Kieron's EVE Blog
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
First Mining Op
Last night I bought a strip miner, and tested it out. It really didn't seem THAT much faster than my other miner, but I wasn't mining Crokite, which is what I'm familiar with, so it was hard to tell.
I was pretty scared I was going to be killed - the barge costs about 2mil ISK, and the mining module about 2mil. I was worried that someone would kill me simply for the value of the mining module, so I hung out in secure space (where there isn't any Crokite).
Anyway, on alliance chat I saw they were forming up a mining op, so I got on TS and joined them. It was amazing to see about 10 miners and two haulers stipping a belt. We were going after every asteroid until it was gone. It was nice and secure, since some of them were mining using battleships.
It'll be interesting to see what my cut of the profits will be. 10% will go to the corp/alliance.
To be a good hauler, I'll really need to get a tractor beam. I think it would be fun next time to try hauling.
I was pretty scared I was going to be killed - the barge costs about 2mil ISK, and the mining module about 2mil. I was worried that someone would kill me simply for the value of the mining module, so I hung out in secure space (where there isn't any Crokite).
Anyway, on alliance chat I saw they were forming up a mining op, so I got on TS and joined them. It was amazing to see about 10 miners and two haulers stipping a belt. We were going after every asteroid until it was gone. It was nice and secure, since some of them were mining using battleships.
It'll be interesting to see what my cut of the profits will be. 10% will go to the corp/alliance.
To be a good hauler, I'll really need to get a tractor beam. I think it would be fun next time to try hauling.
posted by kieron # 8:09 AM 
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