EVE General Discussion

Multiboxers.

Have you mined in Amarr? The zones there are crawling with 6-8 account IsBox miners.

there is exactly 0 reason to make mining more "fun" or "interactive"

not every activity in eve should require furious clicking, maximum levels of concentration, and your undivided attention. especially for the **** poor payout it provides.

what's wrong with a chilled, laid back, low effort low reward activity?

Would be sort of neat if the challenges of actual mining operation challenges that take place on earth (draglines & shovels) somehow could be transplanted into eve mining. Mining is effortless, skill-less, and mindnumbing. Actual mining takes millions to properly build an actual revenue producing mines, drilling, probing/testing, setting up infrastructure to get the metals/ores out from the mining pits. In eve, all the hard work and what makes mining - 'mining' doesn't even exist. Click here and a click there.

It doesn't have to be abolished, they could just make it optional with some med slot item, which engages on targeted asteroids to give a small bonus for actually clicking and putting forth effort.

I'm in a low sec corp, When you own certain systems you can just mine there and most the time your corp is already killing people who shouldn't be there. Mining is a horrid way of making isk, time wise and finance wise, but it shouldn't just be horrible all around because people like being afk.

Already live in lowsec? Mining can be more interactive. Move to NPC null.

Hello, I am a multiboxer miner. My entire fleet of 15 people had cost me 5,755,000,000isk, that is 5.755 BILLION isk. So there is the investment part.
This investment makes it so I earn ~500mill every 3 hours, so that covers the revenue part of your post.
I have to scan down each systems belts to make sure it is worth the time to mine at all, as you must let each system rest for 3 days to make it worth the time to do a large op. That covers the probing and testing.
I have to carry ~200mill in my cargo bay of a POS station in case I mine low sec/wh. I also carry 10x giant freight containers(GFC) for those pesky large deposit sites. In order to carry the ore back to the POS/NPC Station, I use my freighter to haul it, and I leveled up all my skills so I can get as close as I can to 100% refine. That covers the infrastructure.

It takes about an hour to get set up in a new system. Got to make warp points for all the miners, got to get everything set up for hauling, anchoring the POS/Setting down the GFC's, having gone to each belt, scanned, copy+pasted the results in excel, get the amount of m3 per belt, plan route.

Then after all that is done, then yes, it becomes a lock onto roid, hit F1, lock onto roid, hit F2 for each miner, keeping an eye on local/D-scan. 1 Hour later, go scope up the ore. After 3 hours, have about 3.2mill m3 of ore to process.

For me, as a multiboxing mining foreman, mining is very interactive, very fun, and very nerve wracking when I see local suddenly balloon up, or seeing scanner probes far too close. I do mining by hand and with no external program help (ISBoxer...tried it, felt dirty)
This makes it so I am always at ready and cannot afford to alt-tab or watch a movie as I play.

No Loot spam like exploration pls. Active good, frantic bad.

Mining is supposed to be boring, what do you think is fun about oil rigging in real life, operating machinery may be fun, breathing in the harmful fumes might give you some type of light headed cancer high, I dunno.

Maybe you should mine while getting high.

Lol, no.

Keep mining as it is. I mine to relax. The income is terrible, like 5-7 mil an hour. That is peanuts. You kill 4 or 5 battleships on a mission for that much in 10 mins.