EVE General Discussion

Hello there!

So I am a miner, trying to make ISK, minding my own business in 0.7 security. A good day to play, I've been mining for like 6-7 hours already. Making that ISK. Then I see two destroyers coming in and blowing up my Hulk along with my pod. What a great design. What a great game to play.

Let's assume these two Catalysts cost 10mil to make ready to fly.
Let's assume I made my Hulk by spending 250mil. Insured it for 20m too.
10m kills 250mil before Concord can react to, in a 0.7 security.

What a reasonable ratio. What magical numbers I see. The math here is incredibly satisfying.

So 6-7 hours I spent mining are down the drain. Incredible design! So correct! So on point!
I am loving this game so freaking much!

Thank you CCP! Can't wait to buy another Hulk and go through this again! So exciting!

Yeah I think I will be doing other things. Earning like 11-14m per hour doesn't really help with this mess. So discouraging and annoying.

You could also you know, fit any sort of tank on a mining barge.. like at all?

as a miner for 12 years... dude...

1) fit a better tank or use a mack, it has a better tank.

2) mine with your friends

3) join another corp

4) stop whining and don't afk mine, seriously you should of been able to tank them both or bail when you saw them.

1. Don't mine in a Hulk unless you're in a fleet. Use a Mack or a Skiff, Hulks are made of paper and the small mining yield bonus doesn't make up for losing them to gankers.

2. Keep an eye on local, set your overview correctly and set any known ganking groups to -10. If anything in local goes flashy or is red, dock up.

3. Most importantly, realize that high sec is not meant to be a safe haven. There is no absolute safety in EVE and high sec isn't the safest place to mine in by far. I'd tell you to join a null-sec alliance and mine in null-sec, but I think most of null is currently on fire so that's not helpful at this point in time.

... and nobody mentioned WoW?


Eve is dieing for sure....

Do I look like I am whining? And how did you get the feeling that I was AFK?
Lessons learned man, don't worry!

If you see them warping in, why weren't you warping out. Why weren't you running Dscan to check for ships like that. why didn't you set standing to goons, why the FCK are you even in a Hulk, why doesn't it have a decent tank, why did you lose your pod? Those questions are all answered by "effort, yo".

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And why, for fcks sake, did you lose a hauler with 700+ mil onboard just a few days earlier in Sivala, with a terrible fit that doesn't save you in any way. Same thing, lack of brain effort.

Also yes, you ARE whining in this thread but if you want to learn the reason for why it happened, find a mirror.

If you see destroyers anywhere near a mining belt, especially Catalysts... GTFO

Isk tanking is not a thing, the cost of your ship has absolutley no bearing on the cost of the ships required to kill it; it doesn't exist in the real world either.

Such is the nature of the game, the tagline for the Citadel expansion was "Wreck Their Dreams"; CCP have delivered on that tagline by letting someone wreck yours.

Why are you solo mining in a Hulk? The cargo is pants, the tank crap and the cost too much; it's meant to be used in a fleet with other Hulks and an Orca or Rorqual to take care of the cargo and tank issues.

Welcome to EVE.

P.S. Check the killboard of Uedama before you fly your first freighter.