Missions & Complexes

Hi,

Whenever I have seen people asking if mining is. A good way to make is, people have been saying no and it gets boring quickly and they tell them to run missions. I have tried missions, lots of them and I really hate them. I hate fighting npcs in any game, even this game. I hate fighting NPCs I just can't stand it. I love mining, I mine all day and I really love it. Is this weird? Am I the only one?

A group of space rocks rode into town when I was 7 years old and killed my family.
Since that day i've murdered every space rock unfortunate enough to cross my path and I've never looked back.

I loved how I started mining, then multibox mining, and then it got me into the markets and PI. I had me a typical mining spreadsheet with timetables to see where I can improve on, how much time I spent travelling and how, if i just added one more mining account, I would be able to produce this and that within a timeframe. And of course the ISK tables..

Then I started missioning, and that was kinda like mining as well. And the direct injection of ISK wasn't anything to scoff at as well, plus the LP store was an awesome new 'mining resource' for me.

Now, I have my 3 Orcas and a buncha barges mothballed.

The end.

TL;DR Combat skills can go > FW, hisec missioning, incursions, exploration, null content etc.. a flexible skillset. Mining skills are too rigid imho and kinda deadend. That and I hate how the mining scene shifted to cater nullsec.

So long as you're enjoying yourself, you're *winning* at EVE.

Never let anyone tell you different.

Theres different types of mining you can try

Hisec belt mining
lo/nulsec belt mining
gas cloud mining
anomaly mining
fleet mining

some work better with the frigates
some work better with the barges
some are a bit more dangerous than the others
some are better done with other people


eve is a game
we play games to have fun
so no, enjoying mining is not wrong

Tell you what, I hate mining. To me it's boring, metaphorically and literally.

But it's not to say anything about people who enjoy it. You like it? Do it. My friends like it too, so you are not the only one.

I know how you feel, I'm in a Mining corp with Miners in the Name and i hate mining lol. I prefer Anomalies and DED complexes but still sometimes do missions.

There are others in my corp that don't PVE at all and jsut do PVP. I've even known people in EVE who do NOTHING but Haul stuff from one place to another (real space truckers lol) and enjoy the hell out of it.. People are strange, EVE is a strange game for people like us.

Personally, I'm not a miner, but on the other hand I don't quite 'get' all the hate directed at them. Perhaps it was the advent of afk mining and bot mining that generated it (not sure), but my point is, without miners, there would be no ships, no hardware, no structures, no anything. So the hate to me is somewhat irrational, although I guess hate towards bot miners is fine and understandable.

At any rate, if you get bored with standard mining, you might consider sneaking into nullsec and wormhole areas and mining there. I did do some of that back in the day, and considered it almost like PvP in a way.

I mine

I kill NPCs

I PVP (I suck at PVP btw)

Don't really run mission that much because high-sec scares me more than low or null.

I mine to build cheap T1 ships that I can throw at the better pvpers. Yes, me throwing a ship is probably more effective than me trying to shoot them, but at least I undock with a purpose.

I kill NPCs to make good isk that I can use to buy the mods to fit on the cheap ships that I throw at the better pvpers.

I buy BPOs that I can use when I mine to build the cheap ship which I fit with the mods bought from killing NPCs so I can throw it all at the better pvpers.

Etc...