EVE General Discussion

I'm here 11 hours a day, I read the forums, look at evelopedia and eve-central, I even watch my skill queue timer once in a while. But what I would really like to do is download the client and log in during the one hour I'm alone before clocking out for the day and maybe some time on Saturday too. I figure I can at least spend a bit of time mining.

So can anyone tell me about their experience doing this? Is it likely to be noticed traffic wise, blocked by firewalls etc? I have played some browser based games here before and I saw someone else logged into Lineage I think.

Own your company

Have you considered simply asking if you can do so ?

If you think they're going to say No way - then it's just not worth trying to game the system.

IMHO of course.

If it were for "just one hour" then asking is obvious otherwise you are STEALING FROM YOUR EMPLOYER.

If it were for "more than one hour" then asking is NOT obvious - you're being paid to work and if you are not - YOU ARE STEALING FROM YOUR EMPLOYER.

Your call.


EDIT: Word from the wise >> "I read the forums, look at evelopedia and eve-central, I even watch my skill queue timer once in a while."

Without permission to do so this can give grounds for dismissal on it's own, let alone trying to use a client. In addition, even using a laptop with your own connection during work hours is grounds for dismissal.

You need clear, preferably written, unequivocable permission to do so. Some employers may be laissez faire and not care. Most are not.

Ethics of the situation aside, it depends entirely on how secure your network is, which ports they block externally, and how over-zealous the network engineers/administrators are about monitoring bandwidth use. The traffic will probably be a lot less noticeable in a large company than a small one.

Tablet and remote desktop...

I'm on salary and commission, I sit here for that last hour whether there are customers or not and probably 90% of that time there are none. The manager responsible for extending the hours was canned last week and my direct manager knows we surf the net when it's slow. I already spend that dead hour reading or otherwise "STEALING FROM MY EMPLOYER".

eta: I do see the point though, just seems to be made in a overly high handed manner.

If you mine in a Mackinaw, you will fill your hold in about 30 minutes roughly. You will have to retarget asteroids every few minutes, depending on how big they are. Roids that are 25k in size will get shredded in about 3 minutes.

The good news there is that, with headphones, you can easily hear when you need to change to a new roid, and you can go dock, unload, and be back into the same field in maybe 90 seconds.

Some will just get a Sigil or something and set it to mine all day, though you are really making peanuts.

No worries, I don't let teh internetz get to me. I appreciate the candid response really.

Helps if you work in IT and are buddies with the network admins, When I work overtime running our night video conferences I play Eve. other than that I stay on the forums just cus I dont want my boss to pop in and have to close/minimize client as we've got a cap in structure...