EVE General Discussion

There are a good amount of MMOs that are playable solo for the most part.
I don't know about you but I don't go gathering herbs in Tera with half my guild backing me up.

Normally I like the 'teach to fish' before 'give a fish' but...

Look, I'm a newbie and even I know that if you are getting ganked regularly in HiSec as a miner, you are totally in the wrong systems.

It would take a seriously nasty ship to take out my Procurer (and if you're in a Skiff you're that much harder) fast enough to not have Concord on you before my ship blew. It can tank quite a bit.

If you're in a Covetor, you will need a body guard. Marginal in a Retriever.

Look, just pal up with some other miners that frequent the same systems you do. They are likely in a corp that would be happy to have you. Stay in company and keep 1 or 2 cloaked warships nearby. If need be => hire them. They will work for a percentage of your haul/take. They can watch Netflix or something while they sit there and your strip miners do their job.

If you are doing high profit/risk mining, then losing a ship is just the cost of doing business.

Mining is important to the game, it's probably the most important resource acquisition process out there. CCP can boost it but I'm not sure why, it works well right now. You choose the level of profit/risk you are willing to take and go to town on some rocks.

Speaking of which, I need to do just that soon.

As for those that think you MUST play EVE with others, no, it can be played solo. Every choice has its costs though, you just have to put up with them.

Your passive aggressive tears never get old Serene.

Meanwhile, my lowsec miner friends are racking up kills on overconfident Garmur pilots. Just saying. Mining IS pvp.

Kid, you have a local. You can see in one glance at local who is blue / red /neut / whatever. My opinion is that you're either bad at this game or you are AFK mining. If you are AFK mining, you should do it in a cheap-o unfitted retriever, and consider it dead the moment it undocks. If you're not AFK mining, and you think the game is "rigged" against you, when mining in the blue doughnut that is Null sec, then you're just bad, it's not the game's fault, it's yours.

I AFK mine in wormholes from time to time, I lose some ****** retrievers from time to time. I don't care, between their low cost and the basic insurance payouts, I always end up turning profit anyway. I lost one just yesterday, I laughed my ass at the fact that it had paid for itself in the first 15 minutes of AFK mining the belt, and used the opportunity to have some fun hunting down the gankers.

I think i´m done with eve for now, If I recall right, over the last 2,5 years starting in high and getting to null, as a ore miner. Never AFK mined, having 55" screen, all accounts open as visual. Whatching local, giving intel, DS links, lost one skiff and few barges, while learning how the eve live is. And the only changes i´ve seen following my skill training is bigger cargo hold on exhumers.

Sincerly Thank you ccp for the time.

That watchlist thing made no sense anyway. It makes no sense that you'd magically know when somebody anywhere in the cluster "activates" themselves. If that's the way things were, you could just talk to your Mission Agent by phone, instead of visiting in person. Or you could zap digital versions of your BPs to any of your hangars, instead of having to haul the physical thingies around in a ship. Come on man....

I like mining.
I like killing miners.
Mining in hisec....strictly for rookies learning the ropes
Mining in lowsec....begging for bullets, bait or backed up by badasses.
Mining in sov null...see the neuts on intel channel when they are 10 jumps away, also reported are wormholes and hotdroppers.
Mining in wh...as mentioned above, makes plenty of isk and any loss is just a pvp dinner bell.
AND
Killing miners in hisec...too easy, not a playstyle unless it's a loldeployment for corpies who are a bit bored.
Killing miners in lowsec...easy mode hunting, usually newbros but chance they are bait or part of a fleet.
Killing miners in null...more difficult to get to without wormholes or blops, spais and cloaky eyes make more things possible.
Killing miners in wormholes...basically the flipside of mining there, you catch a barge to start action. Just wasting a gas huffing venture or random exhumer alone is good at first, but ultimately you want to stir up a hornet's nest, otherwise why are you there stranger?
SO
The changes are all good, mining and industry is a part of this violent game, neither removed from nor irrelevant to the combat.

Can you give me any patch note link about this please? Been reading alot and haven´t seen that.

The funny part about gas mining in WH, it´s actually more profit having 3 gas ventures than having 6 fully skilled miners in null cosmic belts. The differens in ships cost is 3 ventures is like 8-9 mills, but 6 exchumers is 1,5 bills. But both mine like 150-200mill per hour. But I found it boring to live in WH.