Hello, fellow commanders,
since premium beta I did it all: missions, bounty hunting, trading, rare-runs, smuggling, conflict zones, exploring, mining and even a bit of pirating.
A quick look at my statistics reveals the top money-earners (as we would have expected): 1. Trading 2. Combat 3. Exploration
But I earned less then 1% of my assets with mining!
I found a nice prestine metallic spot in my early days and tried mining in my cobra and later again in a T6. It was o.K.: A mixture of "relaxing, fun and boring as hell". I also made some money with it ...
But because of the significant time needed to scoop all the metal (beside it got really tedious), mining was just a waste of time as soon as I owned a bigger ship. And so, sadly, I never did it again.
Mining just didnt scale! With all ships above the size of a cobra you could earn much more money and have more fun trading, exploring, fighting!
But now, there is a feature coming with 1.3 I'm really looking forward to:
Large-scale drone-mining in a high intensity RES with my battle-ready anaconda!
Fitting two medium size mining lasers, a large refinery and of course the new drone-control module there is still enough firepower/shield strength/cargo space left to fight of the nasty pirates AND get rich.
Imagine the fun! The riches! The relaxing time watching your drones doing the dirty work! Getting home from a successful mining trip with a cargo hold full of precious palladium, platinum, gold and PAINITE!
For sure, it will bring back the fun and at least the possibility to earn money equally to the other professions!
O.K., you don't really "need" more money when you finally own a maxed-out anaconda and several other ships, but it's human nature: collect more and more and more ...
Anyway: Large-scale drone-mining in battle proofed big high-end ships! Yes! I want it...
Anyone else?
Greetings ...
since premium beta I did it all: missions, bounty hunting, trading, rare-runs, smuggling, conflict zones, exploring, mining and even a bit of pirating.
A quick look at my statistics reveals the top money-earners (as we would have expected): 1. Trading 2. Combat 3. Exploration
But I earned less then 1% of my assets with mining!
I found a nice prestine metallic spot in my early days and tried mining in my cobra and later again in a T6. It was o.K.: A mixture of "relaxing, fun and boring as hell". I also made some money with it ...
But because of the significant time needed to scoop all the metal (beside it got really tedious), mining was just a waste of time as soon as I owned a bigger ship. And so, sadly, I never did it again.
Mining just didnt scale! With all ships above the size of a cobra you could earn much more money and have more fun trading, exploring, fighting!
But now, there is a feature coming with 1.3 I'm really looking forward to:
Large-scale drone-mining in a high intensity RES with my battle-ready anaconda!
Fitting two medium size mining lasers, a large refinery and of course the new drone-control module there is still enough firepower/shield strength/cargo space left to fight of the nasty pirates AND get rich.
Imagine the fun! The riches! The relaxing time watching your drones doing the dirty work! Getting home from a successful mining trip with a cargo hold full of precious palladium, platinum, gold and PAINITE!
For sure, it will bring back the fun and at least the possibility to earn money equally to the other professions!
O.K., you don't really "need" more money when you finally own a maxed-out anaconda and several other ships, but it's human nature: collect more and more and more ...
Anyway: Large-scale drone-mining in battle proofed big high-end ships! Yes! I want it...
Anyone else?
Greetings ...
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