

GOSHO MECHA





Posted - 2010.03.12 02:00:00 - [1]

Edited by: GOSHO MECHA on 12/03/2010 02:02:10

Edited by: GOSHO MECHA on 12/03/2010 02:00:27

I decided to make an experiment. A skilled mining toon with 0 money in his wallet only a new velator and the pimp civilian mining laser. How much money can i get in a week. 1 hour each day.



Day 1. Undocked from jita with a pod moved to another station got my extraordinary velator. 3 ISK from the trit in it. WIN. As jita is extremely laggy i decided to move.Lets try Alikara. I have 9237 isk.

As i leave jita my new life starts, oh the excitement.I wont be low sec mining just high sec like a carebear mining. 5 minutes have already passed but i found a rich plagioclase ore. SCORE.

After an exciting 60 seconds i get 46.875 m3 worth of plag in my shiny cargohold. I can barely contain my excitement with the riches im going to get , so i alt tab for 1-2 minutes until the ship is filled.

Aaaand im full. My first goal im thinking should be getting a Navitas. So i need 24400 isk. Jeez thats a lot of money :-/. I refine my first batch with the bonus 1 trit i got for the velator frack yeh im up to 20946 isk.

I decide to spring for a miner tech 1. 10k ISK FOR A MINER. NO THANKS IM SAVING FOR THE NAVITAS. I hit the 10 minute mark. I decide to drop a can and wait until i get 2 loads. No risk no reward right?

As i overload my ship with the richness of plagioclase and warp to the station the 15 minute marks arrives. Urgency strikes me i gotta hurry the frack up or i aint gonna make anything today. I've left a can with another

load of ore. God i hope someone doesnt steal it. My money, my hope, my future. As i arrive it and find it safe in space i breath easily. Docking time and a new toy from a near system.

As i sell the load i had i hit the 45k isk mark and its time for a navitas. I warp to kaimon. Its 600 isk more expensive than 6 jumps away but im thinking i can make more money while mining with it.

As i dock in kaimon i notice my watch ding ding ding it says 20 minute mark my friend. I buy another miner i have 2 now. A civilian one and a miner I. And i have 9850 isk left. i search for expanded cargoholds

... but i find none. Thats just great.. As i warp to the belt i find a guristas frigate there. There goes my good day. I find it ironic as he burns thru my shields i burn thru a azure plagioclase formation. I get my fill pretty fast and my shields seem to be dying

so i warp off. I decide i need some protection. I decide to invest in my survival. I buy a hobgoblin I. Kinda expensive 9500 isk but i think its going to be worth it.As i arm myself i hit the 25 minute mark. Good news is i have 31000 isk. Well after i buy the drone

only 22000.As i arm myself i decide i might as well buy another miner and i do. My wallet shows 11869. The pesky guristas frigate seems to have attacked a hulk after seeing that i rejoice and scoop my shiny drone and start mining that asteroid i like.

As i start filling a can with ore i arrive at the half way point. The 30 minute mark. The hulk decides to warp off and the fearsome pirates starts burning for me. I decide i aint running this time until i hit my structure and release my drone. As he tears my shield

my drone rips his shield and enters armor. A second later a violent explosion i blink but its not my ship its that pirate and his nice 9000 bounty enters my wallet and his 125mm railgun enters my cargohold. Maybe i should be a bounty hunter. I shake that insane idea off

quite easily and decide to dock up and throw the ore and loot haha loot i have accumulated. from all that excitement i missed the 35 minute mark and enter the 40 minute mark directly. I have less time than i thought. I quickly start getting what i mined from the belt to the station

and reprocess it. My wallet grows several times bigger and my happiness with it.As i move my stuff from the belt to the station the 45 minute mark hits.I finish and my new balance is 165530 ISK. I feel like giving everybody in the station a free drink. I decide to go to Kausaaja for expanded cargoholds.





GOSHO MECHA





Posted - 2010.03.12 02:05:00 - [2]

And there seem to be 150 belts there so i could mine here too for the 10 minutes i have left of day 1. I get my expanded cargoholds and warp to a belt to make myself some additional income.I decide to switch to scordite because the price of pyerite has really gone up.

5 minute remain. I find a wrecked guristas on the belt i warp to. Serves the basterd right. As i haul my last load in and reprocess everything i get



The question is what next. I will read advices and ideas if you have any. I was not sure if it should be posted on here or another section so i apologize if i bored you.



TLDR version. Stupid miner mines in high sec.





GOSHO MECHA





Posted - 2010.03.12 02:16:00 - [4]

Yeah im kinda lazy. I will try to make it less painful.





Teijas





Posted - 2010.03.12 21:22:00 - [5]

Wow, formating aside, you made an hour of mining sound like some pretty epic stuff. Gratz. Looking forward to more.





You Dobber

The Unforgiven Capsuleers



Posted - 2010.03.12 22:21:00 - [6]

quite like the idea keep it up :)





GOSHO MECHA





Posted - 2010.03.13 01:27:00 - [7]

Edited by: GOSHO MECHA on 13/03/2010 01:29:11

Day 2.



Last time we left our hero he was thinking what to spend his newly found isk for.As i warp to the belt i was mining scordite yesterday i start searching for my next ship - im thinking about a procuror.



So i need 3.5 milion for a procuror and a strip miner. I doubt i will be able to make it today but i sure am going to try. I continue mining the scordite i have found and a friend miner seems to be here being annoyed by a guristas pirate. It seems this guristas heard what i did to his friend so he attacks me 1 minute after i warp in. My furious hobgoblin attacks him and rips him a new one. Thats the good news the bad news is that i have entered armor. Not good news at all i tells ya. The 5 minute mark comes knocking while i loot the guristas wreck. Mmm a civilian shield booster i can use that to better my tank well thats good news.

The asteroid dissapears and i feel proud of myself. God damn im a mining machine here. Switching to a good ore stack of pyroxers seems like a good idea and i start mining it down.



The fellow miner seems to have warped off probably scared by my mining prowess.I shake my head trying to regain some of my sanity.The 10 minute mark hits and i decide to go drop my ore in the station because i have 4 trips to make.

I dock up and equip the second hand civilian shield booster i just got from that s****pirate i killed. The 15 minute mark hits and i continue getting the ore from my can to the station..I keep repeating this procedure and as i do it im thinking of getting an iteron to haul this for me. It would save me a lot of time.

I check the prices and i find an Iteron mark 4 for 600 thousand 3 jumps from me.Problem is after i refined all my loot i have only 469534 isk. So i need 150 more and i have only 30 minutes left of day 2.Nothing much happening today and my plans are layed out.

The plan for today is gather 620 thousand isk. Get the iteron and cargo expanders and buy 2 mining laser upgrades I.The 40 minute mark hits.As my vision blurrs a quick shot to my ship wakes me up. Another pirate tries to cut me down and before i can react im down to 20% shields. He even jams me.



But this time im ready for the bastards with the little loot from his collegue.The hobgoblin comes flying off my dronebay and his ship turns into rubble in seconds.I quickly scoop his loot and head to the station.The 45 minute mark hits and i have to hurry if i want to keep my plan for the day.

I start hauling my new 2000m3 of stuff to the station. As i refine everything i hit the 700 thousand mark.I go get my iteron mark 4 and 3 cargo expanders to go with it and i start returning to kausaaja. On the way i get some mining laser upgrades also

So i am ready for day 3. Good thing too because my time is all but up. I have 1 minute left. As i finally dock up in kausaaja with my new iteron and my wallet feeling a lot thiner im happy with my progress.My current isk balance is 89485 isk. I have a navitas and a iteron mark 4 as my assets. Im getting big time here.



Sorry for the eye pain i try to make it better.If you have any suggestions for next ship or what to mine or some other advices i will take them.









darius mclever





Posted - 2010.03.13 03:13:00 - [8]

nice read!



(ever thought about making it to a blog? then people could follow via RSS reader)





GOSHO MECHA





Posted - 2010.03.13 14:15:00 - [9]

Its a short term thing and im so ADD these days i really cant focus on 1 thing for more then 10 days.





Xeross155

Minmatar

Fusion Death Inc.

Intrepid Crossing



Posted - 2010.03.13 22:34:00 - [10]

I like it, though as a lot of people said it's kind of hard to read, might put it up on my blog with some extra formatting for you ;)

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Xeross' ventures into EVE



343guilty1

Gallente

Strategic Insanity



Posted - 2010.03.14 03:15:00 - [11]

Originally by: Xeross155 I like it, though as a lot of people said it's kind of hard to read, might put it up on my blog with some extra formatting for you ;)

Ahh the elitest eh? you take open work then? if so find me ingame ;) got some stuff i wouldn't mind being put out, i've helped out 3 other bloggers already >.<





Yakumo Smith

Gallente

No End To Infinity

Fleetingly Finite



Posted - 2010.03.14 08:18:00 - [12]

Nice read so far.



I always like ideas like this. I had the fortune to lose almost everything when I was new to the game and had to build up from scratch in a velator. It's liberating knowing you can lose it all and still recover.



I suppose this must be my sig. I'll do something cool with it eventually.



GOSHO MECHA





Posted - 2010.03.14 21:07:00 - [14]

Originally by: Xeross155 Gosho can I have your permission to put this on my blog under your name ?



Yeah sure if you like i have no problem with that.





GOSHO MECHA





Posted - 2010.03.15 13:29:00 - [15]

Edited by: GOSHO MECHA on 15/03/2010 13:29:42

Edited by: GOSHO MECHA on 15/03/2010 13:28:59

Day 3





I start my day a bit late but nevertheless SCIENCE MUST BE DONE! As soon as i log i undock and head for my favorite belt. That sexy belt.Todays goals are making enough money for a Procuror. For today im thinking plagioclase.



As i warp on the belt i notice a friendly miner and wrecks of some terrible pirates. He sure showed them.I start jet can mining and i have 58 minutes more. Today i think is going to be a good day for science.The 5 minute mark hits and I decide to make the hauling this way. When i have enough for 10 batches reprossable plagioclase i will go dock and get the iteron. The hauling continues and then the mining and i hit the 15 inute mark. Today aint no story day. Today be mining day.



As i say that 3 ( THREE) pirate ships warp in. Oh god.I deploy the hobgoblin and wait for them to get in range of it. One blows up before he can even shoot me and the second one soon after. The third one interestingly enough is not shooting me nor my drone.That ofcourse does not stop me from popping him. God damn pirates. I get their loot and mark their kills on my chair. The 20 minute mark comes and with it i hope no more excitement. Im just a damn miner not a bounty hunter. I decide its time for my 2nd hauling session and my 25 minute mark hits.

I dont want some can flipper to go and mess with my profit.I undock warp quickly scoop my cargo container and warp back to the station. I have 30 minutes left. I warp back to my belt ( yes MY BELT) with the navitas and continue mining.25 minutes left.It sure is calm in this belt

Im drifting away to a peaceful place full of zydrine and gallente erotic dancers. I stop daydreaming as my cargohold screams that its full.In you go in the can. 20 minute left.And another guristas pirate warps in. These guys are really out to get me i bet they had a meeting.

" we must kill him NO MATTER THE COST BRING IN THE CARRIERS". He quickly pops under the fire of my hobgoblin. Thats 1 badass hobgoblin it has 6 kills now? Thats good programming on the gallente i tell ya.



I warp back to the station to do my 3rd hauling session.

And i have 15 minutes remaining. I collect my ore and i dock back up and switch back to my navitas of doom«. I warp back in to MY BELT and continue the mining.And 10 minutes remaining.I continue calmly mining on my belt and goofing around. I notice my shields going down.

some pirate s****has engaged me and i didnt even know i quickly launch my hobgoblin and it eats his face off. He lights up into a fiery explosion . And i have 5 minutes left. I warp off and decide to go do my last hauling session reprocess and estimate how much more i need for my next ship.

Good news is i have 1075350 isk.



Thats 1 milion and 75 thousand. Bad news is i need another 800 thousand for a procuror. So i will need another day of mining. At least that because i will need money for a strip miner also.Good progress.



p.s What should i mine anyway for maximum value?











GOSHO MECHA





Posted - 2010.03.16 23:05:00 - [18]

Day 4 and Day 5



Today a double feature shall be done. A promotion 2 for 1 and a free pen. I undock this fine day(or night depending where you are) and warp to my belt. Oh belt IV - 1 I know thee well. We've had so many adventures featuring pirates.



Speaking of pirates they seem to be waiting for me with a welcoming gift. 2 of their more junior members engage me as soon as i drop out of warp. Silly new guys they havent heard about my hobgoblin. I release the beast out of his cage and lets just say they wont be bothering anyone.I lock up a scordite ore and start taking it part by part from space to a can. Thats some productive stuff. So much excitement and we have barely hit minute 5.



This is going to be an interesting day.Great success occurs as i mine out another ore. God damn im a mining monster.Today i am the destroyer of ore it seems 2 diffrent ores in 5 minutes.The 10 minute mark hits and after it the 15 mark and its all quiet flying.



Just mind numbing mining.I've gathered a good supply of scordite now and i go to drop it off. I jump in my iteron and i am back at the speed of 2 shakes of a lambs tail(not very fast). The 20 minute mark hits and i have moved my scordite to the station.



I undock in my navitas and warp back in. As i drop warp another 2 guristas pirate rejects warp in with me. Good news is that there are 2 more mining barges and they seem to like them better then me. Thats good at least i'm fed up of being the sheriff

around these parts. My collegues in mining deal with the devils rejects quickly and we continue on our interesting and thrilling endevour of mining. The 30 minute mark hits the last 10 minutes spent on mining ore.I decide to go and load off.

While i haul my ore the 35 minute mark hits . I warp back to the belt with my navitas back to mining. The 40 minute mark hits and i am almost half done. I have some new friends on the belt maybe fans of my work with those guristas earlier come to see me mine.

Yeah i bet thats it. They like my style.My daydreaming seems to accelerate time and the 50 minute mark hits totally skipping the 45 mark. I continue throwing ore in my can and i am getting ready for my last haul for day 4.



I have 5 minute left of day 4 and its HAULING TIME.I finish my hauling and dock up. ITS PROFIT TIME. My wallet updates flashes and i am RICHY RICH HERE. I've got 2 milion 244 thousand isk. That means i can buy my procuror in the middle of day 5.









GOSHO MECHA





Posted - 2010.03.16 23:27:00 - [19]

Day 5.



I undocked and warped to my belt. The ore here has my stamp on it. Seems like i've mined most of the scordite out so i switch to plagioclase. AND AWAY I GO.5 minutes have past and its all quiet. I like quiet it makes the time go by faster. The 10 minute mark hits and everything is still quiet.

The 15 minute mark arrives and i decide to go dock up and get the iteron. I think i will have enough for that covetor.I dock up with the iteron and the hopefully last batch i will have to mine in this navitas and the numbers are in. DRUMROLL.



I need 300 thousand more. I jump in my navitas look around and i realize its the last time i will fly in this ship. We had some times didnt we? Blew an armada of guristas pirate newbies. Mined a ton of minerals. I warp to my belt and proceed to mine scordite.



I will keep my hobgoblin from the navitas thats for sure. Thats 1 good drone right there. As i remember the good times the 30 minute hits. I think i have gathered the money and i quickly dock up and get my iteron to haul the last haul. I get the money i need and proceed to get my procuror. 6 jumps away.

I have 20 minutes left. My pod feels very slow and now i have 15 minutes left. 2 jump out.I dock up in Sirppala and get my new ship. Aint she just a beuty. A brand new procuror. I have 10 minutes left and head right back i want to mine some before i finish for today. I am 6 jumps out of Kausaaja.



I enter Kausaaja in my new procuror and im very happy. I even have 5 minutes to make a mining run. The clock strikes that time and it is time for me to dock.Another jump in progress and day 6 will be even more profitable then today. My current balance is 110 thousand isk.







Gladys Pank

Amarr

Trillionaire High-Rollers Suicidal Bassoon Orkesta



Posted - 2010.03.17 07:45:00 - [20]

Edited by: Gladys Pank on 17/03/2010 07:46:50

Hobgoblin drone is my hero ♥



Congratulations on your new ship! I hope you have many happy days mining in it



Edit: Try asking any miners in the system if you can gang up with them, just for the bonuses, and solidarity against those Guristas villains!

~



Soar Like a Penguin



DangerosoDavo

Gallente

Stella Contego Security

Stella Stargate Security



Posted - 2010.03.23 20:40:00 - [21]

I DEMAND MOAR!!!!

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Regards

Davo



Apathetic Brent

Steel Soldier's



Posted - 2010.03.24 01:19:00 - [22]

What is happening to me? What have you done? I just enjoyed 15 minutes of reading about a miner...very good writeup man. Can't wait for the next installment.



Helgur

Steel Soldier's



Posted - 2010.03.24 01:41:00 - [23]

Keep the stories coming, getting hungry for more mining adventures :D





DangerosoDavo

Gallente

Stella Contego Security

Stella Stargate Security



Posted - 2010.03.28 10:30:00 - [24]

what happened did mining get boring? surprise surprise.

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Regards

Davo



Sarcozi





Posted - 2010.03.29 22:26:00 - [25]

Gotta love posts like this, simple theme made exciting, especially as I started in exactly the same way :)



Hopefully an update will be following soon of the ickle Hobgoblin :)





Qorthas

Caldari

Eternal Profiteers

SRS.



Posted - 2010.04.15 21:48:00 - [28]

god damn it Gosho, we need the end! this story cannot go undone!





Skallebank

Minmatar

Shut Up And Play

WE FORM VOLTRON



Posted - 2010.04.16 12:48:00 - [29]

Then he got can flipped , lost his procuror , quit mining and became a pvper.











vote institiute for csm. He will do sexy things to you.



Drek Grapper

Minmatar



Posted - 2010.04.16 14:56:00 - [30]

Originally by: GOSHO MECHA Edited by: GOSHO MECHA on 13/03/2010 01:29:11

Day 2.



........ It seems this guristas heard what i did to his friend so he attacks me 1 minute after i warp in. My furious hobgoblin attacks him and rips him a new one. ......





Lolz!!

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