Why does Eve have so much emphasis on mining?

[Jah_Ruels]

@DeMichael_Crimson

Guess you’re new, there’s already NPC Mining Fleets active in Eve, just warp to any Asteroid Field and they should be there… that is if there’s any Ore left, they go from Field to Field, mining up all the Ore until there’s none left

I’ve seen them. @Sasha_Nemtsov and I were talking about this:

@Sasha_Nemtsov

I think CCP should let the NPCs do the mining and have us slaughter them for the ore.

I don’t believe that’s in the game, is it?

Yes I’m new. Thanks for noticing