Q: What's wrong with afk mining?

A: Orders of magnitude less than afk missioning/ratting/anoms

Q: What's wrong with afk mining?

A: Orders of magnitude less than afk missioning/ratting/anoms

The same thing that's wrong with auto piloting an industrial with a valuable load. It's generally bad practice to leave a lightly tanked but expensive ship just sitting unattended in space. Plenty of people will blow you up because they can and they know you'll cry about it.

True if you go through low sec. But if your flying through high sec then their should not be a problem. And like i said if some one wants to blow you up then their is nothing you can do about it. Afk or not

okay feel free to load up an iteron mark V full of faction/officer mods and autopilot from amarr to jita, it's perfectly safe!

if this is a complaint about suicide ganking, you're out of luck because it's legitimate gameplay. high-sec was never meant to be safe. CONCORD provides consequences for aggressors, not protection from them.

Wanting afk mining to be risk free is absurd and an afront to anyone who at least affords some attention to the process with validity.

Mining should not be risk free. Ganking perhaps should be made more consequential and brought in line with the risk/reward model everyone is talking about, but the "RISK" definatley needs to remain for this "sandbox" to have credibility.

Stop spoiling that credibility of mining operations by asking for "cotton wool" immunity mechanics. This tends to give an unfavourable view for mining roles to be improved with some validity please. Which I have to say is very much needed.

Also "if" deliberate troll thread, not funny or constructive.

On occasion I'm minding my own business. Found an ore belt that's no one is using and settle down for a spot of mining. Then whilst I'm reading the latest news in game or browsing through the market to see what skills I need for such and such a ship(all in game), I see a flash of light and the next thing I know that my hulk I've worked for several months to get has been blown up... If I talk to any one about it you just get the haters just saying that you should not be afk mining. I mean WTF??? It's not like you can do anything any way is there? If some one want to kill you in high sec they will kill you. Don't matter what you have. A target lock and a flash of light is all you get as a warning even if your eyes are glued to the screen.

No my problem is why do people have a problem with afk miners in general?

Being AFK while mining doesn't bother me at all (tho it aint smart). As long as you are manually controlling your hulk when you need to shift to a different roid etc. Doing it with a 3rd party program and effectively macro mining should be relentlessly hammered down without any remorse. It's unfair to those who spend the time doing it the right way as they are intended to through the built in mechanics of the game.

If CCP meant to have it automated to that degree then they would have built in the option.

But OP surely has a point. The question is: with an activity as tedious as mining, how could you NOT be afk while doing it?
Survival tip: if you only mine in cheap t1 barges, suicide ganking becomes uneconomical and you will most likely be left alone.

Yea point noted. Been thinking about going back to converter

Well Maxious according to your KB you lost a hulk 3 months ago, and your previous industral loss was a coveter 2 years ago. Other than that you only have a procurer and an iteron on record as soft target losses previous to that since 05.

I hardly would say thats a cause for a "realistic" concern, even though no-one likes a loss at the end of the day?

[cynical]Try a "covetor", something a genuine miner would know about after so many years.[/cynical]

[cynical]Try a "covetor", something a genuine miner would know about after so many years.[/cynical]

I mean seriously guys what's wrong with it? What's every one got against afk mining?