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.

GROW BRAINS..(no don't that might be even worse).

If nobody mined.....NO SHIPS....NO GAME.

Why should it be entertaining ?? Is ANY aspect of ANY industry 'fun'? NO !

Who has everything has to be pew-pew either ??

Sometimes I wonder if people really understandhow all the pieces of this game fit together.

I really don't think they do, and your question, OP, only exposes your ignorance of MANY things.

Minus 10 points to Hufflepuff. You didn't read the thread, this is not a miner bashing thread.

EDIT: Without miners I would not have had ships to suicide gank with and suicide gank targets, they were integral to the last few weeks of my stay in EVE.

As Industrialists who mine their own minerals "because it's free" need not reply. Incompetence is not a viewpoint.

My motivation, you small-minded fool, blah blah blah more self satisfying inane drivel to once again appear superior to others

See....it IS a bashing thread.

Thank you, I can now pigeon hole you in a box marked f'kin moron.
-1 for being a ****

I know it's not a bashing thread. It's just an idiotic question.

I mine for several different reasons. First, to me mining is just as repetitive as targeting and shooting red pluses in my overview and I don't have to deal with the rocks shooting back at me. Other than keeping an eye on the intel channel, I can relax and chat with my corpmates after a stressful work day.

Second, when I set a new industrial goal for myself, I like to build as much of it "from scratch" as I can. At least the first time. For example, when I built a freighter for one of my alts, I had enough cash to just buy one or I could have just bought all the minerals along with the BPC pack. But i wanted to build it myself so I bought just the pack and mined every mineral required. Was it the most efficient use of my time isk-wise? Almost certainly not. However, IMHO, it's a perfect example of the sandbox. I set my own goal in the game and worked to achieve it. I had fun working towards the goal and felt like I'd achieved something when I was done.

Finally, while I understand that the minerals I mine aren't free, mining them allows me to choose to trade my time to save isk when I want to make a large investment. It allows me to maintain isk reserves so that if something comes up and I don't have time to gather the minerals, I can just buy it outright.

GROW BRAINS..(no don't that might be even worse).

If nobody mined.....NO SHIPS....NO GAME.

Sometimes I wonder if people really understandhow all the pieces of this game fit together.

I really don't think they do, and your question, OP, only exposes your ignorance of MANY things.

. . . I am well-versed on the much of the economy of EVE, barring null-sec PI.

What is your motivation In posting in a forum like this and trolling some of the responses.
What makes you want to do this? Is insecurity in yourself and a need to feel superior to others by means of putting them down??
Even though my viewpoint is that you are waste of skin, I am curious as to why this entertains you, the troll poster.

No point in answering because obvious bait post is obvious

Simple, I enjoy it.

No idea why. Should be boring as hell. But it's fun. It's especially fun in grav sites, when you can kill off some truly massive rocks. When I lived in null, our static grav site had an enormous spodumain rock. I worked on it for days. Good times.

Mining with a group is even better. When you get a bunch of hulks, an orca and several haulers, and you can just spend hours cleaning out entire systems. It doesn't even matter what ore is selling best, you just strip everything in range, and move on.

I currently do not mine regularly, I did when first starting the game.

My original reason was to see how far in mining I could go. And for awhile, that included Null; I've seen Mercoxit clouds.

Later, when time became a constraint (and my frantic** 1-2 hour high-sec sessions were no longer possible), I've mined purely for the benefit of others - corp or alliance. I still do this today, if mining as part of corp (pure donation, no payment).

One of the advantages touted here in group mining is the opportunity to have a captive audience (fleet chat). That should not be discounted; Some of the best advice (and interesting PvE/PvP fittings) I've gained over my time here was over the mining fleet chat and/or voice comms. I try to return the favor here as well, when possible.


** Its always baffled me why people find mining relaxing. It never has been for me, but I can get a bit OCD over never having an idle laser. This has gotten worse with the ability to field T2 crystals. And no I don't do Ice personally - if you find my other recent posts I've actually been touting the complete replacement of Ice products as PI.

I miss the hum of the mining lasers... it had a meditative quality to them.

Donating your work to others? You crazy.

Industrialists who mine their own minerals "because it's free" need not reply. Incompetence is not a viewpoint.

assuming noone elses viewpoint is not valid is equally incompetent

sometimes i like to mine..............its easy for the most part and i can watch tv or read a book or just chat on ts with my friends while doing it

i also like to pvp too but i have mining toons and pvp toons. when i run out of isk and lose all my pvp ships i fire up my mining alt and mine to build new pvp ships for my pvp toon. its called being self sufficient.

i dont have r-l money to buy plex like alot of ye "miners are fail" type "leet" pvper can.

dont get me wrong mining is very boring.... but its alot cheaper than paying full market prices for battle cruisers (welpcanes or drakes) or battleships (hellcats or alpha pests) which 90% of pvp fleets seem to use these days.

i even build capitals from mins i mined