned a valuable lesson: bumping beats mining every time!

"Stay the course, we have done this many times before." - (CCP) Hilmar, June 2011
Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#59 - 2012-10-29 14:12:44 UTC
Dave stark wrote:
wait, so there's a 3 page thread because some one decided to maximise their isk/hour in a high sec belt by cherry picking the most lucrative ore?

or is there something more important that i'm overlooking?


Oh yes, there is.
We made a miner take up arms to defend his rights.
That sheep is about to bite back.
And that's why this thread is so magic.





I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.
Sidrat Flush
School of Applied Knowledge
#60 - 2012-10-29 14:15:46 UTC
The short cycle mining never ceases to be great fun. It's really surprising that very few people realise what's going on right under their own nose.

It'd better than bumping too as you get minerals and tears when and if they notice what's going on.

I saw someone bumping ice miners for over an hour a few days ago and because no one paid him and isk he left empty handed short of a few rants in local. Not much profit for such a long time investment, still if you're having fun you must be playing the game.e right. Right?

Its time to stand up against the bad empire based CEO telling falsehoods about what new characters can accomplish and pushing them towards an in game experience of drudgery and loneliness keeping them in the shadow of ignorance for at nest their own profit at worse apathy towards all the experiences that Eve has to offer.