EVE General Discussion

Yeah its good how the OP hasn't made another comment.

After I read a thread on here about how highsec miners should be ganked cause they're bots or wannabe bots. I went out and mined for a few hours, just for the fun of it. Made about 90m in the time I spent mining. It surprised me a bit cause I wasn't expecting to get that much. Haven't mined for awhile, I've lost touch with how much you can make. My point, though, is that the OP said what's the point of starting an indy corp in EVE. Well mining is only a small part of the industry in EVE. Other parts of industry can make plenty of isk as well. Unless people lose lots of isk when they make and sell capital ships. I don't know what the problem is.

Rookie ships do have mining lasers on them. Mining is how I made my first million (not with a rookie ship tho). It's okay when starting, to mine a little, if you aren't in a corp and just getting used to things. It can get you enough to buy ships and skills in the beginning.

Here is some sage advice I learned from an ancient hermit that lives on top of a mountain and it will blow your f*cking mind away!

Don't mine in a hulk!

BAM! Done deal bro, solves you complaint and you know that it sucks. Mining has one aspect, put your ass out on a grid like a goat tied to a peg and wait to be shot up by some tool looking for a virtual fellatio to bloat his mental ego/**** cause it takes zero effort to kill a hulk (really, YOU CAN'T ******* LOSE! Its like hulk buster = mission runner, but the hulk buster is a loud assed bragger and missions runners are the quite ones).

You choose to continue to mine (and god I would love to see everyone quit right at hulkageddon, would ruin the entire ******* thing but it would never happen), you can't ***** about it. You have the option to shut up and continue your crappy "career" or nut up and go do incursions, trade, industry, missions ect ANYTHING but mining which makes way more..

Suck it up already. Seriously. Even if you had any valid points for your whine, which you don't, it's a pointless argument. Nothing positive will come of it and you won't change anyone's mind about mining or miners. Are you new here or something? Have you not seen all of the other threads in existence? Here are some helpful tips:

A) Train the skills to do something else - Lots of ways to make better ISK

B) Continue mining and STFU - Do something more with your minerals/ore than just right-click > sell. There are guides out there too, although clearly someone has published one somewhere that promotes delusions of grandeur that the mining profession is a free ticket to instant trillions.

Please do not advocate breaking the EULA. Spitfire

D) Leave - That's right, quit. The people that put up those buy orders for you minerals/ore don't care where they came from. Someone else, or their bot, will supply them. You obviously subscribe to the EVE Online Forum Creed, "The sky is falling!" ("Everyone should play my way!!!" is my personal favorite though.) There are two types of EVE, the one you see when you log in and then the forum version of EVE. In my opinion, it's clear which version you're playing.

If CCP says gun mining is fine, so be it, let them have their minerals. If CCP announces monday that they are removing industry as a whole, (or just mining) I'd be fine with that too. Obsessing over what other people do in the game would be a terrible way for me to spend my time.

You're flying a single rookie ship, right?

Who told you hundreds of millions/hour?
That is a gross understatement.

Last time I ran Incusrions was for about 5 hours, and I made enough to buy out MM's entire supercap fleet, with all officer fittings.
I am making at least 800 billion/hour in Incursions.

I have heard about people in the really good fleets running Incursions for a day and then RMT'ing the proceeds to buy a house.

How about when someone makes an inane comment with wild inaccuracies, it is OK to fling them back with even wilder inaccuracies to make them look ludicrous?

when you get enough SP in mining they start giving you quaaludes and cookies. it makes it more bearable.

Very simply, because people insist on doing it even for minimal profits. As long as there is a significant number of people who will mine at 20M/hour, the market price of minerals will be dictated by these people. If, instead of bashing their heads against the wall and crying on the forums, the dissatisfied miners said "screw this, I'm going to run missions instead", the market forces would quickly bring the prices of minerals back up.

The player-driven economy to some degree depends on people acting logically and doing what makes them earn money most efficiently. If this was the case with everybody, all activities would be (roughly) equally profitable.

lolminers

In my eyes, you are a goddess. (No, I don't like women, or even men.)