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EVE Evolved: Mining 101 -- Advanced mining
Because it is stigmatised as a boring and inactive activity, mining is perhaps EVE Online's most overlooked profession. While it can be a repetitive and sedate affair, mining is a good way to make ISK during low points in your game time. A lot of miners use the profession to make a little ISK while they chat with friends in-game, read the forum or do some other activity. In the first two parts of this three-part guide to mining in EVE, I looked at some of the basics of solo or group mining and how to make the most ISK for your invested time. Over the years, I've learned a few tricks and strategies for mining that have come in handy. If the local asteroid belts are stripmined clean and you need somewhere nearby to mine, for example, it's possible to use the mission system to spawn a practically endless supply of low-end ore. If setting up camp in high-security space isn't your thing, it can also be very profitable to run a nomadic mining expedition. Using a starbase as a base of operations, you can set up ore depots and refining stations in either normal space or wormhole space. In this final part of the EVE Evolved guide to mining in EVE, I look at spawning asteroids using the mission system, using a starbase as a base of operations in outlying systems, and running a wormhole mining expedition for massive profit.
CCP Games to revitalize EVE Online's drug trade in Apocrypha expansion
Exploration has long been a profession in EVE Online that really held a niche appeal to players. The exploration system has been a complex one, where one had to bookmark locations in space midwarp at specific points in a solar system, and burn through various types of probes (and time) to find something hidden. The game's Apocrypha expansion is very much focused on improving exploration. While we've heard a great deal about wormholes and 'true exploration' what's been less spoken of is that Apocrypha is an across-the-board revamp of exploration in EVE Online. These changes will, CCP hopes, revive the ailing booster trade in EVE. Boosters are drugs that enhance a pilot's performance. Despite the numerous benefits boosters can impart, they're also highly illegal and being caught with them in high security space can lead to hefty fines. The arcane complexity of creating boosters and then smuggling them into high security space have made drug production and smuggling activities that comparatively few of EVE's capsuleers get involved with. This also means that boosters, the higher-grade stuff, can be hard to get your hands on. Boosters are a dimension to the game that CCP Games is looking to improve, which should come as good news to the game's would-be drug dealers.
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%
