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I'm finally in my retriever. :cool:

Going to get some of my refining skills up now, can't rely on corp all the time to refine for me. I can use the t2 strip miners but can't afford them. :( So t1 strip miners for me.

What are peoples opinions on mining drones? a lot of corp members say they're worthless. I think they're very valuable adding a good amount of ore per each cycle. Can't wait till I get home and properly use it! :D
 
I remember when got excited about mining, it was ~3 years ago mind you :p
Just wait till you start mining ice, that's when the fun really begins... :cool:

Fed up with eve atm too. Don't really know why apart from the feeling like eve has 'lost' something from when I first started. I'm subbed till Jan but I just don't have the will to log on except to change skill.
 
ChrisB said:
Just wait till you start mining ice
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OMG ice mining I aint done that in about a year....I used to haul and **** off the miners...its like a 3 min cycle for 1 block of ice = 1000m3 or something like that.

I use to play 'catch the can'...get a tractor beam on it and drag it through the miners...lol TS used to kick off..... 'WHO'S MOVING MY CAN *enter expletives*' ' I'LL MINE YOUR A** TO THE NEXT CENTURY' etc etc:D:D
 
The ice is very valuable though isn't it?

lmao. I'm a pure industrialist, I want to get lots of cash. :D Then I can start working on offensive skills. Don't hold me to getting round to it though. :p
 
Yup, the materials from refined Ice provide fuel for POS, capitals (dreadnoughts, carriers, jump freighters etc), fuel for cyno pilots to provide cynos for said capitals, fuel to use jump bridges and stront so captials can enter siege mode and POS can go into reinforced if shields are taken out.

Ice is a very valuble item...the old alliance I was part of had to mine 1500 units a week just to fuel the POS (around 15-20 POS I think) in the constellation soverignty systems....1500 doesn't sound a lot but when you only got approx 15 miners at approx 3 mins per unit of ice...its a long long time lol
 
Mega bucks to be made! I know a high sec system that has an ice field, I'm so going there. :p 3 minutes the lowest duration? Or a lot more skills and gang links what not to help lower it?

I've only been playing since the end of september, learning day by day!
 
Mining... my 2nd best skill :) got myslef into a hulk with T2's and away iwent.

For drones, use the basic drones and get your drone skill up.

Harvesters are ok, but basic civ's are better as they move a lot faster so although they dont come back with as much, they come back more often. Hulk is so much better with its huge cargo bay, with 1 rig got mine to something like 15Km3 which is nice for mining in 0.0's in, mine fast, out, no need for cans :)

Shouldnt be long until your in a hulk mate i think. Also, if your minign a lot, there is a implant you can get to get 5% increase and get in a gang with the mining formelink for another 5% i think it is. soon mounts up.

Give us a shout ingame, ill help you out with some techy stuff and other bits i no longer use. think my char ingame is called colinuc
 
Definitely colinuc yeah? :)

That'd be awesome! My in-game name is "Aralello". I'll talk to you in-game later on about it mate. Cheers.
 
I went back recently, got into a fun corp, but there jsut wasn't enough there for me. Maybe i do need to be guided through, i never felt encouraged to go in one direction. Didn't need ISK cos had the ship and skills i needed and wanted, so it's all down to PvP, then comes the waiting.

I'll try again in Ambulation, it just would give another dimension, i need immersion in an MMO.
 
V3g3tto said:
I went back recently, got into a fun corp, but there jsut wasn't enough there for me. Maybe i do need to be guided through, i never felt encouraged to go in one direction. Didn't need ISK cos had the ship and skills i needed and wanted, so it's all down to PvP, then comes the waiting.

I'll try again in Ambulation, it just would give another dimension, i need immersion in an MMO.
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Ambulation has that "walk about in your avatar" feature yes? That sounds awesome, I also think it will boost eve's reputation as an MMO a vast amount. What ship are you flying, V3g3tto?
 
LeJosh said:
Ambulation has that "walk about in your avatar" feature yes? That sounds awesome, I also think it will boost eve's reputation as an MMO a vast amount. What ship are you flying, V3g3tto?
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Well yes, you will find a lot of people can't relate to 'being' a ship. Doesn't tend itself to a living, breathing world as such. I like to think i'm quite an intelligent guy, i didn't find EvE steep learning at all and researched every angle possible, including the markets. But, never felt motivated to do thsoe things. Really, if i had a trillion ISK, what would i, as a player, need it for, other than to buy the greatest ships, which take new skills altogether, which = time.

Im an interceptor/Interdictor pilot and although i have training mining barge skills to a good level, my inty skills are good and have all the ones that make a difference. Anyway, thats besides the point. The point is a feel detatched from the world and the character i play.

Vets will say ambulation is just eye candy, doesn't give them leet powers,etc,etc, but at the end of the day, for the vast majority of general MMOers, it's what they want.
 
Id rather have more systems than eye candy, get grps like BOB out the way so i can go exploring again.

But i find markets fun, exploring new planets is fun, our next task is to clear out a 0.4 system with 2 or 3 pirates camping the gate, boy are they in for a suprise....

Still, got an abbandon ship now, gear'd for lvl4 missions and now a few of us are going to have a word with some pirates who are camping a gate we need to use... never knew you could cloak a raven before :)

I have a few ships at hand, from buzzard [scouting] claw [racing ship] apoc [got a soft spot for this ship as we won it in the 1st ever eve race years a go] hulk [miner extreme] abbandon [guns ablazing] even got a cruiser somewhere, when i can fnd which station i left it on lol...

Looking at getting the paladin next, nice ship with some good features. I guess liek all other online games, its the people you run with that make or break it.

My main char ingame is colinuc mate, im not on until the weekend due to work. see you friday night about 9pm GMT if your on or send us a email ingame.

ColiN
 
Most fun I used to have on Eve is on the test server where they have armageddon/fight club on patch days etc. :o
 
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