EVE General Discussion

Ive been mining at a large scale, but one thing drags it Down to shite... it takes forever. I dont have 2-4 hrs to mine everyday. Itsa f... drag. Usually i mine out 1 belt With 6 toons within 2-2,5 hrs. (1 orca, 1 freighter, 4 hulks).

From what ive seen, fewer and fewer mines now, it takes just too long. And New miners tend to be ganked as fast, cuz retrivers and covetors are shite easy targets.... so New miners are highrisk for just quit mining due to ganking and a everlast borring repetative mining. Also many miningcorps have trouble With getting miners to meet up when corp mining is issued.

At some point EVE needs to change the mining, either get T3 miners and with T3 orcas to speed Things up, or just reduce minetime or/and increase ore amount.

Something needs to be done to make mining more interesting and fun, cuz it SUCKS :D

watching paint dry

Mining is about as fun as watching paint dry while listening to grass growing on the radio.

"I didn't read the OP"

At least sum it up correctly.

"Make mining fun".

Feel free to make it take 100 times as long, but make it interesting!

Also why not on ship per ore type? Modular ships are t3 and not crusty crystal types you switch.

i agree it relaxing... if u got the time and dont work, or is home sick... or sitting at work doing shite...

Mining is only fun the 100 first times u do it, then suddenly it hits u in the face With a shovel and u realize wtf ure wasting ur time on.

one thing EVE could do, was to make mining like PL and moonmining, but With smaller yield. And give mining barges an advatange so the mining barges dont dissapers completely

Mining is great for clearing that movies/tv-series to watch list. List does not combo well with pvp.

Mining does need to be change, but crashing the eve economy (read as :increasing ore amounts and dropping ship prices") is not the way to do it. It needs to be changed to require active user input to decrease the effectiveness of multiboxing/botting/afk mining. No profession should reward not being at your computer more than it does paying attention. Also, no mining ships are "easy" targets if the player is at their keyboard watching local and using d-scan. If you believe that, try ganking targets that are paying attention some time.


Not sure if you're being scarcastic or not. If you are, ignore me. Any increased yield in mining leads to only a initial increase in profits. Ore and ship prices will drop as a result leading to the miners' incomes stabilizing. The reason mining makes so little for the time invested is that so little effort has to be invested. Until this is fixed it will continue to be a trap for players to flock to as a money making profession before realizing that eve has turned into staring at a immobile laser for hours on end.

How to fix mining:

Give it a minigame everytime the miner cycles akin to exploration. The asteroid now spews "ores" for you to click in space to pick up. It's a fool proof plan that worked with exploration!

Hey the OP complained about mining being boring so let's make it interactive.