Missions & Complexes

If you've ever lost mission ore after mining it, you likely discovered (much to your dismay) that you can't buy that stuff very easily in contracts. On the other hand, if you had some left over after completing a mission, you likely found that it was very difficult to sell.

I'm aiming to change this, but I can't do it without your help. I'm currently buying these mission ores for 10 isk per m3 (about 1/10th of the value of veldspar) in Aufay (near Dodixie, Gallente space). I'll be putting the ores I have up on contracts for 25 isk per m3, a slight markup to help pay for my time and the contract fees. I won't be making much profit on this, I'm just trying to help you. So if you need a particular mission ore in Aufay, you may be able to buy it from one of my contracts. If the contract contains too much, just send me an evemail that you'd like to resell it, set up a contract, and I'll take back all that you don't use for the same price I sold it to you, 25 isk per m3.

I'd like to expand to more areas, hopefully a good mining mission system near each of the 4 major trade hubs. If you can tell me which systems near these hubs are the best for mining missions, that would be great. Also, I'll gladly accept ores from other areas around highsec if you want to set up some contracts to me. And if you contact me in-game, you can ask me to check and see if I have any of the ore you need near where you are. If I get enough of a supply, I'll be able to pass these ores out much more easily.

So sell your mission ores to me! Every bit helps!

Depending on the current market, Mining Missions are better IPH than straight out mining. But don't expect miners to be that clever.

They're also useful to grind standings on non-combat characters. I have a couple indy characters that would be hard pressed to handle a L2 security mission but would sail through a L4 mining mission.

Mineral prices are up because Incursion made a gigantic isk waterfall with no drain to counteract the flow. It has nothing to do with miners, in fact more than half of the total minerals going into the EVE market are from sources other than mining. And more than half of the minerals coming from mining are from bots, which aren't likely to run missions when they could be mining ore instead.

If you want more miners lowering mineral prices, then support things that make life easier and more bearable for anyone mining.

It is easy to fall into the trap of thinking of players as various set types, such as "miners", but every player in EVE is always free to choose their own path. Every character in EVE is a potential miner. You want more mining being done? Advocate for changes that make mining more fun, more profitable, easier, and with a greater reward for the amount of risk.

I'm trying to make life easier for miners, so I'm helping you. My service won't make them run more mining missions, it'll make them run less. Instead of failing a mission due to ore loss, people will pass it and gain standings rather than lose them. People don't run mining missions for fun, they run them for standings, because all their SP is in mining and they can't run other level 3 or 4 missions. Think before you condemn, please.

That can work for some people, if you can get a good return on your loyalty points. It's also not something for anyone to worry about, as the loyalty point market only works because it is convoluted enough for most people to overlook it entirely, or just fail miserably at it. Simple economics will show that it's far too small a market opportunity to have a significant impact on the larger market's mineral income.

If you partially complete the mission and are called away for a long time, the mission may respawn and you may not only be able to mine a full amount in addition to what you have previously mined, but you will be required to mine it all to complete the mission. Thus you will have leftover ore.

On the other hand, if your ship carrying the ore is destroyed, or your jetcan pops, or someone steals some of your ore, you can have the mission complete once you have finished mining but you will not be able to turn it in until you acquire some more ore. Normally this means you must wait until after downtime so that it respawns, but you can also trade these ores from other players.

Actually, I used to do them quite a bit before I switched regions (there are no high-sec L4 mining agents in my current one).

Some of the L3 ones were actually pretty good, including a couple that gave T2 drone salvage. They also had a fun mix of mining while under NPC attack.

OP is really dumb.

Point 1: Buying for 10 and selling for 25 is 150% profits... which is really good. So you are trying to make money off people and are doing nobody a favor.

Point 2: How can people sell to your orders without not completing their own missions. Unless they`re trying to mine the ore for sale, and if thats the case, why would they sell it to you for 10 when they can sell it for 25?