Originally by: Mr Epeen

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Originally by: Cosmo Kramma

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So I started my first account doing simple tasks, upgrading my lil ship to a retriever because of the need for isk, and found that mining wasn't going fast enough.

I Opened a second account to assist my first account. started canning, with the retriever and an osprey, and was robbed on one occasion. Learning from that, I Then used the second account as a transport (badger) only still mining was just to slow for my taste.

I then opened a third account to speed mining up. Now I have the two retrievers (one to complete training to covetor in about 6 days) The second account is a retriever (training to covetor in about 19 days) and I have my third which is a mammoth for transport.

I'm grinding my butt off for ten hours plus a day 5 days a week. I made so far $500.000.000. My question is, Is this what I can expect from mining for the remainder of my life with Eve? I had intended to have two accounts for mining, and the other ( the Mammoth holding space for a gun ship) (Navy Raven looks cool) after training is complete for the " 2 Hulks" My other option which I'm contemplating is keeping 3 accounts for mining and opening a fourth account for the gun ship.

I feel that If I continue with the mining aspect of eve, I will be missing so many other adventures that I hear so much about. Heck, I have been on for about 4 months now and haven't left the nursery of 1.0 space. I would like to travel and see the graphics of this game, but yet I'm afraid to do so because I might lose my ships to pirates. (Or should I travel in a Ibis) Anyway, I'd like to hear a little feed back from other players because I'm getting a little bored of this game. Please advise...Thanks

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Hi Cosmo

There is nothing wrong with having lots of ISKies. I have 10s of billions of the things. But remember money is a means to an end. After a while you have everything you need and more money is just killing time.

Time to start doing something interesting with your three characters.

But what to do? That is the big question. There are so many things. I found that running all the COSMOS missions for all the factions was a fun and interesting way to see a good chunk of EVE as well as learning combat, hacking, analyzing, manufacturing from blueprints and much more. A great introduction to the game and not so boring as there is quite a variety of missions.

So now you have a miner and a mission runner. What to do with that last character?

Well the highlight of this game is the PVP. And as pathetically basic as it is, it can be a lot of fun. Just the fact that you are pitting your button mashing against a another real persons button mashing can really get the heart pumping. As well there are many roads you can go down with PVP. Some of the more honorable professions are as a faction soldier or an evil low security space pirate, or even a pirate hunter. You can wander solo looking for fights or join a small gang (my personal favorite) for some really fun action or you could hook up with a null sec corp that's part of a big alliance and get into some epic fleet fights.

I won't touch here on industry or invention, research etc. You can head over to some of the other forums and check that out for yourself.

What it boils down to is that EVE is a sandbox. It's what YOU make it. The universe is wide open for the player with a little imagination and the desire to explore and discover.

Enjoy your stay and fly safe.

Mr Epeen

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