Lol so there I was. Mining in my hulk in a system with no station. There was another hulk in the area but he was mining a different ore so I didn’t think he would mind the company. I mine for a while, popping rocks left and right. Eventually have to move away from my jet can far enough to have to jettison another one. So I bookmark both my cans, eventually tiring of the loneliness of mining solo. I go and get my hauler (a piddly bestower). After filling my hull, I see that I am going to have to make several trips to haul everything. I decide the best thing to do would be to warp to safespot, drop my cans and get a buddy with a better hauler to come get the stuff. On my last trip back to the belt, I notice the hulk was gone and his two cans were there.
Posts Tagged ‘Mining’
Guard Duty… Meh
Friday, January 9th, 2009Last night was pretty boring.
A corp mate, Arkanis VonBerra, asked me to guard him while he mined for a couple hours. Apparently there was a rumor pirate spooking the belts and he didn’t want to get caught with his pants down. I didn’t have the heart to tell him the pirate spook was me.
I decided to try and make this more interesting by waiting in orbit of the planet where the belt he was mining was located. Whether he knew it or not I was using him as bait. It was uneventful though. The only combat ship I saw was an assault frigate that popped in when I was guarding the ore while Arkanis went to get his hauler. She didn’t stick around long when she saw me orbiting them in my Punisher.
Too bad, I could have used some excitement. Not to worry though. Arkanis cut me in for half his take on the ore for my efforts. Can’t beat that I guess.
Business as Usual
Sunday, December 28th, 2008So the holiday week brought a few new things. I finally got back into the UNI after spending a couple weeks out to avoid all the wars. This meant a trek from Gallente space to Korsiki. I think I’ll call this home for a while. The proximity to Jita is nice and I’m just far enough off the beaten path that I don’t have to worry much about the yahoo’s that frequent the trade routes in this area.
Last night I finally had enough ISK to purchase my Obelisk. This is exciting because I no longer have to take the best price for my ore/minerals in the system I mine it in. I can now haul about 750,000 m3 to where ever the good prices are. My mining skills are getting up there now. I’m only a week or two from maxing my solo yield potential. Then my focus turns to production. I have to admit I’m looking forward to getting into something new.
My alt character has been missioning like crazy for the Federation Navy and now has access to level III missions but I don’t dare try one. I’m still working on the skills to survive a level II mission.
And so it goes.
EVE Online: Mining, Industry and War
Thursday, December 18th, 2008One of the most exciting elements of EVE Online is the very robust player corporation system and the subsequent war system. A player corporation can declare war on any other player corporation simply by paying 50 million ISK (ISK is the currency in EVE) to CONCORDE, the policing agency in the EVE Universe. Once war is declared a week long period of CONCORDE free battle ensues where any player in either corp can attack the other corps players without any CONCORDE involvement.
My main character, Arkanis VonBerra, is in the player corporation EVE University (E-UNI). E-UNI is just about the coolest idea I’ve come across in EVE. The name really says it all. EVE University is a corporation setup to help new players learn the game. As I’ve mentioned before, EVE has a steep learning curve so this is a wonderful service to provide for new players. However, because E-UNI is a corporation populated by new players it is also a frequent target for war declarations by pirate corporations who want to pad their kill boards.
Currently E-UNI has just entered the second week of the current war and I believe the seventh week out of the last eight of continuous wars. Now for the folks that dig the pew-pew, this is very exciting but for people like myself who get more excited about mining and market manipulation it’s kind of a drag. During wars, E-UNI halts all mining ops and mission running and control rolls to Silentbrick who manages their military fleet.
This sort of griefing — and it is griefing although not illegal in the game — is very stifling for E-UNI because it keeps them from running any sort of meaningful class schedule. I think in the long run a revamp of the war system will be needed to make wars in high-sec more relevant but until then E-UNI must carry on.