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While mining, a miner made me hate myself for mining.
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Krell Kroenen
The Devil's Shadow
#61 - 2012-10-29 14:17:18 UTC
Inquisitor Kitchner wrote:
Lfod Shi wrote:
TL;DR OP realised mining and miners suck



Join a Null Sec alliance. My corp is always looking for new recruits, ones who don't mind getting blown up are a plus (as that happens a lot to us).

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It's a trap, they are just gathering people that can mine so they can shackle you to a barge for when Ring mining comes out. *smirks*
pussnheels
Viziam
#62 - 2012-10-29 14:29:10 UTC
there is nothing wrong with mining ; but 70% of the fun in mining is the chat you have with your corpmates on TS
maybe solo mining isn't your evecalling , and don't feel bad about it atleast you tried , the other guy probably never did anything like that in hiw eve carreer

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Talus Veran
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#63 - 2012-10-29 14:45:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Talus Veran
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
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


Both of these are great was to deal with suspected botters / people who mess with you.

Benny Ohu wrote:
Also why dualbox a hulk and an orca instead of two mackinaws :/


I've done both.
With 2 Hulks / Mackinaws your yeild is better, however one Hulk has to dock up every 2 cycles or so.
It akes more attention to the client(s).
With a Hulk and Orca, you can just mine away and Dump ore into the ORCA and forget about the client for a few cycles.

This is why the above mentioned tactics will work so well on the Miner. they are probably not paying much attention.
The second option (not popping the asteroids) will be best, as they will loose the most time from it.

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#64 - 2012-10-29 15:21:04 UTC
@ Talus Veran

That's what I love about this game it encourages you to be creatively evil when dealing with asshats

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Minmatar Republic
#65 - 2012-10-29 17:21:29 UTC
Congratulations on living on the good side !

Keep it up ! :D
Lfod Shi
Lfod's Ratting and Salvage
#66 - 2012-12-07 14:55:42 UTC
1 billion in bounties are now shared by his 3 heads.

Jenos - Orca
Sonej - Hulk
Danalis - Hulk

Nifshed > Sosarir > Domain. Last seen sporting civilian shield boosters. Likes to pull in tight to the belt when bumped.

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