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Missions / Mining... Are there really people who enjoy these?
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Xayder
modro
The Initiative.
#21 - 2013-04-04 22:26:16 UTC
Daniel Plain wrote:
i just ran 2x blockade back to back. there is nothing more relaxing than spending half an hour making battleships explode while watching news on youtube.



While I mutlibox my mining fleet
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SmilingVagrant
Doomheim
#22 - 2013-04-04 22:54:28 UTC
No. Making isk in this game is pretty much terrible on all fronts. Even the best effort to reward (Scamming) requires you talk to morons.
Disastro
Wrecking Shots
#23 - 2013-04-05 00:08:09 UTC
Magnus Saken wrote:
Ok i really am not intending to flame / troll

i see people with pimp fit faction ships costing billions of isk, do they just do mission, after mission, after mission.. i don't see how someone could see this viable for making Isk, or is it not about the isk and the actual mission Shocked ?

When i think about some of these pimp fit level 4 mission ships. What does it average about to lets say 30 mil an hour.

The very thought of having to do missions for 3 hours for about 100 mil, x 10 so 30 hours of grinding missions for 1 bil?

Is my logic not correct?

i would rather pay 35 bucks for a GTC then spend 30 hours making that isk. That is just insane.

Yikes.


Also, how is it possible to make a good amount mining in hi sec? Sub 5 accounts, train 4 for exhumers and 1 for leadership orca and just got at it? How much isk could this get you?


For some players Mining and Missioning are the game. For others.... these things are just means to an end. In most mmorpgs there is some kind of element of "grinding" for experience points. In eve you dont have this problem. Instead you grind for money. However, there are many other ways to make money in eve besides doing the various PVE options. Scamming, Marketing, Stealing from players and corps, killing people and taking their mods, extortion are other methods people sometimes use.

As for missioning and mining i think thats tends to just be the starting point for most eve players. At some point folks usually move to null sec and begin pvping and doing the varoius null sec pve options to fund that endeavor. Some of us run missions in null sec to make money for pvp.
Belle Chancel
Khaotic Binary Ltd.
#24 - 2013-04-05 01:21:56 UTC
Disastro wrote:
Magnus Saken wrote:
Ok i really am not intending to flame / troll

i see people with pimp fit faction ships costing billions of isk, do they just do mission, after mission, after mission.. i don't see how someone could see this viable for making Isk, or is it not about the isk and the actual mission Shocked ?

When i think about some of these pimp fit level 4 mission ships. What does it average about to lets say 30 mil an hour.

The very thought of having to do missions for 3 hours for about 100 mil, x 10 so 30 hours of grinding missions for 1 bil?

Is my logic not correct?

i would rather pay 35 bucks for a GTC then spend 30 hours making that isk. That is just insane.

Yikes.


Also, how is it possible to make a good amount mining in hi sec? Sub 5 accounts, train 4 for exhumers and 1 for leadership orca and just got at it? How much isk could this get you?


For some players Mining and Missioning are the game. For others.... these things are just means to an end. In most mmorpgs there is some kind of element of "grinding" for experience points. In eve you dont have this problem. Instead you grind for money. However, there are many other ways to make money in eve besides doing the various PVE options. Scamming, Marketing, Stealing from players and corps, killing people and taking their mods, extortion are other methods people sometimes use.

As for missioning and mining i think thats tends to just be the starting point for most eve players. At some point folks usually move to null sec and begin pvping and doing the varoius null sec pve options to fund that endeavor. Some of us run missions in null sec to make money for pvp.


Pretty much my plan, missions, mining and exploration until I build up enough that a few lost ships in lowsec isn't going to wipe me out.
Katran Luftschreck
Royal Ammatar Engineering Corps
#25 - 2013-04-05 10:56:33 UTC
Back when I was twenty I would have found mining & missions to be rather dull.

Many years, a career, a house, a family and an OMG is that a gray hair later... okay well it's still dull but I'm kind of ok with that. Dull is good. Dull doesn't require me to be able to catch flies in chopsticks. Dull is nice and relaxing after a hard day of dealing the seething mass of insufferable idiocy that is The General Public.

So... just a matter of perspective, I guess.

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Haedonism Bot
People for the Ethical Treatment of Rogue Drones
#26 - 2013-04-05 19:34:45 UTC
Fact is, mission running and mining can be fun for a little while, or a relaxing escape from RL stress anyway, but it takes a very rare and special kind of person to continue to enjoy these activities in the long term. Most people who focus on these things either quit the game early or start PvPing. But shockingly, there are quite a few people who mission run and do PVE activities almost exclusively for years on end. We call these people targets.

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#27 - 2013-04-08 04:56:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
Spondoo Lix wrote:
snip If 2 or 3 Catalysts (they always use Catalysts, for some reason) warp in, I may be the difference between them getting home or being 30+mill in the red.
Catalysts are the weapon of choice purely because they're cheap, and they deliver the best bang for buck of all the destroyers (600+DPS with a well skilled pilot, T2 modules, T2 ammo and overheating). Suicide ganking has a very limited window of opportunity, so gankers will want to put down as much hurt as possible in the window, and do it with the minimum outlay of Isk.

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IMO, the game isn't about grinding isk, it's about interacting with other people, whether that's helping them stay alive and make money, or helping them have a quick ride home on the pod express.

People get so focused on ISK......it's about fun, and friends.

You've hit the nail on the head right there, Eve is a very social game.

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Werner vanDeventer
Codpiece Conundrum
#28 - 2013-04-15 14:07:46 UTC
Silly Question
What is GTC?
I have been looking for a list of game abbreviations but to no avail
Marc Callan
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#29 - 2013-04-15 14:35:24 UTC
Werner vanDeventer wrote:
Silly Question
What is GTC?
I have been looking for a list of game abbreviations but to no avail


GTC = Game Time Code, which can be converted into one or more PLEX (Pilot License EXtension), which can be used to extend your subscription or sold on the open market for ISK.

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