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Offline Caradir

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Re: Taith's Grand Space Adventure
« Reply #15 on: March 12, 2012, 06:15:25 PM »
so 90 M sps make a bitter vet?

your not there yet Jon then are you? :P
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Re: Taith's Grand Space Adventure
« Reply #16 on: March 12, 2012, 06:17:48 PM »
I think he was born and raised there.  :D
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Re: Taith's Grand Space Adventure
« Reply #17 on: March 12, 2012, 06:31:35 PM »
so 90 M sps make a bitter vet?

your not there yet Jon then are you? :P

77ish

I would have been there had the first couple of years of my training not consisted of "oooo shiny" + a few months no training break early on :S

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Re: Taith's Grand Space Adventure
« Reply #18 on: March 12, 2012, 11:49:43 PM »
"Mining ops?" he said, after a brief read of the Eve recruitment forum. He had time to kill while on a brief mining jaunt in Akianavas.
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Re: Taith's Grand Space Adventure
« Reply #19 on: March 12, 2012, 11:57:41 PM »
"Mining ops?" he said, after a brief read of the Eve recruitment forum. He had time to kill while on a brief mining jaunt in Akianavas.

youve not played eve until you take part in a 23 hour mining op ;) or even better an ICE mining op ahhhh the things i would never do again.
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Re: Taith's Grand Space Adventure
« Reply #20 on: March 13, 2012, 07:11:20 AM »
Sounds familiar.

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Re: Taith's Grand Space Adventure
« Reply #21 on: March 13, 2012, 09:09:55 AM »
So a mining op is what it sounds like? A whole corporation worth of people in hulks warp out and pillage an asteroid field until it's gone?

What do they do with all that ore?
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Re: Taith's Grand Space Adventure
« Reply #22 on: March 13, 2012, 09:40:50 AM »
So a mining op is what it sounds like? A whole corporation worth of people in hulks warp out and pillage an asteroid field until it's gone?

What do they do with all that ore?

Basically yes.  Can be anything from 5 guys in mining vessels to many many more, and you move from belt to belt stripping a system is doable with enough people. 

As to what is done with the ore, refine it into minerals, build ships, modules, sell it (depending on market conditions), but corps that do ops usually use it to make stuff rather than sell - as selling items is more profitable in the long term.

CEO of RVB buys minerals by the frieghter load as he builds a fuck ton of ships for rvbs members on a regular basis.
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Re: Taith's Grand Space Adventure
« Reply #23 on: March 13, 2012, 11:29:42 AM »
Maybe I need to become part of that supply chain. ;D
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Re: Taith's Grand Space Adventure
« Reply #24 on: March 13, 2012, 11:47:30 AM »
Maybe I need to become part of that supply chain. ;D

seriously though i probably made my first few hundred million mining, its slow going until you get a hulk, but then you need an alt for haulage ;)
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Re: Taith's Grand Space Adventure
« Reply #25 on: March 13, 2012, 01:20:30 PM »
I agree with you about the slow going. I sell a single haul of ore for what seems like a very small sum.

Good to know it can pay off though. I'm still getting a feel for the game and I haven't started looking into goals and how to achieve them. I'll look into what to do with all these pretty rocks I'm collecting soon.

I'm still tooting around in my little frigates while I do the starter tutorials, but someone gave me a destroyer-class ship. A Cormorant, I think? I have a vague plan to outfit it for mining. Sound practical?
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Re: Taith's Grand Space Adventure
« Reply #26 on: March 13, 2012, 02:07:57 PM »
I agree with you about the slow going. I sell a single haul of ore for what seems like a very small sum.

Good to know it can pay off though. I'm still getting a feel for the game and I haven't started looking into goals and how to achieve them. I'll look into what to do with all these pretty rocks I'm collecting soon.

I'm still tooting around in my little frigates while I do the starter tutorials, but someone gave me a destroyer-class ship. A Cormorant, I think? I have a vague plan to outfit it for mining. Sound practical?

not the fastest ship for mining but with extended holds can hold a decent amount (i usually use destroyers as my salvaging ships for that reason)
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Re: Taith's Grand Space Adventure
« Reply #27 on: March 13, 2012, 02:38:44 PM »
I figured it would do as an interim ship while I built up the skills and funds necessary for a mining barge.
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Re: Taith's Grand Space Adventure
« Reply #28 on: March 13, 2012, 03:29:55 PM »
able to fly a cruiser yet?
might be nice in-between solution to fly the caldari mining cruiser: http://www.eve-wiki.net/index.php?title=Osprey
unless you want to dedicate your char to mining, I would not train to a mining barge if you can avoid it - there are other ways to make money...
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Re: Taith's Grand Space Adventure
« Reply #29 on: March 13, 2012, 03:47:14 PM »
mining does get extremely boring quickly

mission running is lucrative, just not at first.

gouging the market is also good. I used to put in purchase orders for things (i only dealt with ships costing 20M plus) id put in buy orders at 10% of market price in hopes that people got confused with number of 0's (not sure if its as easy to do that now) and resell at 80 -90% current market, sometimes id even take 2 0's of and get it at 1% on very expensive items. Made my way to 2B that way. That was more a waiting game yet more lucrative when it paid off, i got some fantastic ships doing that, faction battleships etc.
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