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xSilk Roadx
Fascist Capitalism
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Posted - 2011.10.21 11:38:00 -
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pooper stain wrote:
-Mining ships are paper thin, sloooooo, lumbering, weak
Mining ships are everything they are meant to be.
Hulks are not so paper thin that it is possible to tank battleship rats long enough to kill the spawn.
pooper stain wrote:
-Orca is even worse in null / lowsec
Orca makes a great hauler (with web combo) where systems are cyno jammed.
pooper stain wrote:
-The rorqual is even more confusing, designed for only low / null it is supposed to take 5 miners jump into a site and then sit immobile for 5 mins in null with no means to defend its fleet (no combat ships in the hold??)
Rorquals always live at POS's only the stupid or ballsy actually use them in belts.
pooper stain wrote:
So I get that CCP says get friends to babysit you .....What pvp pilot in there right mind will babysit a mining fleet?? We all already know mining god mode hulks in null is one of the worst isk activities in the game. Why would miners split there meager earnings to have people babysit them. So here we have this Rorqual that can jump 5 miners only (no combat ships) into deep null, make himself a big target and pray no one comes into the system, why because with local, quick probes, easy DS finding miners is cake. To make matters worse the miners are easy pickens with only flee as there option, and with bubbles, and scrams it is too easy to pin and kill miners.
Nullsec miners are members of alliances therefore are afford some protection via intel channels and sovereignty.
Only stupid miners are easy pickings.. My corp will often kill reds who are after perceived easy kills, often providing juicy tears 
pooper stain wrote:
I just don't get it can someone help me understand the logic?
The logic is you have wrongly interpreted how these ships are actually used in practise. |
pooper stain
Adventurers
Matari Visionary Coalition
6
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Posted - 2011.10.21 12:39:00 -
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xSilk Roadx wrote:pooper stain wrote:
I just don't get it can someone help me understand the logic?
The logic is you have wrongly interpreted how these ships are actually used in practise.
I don't believe I mis-interpreted how the ship was designed to be used. Looking at the description and abilities of the ship it was designed to jump 5 hulks into null, provide bonuses while compressing, clone jump those hulk pilots to you in null, mine, GTFO when done. That on paper was what the rorqual was designed to do.
Yes in reality it is NOT used that way at all. WHY? cause its Big expensive easy target and everybody knows that (except CCP who obviously has never used there own designs  ) In reality the rorqual sits in pos shields and just compresses ore....Why even have the ship then. Can't we just make a pos module to do the same thing (since in essence thats what the rorq is i guess).
And Silk your right I have never taken my rorq into null, Im too scared. I have hulk mined in null but only in NPC null in an dead end system that I knew was not frequently traveled. I hated the fact I had to use a small pos to dump the ore in and use the pos refinerery (losing 25% in the process, despite wasting my time training the skill only to realize it does not work on pos modules grrrrr) because I didn't have the means of getting the ore to a station. All in all the isk was crap. I have never tried it again since it just was not worth it. (I averaged about 30mil an hour in null sec, My lvl 4 mission runners blow that away and I afk those things). I guess I was disapointed in all the prep work, sneaking into the system, constantly watching the DS and local, then getting the ore back to a market. only to be flabergasted by the lack of isk.
Over all I am disappointed that CCP does not take the miner seriously. |
xSilk Roadx
Fascist Capitalism
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Posted - 2011.10.22 01:15:00 -
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pooper stain wrote:xSilk Roadx wrote:pooper stain wrote:
I just don't get it can someone help me understand the logic?
The logic is you have wrongly interpreted how these ships are actually used in practise. I don't believe I mis-interpreted how the ship was designed to be used. Looking at the description and abilities of the ship it was designed to jump 5 hulks into null, provide bonuses while compressing, clone jump those hulk pilots to you in null, mine, GTFO when done. That on paper was what the rorqual was designed to do. Yes in reality it is NOT used that way at all. WHY? cause its Big expensive easy target and everybody knows that (except CCP who obviously has never used there own designs ) In reality the rorqual sits in pos shields and just compresses ore....Why even have the ship then. Can't we just make a pos module to do the same thing (since in essence thats what the rorq is i guess). And Silk your right I have never taken my rorq into null, Im too scared. I have hulk mined in null but only in NPC null in an dead end system that I knew was not frequently traveled. I hated the fact I had to use a small pos to dump the ore in and use the pos refinerery (losing 25% in the process, despite wasting my time training the skill only to realize it does not work on pos modules grrrrr) because I didn't have the means of getting the ore to a station. All in all the isk was crap. I have never tried it again since it just was not worth it. (I averaged about 30mil an hour in null sec, My lvl 4 mission runners blow that away and I afk those things). I guess I was disapointed in all the prep work, sneaking into the system, constantly watching the DS and local, then getting the ore back to a market. only to be flabergasted by the lack of isk. Over all I am disappointed that CCP does not take the miner seriously.
I do get your point re: what a rorqual was designed to do on paper. Don't forget eve is sandbox
It's quite natural that CCP dont get it right, then hopefully, after some time they balance the ships capabilities, which is yet to happen with the rorqual. The logistics of mining in NPC null are just far too risky for the pay off!
That said, I suggest if you want to put yours to use join a null sec alliance. Most alliances have an industrial back bone to support their pvp efforts. For example my mains live in null where we have a system upgraded, producing 4-5 hidden belts. We normally have a rorqual running bonus's 24/7 so it's easy to make 150-200mil per hour with two hulks. Hell I can mine a billion worth of high ends in a weekend.
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Belrend Coregaul
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2011.10.25 03:01:00 -
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JongBlood wrote:Dietrich VonMirat wrote:pooper stain wrote:Usurpine wrote:The problem with 0.0 mining for me is, ratting is so much more profitable that it cannot compete against mining even with abc ore. So why mining if you have the skills for ratting efficiently ? And there is the Rub.... The system encourages people NOT to mine or Bot. Why implement ships and huge skill trees to mining If there really don't want people to mine? That's silly. It's market economics. If everyone stopped mining abc, the supply would drop, prices would rise, and people would do it again. The value of ore is dependent upon how many people are out there mining it. If there's enough people mining that the value is too low for you, feel free to go do something else. The market will survive. Completely agree. Ore prices are low because everyone mines and it takes very little skill (player and toon) to shoot rocks. Saying this I have four accounts,two combat pilots, a maxed orc a pilot and a research/building pilot
Wrong. Prices are low because you get minerals from loot and drones in missions and make a ton more isk by doing so. Get refining skill up and a POS and suddenly just from ratting you can make the minerals to create your supercaps.
Mining is pointless. Highsec has little to no profit per hour and nullsec offers nothing to entice the risk.
Let's compare:
-PvE mission lvl 4. easy 10-30mil from salvage, bounties, and reward for mission. Loot can be turned into minerals for manufactoring for no risk. You fit a super tank with stable cap; afk while your drones kill everything. No risk.
-Nullsec/Lowsec ratting. 500mil+ BS rats to free kill and farm, random miners and other ratters to kill for extra loot and turn into minerals for your supercaps. Assault frigs can do this and make more isk/hour. The Risk in Assault frig=Minimal. Cloakies being the only thing to catch them.
-PvE Highsec Mining. Easy 10mil/hour with little to no risk(suicide gankers. Still more risk then PvE missions). We compete for quickly depleted but slowly regenerated rocks and have to constantly fly back to station to drop off ore if not with an alt orca. More active then the lvl 4 missions darn near.
-Nullsec/Lowsec mining. 60mil/hour, tremendous risk as ratters, passerthroughs and various others d-scan and see a hulk; it's straight to the belts for them to try for an easy kill. ABC ores profit is minimal. If paying for protection you're looking at maybe 30mil/hour. With incursions out giving players 1bil/day this is pathetic.
Now explain to me why mining is still a part of this game if you can "Mine" mission loot?
Stupidly ******** economic design.
My real issue is with these new 'incursions' that offer such a TREMENDOUS isk/hour/day reward with almost no risk due to RR fleets. F that. If miners can't get good isk because of this carebear bull giving players no loss of ship for HUGE income then remove remote rep mechanics and let ships be lost. If you wanna make a billion a day, be prepared to lose ships.
I mean a 300mil setup of a ship with 2x 100-200mil RR boats make enough to replace their ships 10 fold with no risk. But a hulk wants to make their max profit? They make 60mil/hr which during this hour it's probably lower because they have to keep fleeing to a safe spot everytime somebody passes through the system.
This entire ordeal is bullcrap and the fact that ANYONE sits there and has even a SMALL idea this is a good way for it to be needs to have their safety nets removed; lose their ships every 6 hours and then comeback and tell us miner pilots that having no safety or minimal isk income is OKAY.
Combat pilots should RELY on us. Not LAUGH at our income. We should be overshadowing them because we should hold the power over their ships.
EVE is designed with the idea that 'when you die, a clone takes your place'. So why not let the ships be destroyed more often? Stop giving people a way to survive for a year in 1 ship and make THOUSANDS more isk then a miner who produces their mods/ships.
I can't believe this is even a 'discussion'. It's a fact. Miners have it bad and we need an income increase, ESPECIALLY with incursions giving so much income. |
DetKhord Saisio
Unchained Potential
Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2011.10.26 11:13:00 -
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Why not have more miners mining in nul? You force them all to move to nul... actually, entice them to move voluntarily. Say with rewards for mining nul ore.
Some sort of random spawns that will make them space rich? If that is all they are trying to do, become space rich... they would probably jump at the chance to mine in nul. The more ore mined in nul, the more chance pvp has to kill them. And the more items must be exported to trade hubs from nul.
May have to remove about 90 percent of the ore spawns in empire asteroid belts and ice fields, but with many more ppl mining expensive ore, supply might go up, prices down for minerals and everything else. And the new players can make a killing mining empire ore in frigates. Continuing as a miner would draw them to mining nul. Can this be tested on SiSi? |
People's Republic ofChina
My Other Capital Ship is Your Mom
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Posted - 2011.10.26 11:32:00 -
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pooper stain wrote:Usurpine wrote:The problem with 0.0 mining for me is, ratting is so much more profitable that it cannot compete against mining even with abc ore. So why mining if you have the skills for ratting efficiently ? And there is the Rub.... The system encourages people NOT to mine or Bot. Why implement ships and huge skill trees to mining If there really don't want people to mine? Maybe CCP wants the miners to purchese multiple accounts so that players are forced to form solo mining fleets to stay in the black. I mean with so many free minerals coming from loot drops and drones, why not just remove mining altoghether. It is obvious that the economy needs these supposed minerals from loot and drones or CCP would not have put them in. So Miners where not mining enough or CCP just wanted to keep the isk/hour low on purpose (prob the latter). They would be better off just removing the ships and skills altogther (since there kinda useless as is) and implementing a stationary harvestor like moon mining, But I guess that would take away the gankers fun and free kills.
The concept of mining itself is cool, the actual motions of it is very boring, unrewarding and tedious. And since mining IS a repetitive activity from IRL it's hard to make it not a repetitive activity in game without it not being mining anymore.
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Elrianmk2
Dead Space Alpha
Shadow of xXDEATHXx
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Posted - 2011.10.27 13:57:00 -
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To be honest the move of Ice out of High sec if it is done will make a massive difference to low and null sec economics, basically all the ice belts will become major conflict points as those in barges hope to survive long enough to keep their alliances pos towers up as they will be primaries in every instance.
Incidentally we know CCP doesnt do industry, we have been waiting for about 5 years for a real industrial expansion, the rorq is nice but it wasnt an industrial expansion, niether was the addition of hulks but that being said im so glad i don't have to mine ABC's in a Domi or a geddon any more, man that was RSI waiting to happen.
The only solution to the over supply of mins in high sec is to massively cut back on loot table drops again and increase bounties, but lets be honest, CCP are not going to do that are they? Granted it may force more people into low sec to do industry, something they want, until they get primaried all the time and sod off back to mission running... |
Dorian Wylde
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2011.10.27 19:35:00 -
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pooper stain wrote:
The hunters get:
local
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How exactly is local a benefit to the hunters, and not the miners? |
Gronn
Offensive Logistics Inc
Excessum Gaming
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Posted - 2011.10.28 16:37:00 -
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David Grogan wrote:lol why is it an general consensus that mining ships should be weak.
if i was a ship designer and builder in real life and i knew pirates were frequently harassing industrial ships i'd design a mining ship armed to the teeth and heavily tanked. i bet i'd sell lots more ships if they were like that.
one thing i liked about x3 terran conflict was freighters were actually quite hard to kill... they had huge tanks and could be armed to the teeth. It made it more challenging to kill or capture one. Even the mining ships could have a tough tank and decent weapons.
This is one of the issues with this GÇÿsandboxGÇÖ game. The ships in it are based on what the developers perceive as balanced. I, like David Grogan would create something a little different then what CCP defines as a role specific ship. Why canGÇÖt I have a tanked/armed mining ship? Why canGÇÖt I put a cruise missile launcher on a frigate? ItGÇÖs a GÇÿsandboxGÇÖ as long as you conform to their preset standardsGǪ |
Barbara Nichole
Cryogenic Consultancy
Black Sun Alliance
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Posted - 2011.10.28 17:30:00 -
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Gronn wrote: ItGÇÖs a GÇÿsandboxGÇÖ as long as you conform to their preset standardsGǪ
you have no choice to conform or not to.. like a real world law of physics, game rules just happen... you conform to gravity not by a conscious choice but because you live here.
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Rosenkranz
Blueprint Haus
Get Off My Lawn
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Posted - 2011.10.29 15:23:00 -
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I dunno, but my Orca can tank a double or triple battleship spawn just fine and take them out with medium drones. My Hulk can do likewise (except with light drones but that takes a long time)
A Rorq would usually stay at a POS and provide kick'n mining boosts. I realize it's intended for use on grid with the miners but is just too exposed for that use. It's too easy to hot drop or cov-ops drop the Rorq and kill it before the fleet's defenses could kill off the intruders. |
caliis
Sphere Industries
V0RTEX.
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Posted - 2011.10.30 18:03:00 -
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well all this talk about null and low sec mining and its troubles. i remember a while back one of the best and oddly enough simple suggestions to making hulks and other barges a bit less of a juicy cow in the fields is to make strip miners work on ships. if you attack a hulk in null sec and they target you with 3 strip miners that should do quite a bit of damage in my opinion then hulks might be less of a target to some people. no improvement needed no new ship models, no arguing about new fitting. just make the strip miners do damage equal to the largest energy turret with equal DPS for the 3 min cycle. that would equate to a dangerous target. so 3 hulks would equate to a very dangerous group, seems logical to me they should do damage. also its not like strip miners can be used on anything else to make an imbalance to other ships. just putting that out there.
i always liked that idea. |
Aurora Silvare
Buzzkill.
Overwatch.
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Posted - 2011.11.05 04:46:00 -
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pooper stain wrote:xSilk Roadx wrote:pooper stain wrote:
I just don't get it can someone help me understand the logic?
The logic is you have wrongly interpreted how these ships are actually used in practise. I don't believe I mis-interpreted how the ship was designed to be used. Looking at the description and abilities of the ship it was designed to jump 5 hulks into null, provide bonuses while compressing, clone jump those hulk pilots to you in null, mine, GTFO when done. That on paper was what the rorqual was designed to do. Yes in reality it is NOT used that way at all. WHY? cause its Big expensive easy target and everybody knows that (except CCP who obviously has never used there own designs ) In reality the rorqual sits in pos shields and just compresses ore....Why even have the ship then. Can't we just make a pos module to do the same thing (since in essence thats what the rorq is i guess). And Silk your right I have never taken my rorq into null, Im too scared. I have hulk mined in null but only in NPC null in an dead end system that I knew was not frequently traveled. I hated the fact I had to use a small pos to dump the ore in and use the pos refinerery (losing 25% in the process, despite wasting my time training the skill only to realize it does not work on pos modules grrrrr) because I didn't have the means of getting the ore to a station. All in all the isk was crap. I have never tried it again since it just was not worth it. (I averaged about 30mil an hour in null sec, My lvl 4 mission runners blow that away and I afk those things). I guess I was disapointed in all the prep work, sneaking into the system, constantly watching the DS and local, then getting the ore back to a market. only to be flabergasted by the lack of isk. Over all I am disappointed that CCP does not take the miner seriously.
OK, let me sum this up.
A. You failed to do the research on game mechanics and wasted time on skills you didn't need.
B. You tried to ninja mine in NPC 0.0 without having a well thought out plan to not only get in, but get the end product out.
C. You ran the numbers AFTER you spent all your time and effort on a flawed mining op.
So all this obviously adds up to any mining in 0.0 being unprofitable because YOU couldn't make any money at it.
Does that about sum it up? |
Kale Eledar
Mining and Industrial Services
The Irukandji
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Posted - 2011.11.05 05:00:00 -
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Rorquals are most commonly kept in POSes, where their bonuses and ore grinding abilities are utilized behind the safety of the shields. They simply don't have enough defenses to sit in a belt and mine without significant protection. As long as you're fleeted up, the mining links from Orcas/Rorquals etc. will still boost your mining yield, without needing to risk these expensive ships. But I don't usually organize a mining op without some sort of protection. You have to practice safe nullsec standards with those slow ships.
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Killstealing
Broski Enterprises
Elite Space Guild
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Posted - 2011.11.05 14:36:00 -
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pooper stain wrote:well,
I see that CCP wanted it a group activity, Most real miners (not bots) like to mine in groups. group chat is fun for some of us nut jobs that like shooting rocks. But when it comes to Null sec, The risks are crazy compared to the reward. Is it not our PVP overlords that scream "risk vs reward"? What is risker then a 2 bil Rorqual with 5 100+mil hulks playing the sitting duck in a null sec roid patch. Yet 60mil isk/hour is pathetic rewards.
You mentioned Rorqual sitting at a POS? So now I have a ship with a Tractor beam bonus having to sit in a POS shield? So we have to use space for time and space for fueling, setup, and shutdown, just for 60mil isk and hour? I know ccp hates miners but wow!!
It looks like the reason CCP added high end minerals to loot drops was that null sec miners where not getting enough ore to the markets. Can't CCP improve on this and give miners back there function?
bull ****, mining ops in nullsec are safer than in hisec if you are not dumb |
Pothead Alar
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
0
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Posted - 2011.11.05 17:24:00 -
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A few here and said mining is the bases of any economy, mine first, produce then sell. But why mine at all?
Every time I mission run or go ratting, I look at all the loot that I get and recycle it for the minerals there are. That is if I don't keep some for my own use. Sure it may not be in the same volume as mining, but as long as I have this to get minerals, then why mine at all. Why buy them when I can recycle everything in this game and get what people mine.
As far as I can tell the only thing you really need to mine is Ice, all ore why bother. |
Velicitia
Open Designs
51
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Posted - 2011.11.05 17:57:00 -
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sheer volume of required minerals mr. forum alt |
Pothead Alar
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2011.11.05 18:10:00 -
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Yep, But I did say it's may not be in the same volume as mining
but then it dose depend on what your making. If you only make small things why mine. If you can rat for the drop, make ISK, and recycle for the ore. But if your making Cap ships, ok that need is far greater that recycling will get. |
Pothead Alar
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
0
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Posted - 2011.11.05 18:14:00 -
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dbl post |
Velicitia
Open Designs
51
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Posted - 2011.11.05 18:31:00 -
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Yep, I was simply confirming your suspicion about "why mine".
Even "small" things take **** tonnes of ore/minerals. Personally, I don't mine when trying to build anything in quantity.
If it's one ship (i.e. personal use), or because I'm strapped for cash and need to finish something, I'll hop in the exhumer for a few hours and mine veldspar like it's my job.
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Pothead Alar
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
0
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Posted - 2011.11.05 18:47:00 -
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I do mine sometimes, but only when I can't sit at the computer and pay attention to what is going on. it just to boring to do on a as your only job/ activity. Mining has if flaws.
My self I really don't make big items. Dabble with manuf. some but more for my own use than to make big ships. |
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