News and Weather Jan 14 '25

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Thanks Mike for those statistics.

A good friend of mine has decided to attempt to help new 30 day players with a mining school. I am one the instructors at the school. We are still in the set up process. Like you we don’t have a huge conglomerate behind us. At present there are 3 people but more like 1.5 since obligations in real life don’t stop just because we retire. We have a freeport astrahus set up in a good high sec location. There is a big hate in the game for miners. I told her, if this base for her mining school get blown to ribbons, we are done, and the other guy agreed. She said, “Don’t worry I can rebuild it.”. I admire her attitude, but even structures in HS are tempting targets.

I guess she has her heart set on getting it all up and running. We are not benefiting from this care bear project. No cost for lessons. She envisions finding new miners who won’t be one of those ganker alts, to educate on getting a successful at alpha mining operations. Her long term goal is to see the school offer advanced gas mining lessons.

It sure would be nice to see more Mike’s in this game and more programs like the MSB. However the vast majority, in any PvP game, come here to spend large amounts of cash to blow things up. The people who took out her first freeport over a year ago, were probably just ignorant to her goals. I know she is going to read this, so I cannot stress this enough. Listen to Mike here about those Goonswarm numbers. Once you post the location up, in these forums, how much do you want to bet, before the astrahus goes ka-boom and they do it just to break your spirit?

There are nice people in this game, but they come here to live a much different life. One that would get them arrested or shot in the real world. I understand this far too well.

Fly safe o7

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