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Alexicia James The Scope Gallente Federation 3	Posted - 2014.02.14 21:18:00 - [1] - Quote Being a returning player, I decided to try something different in eve, instead of typical mission running or failed attempts to PvP. I wanted to look into station trading, manufacturing, and some mining. With the skills to pilot a hulk in hand, I was curious if it would be worth my time to try to sustain my subscription and make a profit mining. At the very most I would probably play for 3 hours a day. Is mining still a viable source of income in this game, or has it really just delved closer to incursions and PvP?
Gizznitt Malikite Agony Unleashed Agony Empire 3532	Posted - 2014.02.14 22:20:00 - [2] - Quote miners mine themselves into poverty... If you are trying to buy a plex every month, mining in highsec won't get you there unless you do it every day. I would highly recommend diversifying: Do some PI, do some MFG, do some trading, etc. If you are a serious trader or manufacturer, you can make plenty of isk to sustain an account. However, with trading it takes isk to make isk. With MFG, the income is steady, but not enormous unless you find a good niche.
Batelle Komm susser Tod 1768	Posted - 2014.02.14 22:29:00 - [3] - Quote solo mining is the worst income in the game, sans afk freightering. As an industrialist, you'll be purchasing minerals anyway. This doesn't make mining worthless however. Its just bad income. Its not a bad activity to do while managing your orders (must be in region as your trading location), or doing market research, or even semi-afk mining such as watching a tv show or whatever. However, a solo hulk mining in hisec is quite risky. In fact its close to suicidal if you're anywhere near trade hubs or highly populated systems. Plus the hulk has a crappy ore bay. Hulks are expensive and they are absolute magnets for gankers. If you must mine, do it in a skiff or a tanked mackinaw. "CCP is changing policy, and has asked that we discontinue the bonus credit program after November 7th. So until then, enjoy a super-bonus of 1B Blink Credit for each 60-day GTC you buy!" Never forget.
Krixtal Icefluxor INLAND EMPIRE Galactic 99887	Posted - 2014.02.14 23:13:00 - [4] - Quote My wallet increased by 5 Bill this month from just mining, with 2 Macks and Orca Boost, and fuel block production. 3 days a week. So, I must heartily disagree about the poverty. "He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."-á - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Nedly Stark Caldari Provisions Caldari State 3	Posted - 2014.02.15 01:03:00 - [5] - Quote Mining is very profitable. As far as buying your ship & crystals goes, the ore you mine is straight up profit.
Erik Sokarad Republic University Minmatar Republic 0	Posted - 2014.02.15 01:12:00 - [6] - Quote mining is the minimum wage of eve. your results depend on your yield, which is impacted by a lot of skills. it also depends on your survivability, as the highest yield hulls tend to get ganked. people who claim high mining income are working with multiple accounts, and as always fleets of ships can be far more productive than solo ships. the real trick is that you have a isk/hour/account limit with mining, with a high skill requirement to get the best possible results. and once you mine, then what do you do with the ore? you get more isk if you can refine it yourself, but refining needs both a skill investment and the standings to avoid the 5% tax, so you will have a limited number of places where you can refine your ore profitably. placing sell orders also needs a few skills and standing for better profit. most miners sell to the buy orders already in place. for sustaining your subscription, there is no easy answer. everyone wants to make enough isk to be able to get plex that way. a lot of the solutions i have heard of involve having R&D and PI for all three characters on an account- a hefty skill investment.
Dave Stark 4350	Posted - 2014.02.15 14:20:00 - [7] - Quote Krixtal Icefluxor wrote: My wallet increased by 5 Bill this month from just mining, with 2 Macks and Orca Boost, and fuel block production. 3 days a week. So, I must heartily disagree about the poverty. took you a month to do that, it'd take me less than a week of incursions, and i'd only need one account for it. If i had 3 accounts going at it, i could do that in a weekend. miners, the peasants of eve. glad i got out of that **** fest as soon as i realised.
Krixtal Icefluxor INLAND EMPIRE Galactic 100053	Posted - 2014.02.15 14:43:00 - [8] - Quote Dave Stark wrote: Krixtal Icefluxor wrote: My wallet increased by 5 Bill this month from just mining, with 2 Macks and Orca Boost, and fuel block production. 3 days a week. So, I must heartily disagree about the poverty. took you a month to do that, it'd take me less than a week of incursions, and i'd only need one account for it. If i had 3 accounts going at it, i could do that in a weekend. miners, the peasants of eve. glad i got out of that ** fest as soon as i realised. Here's a nice pat on the back. We are thrilled at your EVE-success, most indeed. Yup. You are a better person than I. I congratulate you. YOU WIN DAVE STARK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!** "He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."-á - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Dave Stark 4350	Posted - 2014.02.15 14:45:00 - [9] - Quote Krixtal Icefluxor wrote: Dave Stark wrote: Krixtal Icefluxor wrote: My wallet increased by 5 Bill this month from just mining, with 2 Macks and Orca Boost, and fuel block production. 3 days a week. So, I must heartily disagree about the poverty. took you a month to do that, it'd take me less than a week of incursions, and i'd only need one account for it. If i had 3 accounts going at it, i could do that in a weekend. miners, the peasants of eve. glad i got out of that ** fest as soon as i realised. Here's a nice pat on the back. We are thrilled at your EVE-success, most indeed. Yup. You are a better person than I. I congratulate you. YOU WIN DAVE STARK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!** you don't need to be so upset that i proved you wrong.
Krixtal Icefluxor INLAND EMPIRE Galactic 100079	Posted - 2014.02.15 15:26:00 - [10] - Quote Dave Stark wrote: you don't need to be so upset that i proved you wrong. You are out of your mind. My wallet is wrong ???? You are not making any sense. Drugs are bad m'kay ? This is S & I, not GD. Besides, you won EVE by declaration. What are you still doing here ? Also, just because you were personally inept at how to strategize and "win EVE" by mining, as I was, negates your fallacy anyway. But whatever. Keep having those orgasms from all of your ego stroking. "He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."-á - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Dave Stark 4350	Posted - 2014.02.15 16:17:00 - [11] - Quote you seem really mad. tip: pointing out you make peanuts doesn't go against the point that was made. you really shouldn't be so upset when some one points that out.

ISD Gallifreyan ISD Community Communications Liaisons 283	Posted - 2014.02.16 03:22:00 - [12] - Quote Lets try to keep this discussion on topic without degenerating to insulting someone else's playstyle. There is definately a high skill requirement for maximum profitibility and lowest risk, regardless of occupation choice. Mining by itself can be profitable as long as you are aware of your profitibility, not wasting cycles and/crystals and paying attention to the markets ( moving your ore a dozen jumps to a different Region could net much better profit. ) ISD Gallifreyan Lieutenant Community Communication Liaisons (CCL) Interstellar Services Department

Shizuken Venerated Stars 176	Posted - 2014.02.16 04:02:00 - [13] - Quote Nedly Stark wrote: Mining is very profitable. As far as buying your ship & crystals goes, the ore you mine is straight up profit. Mining is quite profitable. However, trading is even better.
Dave Stark 4355	Posted - 2014.02.16 09:12:00 - [14] - Quote ISD Gallifreyan wrote: Lets try to keep this discussion on topic without degenerating to insulting someone else's playstyle. I have removed a number of posts that were in violation of Forum Rules 2,3,4,5. There is definately a high skill requirement for maximum profitibility and lowest risk, regardless of occupation choice. Mining by itself can be profitable as long as you are aware of your profitibility, not wasting cycles and/crystals and paying attention to the markets ( moving your ore a dozen jumps to a different Region could net much better profit. ) apparently me pointing out he was flat out wrong is against the rules now?
Far Wanderer Bank of Far 2	Posted - 2014.02.16 23:17:00 - [15] - Quote Dave Stark wrote: [quote=ISD Gallifreyan]apparently me pointing out he was flat out wrong is against the rules now? Is there a market for whine? Because you make a pretty good vintage.

ISD Gallifreyan ISD Community Communications Liaisons 284	Posted - 2014.02.17 08:49:00 - [16] - Quote This thread cleaned again of off topic comments. Discussion of moderation is not allowed. Taunting someone that you make more isk/hour does not further the discussion at hand. You are entitled to your opinion that mining is not profitable. Pointing out that someone is wrong is ok. Belittling them because your opinion differs from theirs is not. I have not reported these rule violations as a courtesy. Further breaches will not be tolerated. If you wish to dispute moderation, you may file a petition to have a GM look at the situation. ISD Gallifreyan Lieutenant Community Communication Liaisons (CCL) Interstellar Services Department

Krixtal Icefluxor INLAND EMPIRE Galactic 100729	Posted - 2014.02.17 12:47:00 - [17] - Quote Thanks ISD Gallifreyan. That dude's been typing that nonsense for years. "He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."-á - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Toalk Fremulon ltd 22	Posted - 2014.02.17 17:29:00 - [18] - Quote I seem to have missed something.. This is my main
Lexi Acro RESURGENCY Galactic Gypsies 18	Posted - 2014.03.01 06:53:00 - [19] - Quote Alexicia James wrote: Being a returning player, I decided to try something different in eve, instead of typical mission running or failed attempts to PvP. I wanted to look into station trading, manufacturing, and some mining. With the skills to pilot a hulk in hand, I was curious if it would be worth my time to try to sustain my subscription and make a profit mining. At the very most I would probably play for 3 hours a day. Is mining still a viable source of income in this game, or has it really just delved closer to incursions and PvP? I found my mining I can clear a belt or two in that time. And if I am paying attention I find the extra mining spots when scanning that hold better ore so to me it works out. But for others it may not.
mup Deninard The Scope Gallente Federation 3	Posted - 2014.03.01 08:18:00 - [20] - Quote I agree with all the comments that state solo mining sucks for plexing. But with 3 hours a day it is easy to do. Good grief man 3 hours a day to play a game, I can't remember when I had that sort of time just get mining out of your system and then move on if lpex is what you want. But if you like it sadly you will quickly find that one account is not enough and then two and then three. Be warned!
Oxide Ammar 77	Posted - 2014.03.01 09:06:00 - [21] - Quote As soon as you go Orca + 1 miner or more the profit goes up exponentially especially if you focused on ice mining.
Lexi Acro RESURGENCY Galactic Gypsies 18	Posted - 2014.03.01 09:33:00 - [22] - Quote Oxide Ammar wrote: As soon as you go Orca + 1 miner or more the profit goes up exponentially especially if you focused on ice mining. Or making friends with an Orca pilot to get the bonuses in fleet at the very least ;) I'm easy that way and always welcome people into my fleet for a bonus. Call me nice but thats who I am :)
Nalelmir Ahashion Omegon 42nd Core 129	Posted - 2014.03.02 17:54:00 - [23] - Quote People forget that eve online is a game not only economic\social simulation in space :P Some people enjoy mining and other so called "boring" activities while others don't. I, for example, tried small gang pvp fleets and other pvp COMBAT activities and found them rather dull for ME so I avoid those while other aspects of the game are more enjoyable for me. Regarding mining, Solo mining is not the best income but the dedicated miner can defiantly get plex from solo mining even without boosts... you got 30 days to get 650 mil isk - I personally can get it in less then a week while solo mining in ease only few hours a day and at the same times I can do other activities in the game like trading\PI\etc... All about personal preference. @ OP If you solo mine you want a retriever, it's cheap and got huge ore bay. Also with 2 strip miners you split your mining capabilities between 2 rocks so unlike procurer or skiff you won't burn time mining "Void" while the strip is running and the rock is depleted. Get some mining skill to max your yield and most importantly get perfect refining! One of my favorite things to do is hoard something like 100s millions worth of ores then refine it and see my money income increase in 1 click. Also don't bother hauling yourself just hoard minerals and use red frog to haul in the vicinity of a trade hub to get better prices (might be opposite actually, check prices first to determine which place is best). Another tip is mix mining with other activities like PI and Trading. "What's worse than a foul-mouthed eight-year-old constantly claiming he's had relations with your mother? A foul-mouthed eight-year-old constantly claiming he's had relations with your mother who thinks he's a gangser, that's what." --áAaron Birch
twit brent Black Anvil Industries LEGIO ASTARTES ARCANUM 3	Posted - 2014.03.05 17:15:00 - [24] - Quote Krixtal Icefluxor wrote: My wallet increased by 5 Bill this month from just mining, with 2 Macks and Orca Boost, and fuel block production. 3 days a week. So, I must heartily disagree about the poverty. Mining has a set income which is determined by the market.
Senfora Anophis An Errant Venture 0	Posted - 2014.03.07 12:01:00 - [25] - Quote Oxide Ammar wrote: As soon as you go Orca + 1 miner or more the profit goes up exponentially especially if you focused on ice mining. Wrong, actually. if you only have 2 accounts and no Orca (Orca skills or not-you Orca booster), you're better off with 2 miners. I think 1 Orca and 3 miners is the magic number for making a profit (sans mindlink implant). It has been a couple years since I ran the calculations, so it may be 1 Orca, 2 miners, but 1 Orca, 3 miners stuck in my head.
Lexi Acro RESURGENCY Galactic Gypsies 134	Posted - 2014.03.08 22:07:00 - [26] - Quote Senfora Anophis wrote: Oxide Ammar wrote: As soon as you go Orca + 1 miner or more the profit goes up exponentially especially if you focused on ice mining. Wrong, actually. if you only have 2 accounts and no Orca (Orca skills or not-you Orca booster), you're better off with 2 miners. I think 1 Orca and 3 miners is the magic number for making a profit (sans mindlink implant). It has been a couple years since I ran the calculations, so it may be 1 Orca, 2 miners, but 1 Orca, 3 miners stuck in my head. and this is what i have :) works wonders hehe
Relkathi Hyklis The Bullpup Corporation 0	Posted - 2014.03.10 17:21:00 - [27] - Quote I think that I am in the same boat as the OP. As a returning 70mil SP player I have turned towards marketing, production. invention, and mining to try to sustain my Eve addiction. Following this thread in order to get some good ideas. Like the idea of training the other two accounts to do something productive. Have they ever changed it so that you can train two toons on one account yet? Would be the best!
Michin0ku Black Wolf Arms Outlaw Horizon. 0	Posted - 2014.03.10 18:36:00 - [28] - Quote Relkathi Hyklis wrote: I think that I am in the same boat as the OP. As a returning 70mil SP player I have turned towards marketing, production. invention, and mining to try to sustain my Eve addiction. Following this thread in order to get some good ideas. Like the idea of training the other two accounts to do something productive. Have they ever changed it so that you can train two toons on one account yet? Would be the best! For a plex a month you can train multiple toons on the same acct.
Dorian Wylde Imperial Academy Amarr Empire 436	Posted - 2014.03.10 20:01:00 - [29] - Quote twit brent wrote: Krixtal Icefluxor wrote: My wallet increased by 5 Bill this month from just mining, with 2 Macks and Orca Boost, and fuel block production. 3 days a week. So, I must heartily disagree about the poverty. Mining has a set income which is determined by the market. Set income would mean you make the same regardless of how much you mine. Everything has a "set" income by the definition you seem to be implying. Ratting is a "set" income determined by CCP bounty settings. Missions are a "set" income determined by bounties and rewards.
Jonestu Dr Zoidberg's Disciples 23	Posted - 2014.03.13 11:50:00 - [30] - Quote Mining can be very profitable. If you max out your skills and got a Orca boost you can make about 23,630,900 ISK from Veldspar mining with the current prices. But lets run a simple calculation. Plex: 640m 640/30=21.3m That means that you have to make 21.3 million every day to pay for a Plex. So say you have a Retriver that mines 1500m3/Miner and the cycle time is 180sec. Then your projected income for Veldspar would be 8.000.000 ISK/h. 10.024.312 ISK7h with Scordite. So that means you have to mine ~2.7h/day to just break even with the Plex. This is ok after all... but this is not a perfectly skilled character; Just adding a hauler would increase this as well. There is a great site: http://www.eve-calculator.com/mining/income_calculator/ore.html that can help you calculate your income per hour. But as long as you mine in hisec you can use the basic math that a jetcan i.e. 27500m3 is worth around ~5m if you sell it at a trading hub. If you refine you will make more if you have the skills for it. I run 2 miners and a Orca and I make a projected income of 1.4 billions per week. This is not always true due to price changes, loss of ships, hunting down belts and all that or I can't just be arsed to mine for a while. But you can make a lot of money mining but know that you are not safe in hisec, there are gankers and canflippers around. People will sooner or later suicide your ship and you will loose it. Know this and you can be upset about it but you need to accept this as a fact when mining in hisec.

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