Griff Hardstone
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.10.19 23:03:00 -
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To be bluntly honest, I'm new and I honestly don't know where or what I want to do. I joined the buddy program and got a nice amount of isk. One of the people who also joined chatted me up ingame and said he was broke from buying ships and fits, could I loan him 5 mil so he could get in a Retriever to make isk.
I'm reading a lot of posts and forums about people who burnout from playing Eve as a noob, A lot went straight into a player corp and became a slave grinding rocks or something that they weren't happy doing, somewhat like starting a new job and being told here is a mop and bucket, go clean the shitter. Hell I would say screw this too! I can see both sides of the coin. Noobs have to work their way up the ladder, not to mention they may be thieves or spies 
I mine for three reasons.
1. I can watch chat and get the hang of the lingo, picking up tidbits of knowledge as I grind that big ass veldspar.
2. As I'm mining, my sp is steadily climbing as is my isk. I would rather be out making some isk then either sitting in station watching my ship spin or looking in the mirror in the CQ saying Damn, I'm sexy! I mix it up, I mine for a while and do missions. I notice that I learn more by mining and listening and asking question then I do jumping into rooms and fighting.
3. I can read forums or google something somebody said or read links that someone told me to read. I read the C&P forum here so I can get an idea of what's the latest scam or am I gonna be alpha-striked as a miner in Gallente space because Goons are killing ice miners or anyone in a ORE class ship. 
I don't see mining as boring or a waste of time. especially when your sitting there mining and right off your bow a ship uncloaks less then 500m, yea that was a holy **** moment, He then informed me of D-Scan is your friend, said o7 fly safe, cloaked and I think he left. 
I see a lot of people saying mining sucks and I need to do Lv 4 missions, I ask can a 1.4 mil sp (mostly industry) do that? Hahaha hell no, you need to train XYZ to lvl 4 or 5. I go back to mining and watching my sp and wallet slowly climb. |