Cipher7
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2007.05.30 16:08:00 -
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Edited by: Cipher7 on 30/05/2007 16:07:50
Arachnidragon, if you want to help newbies then stay away from them.
Here's the deal.
You're attracting newbies to come mine with you in starter systems, which is attracting griefarazzi by the truckload to come nick your ore, bump you, and generally be jerks.
There are THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of systems out there to mine in, most of them as quiet as a tomb.
Instead of starting miining ops in hub/starter systems, quietly convo new players and ask them if wish to join a mining corp and work as a team. Then lead them to your corp office which would be in a nice quiet system where your newb miners could mine mine mine.
You don't need fleets to protect them, what you do need is anonymity.
1) Don't post with your main. Ever. I am exempt from this rule because I happen to like conflict.
2) Delete this character or sell it, and create a character that doesn't have the word "dragon" in it. Take a tip from chinese gold farmers and pick a name out of the phonebook like "Richardson Herb" or "Connely Jennifer." You know why they do that? To be anonymous and inconspicuous.
3) Yelling in local is stupid. Don't talk in local unless everybody in local is your friend.
4) Move to a nice quiet system. Don't mine in hubs. Don't mine in busy systems. 15+ ppl = bad. You want 6 or 7 ppl with names like "Richardson Herb" not names like "Ipwnjoo2006" or "n00bgrinder69"
5) Do NOT advertise yourself as a "mining corp." That's just another way of telling everybody that your corp is a soft target.
I do agree that the mining profession needs ALOT of love.
First of all roids don't respawn fast enough because of the thousands of Chinese Farmers out there flying around in Hulk armies. Every f*cking tuesday, all the "Richardson Herbs" descend upon my quiet relaxing system like a swarm of locusts and debone every asteroid field in the system, and I have to go on a warpath, bumping, stealing, and generally being a jerk to get them to leave.
I think barges were the worst thing they ever put in the game. Makes it too easy to mine out a system for organized bands of macrominers.
Secondly the addition of the drone regions was another huge blow to the mining profession, driving down the cost of high ends to the point where its more profitable to mine in empire than in 0.0
Thirdly that farmers can use cloaks to mine in 0.0 with alliances having no way to control their area.
Where does this leave the legitimate farmer?
There is profit to be made, if you are willing to be ruthless.
To be a miner these days you have to be part-pirate, you have to be willing to jack ore from chinese farmers, and generally be a jerk when you need to be.
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