EVE General Discussion

i dunno bought you but a new player mining in a venture mines quite fast :)

You can choose to not be a miner.

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Mine as a Corporate Fleeted group and talk on Chat for a few hours.

It's actually the ultimate in interactivity in the game.

Only YOU can make it boring.

Please make mining more interactive. Multi-boxer tears, best tears.

No ******* mini games or ******* loot spew. Christ don't like ******* mining find something else. Want excitement go mining in Low sec or a WH. Guarantee you won't leave the keyboard.

When I started this game it was as a miner and it can be boring, but it's one of the easiest and safest things you can do for ISK to then do other things with. The fun in it comes from the other players you mine with and the applying of your earned rewards to other ventures or interests. A lot of the mining deaths come from lack of knowledge. I mined for maybe a year or so (check my employment history) and never lost a ship. I had members of my corp loose ships to guess what? Literally falling asleep at the keyboard or running missions in their mining ships.

That's all to say it is as fun as you can make it and there is a lot of room for a player to make it fun even though the new expansion has actually taken a chunk of the fun out of it (it was actually fun when you could put in a little work to find a grav site in a wormhole or in K space and ninja mine it), but thanks to the "make EVE easier" mindset of some newer players we now have mining is boring posts as a trade off.

Please no more mini game suggestions as exploration has suffered enough damage already. Soon people will want market trading mini games and faction warfare mini games, and oh the hell with it-- mini games for everything. In all seriousness though when you play the hacking mini game guess what you're doing (beside playing minesweeper) yup just sitting there.

Let's save the mini games for when walking in station is fully fleshed out or for Dust.

If it were interactive it would be beyond tedious, because once the novelty wears off it too becomes a form of tedium, except this time it's even more terrifying for the tendons in your mouse hand.

Here's how to mine: get into field, put on the radio (something interesting, like In Our Time), and keep your eyes peeled on local.

Time just flies by.

You have encapsulated the essence of mining perfectly.

Back many moons ago, my old corp lived in wh's.
We went on a wh rolling/ site running / resident shooting binge for about 24 hours straight.
Everyone was so intellectually and physically spent, that on the following day we simply closed all the wh's save our static, and rolled out the mining boats, and did nothing but gab, nap, and mine in our home pocket all day.
It was great.

That being said, you KNOW that CCP plans on destroying this playstyle.
soundwave has wiped out almost every form of passive income in the game (of course for moon go, MUST NEVER touch that), and he is quite likely to decide that sitting back mining semi-afk is just too passive.

Make manufacturing and trading more interactive to.

The builders have to walk to the factory in station and beat slaves to increase productivity and merchants have to press buttons in order on the trade room floor to place an order.

Otherwise I don't see what's so special about mining, at least they are out in space where they can be killed. Traders/manufacturers are making ISK even more afk and in 100% safety.

TL;DR Most EVE are only able to think about things they've been fed by 0.0 nerdlords and lack perspective.