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Ummm Toasty
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Posted - 2010.05.07 11:45:00 -
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Hi all,
Been playing eve for a whopping 5 days now and been enjoying every minute. I spend about half my time mining, the other half running missions.
Anyway, i was shocked when i found the thread describing so called 'macro miners' and the fact that there is no system in place to detect them properly.
The thread was banging on about what to do if you suspect a macro miner, but that thread was closed so i couldn't comment.
It concerned me as an honest miner because the proposed player solutions would almost all have pointed towards me (and possible many others) as being one of these macro miners, because, like a macro miner I leave my computer to mine away for about 20 minutes at a time whilst i have jobs to do in RL, this is fine for my current ship that only has one mining laser II on it.
Its not super time efficient, but it is essentially free ISK for a new player with a crap ship like me who can't mine an asteroid from full to empty in any less than 15 to 20 minutes and who has a real hectic life to consider.
There is nothing wrong with that in my opinion, i'm not going to sit and watch the beam go on and off for that length of time whilst jobs build up in RL, and i have no corp to chat to yet to fill the time... but i heard people have been shooting these miners if they don't respond to convo's as a test for a macro miner... i'm obviously AFK too!
So really i want to urge people to think hard about who is cheating and who is simply returning to the computer like myself once every 20 minutes or so and leaving it to do the rest on its own between.
People have suggested indicators like:
- look out for a miner who returns to the same spot (me)
- look out for a miner who doesnt respond to convos for 20 minutes (me)
- look out for a miner who is mining veldspar instead of the dense equivalent (me) - because dense is almost always being heavily mined and never lasts the full 20 minutes.
- look out for miners who are not jetcanning (me)
Thanks 
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My Postman
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Posted - 2010.05.07 12:26:00 -
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For gods sake i hope you are no troll...
Ok iŠll bite.
No macroer will ever mine in a crappy cruiser or less. Macros use hulks in highsec ALWAYS (beside of iceminng). Macros donŠt use jetcans (no need in a hulk).
So far for that. Now what you mean is running into funny ppl who try to convo you, looking if your afk. Thats common use, looking for an easy pray for a suicide gank. This happens to HULKS or RETRIEVERS.
If someone, and i doubt, will suicide you in your cruiser or less itŠs only for the lulz (and for a financial loss for the ganker).
If you want to stick to that afk thing:
Go train for a Hulk.
Search for a highsec ice belt.
Icemine for 25-35 mins and come back to your pc for full profit.
Be aware that highsec ice systems are VERY rare, and are ganking MAGNETS as ice mining is very easy to afk.
Hope this helps.
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Ummm Toasty
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Posted - 2010.05.07 13:14:00 -
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Edited by: Ummm Toasty on 07/05/2010 13:14:31
 Originally by: My Postman
For gods sake i hope you are no troll...
Ok iŠll bite.
No macroer will ever mine in a crappy cruiser or less. Macros use hulks in highsec ALWAYS (beside of iceminng). Macros donŠt use jetcans (no need in a hulk).
So far for that. Now what you mean is running into funny ppl who try to convo you, looking if your afk. Thats common use, looking for an easy pray for a suicide gank. This happens to HULKS or RETRIEVERS.
If someone, and i doubt, will suicide you in your cruiser or less itŠs only for the lulz (and for a financial loss for the ganker).
If you want to stick to that afk thing:
Go train for a Hulk.
Search for a highsec ice belt.
Icemine for 25-35 mins and come back to your pc for full profit.
Be aware that highsec ice systems are VERY rare, and are ganking MAGNETS as ice mining is very easy to afk.
Hope this helps.
I have actually only ran into one person trying to convo me during my AFK mining. I was referring to another thread where a number of players suggested convo as a way of detecting a macro miner. It simply isn't reliable for this reason. That's what i am trying to convey.
Thanks for the heads up on a mining tactic, perhaps when my mining gets quicker AFK mining may be more annoying with the return time, but for now, filling up my Iteron on Veld and other high sec ores is enough to get me set up.
What's a troll by the way?
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Vins Chicago
Gallente
Regent Laboratories
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Posted - 2010.05.07 14:22:00 -
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Whatever base trolling score I later decide to give the OP, they'll definitely get a bonus +1 for this: Originally by: Ummm Toasty
What's a troll by the way?
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Ummm Toasty
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Posted - 2010.05.07 14:42:00 -
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Originally by: Vins Chicago
Whatever base trolling score I later decide to give the OP, they'll definitely get a bonus +1 for this: Originally by: Ummm Toasty
What's a troll by the way?
I really don't understand what a troll is, nor what you're talking about, but that reply is pretty off topic, and im sure there is probably a slang word i am unaware of for that as well.
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Naliena Arlath
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Posted - 2010.05.07 15:17:00 -
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Honestly, people who are out to suicide gank macro miners don't really care if you are an honest miner or not. What they care about is mass destruction under the guise of doing a community service by killing macro miners.
If you think it's anything more than that, then you give the EVE community far too much credit.
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Dust Rocket
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Posted - 2010.05.07 15:23:00 -
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Just make friends with peeps who live in same sys as you. And move away from main hubs, find backwater system and mine there. Tho from 0,8 and down you find NPC ships who like to shoot you.
If u make friends they can say no he is not mackro he speaks too us if someone bothers to ask in local.
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Ummm Toasty
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Posted - 2010.05.07 17:40:00 -
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Edited by: Ummm Toasty on 07/05/2010 17:40:52
Originally by: Naliena Arlath
Honestly, people who are out to suicide gank macro miners don't really care if you are an honest miner or not. What they care about is mass destruction under the guise of doing a community service by killing macro miners.
If you think it's anything more than that, then you give the EVE community far too much credit.
Yeah i guess i was hoping those who attempt such a so called community service would read this and consider more accurate methods of determining who's actually doing it. TBH, im all for blowing them into peices if they cheat, but i was surprised how easily a genuine miner could be mistaken for one of these people!
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Dr Mannevond
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Posted - 2010.05.07 19:31:00 -
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Edited by: Dr Mannevond on 07/05/2010 19:33:35
A forum troll is basically a moron. Someone who posts stupid/inflammatory comments just to **** people off and get a flamewar going. The forum version of griefers.
Edit : See how easy that was? Just answering a question instead of accusing people of being trolls?
</Sarcasm>
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2010.05.08 11:15:00 -
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Originally by: Naliena Arlath
What they care about is mass destruction under the guise of doing a community service by killing macro miners.
It's called "rationalization". It's where you try to justify your actions by inventing logic to support your actions after you've decided to take those actions.
For example, someone might be feeling a little guilty about blowing up someone else's expensive mining ship, so he rationalises it by inventing reasons for why "he was just a macrominer anyway."
Trying to explain "I'm not a macro miner" to these people is like trying to explain speed limits and seatbelts to the teenagers drag racing their hotted up family cars down the back street at 1am. They're not interested in the seatbelts, they're interested in the roar of the engine and the thrill of being naughty.
Which is perfectly fine to me, since I have friends in the hulk production market.
The circle of life, and all that :)
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Potrero
Gallente
Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2010.05.08 15:54:00 -
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Originally by: Ummm Toasty
Originally by: Vins Chicago
Whatever base trolling score I later decide to give the OP, they'll definitely get a bonus +1 for this: Originally by: Ummm Toasty
What's a troll by the way?
I really don't understand what a troll is, nor what you're talking about, but that reply is pretty off topic, and im sure there is probably a slang word i am unaware of for that as well.
The slang word for off topic post is "troll."
Anyone who purposefully provokes conflict or derails a thread in the forums is trolling. A post potentially sympathetic to AFK miners might be considered a troll by some people. So, in response, they're trolling you.
You'll see a lot of trolling on Eve forums. Many people consider it another form of PvP.
Welcome to Eve and fly safe.
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Herr Wilkus
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Posted - 2010.05.18 04:05:00 -
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Actually, I generally convo miners as well. If they reply to the convo, and its clear that they are 'actively' mining - and I blow them up.
Way I see it, not much point in ganking a macroer. Better to spend the effort on a target that will fully appreciate the gank.
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Jamie Banks
Gallente
Wasted and Still Mining
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Posted - 2010.05.18 05:35:00 -
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Minmatar
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Posted - 2010.05.18 05:46:00 -
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Originally by: My Postman
For gods sake i hope you are no troll...
Ok iŠll bite.
No macroer will ever mine in a crappy cruiser or less. Macros use hulks in highsec ALWAYS (beside of iceminng). Macros donŠt use jetcans (no need in a hulk).
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Gee, CCP seemed to strongly think otherwise fairly recently.
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Venkul Mul
Gallente
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Posted - 2010.05.18 06:01:00 -
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Originally by: Ummm Toasty
Edited by: Ummm Toasty on 07/05/2010 17:40:52
Originally by: Naliena Arlath
Honestly, people who are out to suicide gank macro miners don't really care if you are an honest miner or not. What they care about is mass destruction under the guise of doing a community service by killing macro miners.
If you think it's anything more than that, then you give the EVE community far too much credit.
Yeah i guess i was hoping those who attempt such a so called community service would read this and consider more accurate methods of determining who's actually doing it. TBH, im all for blowing them into peices if they cheat, but i was surprised how easily a genuine miner could be mistaken for one of these people!
There is some people that honestly try to hunt macrominers (try the macrointel channel, at least some of the guys there are honest), but a large contingent like to call macrominer/macroratter (people hunting NPC [rats] in a belt)/macro missionrunner the targets they chose to find some justification.
Then there is a subset of the PvP community that actively hate every non combat PvP activity and accuse people of using macros simply to bolster their position when arguing in forum.
As suggested mining in less busy systems help to avoid ganks.
Similarly you can try mining in missions: kill all the NPC and if the missions has asteroids you don't deliver it but instead return with your mining ship and mine them.
Finding you in a mission area require an active search with probes so it is less common than random ganking in belts.
Remember that NPC rats spawn in mission area like in the belts of the same system, so always have at least 1 combat drone out (better a full wing of them if you have the skills) to defend you.
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Maaltor
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Posted - 2010.05.18 07:01:00 -
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So when I'm AFK mining in high sec in my cargo-rigged hulk, warping to a bookmark, and ignoring conversations I'm a macro miner?
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Gunnanmon
Gallente
The Scope
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Posted - 2010.05.18 11:24:00 -
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Originally by: Herr Wilkus
Actually, I generally convo miners as well. If they reply to the convo, and its clear that they are 'actively' mining - and I blow them up.
Way I see it, not much point in ganking a macroer. Better to spend the effort on a target that will fully appreciate the gank.
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Grozen
Caldari
Titan Core
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Posted - 2010.05.18 13:48:00 -
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Originally by: Maaltor
So when I'm AFK mining in high sec in my cargo-rigged hulk, warping to a bookmark, and ignoring conversations I'm a macro miner?
no doubt.get ready to get podded
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Durnin Stormbrow
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Posted - 2010.05.18 16:42:00 -
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Frankly, I don't really care if a miner is AFK, surfing the web, doing something else on his main, or running a macro, to my mind it's all the same thing. If you're not activly mining, you're helping to kill the mineral market and taking isk from someone that is. The same can be said for AFK missioning via drones and anything else someone does by macro or autoplay. If you died because you let the game play itself, I won't waste any tears on you.
People like to cry and cry for CCP to do something to save mining as a viable carrer path, but when push comes to shove, the single best way to save mining is to make it challenging enough that you actually have to play the game rather than let it play itself. If mining were hard enough that you actually had to do it, there would be WAY fewer miners, and mineral prices might stabilize at something above the IER.
Since CCP han't been able to do anything to make mining more challenging, if players do it for them, so be it. If Hulkageddon added one simple ROE for next year, I'd propably join in the carnage: target the player & give him 20 seconds to run. If he's not running after 20 seconds, he's not playing the game & fair game.
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Sancene
Gallente
The Ephemeral Star
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Posted - 2010.05.18 19:34:00 -
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How much do you guys loose when concord blow you out of the sky? And how fast do you guys kill a hulk? 
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Durnin Stormbrow
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Posted - 2010.05.18 20:18:00 -
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Edited by: Durnin Stormbrow on 18/05/2010 20:20:55
Originally by: Sancene
How much do you guys loose when concord blow you out of the sky? And how fast do you guys kill a hulk?
Depending on how the EIR floats from day to day, you can build & fit a BS with T1 guns & weapon upgrades for free after insurance.
I've never pulled a hi-sec gank myself, but a Maelstrom with T1 1400s & gyros, good skills & implants, and stock ammo has a 7800 volley. A pair of those will one shot most hulks.
If they load one round of navy ammo in each gun (costs about 1k isk a round), it ups the volley to 8900. 3 of those will one shot almost any hulk, but if they scout the field & scan your fitting 1st, they know what it's gonna take to do the job.
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Sancene
Gallente
The Ephemeral Star
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Posted - 2010.05.18 20:37:00 -
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But why kill miners? We miners bring in minerals you guys use for building stuff. Rockets, ammo, ships and so on. Its like taking a tank and blowing up some poor farmer in a field. its not very nice, and you`re not helping. 
"Whats one miner?" maybe the poor guy who lost his hulk decided to give up mining. Thats one less miner, and maybe he too started hunting miners because he wanted to make others feel the pain he felt. Then it snowballs, AND NO MINERS ARE LEFT IN EVE! Now see what you did! 
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Durnin Stormbrow
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Posted - 2010.05.18 20:46:00 -
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I can't beleive I'm gonna take bite on this toll bait, but it's just too easy...
If there wern't so many miners, minerals would cost more, and the gank wouldn't be free.
Kind of self correcting isn't it?
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Sancene
Gallente
The Ephemeral Star
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Posted - 2010.05.18 21:26:00 -
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I agree, but riddle me this: If there were NO miners in eve due to ganking, there would be no more ganking of miners (Since there are none) and no more minerals and no more stuff being built. SO lesson here is dont gank us miners.
Or too many miners....
My ship is called "Im not a macro miner" btw, so if you see that you know its me.
and leave me the hell alone you mean ganking bullies! 
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Romulus Activus
Amarr
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Posted - 2010.05.19 02:36:00 -
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There is one simple truth. Gankers do not care wether you are a macro miner or not. They will kill you because it is easy. Unfortunatly miners are hated and most people will go out of thier way to ruin your day if you give them the chance. Just assume that everyone is out to kill you.
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Kharylien
Gallente
Masked Rider Project
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Posted - 2010.05.19 04:55:00 -
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Personally, I've beaten the gankers' system on MY mining alt.
It works like this:
I have ADHD, for real. I take medication for it that helps me focus, but I'm only medicated about 8-10 hours a day - and that, of course, is the Getting Stuff Done time, not Relax With Games time.
I like to play EVE, but when I'm outside meds time... I'm kind of easily distracted.
So the following process tends to happen:
1) Warp to asteroid belt.
2) Get distracted before ship arrives, forget to set out drones to protect from rat spawns, because I've wandered off to do something else.
3) Return to find pod floating amid Retriever wreckage, with a couple of NPC pirate frigates hanging around.
4) Technically speaking, fail to profit.
Why does this meaning my victory against the gankers?
Because they never get NEAR ganking my ship. BOOYAH.
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Dani WH
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Posted - 2010.06.15 20:25:00 -
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Don't want to be considered a macrominer, then don't act like one...
If you are a longlife NPC member, flying a Hulk for long periods of time, and conversations are automatically rejected, you will be flagged as an obvious macrominer.
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Enthral
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Posted - 2010.06.16 03:30:00 -
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Originally by: Dani WH
Don't want to be considered a macrominer, then don't act like one...
If you are a longlife NPC member, flying a Hulk for long periods of time, and conversations are automatically rejected, you will be flagged as an obvious macrominer.
Except that is still no guarantee that the person is a macrominer. Other than the NPC part, I tend to automatically reject conversations, and when I am mining, I mine for long periods of time in a Hulk.
Why can't you folks just call it what it is? You like blowing up Hulks. There is nothing wrong with that. You don't need to justify blowing up Hulks, any more so than a miner has to justify mining.
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RM Odrade
Gallente
Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2010.06.16 08:32:00 -
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Why convo a potential macro miner? That might or might not work and they might or might not just ignore you. Neut them isntead thus shutting down their mining operations. When that happens they'll be sending you a convo request or spouting off in local post haste. Well, okay my method only works in 0.0 systems [otherwise CONCORD does their annoying thing] but it is fun to do. Especially to macro-ratters. Yes, they're out there too. It's so much fun neuting a macro-ratter then watching the rats kill them and they've no clue what happened when they finally return to their computer. So, fit a couple neuts/vampires and avoid the whole convo request thing completely. If your locking them doesn't make them say something, enjoy the fireworks when they die to the NPCs.
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CeneUJiti
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Posted - 2010.06.16 09:02:00 -
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TL DR version of many above posts:
Miners and mission runners are ruining the game and should be shot on site and molested at every opportunity.
All real men will earn their money trough PVP, sorry meant to say PLEX resell, sorry meant to say RMT.
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Zelda Wei
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Posted - 2010.06.16 11:11:00 -
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Edited by: Zelda Wei on 16/06/2010 11:11:38
Originally by: Kharylien
Personally, I've beaten the gankers' system on MY mining alt.
It works like this:
I have ADHD, for real. I take medication for it that helps me focus, but I'm only medicated about 8-10 hours a day - and that, of course, is the Getting Stuff Done time, not Relax With Games time.
I like to play EVE, but when I'm outside meds time... I'm kind of easily distracted.
So the following process tends to happen:
1) Warp to asteroid belt.
2) Get distracted before ship arrives, forget to set out drones to protect from rat spawns, because I've wandered off to do something else.
3) Return to find pod floating amid Retriever wreckage, with a couple of NPC pirate frigates hanging around.
4) Technically speaking, fail to profit.
Why does this meaning my victory against the gankers?
Because they never get NEAR ganking my ship. BOOYAH.
If you can't tank belt rats you're fit is epic fail.
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Ummm Toasty
Gallente
Federal Defence Union
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Posted - 2010.07.12 09:22:00 -
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Without mining you obviously have no industry and then nobody enjoys EVE. Mining is VERY boring, it just is. AFK mining is obviously going to happen, especially for new players who need some safe cash.
That's why i started this thread ages ago, it wasn't about whether mining is a good or bad thing, because it is obviously necessary in the game, it's about killing macro miners (which is fine) without killing AFK miners.
I think if a way was found to stop AFK mining, EVE would take a downturn (at least initially until a fix was found to compensate for the lack of resources mined), as most normal people won't spend their precious spare time watching a model of a space ship mine on a screen. 
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Vaerah Vahrokha
Minmatar
Vahrokh Consulting
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Posted - 2010.07.12 10:11:00 -
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I'll throw my 2 cents. I started with mining as well, got Hulks and Hulk BPCs and Macks and even gas mining ships.
Now, those are things with a cost. Since Hulkageddons etc. are rare, it's totally easy to have a positive turnover even if you lose a couple of ships a year.
So, HTFU and buy another barge / exhumer. This is a PvP game and you are meant to calculate risk vs reward.
Also, when you see your ship blow, think you do a public service: those doing it need the "thrill" of feeling PvP for once, they spend a lot of time well entrenched in hi sec fluff themselves and can't believe a third party thinks for them and drives them upon soft targets and eventually gives them a prize for doing so.
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BBQfire
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Posted - 2010.07.12 11:26:00 -
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Originally by: Ummm Toasty
What's a troll by the way?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMEe7JqBgvg
i like this video so much. it will explain a troll to you :)
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Ummm Toasty
Gallente
Federal Defence Union
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Posted - 2010.07.12 13:46:00 -
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Originally by: BBQfire
Originally by: Ummm Toasty
What's a troll by the way?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMEe7JqBgvg
i like this video so much. it will explain a troll to you :)
Thanks for that BBQfire
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Honjura
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Posted - 2010.07.13 07:40:00 -
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Edited by: Honjura on 13/07/2010 07:42:45
after reading all of this i have come to a conclusion to enlighten you all.
Miners view:
1. Mining is boring - OK seriously, do u expect someone to stand around watch a game do something completely boring for 10-20 minutes while u just stare at the screen? most miners choose not to because it is just that damn boring.
2. how we AFK - miners usually mine AFK with drones out """""if""""" there are rats, rats come along while miner is AFK, drones engage automatically and kill said NPC.
3. Risk Vs Reward - It's all about ISK, if you loose a few hulks in a year but gain more than 2-3 bill ISK. then it's worth it. If you don't like the idea of your ship being blown up while mining, find some back water system that has low population, alot are out there, or you can mine in high sec and hope that these "Community Services" will leave you alone.
4. Some of us are mining for our alliance/corp/friends/PLEX(rare cases), so please leave those miners who are AFK alone, if u want a macro miner kill, sit in a system and see how long people mine for, are they killing rats? are they even using drones? if the answers to these questions show signs of no drones being used, going to same belt over and over, warping in no where near roids after a few trips this is the guy you want not the others or me.
Attacker view "Community service guys"
1. They hate how they can't macro mine or macro rat because A. they fail at google search or B. they can't afford a macro they found or C. they are strictly religious in active play regardless or D. they are annoyed with the mistake they made for their character and don't want to make a new account to mine with or E. they were previously miners who became so infuriated by people doing it to them, that they would do it to other players.
2. We have to justify our selves (when really it's not really worth wasting your time with it, you like to blow people up, that's a fact, now go join a corp/alliance, and go fight for 0.0 space, plenty of hulks to kill there and it is much more rewarding cause guess what. no CONCORD!!!)
3. They feel it is better to kill a miner and die from CONCORD than die at the hands of another player while doing their own business in 0.0 space or low sec.
4. They hope to raise the mineral prices by blowing up ships/sell their own ships, basically inflating the market prices of minerals, ores and mining type ships.
5. Are noob enough to go for an easy picking kill than fight like a real man/women/Capsular (in this case Capsular to be a little RP here) in low sec space.
6. Feel they are providing a "community service" when really they could be accidentally, or intentionally in some cases, be blowing up an innocent miner who is just AFK mining in a large cargo hold ship while they do some jobs in RL so that they can earn some ISK without having to spend hours upon hours actively fighting other ships hoping for a faction drop or getting ISK just from bounty.
7. "I don't care what your business is or if your active, your weak, pathetic and i want to blow you up" is generally the moto used by these hulk destroyers, now can u please leave it all for HULKAGEDDON, i mean u get prizes that way.
there you have it, my conclusion on this topic
P.S don't read if you blow up miners it may seem a tad offensive, and no offense is intended by this thread post.
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Nnam Pir
Gallente
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Posted - 2010.07.13 12:28:00 -
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Quote:
If you're not activly mining, you're helping to kill the mineral market and taking isk from someone that is.
Mining can only be so active in this game. Asteroids don't dodge, mining lasers don't need to be actively aimed, you're not changing targets every 20 seconds, etc. Other than sit there and chat idly or browse the market, there really is nothing else to do while waiting for my Hulk to fill.
Personally, I would really, really love if CCP made Mining more interactive, like combat. Hell, make it somehow dangerous and risky. Right now I just sit at a rock, point my lasers, set my egg timer, and the game does everything else. How much more "active" could I possibly make it on my own?
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JTDaBeast
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Posted - 2010.07.13 15:02:00 -
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Originally by: Nnam Pir
Quote:
If you're not activly mining, you're helping to kill the mineral market and taking isk from someone that is.
Mining can only be so active in this game. Asteroids don't dodge, mining lasers don't need to be actively aimed, you're not changing targets every 20 seconds, etc. Other than sit there and chat idly or browse the market, there really is nothing else to do while waiting for my Hulk to fill.
Personally, I would really, really love if CCP made Mining more interactive, like combat. Hell, make it somehow dangerous and risky. Right now I just sit at a rock, point my lasers, set my egg timer, and the game does everything else. How much more "active" could I possibly make it on my own?
May I suggest going into lower sec areas, maybe .5 for some more dangerous rats. You might find more gankers around as Concord reacts just a bit slower there. Or go for low/null sec. You never know what you're gonna get mining in those secs. High sec is safe and profitable, yes, but it does get boring after a while.
JT
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Nnam Pir
Gallente
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Posted - 2010.07.13 15:45:00 -
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I do mine in .5 space, but even going into lower-sec space, you just align to a random moon/station and then watch local. Dudes showed up? Warp away, maybe log off if they stick around. Really, unless someone shows up, it's just the same boring time-killer where I either lurk the Help channel or browse the market. It doesn't make the mining itself any more interactive. But I will concede low-/null-sec does make it less AFK-friendly and requires more attentiveness.
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Greedies
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Posted - 2010.07.13 16:13:00 -
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Eve doesn't need high sec miners at all to supply the minerals on the market. Run missions, loot the wrecks, reproccess said loot to minerals. You'll make more that way then you could ever dream of making mining.
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Ummm Toasty
Gallente
Federal Defence Union
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Posted - 2010.07.13 16:58:00 -
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Originally by: Greedies
Eve doesn't need high sec miners at all to supply the minerals on the market. Run missions, loot the wrecks, reproccess said loot to minerals. You'll make more that way then you could ever dream of making mining.
For me a typical mining run will put away the best part of 500,000 units of say plagioclase (for example). That'll take a few hours. I'm not a hard core miner, i have no orca support, so i'm guessing that's not even that high. But i have never been able to reprocess loot that comes at all close to that kind of figure. I may be wrong, but from my experiance at least, mining produces far more ore than reprocessing.
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Cpt Tackle
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Posted - 2010.07.13 20:58:00 -
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Originally by: Sancene
How much do you guys loose when concord blow you out of the sky? And how fast do you guys kill a hulk?
Dpends on whether the loot/salvage are good. The main problem is a sec status hit. A properly fitted battleship can insta pop a hulk, just be sure to use a ship scanner and see if it has a tank fitted.
Also, if a hulk uses arkonor mining crystals it is automatically immune to suicide ganking -- think about it.
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Brutala Bruna
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Posted - 2010.07.13 22:45:00 -
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Originally by: Sancene
My ship is called "Im not a macro miner" btw, so if you see that you know its me.
and leave me the hell alone you mean ganking bullies!
Now you just gave them a target to look out for. With Hulkageddon running now, I would not even board my hulk.
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Shurikane
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Posted - 2010.07.14 02:15:00 -
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Hey folks, Joseph McCarthy called. He wants his commie witch hunt back.
Originally by: Ummm Toasty
For me a typical mining run will put away the best part of 500,000 units of say plagioclase (for example). That'll take a few hours. I'm not a hard core miner, i have no orca support, so i'm guessing that's not even that high. But i have never been able to reprocess loot that comes at all close to that kind of figure. I may be wrong, but from my experiance at least, mining produces far more ore than reprocessing.
The math we need to do here is not based on minerals but on cold hard cash.
My memory is a little rusty on it, but if you compare a Hulk fitted for maximum output against a mission-running Raven, you add up to roughly the same profit at the end of the day if you compare high-sec mining to running L4s. The barge pulls in the ore, the battleship pulls in bounties, loot, and some salvage depending on your exact setup.
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Krans Hopeson
Hulkageddon Orphanage
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Posted - 2010.07.14 08:59:00 -
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Originally by: Shurikane
My memory is a little rusty on it, but if you compare a Hulk fitted for maximum output against a mission-running Raven, you add up to roughly the same profit at the end of the day if you compare high-sec mining to running L4s. The barge pulls in the ore, the battleship pulls in bounties, loot, and some salvage depending on your exact setup.
Indeed. To some extent, I think that one of the problems is that mining is a profession that rewards mindless grind rather than skill and attention.
If this was fixed, I might regain interest in mining again -- not only would macros no longer dominate (bringing up mineral prices) but shooting rocks might represent an actual challenge other than staying awake.
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Azrael Wicked
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Posted - 2010.07.14 18:59:00 -
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Edited by: Azrael Wicked on 14/07/2010 19:00:37
Yeah.. so... don't gank miners.. at least not miners who have 4 accounts for a total of one procurer and three ****ed off escorts that can attack in tandem. You'll probably wind up like the last poor bastard. Sometimes if the miner doesn't respond it's because he's tabbed to the other three ships that are passively locking onto your ass and prepping to launch a very LARGE number of missiles. And this theoretical person probably doesn't care how you rationalize ganking miners... he's probably just out for blood for the last time his procurer got destroyed and he got podded.
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Krans Hopeson
Hulkageddon Orphanage
HYDRA RELOADED
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Posted - 2010.07.14 19:58:00 -
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Originally by: Azrael Wicked
You'll probably wind up like the last poor bastard.
Please post the killmail, because I think you're full of it.
Originally by: Azrael Wicked
Sometimes if the miner doesn't respond it's because he's tabbed to the other three ships that are passively locking onto your ass and prepping to launch a very LARGE number of missiles.
And this is why. Seriously, have you ever actually tried this? The way most suicide gankers run a gank, your corpmate will be dead before your missiles hit.
Finally, I don't believe that you actually sit in a belt with four accounts and only mine on one. Far more productive to mine on all four in a quiet system and watch for local spikes.
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