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EVE Evolved: Mining 101 -- The basics
Although it's not everyone's cup of tea, mining is one of EVE Online's oldest and most easily accessible professions. Sitting down to clear out a few asteroid belts or put a dent in a massive ice asteroid can be a very relaxing way to make ISK. Mining is a very low-activity process that can be done at the same time as other tasks, much in the same way that hauling items for trade or running courier missions can be done in the background. In all the time that the EVE Evolved column has been running, it struck me that I had never really written a guide for mining. Mining can be a good way to make some extra ISK during a lull in corp activity or while you're busy doing other things. Busy EVE players will often set themselves up to mine solo while reading a good book or watching TV. On the other end of the scale, corporations and alliances will sometimes run large co-operative mining operations for war funds or personal profit. Mining as a group is usually a more efficient use of the time of each player in the group and can make a great bonding experience for a corporation. In this week's EVE Evolved, I give a run-down of the basics of mining for new players. I look at the entry-level ship requirements for efficient mining and popular strategies for both solo and group mining.
One Shots: Ice is civilization
With the summer heating up, there are tons of MMO spaces you can retreat into from the comfort of your air-conditioned home. Of course, if you love danger with your resource harvesting, you could mine some frosty ice in EVE Online. There's some seriously good ISK to be made for pilots willing to spend the time hunting it down and fighting off anyone else trying to kick you out of your mining spot -- or out to snitch your cargo. Today's cool EVE Online One Shot comes to us from Andrew, who writes in to tell us a bit more about why ice is so nice in EVE: "[This is an image of] a Mackinaw class Exhumer mining ice, which will be refined into hydrogen isotopes, heavy water, and liquid ozone. Compounds like these are used to fuel the thousands of star bases across New Eden." You can imagine the demand. Have you captured an interesting slice-of-life screenshot from your favorite MMO? Why not send it in and tell us a bit about what things are like there. Email it in to us here at oneshots AT massively DOT com along with your name, the name of the game, and a description of what we're seeing. Your screenshot could be the next one we feature here on Massively! %Gallery-85937%
One Shots: Mining Ice
In the darkness of space, no one can hear you scream. That is unless you're on Vent with the rest of your Corp-mates, playing EVE Online. New Eden is a dark, merciless place, where the sandbox has "land mines" as our friend Crazy Kinux likes to say every time we talk to him. Today's One Shot is from this engaging but unforgiving game, and was sent in to us by Joao. He writes: This is my screenshot from EVE. A fleet of exhumers from the corp I'm in, mining up Ice in 0.0 for the logistics in the upcoming war in defense of the North... It's a bit dark, but that's how EVE is, dark.Do you have a screenshot of you and your corp taking on a challenge together? Perhaps EVE isn't your game, but you have a fantastic guild or supergroup shot you'd like to pass on. We welcome all screens from all games, big or small, solo or group. Just send those to us here at oneshots AT massively DOT com along with a quick description. We'd love to hear from you!%Gallery-9798%
