except for code doesn’t engage them since they have a fleet on standby 24/7 unlike a player and can tank. I remember hearing some stupid reason as to why they don’t engage them but I forgot what the retarded answer was.
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Code mines salty tears and NPCs do not drop said item therefore there’s no reason for interaction.
I started out mining in Lonetrek. This was a while ago but there is a nice high sec pocket that was sparsely populated. It had good ratio of higher yield (high sec) rocks. The only issue is getting your materials out of the pocket.
I just jumped through 9 systems with many asteroid belts, down to sec 7 and every last rock was gone…strip mined by NPC corp.
bit overkill.
Sad to me because I found some casual high sec mining very relaxing and a nice activity in game to do. Great way to warm up/into the game again. Now it’s no more.
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Careful about being out in the boonies. Goonswarm and CODE tend to find you and gank your barge.
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Get a fleet together and attack the NPC’s.
I can solo a npc mining fleet with my Orca find it fun. Give it a go.
How safe is .5 space though? relatively new to industry and mining so its a consideration.
Its the least safe of highsec basically, concord will take around 30 second to come to start blap gankers, so dont even think about exhumers and covetor if you dont have a orca to hide them in if catalysts come to you.
Otherwise you’ll have to mash your dscan all the time since local isnt reliable for now, Procurer and Porpoise are good for the price they cost for dangerous areas too.
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If you want to make money mining go to null. You will be safer and richer there. CCP doesnt like people in hishsec unless your a null alt…
For me, mining in null was no fun at all. Years ago when I first played EVE, I got tired of having to run back to the station every few minutes when enemies came into our system. I have enough tension and stress in real life–I don’t need more of it in an online game. For me, the “rewards” of null are simply not worth the hassle and headache.
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I feel the same for null mining, and it’s even more stressful in wormhole (for ore). Besides, we can have nullsec ore in moons in highsec now, now I don’t even need to ninja mine in prospect in null to get my zydrine and megacyte.
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It is sufficient to simply zoom out fully and having an eye on the screen, or at least a properly set-up overview visible while watching my little pony rainbow brite porn youtube. d-scan in highsec is overkill.
Also: Mining is not meant to be relaxing. If relaxation is what you seek, then you are playing the wrong game. Sure, you can try and if you manage it then more power to you, but in the long run does not being vigilant get your ship exploded.
Not sure about the “overview is enough” thing, it happened once to me to have codies try to warp directly on top of me with either a bookmark or a cloaked ship next to me, looking just at my overview wouldn’t have been enough and now with local not being pinpoint accurate only the d-scan works.
The thing is at the time I was solo mining in a mackinaw so pretty juicy target, now I’m multiboxing an orca and 2 covetors so I don’t bother that much with dscan.
By stressful in null and wormhole I was talking the risk vs reward thing, I find it personally so much more tensed for not that much more, mercoxit and arkonor are fine but having to GTFO every 15 min is boring quickly, most exhumers and barges can’t tank enough for people to come to help. True a rorqual could be better for that but I never been in big blue donuts thingies in null since I hate that so I never bothered getting isk for one.
The overview updates only once per second, so yeah that might not work well. The best way to be vigilant is zooming out and having an eye on your surroundings. Assuming your ship is aligned and moving, as it should be, it only takes a click to warp off.