# Dear CCP, I want to be a miner as a solo player, but it feels like the system is designed to punish me **URL:** \ **Category:** Mining & Extraction\ **Created:** [November 23, 2025, 9:22am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dear-ccp-i-want-to-be-a-miner-as-a-solo-player-but-it-feels-like-the-system-is-designed-to-punish-me/501546 "2025-11-23T09:22:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 19
**Author:** ![Princess\_Rose\_Ivory](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/princess_rose_ivory/32/515700_2.png) [@Princess\_Rose\_Ivory](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Princess_Rose_Ivory)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 4:02am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dear-ccp-i-want-to-be-a-miner-as-a-solo-player-but-it-feels-like-the-system-is-designed-to-punish-me/501546/19 "2025-11-24T04:02:57Z")
> [@Glenduil](#): > > Gas mining without rats in Low Sec on an Alpha account using ships that are so cheap to be pretty much free and making billions of ISK. I didn’t write the game. I just play here. What you do with the billions you make mining is up to you. I sometimes give it away to MSB program, [silly contests](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-themed-ai-music-contest/495744/47), or buy ships just to see how far I can go. > [@Glenduil](#): > > The rest of Eve doesn’t even matter. I may start doing that. Pure profit and zero risk. You can do that, but “zero risk”? No. There is the risk you will lose a load in transport or lose a new 10 million ISK venture before you get one load out of it. My point, you won’t lose to NPC rats, other players will be looking for you. > [@Khan\_Hakari](#): > > Why do you need more ISK? Does the ISK amount really matter to you? > Mining is mining and does not change with the payout, or does it? It is my opinion, HS (high sec) is about learning to mine. I don’t need ISK, Plex, or LP, it is just something that happens as a byproduct of selling what I mine. I read rookie chat and see new players complain they are not making ISK and they seem to think buying omega is the solution. Maybe it is for PvPers. but omega is not a solution for mining, when others claim PI (planetary industry) makes a lot more, with even less risk. I really don’t know, I never did any PI. Another way to look at this, does it matter Mario punches a brick and coins fly out? I punch the bricks because it make me feel good. Have fun! --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dear-ccp-i-want-to-be-a-miner-as-a-solo-player-but-it-feels-like-the-system-is-designed-to-punish-me/501546)._