Newcomer / Intro MINING IS AWESOME!

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I got myself a Hauler, outfitted it with mining laser, refinery. 5 light seconds to the nearest RES. The mini game is amazing. After shooting a rock, you get to chase the nugget you just knocked off it. But that's not the fun part yet. The fun part is after you get a couple of nuggets, you can't pick up a third. Why? Because you forgot to refine the first two silly. Oh gosh.

So, refine the first two, and now there are elements like bauxite and lepidolite with percentages. You have to get them to 100% before 1 will actually be in your cargo hold. So, I go back to mine, but I couldn't remember which rock I was at so I picked one at random. A few seconds later, and Boom! another nugget. I was having a lot of fun and couldn't believe my luck. This mini game is so interesting. My hopper was full for some reason, so I clicked on one of the items and laughed so hard when it was ejected into space.

Then I heard a bashing sound and realized the asteroid I was hovering beside was shaped like a potato and my ship was being scraped off the side of it.

Anyways, it was an hour of mucking around and I had to go take a break. I went back to the station and sold my free loot and made 42 credits! Can you believe that?!? In one hour I made a whole 42 credits! Mining is easily one of the best mini games I've seen. It's maybe even a meta game, because the goal doesn't seem to be about all the free credits, but about the bouncing around and chasing nuggets and shooting at rocks and stuff. Oh, and dodging pirates. Did I mention them?

It was a blast.
 

CMDR Nick

Banned
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Mining is brilliant - and so realistic. I tried mining in my backyard yesterday and didn't find anything or make any money. Just like in the game!
 

quetis

Q
Mining can, weirdly, be fun. But yeah, get the sarky tones...

It's kinda like fishing in an mmo - blow off the amount you can reasonably gather in the time allotted and then pick em up. Rinse and repeat.

First off, selling your gains in the system you got it from is a no no. You need to sell to an industrial planet. It's like trading but you got the goods yourself - look for who will pay the best price for your wares.

Secondly, can't even think what you could sell for 42 creds... ah, sarcasm, get it...

Look for ringed planets - mine there. Loads of asteroids, take your pick. Secret for picking up the bits are thrust back and forth, trust, it works a whole lot better.

But I got straight up gripes about mining:

1. I got a refinery, 9 bay, it refines stuff yeah? So why in the sweet mother of god do I have to tell it to refine evey time I pick up something new? Your a refinery with 9 bays! Just tell me when I run outta room rather than: 'Oh dear, you need to tell me what to do with this before you can pick up another piece...' like hey, your a refinery, refine it already!!!

2. Eve players ing - well, they about everything... just like WoW players. I dled Eve, got into combat and it asked something like: "What weapons do you want to use?" I said like my lasers, ya know, at a guess? Seeing it's the only thing I've got??? Then it asked what attack pattern I wanted to choose - so I like chose the first one? LIke I gotta clue... Then it just happily went off and did all the combat itself. Think I went for a pee, made myself a cup of coffee, came back to a "Your suckysucksesful!" screen, escaped and uninstalled.

What the pluck is the point of a fly in space game when you don't actually fly in space but just tell the AI to do it? And yes, I know the answer - sucky people love the 'suckysucksesful!' bit. Hope they all sucky suck dire off back to Eve. Eve's like playing a fps where you tell it to "Hey, I dunno, like go shoot people in the head!" and after an hour you come back to a "Your successful! Well done! You clicked the return key at the right time! You sucky suck rock!!! Here's like a million credits and the best gun in the game!!!" screen.

Bet they pull out their manhood and cream the screen at that kinda stuff...

Mining would be fine but that first point I made? Man, drives me up the frigging wall...

1,000,000 creds to someone who can programme my refinery to auto refine crap I mine and tell me when I've run out of room - up until then, just refine stuff... like do your job.
 

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quetis said:
Mining can, weirdly, be fun. But yeah, get the sarky tones...

It's kinda like fishing in an mmo - blow off the amount you can reasonably gather in the time allotted and then pick em up. Rinse and repeat.

First off, selling your gains in the system you got it from is a no no. You need to sell to an industrial planet. It's like trading but you got the goods yourself - look for who will pay the best price for your wares.

Secondly, can't even think what you could sell for 42 creds... ah, sarcasm, get it...

Look for ringed planets - mine there. Loads of asteroids, take your pick. Secret for picking up the bits are thrust back and forth, trust, it works a whole lot better.

But I got straight up gripes about mining:

1. I got a refinery, 9 bay, it refines stuff yeah? So why in the sweet mother of god do I have to tell it to refine evey time I pick up something new? Your a refinery with 9 bays! Just tell me when I run outta room rather than: 'Oh dear, you need to tell me what to do with this before you can pick up another piece...' like hey, your a refinery, refine it already!!!

2. Eve players ing - well, they about everything... just like WoW players. I dled Eve, got into combat and it asked something like: "What weapons do you want to use?" I said like my lasers, ya know, at a guess? Seeing it's the only thing I've got??? Then it asked what attack pattern I wanted to choose - so I like chose the first one? LIke I gotta clue... Then it just happily went off and did all the combat itself. Think I went for a pee, made myself a cup of coffee, came back to a "Your suckysucksesful!" screen, escaped and uninstalled.

What the pluck is the point of a fly in space game when you don't actually fly in space but just tell the AI to do it? And yes, I know the answer - sucky people love the 'suckysucksesful!' bit. Hope they all sucky suck dire off back to Eve. Eve's like playing a fps where you tell it to "Hey, I dunno, like go shoot people in the head!" and after an hour you come back to a "Your successful! Well done! You clicked the return key at the right time! You sucky suck rock!!! Here's like a million credits and the best gun in the game!!!" screen.

Bet they pull out their manhood and cream the screen at that kinda stuff...

Mining would be fine but that first point I made? Man, drives me up the frigging wall...

1,000,000 creds to someone who can programme my refinery to auto refine crap I mine and tell me when I've run out of room - up until then, just refine stuff... like do your job.
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I get the pseudo-realism, but then why wouldn't I send a couple of probes over to a rock to laser-mine a nugget out and bring it back to my ship? And manually refining stuff? Think funnel in the top of the refinery that then just drops ore into the cargo hold.

I know the game officially released not that long ago, but it seems the mechanics here are so bad that any small change will be seen as an improvement. Mining needs to be the foundation of the ED economy since without it nothing else should be possible.
 

Surly_Badger

Surly_Badger
Gold Member said:
I get the pseudo-realism, but then why wouldn't I send a couple of probes over to a rock to laser-mine a nugget out and bring it back to my ship?
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Mining is a god way to start building wealth. As it stands you can start off mining with next to no investment in gear, and make enough to improve your gear to the point where mining isn't worth doing any more. That's the definition of "good low-end job" If FD changes mining to be more efficient and profitable at the top end, that's fine but I hope they don't take away the entry-level aspects.
 

Ben Ryder

Ben Ryder
Gold Member said:
I got myself a Hauler, outfitted it with mining laser, refinery. 5 light seconds to the nearest RES. The mini game is amazing. After shooting a rock, you get to chase the nugget you just knocked off it. But that's not the fun part yet. The fun part is after you get a couple of nuggets, you can't pick up a third. Why? Because you forgot to refine the first two silly. Oh gosh.

So, refine the first two, and now there are elements like bauxite and lepidolite with percentages. You have to get them to 100% before 1 will actually be in your cargo hold. So, I go back to mine, but I couldn't remember which rock I was at so I picked one at random. A few seconds later, and Boom! another nugget. I was having a lot of fun and couldn't believe my luck. This mini game is so interesting. My hopper was full for some reason, so I clicked on one of the items and laughed so hard when it was ejected into space.

Then I heard a bashing sound and realized the asteroid I was hovering beside was shaped like a potato and my ship was being scraped off the side of it.

Anyways, it was an hour of mucking around and I had to go take a break. I went back to the station and sold my free loot and made 42 credits! Can you believe that?!? In one hour I made a whole 42 credits! Mining is easily one of the best mini games I've seen. It's maybe even a meta game, because the goal doesn't seem to be about all the free credits, but about the bouncing around and chasing nuggets and shooting at rocks and stuff. Oh, and dodging pirates. Did I mention them?

It was a blast.
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Sarcasm or not it sounds like my early experiences for mining and for me it was great fun!
 

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Ben Ryder said:
Sarcasm or not it sounds like my early experiences for mining and for me it was great fun!
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+1 for that Ben. As long as you don't expect any profit, it's actually a very precise process. I spent many hours in EVE mining, which is much simpler but also almost always much more dangerous if you want to get high value ores (since they tend to be in lower security systems).
 

Sonoskay

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I Always heard as long as you don't expect to get rich off it, its an okay way to make early credits... Hulaers or adder make good mining vessels becuase they have solid cargo capacity, and its a low risk job, Stay in a heavily controlled system in the federation and pirates are rare, (lets face it if you found empire space your probably making more money than mining will bring you.) and sink some time into it, Maybe look into places better ore comes from and mine there, its somthing i want to try, But im still in my side winder, and with 6 cargo space (with upgrade) its not all that cost effective...
 

krysohmyz

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I don't know what everyone has against mining.

If I want to spend a relaxing day, I take my Clipper, park in one of "my" planet's rings and mine. In the evening I return to the civilization with 2M in ore plus another 2M from pirate bounties. And it's great fun.

I know I can make the same money in an hour in my Vulture in RES, or in 40 minutes by trading, but that's not the point.

Plus for newcomers this can be the right thing, as Ben said. It's as equipment-light as the exploring, but quicker. So dear newbies, don't listen to them. There are good money in there. Plus you will learn to fly the ship. I mean - whole day spent in asteroid fields? Come now, how awesome is that? :D

All of you nay-sayers, if you would just for a second stop chasing money... Well, my opinion is, that mining definitely shows much more of this game and is closer to its heart than some mindless checkpoint race with Anaconda in the finish line. (Nothing against you, Annie)
 
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