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Gianath
Gallentian Legitimate Businessmen
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Posted - 2012.08.10 02:25:00 -
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After the mining barge changes were announced, I decided to prepare my trio of characters for mining. Not serious miners, mind you. I wanted to see if I could make all that free ISK that comes with AFK mining while at work, either from mission asteroids or grav sites. Basically the goal was to just setup 3 miners that I could check in every 15-30 minutes, since my work time is unpredictable.
Spoiler alertGǪ it wasn't worth the effort.
With the new mining changes, I decided to take all my mining skills to the 3-4 range, so it wasn't too much of an investment. My retrievers all had around 15k EHP with resist and shield rigs, and 2x mining laser upgrades and a damage control II in the lows. I only use strip miner I's because I don't care about crystals and was going to be mining a wide range of rocks.
I decided to do 2 days at work, 6 hours a day, trying to put the bare minimum of effort to simulate a standard work day where I never know when I might have to walk away for 30 minutes. Rats were no problem, hobgoblin II's killed everything that bothered me, but the paltry loot even the 4 faction spawns had made them not contribute significantly to my income.
So 3 characters, 6 hours a day each over 2 days. Add in the 3 hours it took to haul everything 5 hops away with an Orca.
I picked a system that was in Amarr .7 space, where I focused on Kernite and Pyroxeres. I was also next door to a Gallente .6 system where I also grabbed some Omber, Scordite, Veld and Plagioclase. With 36 hours worth of mining effort, I managed to pull down 850,000 cubic meters of asteroids worth around 170 million ISK.
You are probably thinkingGǪ You made 170 million ISK for AFK mining at work?!?! I'm doing that!
Well, the thing isGǪ it wasn't AFK. The system I chose was backwater, very little traffic. I saw only one other miner, and no gankers. There was also no station in system, and out of principal I didn't jet can so I could take advantage of the huge ore storage space. Still, 80% of the rocks I mined would pop within 2 cycles, meaning each character had to be visited every 5 minutes on average to start on a new rock. When you consider I had 3 miners going at once, that means on average I had to check on my progress every 2 minutes or I would be guaranteed one of them would lose a rock on the cycle.
I had an Orca, but I left it behind in station since boosting 2 retrievers wouldn't really be worth the extra mining I could do. Long story short, with 39 hours worth of effort divided between 3 characters, which intended to be AFK but actually needed constant supervision, my hourly income came out to a little over 4 million ISK per hour.
To put that into perspective, I make around 20 million ISK per hour per character for high sec level 4 missions. And that requires less supervision if I'm taking drone boats.
Yes, I could have optimized this more by going with hulks and boosters, or waiting until I found huge rocks in a grav site or a deadspace pocket, or scanning rocks so I could time them and not waste cycles. But that wasn't my goal. My goal was to see if I could make free ISK while only occasionally checking on my progress as I worked.
So while real miners who can devote all their attention to mining are going to be pleased with the new barge changes, if you think you can jump in with 2 weeks of mining training in your queue and print your own ISK while AFK during the day, I am here to say that is a pipe dream and you are going to be sorely disappointed!
Ok, feel free to poke holes in my logic or flame me, I don't care. I'm going to build a few battleships with the ore I mined and them blow them up for some insurance and then buy all the Quafe I can drink with the proceeds now.
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Omnathious Deninard
Extrinsic Operations
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Posted - 2012.08.10 02:46:00 -
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You cant half ass your skills and equipment and then complain you didnt get a lot of isk. |
Gianath
Gallentian Legitimate Businessmen
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Posted - 2012.08.10 02:52:00 -
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Omnathious Deninard wrote:You cant half ass your skills and equipment and then complain you didnt get a lot of isk.
Very true, and I wasn't complaining. I suppose I could have invested a few months to do it right, if I was interested in mining as a career. But it was mostly just an experiment to see if AFK mining was really feasible with the new mining barges and their huge ore bays. It wasn't.
Unless you are a bot, it's a lot more attention and clicking than people think, and is anything but an AFK-friendly profession without very carefully controlled mining environments. |
Pipa Porto
659
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Posted - 2012.08.10 03:49:00 -
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Just a tip. There's a type of asteroid in HS that never pops, no matter how many cycles you mine it for. EvE: Everyone vs Everyone
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Kaivar Lancer
General Exports
216
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Posted - 2012.08.10 04:21:00 -
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WTH. I can make 4m/hr in an Osprey. ??? |
Aurelius Valentius
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
164
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Posted - 2012.08.10 05:27:00 -
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Your not going to make a lot of ISK with crappy skills - I turn out the ISK well enough mining (active, don't like to be AFK until my ships are in a hangar) and I used the Mack today and yesterday with just standard belt mining and was able to pull in 6.8M in Dense Veld refined to Trit each load... if I spent a few hours mining each day it piles up...
Now, your misconception is this... that mining is just a "free" easy no effort ISK faucet... not the case, you can toddle off to a belt and zap-zap for a few and think this sucks I must be doing it wrong and say, why am I not making millions (or billions) of ISK...
... reason: because to make ISK piles is like working with a shovel and dirt... you have to work at it all the time to pile it up high... every time out to the belts you get the same rough size and amount, but if you work at it you begin to pile up...
It's a philosophy much like this
Two people each get 100.00 a week to use for expenses. The first goes out every day and has a fancy launch, gets new stuff and spends his funds until the next week... net zero savings, but has "fun" and "stuff" The second person goes out and buys a few things - set of cloths, food to last a while and puts the remainder into a saving jar... he managed to save 50.00 a week.
At the end of a years who's rich? - the one with the pile of stuff or the one with the pile of money? if you are a "spend-aholic" who buys stuff and then throws it around the floor, you feel like you never have anything... and you want the money that someone else has because you believe them to be rich and your not... but the amount of latent wealth that could have been money but is now tired up in stuff is the issue... and it's it's stuff needed and used then it's value is high, if it's just crap you buy and forget about it's junk and it's low..
If you want to make piles of ISK, you have to sit every day for hours, mine and pile it up and watch the markets and sell when it's right, and you have to put the skill time in to get your skills to max - just like in pvp combat, if your skills suck your going to suck at pew pew and be just so many KM victims. To mine or not to mine... that is the quesiton. |
Sari Ljungen
E.P.I.C. Group
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Posted - 2012.08.10 06:57:00 -
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I can make another comparison.
I make around 15mil/hour with my Drake doing L4 missions with semi-good skills but I constantly have to be worried about getting killed if I pull to many ships at the same time. My perfect miner does 24mil/hour mining and I have to check on him once every 180s. I can refine and sell the minerals in the same system that I mine in and infact earn more ISK then if I would haul it to a trade hub for instance (cost of a hauler, time to haul)
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Mindrago Aldent
Pew Pew Inc Altair-Zaniah Ventures
0
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Posted - 2012.08.10 09:30:00 -
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I don't see why anyone wouldn't like the Retriever changes..i'm now making roughly 5m isk per load with no refining skills and simply selling the raw ores With my Covetor I was pulling around 2m isk per load and as a new miner i'm hoping my earnings go up as my skills level as well. I don't use any drones or mining rigs either just yet. |
Haffsol
Froody Guys Spaceships Business
13
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Posted - 2012.08.10 09:45:00 -
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Quote:Long story short, with 39 hours worth of effort divided between 3 characters, which intended to be AFK but actually needed constant supervision, my hourly income came out to a little over 4 million ISK per hour. well actually that looks like a lot to me. Not because of how much _you_ gained but because if you multiply your number x the 10/20k new afk miners out there I guess the market could be flooded pretty fast.
I don't think that will happen anyway, as you said for you it was not worth the effort and that is exactly what everybody will say. Also because afk mining is not that afk as you guessed.
Conclusion: tons of new miners for a couple of weeks, then the same old story: mining is boring, let's gtfo of these belts and let stupid carebears do the job. Yes please. |
Aud Actori
Ciomach Industry
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Posted - 2012.08.10 10:44:00 -
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Gianath wrote:To put that into perspective, I make around 20 million ISK per hour per character for high sec level 4 missions. And that requires less supervision if I'm taking drone boats.
Stick with your Lvl 4 missions. To make good money from mining, you need to train to do it.
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xxzartanxx
Royal Amarr Institute Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.08.10 12:15:00 -
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I used to mine for years and I wanted to test your theory, it's flawed;
I trained my combat skills to like level 2-3 and still I earn way more with mining then with level 4 missions. Conclusion: doing missions is not worth it. |
Zicon Shak'ra
Vacuo Anomalia
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Posted - 2012.08.10 12:50:00 -
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xxzartanxx wrote:I used to mine for years and I wanted to test your theory, it's flawed;
I trained my combat skills to like level 2-3 and still I earn way more with mining then with level 4 missions. Conclusion: doing missions is not worth it.
And I can earn way more than both of you by pew-pewing Sleepers. Wormholes are cool, m'kay? |
Annette Aumer
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
10
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Posted - 2012.08.10 13:15:00 -
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*sigh* the OP's point is not how much isk you earn.
Just testing the concept that with the new retrievers you can walk away from your PC for 15-30 minutes and as such earn isk that way.
Basically he's reinforcing that because of the nature of the roids and how much ore each has in it you'll at most get a few cycles before having to find new roids to zap.
I know that if I am busy on my main I switch over to the larger Veld roids as I'll get if i'm lucky 4 cycles with my Strip I's (3000m3 per cycle approx atm) but I never truely am AFK because I have to manage the roids. |
vyshnegradsky
MNU Operations Luna Sanguinem
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Posted - 2012.08.10 13:17:00 -
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Try it out with mining Ice next time |
Celgar Thurn
Department 10
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Posted - 2012.08.10 13:19:00 -
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EVE Online isn't designed or meant to be played AFK hence your difficulty in trying to attempt to do so. CCP is about to prevent pilots farming complexes AFK with sentry drones. Either play the game or don't play the game. |
Sarik Olecar
Royal Amarr Institute Amarr Empire
113
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Posted - 2012.08.10 13:28:00 -
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Its almost as if all this nonsense about AFK miners bringing in 100mil/hr without any risk is total BS?
I make 15mil an hour in Ice with my retriever, so I'm pretty content. However, mining Ice exposes you to more gankers and bumpers so... |
Andski
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
4288
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Posted - 2012.08.10 13:35:00 -
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So you didn't use a survey scanner? "WeGÇÖre a professional Merc Alliance, like PL" ~ snot shot, 2012 |
Skeln Thargensen
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.08.10 14:00:00 -
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it is an AFK miner's dream if you're content with ~9M ISK per hour, which ain't bad for new players.
True, I could probably be running level 4s already with the skills I've spent on mining but probably not this effortlessly. Meanwhile, I have an alt for PvP and my main is training up for more profitable activities. |
Idris Helion
University of Caille Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.08.10 14:40:00 -
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Gianath wrote:I picked a system that was in Amarr .7 space, where I focused on Kernite and Pyroxeres.
I think I see your problem.
If you're in hisec, don't waste your time with anything other than Veld (or Scord now that Pyerite is so high). Pyroxeres can be okay if you're already in the belt, but don't go chasing them. Listen to Chribba: Veld is almost always the best ore, and trit is almost always the best mineral for ISK/hr in hisec. Scord is great right now, but that may not last.
You also need to max your skills to make ISK as a miner. If you're refining without maxed skills and high sec status with your refinery, you're wasting ISK. Just sell the raw ore instead.
Mining isn't going to make you rich, but then it's hard to find anything in EVE that pays very well these days. But It's not hard to pull down 10-20M ISK/hr in hisec mining, which isn't bad -- it's certainly more lucrative than running missions (until Level 4, anyway). You just need to do it efficiently. It's easy to mine badly, but tricky to mine efficiently. It's way more about logistics than about ship-outfitting, really. You have to pick a good location, do some prep work on the belt(s), get your assets in place (crystals, secure containers, haulers, etc.), and make sure you're watching the markets for ore/mineral prices to make sure you're going after the highest-value ores. If you're in a fleet, make sure you're getting your proper boosts. Use MLUs in your lows and not cargo expanders (if I find anyone in my fleets using cargo expanders or rigs rather than MLUs or tank, they're fired).
In mining more than almost any other activity in the game, time is ISK. The more time you spend lasering roids for ore, the more ISK you make. Any time you spend not lasering roids -- running back and forth to station, running away from rats/gankers, trundling back and forth to target new rocks,e tc. -- means less ISK/hr. Efficiency is all.
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Gianath
Gallentian Legitimate Businessmen
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Posted - 2012.08.10 16:01:00 -
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Idris Helion wrote:Gianath wrote:I picked a system that was in Amarr .7 space, where I focused on Kernite and Pyroxeres. I think I see your problem. If you're in hisec, don't waste your time with anything other than Veld (or Scord now that Pyerite is so high). Pyroxeres can be okay if you're already in the belt, but don't go chasing them. Listen to Chribba: Veld is almost always the best ore, and trit is almost always the best mineral for ISK/hr in hisec. Scord is great right now, but that may not last. You also need to max your skills to make ISK as a miner. If you're refining without maxed skills and high sec status with your refinery, you're wasting ISK. Just sell the raw ore instead.
Oh, I agree... this is actually my second attempt at this type of mining experiment.
I have a pair of hulk pilots with nearly maxed out mining skills I let expire 2 years ago because it was a whole lot worse trying to mine from work with them. My existing Orca pilot also has nearly maxed mining/refining skills even though I purposefully didn't use them here to use a retriever.The higher your mining skills go, the roids pop even faster and you have to transfer your ore with even greater frequency. It seems like the more skilled you get, the less hassle a career should be, but with mining that is definitely *not* the case.
I'll just say again, since it's funny to me... the higher your mining skills get, the more work mining becomes!
But I may just re-try my experiment by focusing on Ice mining as others have suggested. That is a whole other ballgame though, since at least with ore mining I get to build fun new ships with my minerals. With ICE mining, I don't have a POS or anything so would actually have to worry about selling things to make it worth my time. |
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Idris Helion
University of Caille Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.08.10 16:09:00 -
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Gianath wrote:Oh, I agree... this is actually my second attempt at this type of mining experiment.
I have a pair of hulk pilots with nearly maxed out mining skills I let expire 2 years ago because it was a whole lot worse trying to mine from work with them. My existing Orca pilot also has nearly maxed mining/refining skills even though I purposefully didn't use them here to use a retriever.The higher your mining skills go, the roids pop even faster and you have to transfer your ore with even greater frequency. It seems like the more skilled you get, the less hassle a career should be, but with mining that is definitely *not* the case.
I'll just say again, since it's funny to me... the higher your mining skills get, the more work mining becomes!
But I may just re-try my experiment by focusing on Ice mining as others have suggested. That is a whole other ballgame though, since at least with ore mining I get to build fun new ships with my minerals. With ICE mining, I don't have a POS or anything so would actually have to worry about selling things to make it worth my time.
I'd say it's more a case that as you skill up in mining, you should be going into fleets because solo mining is a sucker's game, ISK-wise. The only way to get your ISK/hr up beyond a certain point is to mine in fleets and get various fleet boosts, while gaining from the fleet infrastructure (Orcas, haulers, etc.). Your mining ship's job is just to sit there and grind up rocks; you jet the ore and let someone else deal with it, then get in line at the end of the day for your payout. And if you ever plan to mine in lowsec or nullsec, it's pure madness to do this in any way other than a fleet (with armed escort, or in a friendly system).
I sometimes think that CCP doesn't get too worked up about mining bots and AFK players because it's really kind of a crummy ISK/hr career anyhow. Very few people are ever going to get rich busting rocks with lasers.
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Rozpoo
United Earth Directorate The Unforgiven Alliance
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Posted - 2012.08.10 16:16:00 -
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If you want to afk mine, you need to try ice mining instead of mining regular ore. With the increase in yield per laser that the barges got (non cov/hulk), you will pop asteroids faster than a cov/hulk and it will require much more time resetting lasers. At least with the hulk you are spreading the yield over 3 rocks instead of 2/1.
Ice mining is where you want to be for work afk mining. The rocks will rarely if ever pop, you can set it for 30-45 minutes and walk away. The amount of time you can afk will depend on your ice mining/barge skills. You should also find a system where you can just sell/refine the ore rather than try to haul it somewhere else. For me, with my mackinaw at 37k m3, I can bring in about 8.8 million worth of ice per load. A fully skilled retriever will do about 6.4 million per load. |
Vincent Athena
V.I.C.E. Comic Mischief
912
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Posted - 2012.08.10 17:49:00 -
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To make it work with more AFK:
Mine ice. Do it in a system with a station where you can refine and sell. Use the orca to boost. 2 miners + Orca are better than 3 miners, assuming a skilled orca pilot and the right equipment. Also, only 2 mining vessels to deal with every 30 minutes.
On the half hour you transfer to the orca. On the hour you transfer to the orca and warp, dock, and dump ore from the orca.
However, the ease of this will most likely crash the ice product market. Happy times for POS operators, not so much for miners. http://vincentoneve.wordpress.com/ |
Aurelius Valentius
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
165
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Posted - 2012.08.10 18:18:00 -
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Mindrago Aldent wrote:I don't see why anyone wouldn't like the Retriever changes..I'm now making roughly 5m isk per load with no refining skills and simply selling the raw ores With my Covetor I was pulling around 2m isk per load and as a new miner i'm hoping my earnings go up as my skills level as well. I don't use any drones or mining rigs either just yet.
I have "perfect" miner skills and a 5% HX ( no michi though) and I pull in this with a Mack: 21-- per cyc of dense veld per 35K m3 = 6,800,000M ISK as Trit at 5.88 atm... not selling it, just hoarding it up for manufacturing.
but I have in since the patch put up something like 138M in Trit just solo belt mining... so not too bad, when I get serious with a fleet setup then will really see what is going on... the Ret/Macks are def a plus *looks at his striped out hulk up on block in the hangar...* and well have to do something with that I imagine...
I think though still have to run the numbers but I think a stationary orca with max boost and just using macks that run in their own ore to station (keeping the orca constantly boosting to mining members would out mine the same number of hulks... but not sure.
To mine or not to mine... that is the quesiton. |
Aurelius Valentius
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
165
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Posted - 2012.08.10 18:24:00 -
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Andski wrote:So you didn't use a survey scanner?
LOL... um... no... who would use that thing... ROCKS, (puts on his pirate cap)... Take everything, give nothing back... yarrrr *removes pirate hat*... hehe... that was funny... survey scanner... hehe... *cough cough*...
To mine or not to mine... that is the quesiton. |
Kara Books
Deal with IT.
192
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Posted - 2012.08.10 20:01:00 -
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You make 2.5B isk per month with 3 acounts doing NOTHING and your complaining?
4 unlucky officer spawns to?
Makes it look like 3.5B isk is possible mining in cheep ships.
Dude 6 hours a day?
Some will do it 12 hours a day while at work that's 7B isk per month 3 accounts MINING that's about as much as I make with 60 some odd billion in 2 trade hubs, very precise work and you complain? Man if I ever pass by your system, il reship and show you just how bad things can be. |
Gianath
Gallentian Legitimate Businessmen
42
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Posted - 2012.08.10 20:51:00 -
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Kara Books wrote:You make 2.5B isk per month with 3 acounts doing NOTHING and your complaining?
4 unlucky officer spawns to?
Makes it look like 3.5B isk is possible mining in cheep ships.
Dude 6 hours a day?
Some will do it 12 hours a day while at work that's 7B isk per month 3 accounts MINING that's about as much as I make with 60 some odd billion in 2 trade hubs, very precise work and you complain? Man if I ever pass by your system...
I think that's a bot you are describing. Or somebody being forced to mine in a third-world prison for RMT. I have no interest in mining as an actual cash cow.
The spawns I mentioned were just the faction frigate variety that pop up in high sec belts. I probably gave too much info in my original post, but I just wanted to provide context so people could see the planning that went into my effort and why I said that AFK mining (at least for asteroids) was anything *but* AFK. There were a lot of people complaining that would be the case with the new mining barges, and I just wanted to test that out for myself.
I wasn't really jumping into the mining experience (again) for the money. My 3 characters already have a multi-billion ISK stockpile from exploring, wormholes and missions. I was mostly doing it so I had a low-maintenance way of adding something to my Eve experience/value while I was otherwise at work and only able to occasionally check in on things. Basically not having to switch over and click something every two minutes.
I'll give the Ice mining a try, as I think that will actually serve my newly defined purposes for filling that need. |
Ezra Tair
Murientor Tribe Defiant Legacy
85
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Posted - 2012.08.10 22:16:00 -
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In the interest in crashing ICE product pricing. Go afk mining ice. Takes about an hour to fill the hold, should be right up your alley. |
Styth spiting
Ion Corp. NightSong Directorate
48
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Posted - 2012.08.10 22:41:00 -
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Gianath wrote: mining skills to the 3-4 range and 2x mining laser upgrades and a damage control II in the lows. only use strip miner I's I focused on Kernite and Pyroxeres
What did you expect? You're mining with very low level mining skills, only using 2 MLUII, not using MSMII's / crystals, and mining the 3 lowest value ores in the game. All my miners generally make on average the last week about 32M / hour. So in a 32 total hours of mining that would be roughly 1B isk.
So AFK mining is very worth it, your just doing it totally wrong... |
Invictra Atreides
Toward the Terra
94
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Posted - 2012.08.10 23:57:00 -
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I might add.
Some say that they can AFK lvl4 missions. The OP has 3 accounts and used 3 ships.
So lets say we can do lvl 4 missions with 3 ships. 2x Drake with semi skills and one salvager. This is NOT afk missioning. Blog |-áTutorials | Youtube "I donGÇÖt know everything, I just know what I know." |
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