How does this impact you and I? To put it simply, all ships and modules are built with materials found from asteroids. These days, mining is not a very profitable venture for a capsuleer. It is much more efficient to gather resources by way of scavenging from the wrecks of downed ships and reprocessing the surviving equipment

the uneven distribution of mineral resources also impacts the common person living planet-side

Mining is relaxing work for me and scanner probes enable me to find lonely places to mine where minerals can be obtained that are not normally available in the asteroid fields. For example, as I write this, I am mining Omber in Amarr space. (Gravimetric site).

When I was young we had some foreign dissidents on Khanid Prime once protesting about the uneven distribution of wealth. They called themselves "the 99.999%."

I was but a child, but took great pleasure when the riot police descended upon them with truncheons in hand.

This is indeed how i do it as i have little experience in the way of mining and with a large demand for spare minerals needed to create modules and even whole new ships (quite a common need in my line of work) i find it safer recycling my kill rather than sitting out in a low/null security belt mining and waiting for someone to come along and vaporise me with a well aimed pulse shot.

I don't know why anyone would mine Omber right now, scanned belt or no. The price per volume of the minerals is terrible.

It has long irritated me that I don't have access to Pyro, however. I know that mining is somewhat looked down upon these days, but I think there is still room for mining specialists. If all the hulks mining Veld vanished tomorrow, the market would cry out for Tritanium and the price would quickly shoot up, maybe even rivaling that of Morphite.

When I was young we had some foreign dissidents on Khanid Prime once protesting about the uneven distribution of wealth. They called themselves "the 99.999%."

I was but a child, but took great pleasure when the riot police descended upon them with truncheons in hand.

Well there's nothign wrong with mining for its own sake Edaine. I personally don't sell minerals, but rather use them for construction. On the off chance I am mining for ISK, I'll just mine Concentrated Veldspar and sell the resulting tritanium; very simple and relaxing.

Also, ice and gas products come almost solely from mining, unless of course you can find industrial ships transporting said materials and acquire them by force. So, it is certainly a required activity, and worthy of investing time and energy into.

I do miss mining with you Rek, it can be a good time and it is an inexpensive way to produce ships and ammo.

When I was young we had some foreign dissidents on Khanid Prime once protesting about the uneven distribution of wealth. They called themselves "the 99.999%."

I was but a child, but took great pleasure when the riot police descended upon them with truncheons in hand.

I had my very first wormhole mining experience today. It was not profitable money-wise but it was very profitable experience-wise and excitement-wise. The wormhole could not handle an exhumer, so I took in an Arbitrator fitted with scanners, miners II's, Warrior II's, Shield extenders, etc. I wanted a stable power setup and reasonable defense. I mined Arkonor, but had to quit as the hole became unstable. I was attacked by sleepers but the Warriors did their job. The little I was able to mine didn't amount to much. I need more skills to do this right. It wasn't the typical ho hum mining run.

Well he was mining ABCM ore, notably Arkonor. But yes, for mining such ores you'll want a dedicated hauling ship because of the sheer amount of space they take up, particularly when you look at the amount needed to get anything useful by refinement.

Edaine, I'm quite surprised the Sleepers didn't destroy your ship. I've heard they're quite powerful. But at least you learned something new.

This is probably some kind of stealth complaint that the Amarr "stole all the resources" of the Pator system.

Hello friends. I am not here to discuss politics or ideology or any of that.

OK, I just got done mining my first Fullerite C-32 from Wormhole X702. I got away with 30 units but almost got destroyed. These sleepers were more dangerous than the others. If you could get a hulk load of this stuff, you'd make a bundle. Just 30 units/150m3 is over 400000 ISK at below regional unrefined. I don't know about going back right now. Warrior II's are not a match for these sleepers. Shields go down real fast.

Right now, this is for the adventure mainly. It is also to try and find a way to out-smart these sleeper dudes. I found a way to do a little cat and mouse with them. Two clouds C-32 and C-28 were 141 km apart. You can get the group to chase you back and forth and get one to two cycles in before you have to leave. Sometimes if they are 100km distant, they won't target for a while and you can get more. Someone with decent equipment could do well with this. This was my first time cloud mining. I also found another wormhole into null sec from the wormhole space I was in. I harvested about 2.8 mil ISK worth of gas while playing in the wormhole system. I could have made more in a high sec asteroid field but it wouldn't have been as interesting.

I think for the capsuleer, scarcity of experience may be as important as the scarcity of the material mined. After today, I will seek to do most of my mining in wormhole space. It is just more interesting.

I think for the capsuleer, scarcity of experience may be as important as the scarcity of the material mined.

Well, it happened. While in wormhole space trying to scan down a site to mine, I got jumped, squashed and podded. Woke up blinking back in Duripant. While my crew knew the risks of our exciting journeys to mine wormhole space, they are dead now and that is a loss that takes me back to ask a lot of questions. I will train for and obtain cloaking technology before going back.

Why does the humiliation of a capsuleer pilot usually involve the death of other "mere mortals?" Seems I should of thought this through more carefully. RIP crew of "Crap Collector."

OK, I just got done mining my first Fullerite C-32 from Wormhole X702. I got away with 30 units but almost got destroyed. These sleepers were more dangerous than the others. If you could get a hulk load of this stuff...