Lessons learned

Today being Omber respawn day (alongside Monday) I decided that I wanted some. I set out in my Covetor, the “Uncle Scrooge” and headed to one of the belts in Hjoramold, where the corp has a mining interest. The belt was full of Omber, so I started to mine it for all my MSMs II were worth (note for aspiring miners out there: don’t leave your mining crystals back at the station, it’s very embarrassing). So far so good, so what does genius boy do? He Alt-Tabs to read today’s installment of The Ancient Gaming Noob. I enjoyed reading it so much I decided to read some of the Archives. And then some more. Until I remembered that my 3 minutes (MSMs take 3 minutes to mine their full capacity of ore) were already up a long time ago. Pressing fanatically on my mouse, I managed to jump back into the game just in time to see this

I called back my mining drones (one had already gone down) and let loose my Warrior Is hoping that I was not to late, that my drones could blast the rats before they did the same to me. Thankfully, they did, but not before my hull was below 50%, my Covetor in flames. Repair bill of over 1M ISK and a pair of pants in need of a wash. Lesson learned today: DO NOT AFK MINE. Simple as that.

It wasn’t all bad, though. The next spawn of rats included a very nice Degenerate Loader that dropped 7500 Isogen

First light

When talking about a telescope, first light refers to the first time a telescope is used to actually see stars. This blog will also allow you to see stars. Simulated ones, sure, but pretty. This will be a blog about EVE Online, one of the best space games out there. I’m setting this up to share some of my experiences with what, in my opinion, is one of the best parts of the game – Mining

First off, an introduction. I’m Fholcan, a member of Hadean Drive Yards, an industrial corp. We are ship builders, anything for anyone. You bring the ISK, we bring the ship, simple

I’m still a new member to the corp and EVE in general, so I don’t know everything there is to know about Mining in EVE (and I hope that I never do). Come along as we journey to the exciting world of beating a simulated rock with a simulated stick in order to get some simulated minerals.