Life in w-space can be lonely. Its just you, the sleepers and some roids for company. At least, until a corpmate turns up! 
Mining in empire is a drag. It rarely deviates from the aim, fire, store and repeat scenario. The only deviations are the odd rats here and there, and a few capsuleers who think they can trick you into getting yourself concordokkened! (Those guys need to train the “Common Sense” skill, available from all good stockists!)
Mining in losec offers a challenge, as those capsuleers who have trained the common sense skill to lvl 3 or better hang out there. However, the risks versus rewards graph shows a fair trend toward the risk side, so I don’t favour losec for mining.
I’ve heard that nullsec mining is good. The rewards are there, and the risk is high enough to be exciting but not too high if you are carefully protected by blues. Most nullsec spaces are not held by capsuleers that I would consider blues, so that option isn’t open to me at the moment.
The only difference between nullsec mining and w-space mining is the lack of early warning of incoming pirates, and the fact that you can never tell from day to day which direction those pirates will come from. But, oh boy! Are the rewards great or what?
Last night, before I found my little cave for my daily snooze, we were tearing apart several roids. In just three hours we had mined enough to cover building of several megathron battleships! Well, almost… the only mineral we were missing at the end was the Tritanium.
Which brings me to the point of this entry – If tritanium is so common in empire and a basic need for most material manufacture, why are veldspar roids so underwhelming in w-space? Don’t get me wrong, they are huge roids just like the others, but why is there only (say) 2 roids of veldspar in a gravimetric w-space site for every arkonor, spodumain, crokite, etc…? The lowliest of roids should be much more abundant (say 10 veldspar roids at least!) especially out in space that hasn’t seen miners for (probably) thousands of years!
I’ll have to grab some veldspar at the next opportunity, but I still think there won’t be enough.
/save and exit
darinas
August 28th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
“and a few capsuleers who think they can trick you into getting yourself concordokkened! (Those guys need to train the “Common Sense” skill, available from all good stockists!)”
You’d be surprised how many do fall for it…;)
August 29th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Perhaps I should have noted that hisec miners need to train the common sense skill pretty quickly too? I’ve never been concordokkened but in the beginning I think this was more cowardice and luck than any insight into what was happening.
September 18th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Well, concorded or more commonly popped by the flipping party.
I myself did fall for that; it just gets irritating when a red blinky frigate starts orbiting you. I didn’t really knew the aggression mechanics at the time, so i fired what i thought was a sort of a warning shot.
Suffice to say, he didn’t get the message :< Fortunately, he got disconnected as my Osprey went into hull, so thank god for that. I felt a bit sorry for him, he kind of deserved to get the kill.