NightF0x
Gallente Chicken Coup Raiders
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Posted - 2008.11.15 15:07:00 -
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Originally by: Khima Edited by: Khima on 15/11/2008 10:04:42 Which leads me to a previous statement, the ratio of miners:PvP. Yes, I agree that EvE is evolved around PvP and its main theme is starwars battles betwean ships. Now out of the entire PvP CCP divised the whole theme of mining and manufacturieng to supplement the PvP, otherwise we would be playing "World of EvE" (raiding deadspace bases to get gold for a new ship does NOT sound very interesting I assure you).
To my main point. For you to auctly get anything near a good amout of isk out of mining/manufactureing you need a hulk or coveter, otherwise the entire ratio of time:Mining yield is turned FUBAR. The Retriver is the first step of couse, but its still still has a bad ratio. The mawk is somewhat better, but is more suited for icemining.
The only way for you to acuttely get a decent income pr the time:yield ratio you need a hulk and a rorqual or an orca to support it, not to mention you need to be at least 4-5 people. Otherwise its a waste of time, strongly influenced by currently prices.
The way I see it, it should be made easyer to aquire the needed mining equipment so people would auctly take interest into mining, one benefit would be a drake dropping to 35m instead of the 45m currently.
You do realize that prices on the market for ships are not set by CCP, right? We live in a player driven market.
Your attitude towards mining shows that you don't mine yourself. You can easily make a decent living with 2 accounts (1 on a Hulk and another on an Iterion hauler). No, you won't make as much as a mission runner but you are playing a sub-role to the manufacturers. It is like comparing the wages of someone that works on a production line vs a sales agent. They are 2 completely different roles in the company and how the company works.
Now the training time to get into a decent exhumer is going to be high. Why, you ask? You are flying a T2 barge (or better known as an Exhumer). T2 equipment has always had high skill requirements to get into them. The Hulk is the highest level Exhumer that you can acquire and is pretty much an end-game item for miners. It should have extremely high skill requirements to discourage everyone from taking this route and flooding the market with ore, thus causing the prices to drop.
If you had a character focused on mining to start with then you would have limited skill training to do in order to fly the Orca. Basically what I'm saying is suck it up because it is better for the game to have fewer miners and more PVP'ers than to have everyone flying a Hulk and stripping every belt within hours of them being restocked every week. And please quit trying to compare the income of miners to any other career in Eve. Just like in life, not every career will bring in a bunch of income. ------------------------------------
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