EVE General Discussion

Mining is mind numbingly and blood shooting from the eyes boring. People do other things while mining, watch a movie, chat with friends on eve, run another account, etc.

... ice anoms should be nerfed, too.

No reason why isotopes, ozone, heavy water, etc., can't be relocated to ice, storm, plasma, gas and ocean planets.... and then bring in "ring mining" as originally hoped to give barges something else to do other than asteroids.

Or maybe I'll win the lottery.

Given PI is a terrible interface and in dire need of updating (A nice high/med/low slot system per 'district' to feel like it matches what goes on with a Dust map/district and their socket system for designing the maps would be great) lets not apply it onto other systems as well.

You're the sadistic type aren't you ?

Why do you hate Miners so much!

Maybe its me but I enjoy mining with friends, have a good chat on voice and see what your teamwork effort is gaining when your filling up freighters. Mining solo i'll agree is boring and multi-boxers can be put in the same boring bracket, mining with 12 accounts is still mining solo from a player point of view.

but making mining something like PI that you check on twice a day would just crash the market, so much passive income flooding the market would either crash it or to make the risk v reward balanced the yeilds would need to be alot lower and would drive the prices of minerals to crazy heights and therefore everything else along with it.

Can you imagine the price of trit if a 30 min extraction cycle on a resource extractor only pullied out 3000 scordite!

My fuel block production just from a minimal amount of Ice Mining highly disagrees.

You're implying that everyone is mining and doing so passively. I might be misinformed on this topic but it wasn't my impression.

Because in the hypthetical scenario where mining was like PI, and thus anyone with the skill could do it passively, that everyone would be doing it. Most people don't do mining now as it's active, and by active we still mean "about as fun as watching paint dry. But it's paint drying that you can do nothing but watch."

Ive replied to similar posts before. I think some things are overlooked when people look specifically at mining.

1. Good game design allows not only for different things to do but different play styles including degree of interaction required. PI for instance, set it up come back in a couple days and profit, mining slow and steady game play, pvp bursts of high activity followed by inactivity or low activity (loot grab, ship repair, travel to next pvp conflict). We need all these different 'tempos' as I like to call them so that all types of players can find a niche for themselves in our big crazy space game.

2. I think we all understand that different 'risk' levels are important in EVE and mining, especially in high sec is one of the lowest risk activities you can do.

3. Easy of start up is another plus for mining, perhaps as you start to become the Ol' Veteran you forget how confusing many of EVEs game playing options where when you first started and how mining presented itself as an easy to understand beginner profession.

4. If you find mining boring the solution is obvious find a new profession EVE has a lot of them.