EVE General Discussion

I have a ishtar that makes about 21mil a tick in nullsec or around 80+mil an hour ratting hubs etc. Then i have a Rorq with max boosts and a mackinaw on another character mining, i cant even make close to that in nullsec.

Why is this? Why does 1 character make more isk than 2. Why does a 200mil ship make more than a 2.5bil+ ship combo make less?

shouldnt group play make more isk?
ccp pls :(

Try gas harvesting in nullsec/wormholes, I've read that is where the money is at the moment.

I am pretty sure this is actually an anti-AFK-mining and botting troll post but anyway - taking the OP seriously for now:


The miners in my mains corp log in with a couple of characters each and park in a belt and go off to watch a movie and cook dinner. They are logged in for maybe 6 or 8 hours a night but actually "play" for about an hour of that.

In terms of ISK/hour-actually-playing (as opposed to logged in but actually drinking coffee and watching movies and snogging your gf/bf while the ship mines rocks for you) the mining makes more ISK per hour than even incursions.

income from ratting in hubs and such are set by CCP though the bounty payouts (Ticks) this is isk generated from nothing.

Income from mining is generated by selling ore/minerals on the market which is player driven

If the cost or ore went up the cost of minerals would also go up which in turn would effect the price of everything from a T1 afterburner to a Titan.

Yes you would make more isk/per hour on paper but because the cost of everything would go up you would be no better off in fact you would be worse off because the ratting income would remain the same.

It could be argued that Ratting income is to high but if you did lower the ratting income it would effect the ore/mineral price as people would no longer have as much isk to spend meaning less sales which leads to high supply low demand which will in turn lower the value of the item as people under cut to get rid of there stock

as for this statement

The miners in my mains corp log in with a couple of characters each and park in a belt and go off to watch a movie and cook dinner. They are logged in for maybe 6 or 8 hours a night but actually "play" for about an hour of that.

i can tell you must be new to mining

ive done a little mining and i cant go afk for any longer than 5 mins, stripminers tend to mine out a roid in 2 cycles at which point i need to relock a new roid and activate the stripminers again on top of that the ore hold fills up 2 quick to go afk for for more than 10 mins not to mention nullsec belt rats do hurt even in a skiff going afk is not advisable.

unless your mining buddys are using a decent bot to jetcan and warp off if rats turn up. i cant see how they can go afk and watch a movie or cook dinner

Because you are doing it WRONG.

Mining is BORING and intended for industrial material supply, not for pressing F1 and going AFK.

Can't tell if serious....

You in high sec Emma?

Out in the back blocks of 0.0 there are roids no one gets to for years. Those babies just grow and grow and grow.

Most activities in Eve have been carefully examined by CCP. You will make relatively the same amount of ISK over a given period of time doing any form of PVE activity if you have high skill levels. It all comes down to time and effort, but you will essentially be earning the same, give or take a few milliion.

Take the "R" out of "RISK" and you got...no wait....Take the "K" out...or was it...hang on.

lol, this.