EVE General Discussion

I mean seriously guys what's wrong with it? What's every one got against afk mining? I pay my money, I pay for my online time, I have worked up hard enough to get a hulk. I play the game the way I like to play it and that's on the cusp. In the background as I'm talking to my corp mates, looking at the market, adjusting planet production, reading up about the latest tech 3 or eve stories. Or even posting here on the forums and it's all during afk mining. Ok it not true afk like I'm on the bog or out working/sleeping but you know what the worst that should happen if I'm away too long? The asteroid will run out, or my mining hold will get full and I stop mining. I'm not wiping an entire ore belt clean or overflowing the market with trit. 3astroids out of a few hundred go and I stop dead in my track. So what's the problem?
On occasion I'm minding my own business. Found an ore belt that's no one is using and settle down for a spot of mining. Then whilst I'm reading the latest news in game or browsing through the market to see what skills I need for such and such a ship(all in game), I see a flash of light and the next thing I know that my hulk I've worked for several months to get has been blown up... If I talk to any one about it you just get the haters just saying that you should not be afk mining. I mean WTF??? It's not like you can do anything any way is there? If some one want to kill you in high sec they will kill you. Don't matter what you have. A target lock and a flash of light is all you get as a warning even if your eyes are glued to the screen.
Ok don't get me wrong. This thread is not a complaint or about a loss of ships. I know why some people will do it. Maybe your harvesting in their fave field. So the will log on as an alt to get you out of the way. Or the dam annoying and god awfull hulkagadon that if I could do anything to get scrapped I would. As I've lost about 5 hulks to that and have never made a profit on any hulk I've bought. Again long ago and not bitter....much. No my problem is why do people have a problem with afk miners in general? You play the game how you want to and I'll play it how I want to

Q: What's wrong with afk mining?

A: Orders of magnitude less than afk missioning/ratting/anoms

yeah, even afking a 50m domi in an anom is more profitable lmao

The same thing that's wrong with auto piloting an industrial with a valuable load. It's generally bad practice to leave a lightly tanked but expensive ship just sitting unattended in space. Plenty of people will blow you up because they can and they know you'll cry about it.

True if you go through low sec. But if your flying through high sec then their should not be a problem. And like i said if some one wants to blow you up then their is nothing you can do about it. Afk or not

okay feel free to load up an iteron mark V full of faction/officer mods and autopilot from amarr to jita, it's perfectly safe!

if this is a complaint about suicide ganking, you're out of luck because it's legitimate gameplay. high-sec was never meant to be safe. CONCORD provides consequences for aggressors, not protection from them.

Because CCP would prefer you to be at your keyboard when you play the game.

Yet another 05 player posts like a 2 week old newb.

Being AFK while mining doesn't bother me at all (tho it aint smart). As long as you are manually controlling your hulk when you need to shift to a different roid etc. Doing it with a 3rd party program and effectively macro mining should be relentlessly hammered down without any remorse. It's unfair to those who spend the time doing it the right way as they are intended to through the built in mechanics of the game.

If CCP meant to have it automated to that degree then they would have built in the option.

No one said anything about the credibility of mining ops. I'm a level 5 mining director with all that comes with it. Stick me in an orca and you'll never get a better output from your mining operation. Mining operates is what makes the game really work for me as I love them so.

Well Maxious according to your KB you lost a hulk 3 months ago, and your previous industral loss was a coveter 2 years ago. Other than that you only have a procurer and an iteron on record as soft target losses previous to that since 05.

I hardly would say thats a cause for a "realistic" concern, even though no-one likes a loss at the end of the day?

So unless the other 4 hulk losses werent obviously reported which I find unlikley ....... kind of makes me question the whole validity of the post.

Funny troll who pads KB with estranged alts? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt however but dont ask me to sympathise as a result.