Just tried mining...

[NoshDaMinsk]

...and found the experience very enjoyable - had a few battles in my Asp with some very nooby NPCs and managed to get 40K of credits in bounties....

...also managed to get 230k from 45 minutes of mining - awesome.

Great fun flying around asteroids in the rift - jaw dropping stuff!

Nosh.

PS - also got 1 ton on Painite and Platinum - oodles of credits

 

[cherbert]

I can understand why many people (without VR) find it quite boring. But in VR I find id very relaxing.

 

[redmantab]

I can understand why many people (without VR) find it quite boring. But in VR I find id very relaxing.

I thought about mining since I'm a dk2 user myself.

I have an ASP and about 30m total. What ship, setup, would I use and is it comparably profitable to trading or combat these days?

 

[ranix]

I've got an Asp with 2 class 1 mining lasers and an A3 collector limpet controller (2 drones). With about 90 cargo room I can make about a million credits per trip to a pristine metallic ring. I still mine in the rings wherever I want, not in the extraction points.

 

[Howl_UK]

It would be much more relaxing and enjoyable without all the ing around with Refinery bays. If I could just use prospector drones to find asteroids and then use mining lasers to suck up the resources like EVE, it would be great. There's still too much tedious micromanagement.

 

[NoshDaMinsk]

........There's still too much tedious micromanagement.

And after a few excursions, I wholeheartedly agree with this.....

The ability to define what you want to refine and dump all the other crud and not worry about venting either - it is a seemingly pointless part of the process which fails in making mining more interesting.....


Nosh