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Why do most afk while mining?

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Valari Nala Zena
Perkone
Caldari State
#61 - 2012-12-18 16:46:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Valari Nala Zena
I can:
Watch movie, play another game, join fleets in my corp, ...

Earlier in game i would've liked more interactivity, now?
It's a way to play for free and extra isk, all it requires is click and drag every 30 mins and offloading orca every hour.
I don't do it because it's fun, i do it because it makes isk for no effort.

In low/null you can't afford ignoring local like in highsec.

If it wasn't for the ability to go afk in empire, i would probably be mining in nullsec, if at all.
Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#62 - 2012-12-18 17:42:24 UTC
Valari Nala Zena wrote:
If it wasn't for the ability to go afk in empire, i would probably be mining in nullsec, if at all.

Don't worry, you're in good company. Highsec is ~the~ place to mine.

Triggered by: Wars of Sovless Agression, Bending the Knee, Twisting the Knife, Eating Sov Wheaties, Bombless Bombers, Fizzlesov, Interceptor Fleets, Running Away, GhostTime Vuln, Renters, Bombs, Bubbles ?
Dave Stark
#63 - 2012-12-18 17:47:23 UTC
Alavaria Fera wrote:
Highsec is ~the~ place to mine.

quite sad that this is true, tbh.
Bane Necran
Appono Astos
#64 - 2012-12-18 17:49:41 UTC
I try to afk while i afk but it just gives me a headache. Mining is a much better time to do it.

"In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness." ~Miyamoto Musashi
Capt Starfox
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#65 - 2012-12-18 17:53:14 UTC
Dave stark wrote:
Alavaria Fera wrote:
Highsec is ~the~ place to mine.

quite sad that this is true, tbh.

Not if I can help itTwisted

Abandon all hope ye who x up in fleet
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#66 - 2012-12-18 17:58:40 UTC
Zero Audier wrote:
Your sitting there, watching lasers turn as you mine a roid. Oh the occasional rat will come, but you get to see your drones circle & kill it within 10 seconds. Some action right? Super exiting isn't it? It's god dam torture, and unless it was more interactive/ required player input (for the mining itself), people will continue to go afk while mining.



Why do MOST AFK mine ? I don't know.

Questions is flawed and pre-prejudiced from the get-go.

Let's see your posted and linked facts and statistics establishing this, most.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Dave Stark
#67 - 2012-12-18 17:59:12 UTC
Capt Starfox wrote:
Dave stark wrote:
Alavaria Fera wrote:
Highsec is ~the~ place to mine.

quite sad that this is true, tbh.

Not if I can help itTwisted

so you're flooding the market with low end minerals to force the prices down? good to know.
Garrison Woods
Doomheim
#68 - 2012-12-18 18:12:04 UTC
Afk mine all you want.

Know this though, if I or one my ilk catch you unawares, we will blow up your barge and squish your pod.

Action/consequence, risk/reward and all that stuff. Cool

Regards,

Garrison Woods
Knight of the New Order of Hi-Sec.
Dave Stark
#69 - 2012-12-18 18:21:59 UTC
Garrison Woods wrote:
Afk mine all you want.

Know this though, if I or one my ilk catch you unawares, we will blow up your barge and squish your pod.

Action/consequence, risk/reward and all that stuff. Cool

Regards,

Garrison Woods
Knight of the New Order of Hi-Sec.



considering mining requires 0 interaction, and therefore you have no way to tell if some one is afk or not i wish you good luck with carrying that out without shooting people who aren't afk.
Capt Starfox
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#70 - 2012-12-18 18:22:50 UTC
Dave stark wrote:
Capt Starfox wrote:
Dave stark wrote:
Alavaria Fera wrote:
Highsec is ~the~ place to mine.

quite sad that this is true, tbh.

Not if I can help itTwisted

so you're flooding the market with low end minerals to force the prices down? good to know.


Actually I'm doing it for lulz and tears.. and also the salvage. But if you want to say "flooding the market with low end minerals to force the prices down" then that works too!

Abandon all hope ye who x up in fleet
Yusef Yeasef Yosef
Doomheim
#71 - 2012-12-18 18:24:43 UTC
I wonder how long it will be until "online semi-anonymous sociology" becomes a field of study, if it hasn't already.

Its amazing how many emergent deviant behaviors have surfaced in Eve Online alone, in addtion to previous MMOs.
Dave Stark
#72 - 2012-12-18 18:28:38 UTC
Capt Starfox wrote:
Dave stark wrote:
Capt Starfox wrote:
Dave stark wrote:
Alavaria Fera wrote:
Highsec is ~the~ place to mine.

quite sad that this is true, tbh.

Not if I can help itTwisted

so you're flooding the market with low end minerals to force the prices down? good to know.


Actually I'm doing it for lulz and tears.. and also the salvage. But if you want to say "flooding the market with low end minerals to force the prices down" then that works too!


i was more suggesting that 1 bored player in high sec is totally irrelevant to high sec being the place to mine.
Randolph Rothstein
whatever corp.
#73 - 2012-12-18 18:35:45 UTC
Bing Bangboom wrote:
In New Order systems, afk miners get interactive game play. In fact, all miners get interactive game play. I know we Agents are not the most popular fellows in Eve but at least you can't (safely) not be around while ice mining when we (and the Knights of the New Order) are present. Its not boring in Kamio and Halaima these days.

This is how afk mining could be affected. The need to be present combined with someone giving you something to do. Eve at its finest.

www.minerbumping.com

Highsec is worth fighting for.

Bing Bangboom
Agent of the New Order of Highsec
Belligerent Undesirable



i think minerbumping could be a great name for a gay bar
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#74 - 2012-12-18 18:43:33 UTC
Dave stark wrote:


considering mining requires 0 interaction,



Utterly false statement that. Don't post about activities you have never actually done.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#75 - 2012-12-18 18:46:02 UTC
Yusef Yeasef Yosef wrote:
I wonder how long it will be until "online semi-anonymous sociology" becomes a field of study, if it hasn't already.

Its amazing how many emergent deviant behaviors have surfaced in Eve Online alone, in addtion to previous MMOs.



Yes, like just wholeheartedly lumping "most" miners as AFK, and that mining requires zero attention.

Stating nonsense just to be stating nonsense, with no purpose, even in it's deceptive distraction from the REAL.

THAT is a brainless activity....most indeed.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#76 - 2012-12-18 18:47:49 UTC
Randolph Rothstein wrote:
Bing Bangboom wrote:
In New Order systems, afk miners get interactive game play. In fact, all miners get interactive game play. I know we Agents are not the most popular fellows in Eve but at least you can't (safely) not be around while ice mining when we (and the Knights of the New Order) are present. Its not boring in Kamio and Halaima these days.

This is how afk mining could be affected. The need to be present combined with someone giving you something to do. Eve at its finest.

www.minerbumping.com

Highsec is worth fighting for.

Bing Bangboom
Agent of the New Order of Highsec
Belligerent Undesirable



i think minerbumping could be a great name for a gay bar



Yes. I remember the old Montrose Mining Company in Houston when I lived there (not sure if Throckmorton Mining company still open in Dallas or not).

It really had a mining theme with the wooden ceiling supports and all that. Smile

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Dave Stark
#77 - 2012-12-18 18:56:24 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Dave stark wrote:


considering mining requires 0 interaction,



Utterly false statement that. Don't post about activities you have never actually done.


considering it's all i do, i suggest you try another reply.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#78 - 2012-12-18 18:58:34 UTC
Dave stark wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Dave stark wrote:


considering mining requires 0 interaction,



Utterly false statement that. Don't post about activities you have never actually done.


considering it's all i do, i suggest you try another reply.



Post proof.

No reasoning with............... Oh...nevermind.

Tired of your junk postings and just blocking ya.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Dave Stark
#79 - 2012-12-18 19:02:30 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Dave stark wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Dave stark wrote:


considering mining requires 0 interaction,



Utterly false statement that. Don't post about activities you have never actually done.


considering it's all i do, i suggest you try another reply.



Post proof.

No reasoning with............... Oh...nevermind.

Tired of your junk postings and just blocking ya.


hardly a false statement. perhaps you should stop commenting on things you've never done when people who actually do it make comments.

what do i have to do in order for my ship to mine something?
nothing, i just wait. the game requires me to not do anything else while it fills my ship up.

it's a fact that mining requires 0 interaction. hence why people afk mine ice because they can literally leave the house and go to the shop, walk the dog etc, because there's no need to interact with the game in anyway in order to be able to mine.
Jason13 Anzomi
#80 - 2012-12-18 19:12:30 UTC
Dave stark wrote:
it's a fact that mining requires 0 interaction. hence why people afk mine ice because they can literally leave the house and go to the shop, walk the dog etc, because there's no need to interact with the game in anyway in order to be able to mine.


Isn't it odd how the only people saying such things are people who are against mining in general?

If they tried mining while 100% afk out walking the dog, I've no doubt they'd quickly be complaining about how they lost their mining ship. Roll