I decided to do an experiment. A skilled mining toon with an empty wallet and only a new Velator and the pimp civilian mining laser. How much money can I get in a week. 1 hour each day.

I start my day a bit late but nevertheless SCIENCE MUST BE DONE! As soon as I login I undock and head for my favorite belt. That sexy belt. Today’s goals are making enough money for a Procuror. For today I’m thinking Plagioclase.

As I warp on the belt I notice a friendly miner and wrecks of some terrible pirates. He sure showed them. I start jet can mining and I have 58 minutes more. Today I think is going to be a good day for science. The 5 minute mark hits and I decide to make the hauling this way. When I have enough for 10 batches reprocessable Plagioclase I will go dock and get the iteron.

The hauling continues and then the mining and I hit the 15 minute mark. Today aint no story day. Today be mining day. As I say that 3 ( THREE) pirate ships warp in. Oh god. I deploy the hobgoblin and wait for them to get in range of it. One blows up before he can even shoot me and the second one soon after. The third one interestingly enough is not shooting me nor my drone. That ofcourse does not stop me from popping him. God damn pirates. I get their loot and mark their kills on my chair.

The 20 minute mark comes and with it I hope no more excitement. I’m just a damn miner not a bounty hunter. I decide its time for my 2nd hauling session and my 25 minute mark hits. I dont want some can flipper to go and mess with my profit.I undock warp quickly scoop my cargo container and warp back to the station. I have 30 minutes left.

I warp back to my belt ( yes MY BELT) with the navitas and continue mining. 25 minutes left. It sure is calm in this belt I’m drifting away to a peaceful place full of zydrine and gallente erotic dancers. I stop daydreaming as my cargohold screams that its full. In you go in the can.

20 minute left. And another guristas pirate warps in. These guys are really out to get me I bet they had a meeting. “we must kill him NO MATTER THE COST BRING IN THE CARRIERS”. He quickly pops under the fire of my hobgoblin. Thats 1 badass hobgoblin it has 6 kills now? Thats good programming on the gallente I tell ya.

I warp back to the station to do my 3rd hauling session. And I have 15 minutes remaining. I collect my ore and I dock back up and switch back to my navitas of doom®. I warp back in to MY BELT and continue the mining. And 10 minutes remaining.I continue calmly mining on my belt and goofing around.

I notice my shields going down. some pirate s**** has engaged me and I didnt even know I quickly launch my hobgoblin and it eats his face off. He lights up into a fiery explosion . And I have 5 minutes left. I warp off and decide to go do my last hauling session reprocess and estimate how much more I need for my next ship.

Good news is I have 1075350 isk. Thats 1 milion and 75 thousand. Bad news is I need another 800 thousand for a procuror. So I will need another day of mining. At least that because I will need money for a strip miner also. Good progress.

This story was originally written by Gosha Mecha on the eve forums (The original thread can be found here). All credits go to him, I merely formatted to be more readable.

I decided to do an experiment. A skilled mining toon with an empty wallet and only a new Velator and the pimp civilian mining laser. How much money can I get in a week. 1 hour each day.

Last time we left our hero he was thinking what to spend his newly found isk for. As I warp to the belt I was mining scordite yesterday I start searching for my next ship – I’m thinking about a procuror. So I need 3.5 milion for a procuror and a strip miner.I doubt I will be able to make it today but I sure am going to try.

I continue mining the scordite I have found and a friend miner seems to be here being annoyed by a guristas pirate. It seems this guristas heard what I did to his friend so he attacks me 1 minute after I warp in.

My furious hobgoblin attacks him and rips him a new one. Thats the good news the bad news is that I have entered armor. Not good news at all I tells ya. The 5 minute mark comes knocking while I loot the guristas wreck. Mmm a civilian shield booster I can use that to better my tank well thats good news

The asteroid dissapears and I feel proud of myself. God damn I’m a mining machine here. Switching to a good ore stack of pyroxeres seems like a good idea and I start mining it down. The fellow miner seems to have warped off probably scared by my mining prowess.

I shake my head trying to regain some of my sanity. The 10 minute mark hits and I decide to go drop my ore in the station because I have 4 trips to make. I dock up and equip the second hand civilian shield booster I just got from that s****pirate I killed.

The 15 minute mark hits and I continue getting the ore from my can to the station. I keep repeating this procedure and as I do it I’m thinking of getting an Iteron to haul this for me. It would save me a lot of time.

I check the prices and I find an Iteron mark 4 for 600 thousand 3 jumps from me.Problem is after I refined all my loot I have only 469534 isk. So I need 150 more and I have only 30 minutes left of day 2. Nothing much happening today and my plans are layed out. The plan for today is gather 620 thousand isk. Get the Iteron and cargo expanders and buy 2 mining laser upgrades I.

The 40 minute mark hits.As my vision blurs a quick shot to my ship wakes me up. Another pirate tries to cut me down and before I can react I’m down to 20% shields. He even jams me. But this time I’m ready for the bastards with the little loot from his collegue.

The hobgoblin comes flying off my dronebay and his ship turns into rubble in seconds.I quickly scoop his loot and head to the station.The 45 minute mark hits and I have to hurry if I want to keep my plan for the day. I start hauling my new 2000m3 of stuff to the station. As I refine everything I hit the 700 thousand mark.

I go get my Iteron mark 4 and 3 cargo expanders to go with it and I start returning to Kausaaja. On the way I also get some mining laser upgrades, so I am ready for day 3. Good thing too because my time is all but up. I have 1 minute left.

As I finally dock up in Kausaaja with my new Iteron and my wallet feeling a lot thiner I’m happy with my progress.My current isk balance is 89485 isk. I have a Navitas and an Iteron mark 4 as my assets. I’m getting big time here.

This story was originally written by Gosha Mecha on the eve forums (The original thread can be found here). All credits go to him, I merely formatted to be more readable.

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I decided to do an experiment. A skilled mining toon with an empty wallet and only a new Velator and the pimp civilian mining laser. How much money can I get in a week. 1 hour each day.

Undocked in Jita with a pod, moved to another station and got my extraordinary Velator and 3 ISK from the tritanium in it, WIN. As Jita is extremely laggy I decided to move. Lets try Alikara. I have 9237 isk.

As I leave Jita my new life starts, oh the excitement. I wont be low sec mining just high sec like a carebear. 5 minutes have already passed but I found a rich plagioclase ore, SCORE.

After an exciting 60 seconds I get 46.875 m3 worth of plagioclase in my shiny cargohold. I can barely contain my excitement with the riches im going to get, so I alt tab for 1-2 minutes until the ship’s cargohold is filled.

Aaaand im full. My first goal I’m thinking should be getting a Navitas. So I need 24400 isk. Jeez thats a lot of money :-/. I refine my first batch with the bonus 1 trit I got for the Velator frack yeh im up to 20946 isk.

I decide to spring for a miner tech 1. 10k ISK FOR A MINER. NO THANKS IM SAVING FOR THE NAVITAS. I hit the 10 minute mark. I decide to drop a can and wait until I get 2 loads. No risk no reward right?

As I overload my ship with the richness of plagioclase and warp to the station the 15 minute marks arrives. Urgency strikes me I gotta hurry the frack up or I aint gonna make anything today. I’ve left a can with another load of ore.God I hope someone doesnt steal it. My money, my hope, my future.

As I arrive it and find it safe in space I breath easily. Docking time and a new toy from a near system. As I sell the load I had I hit the 45k isk mark and its time for a navitas. I warp to kaimon. Its 600 isk more expensive than 6 jumps away but im thinking I can make more money while mining with it.

As I dock in kaimon I notice my watch ding ding ding it says 20 minute mark my friend. I buy another miner I have 2 now. A civilian one and a miner I. And I have 9850 isk left. I search for expanded cargoholds … but I find none. Thats just great.

As I warp to the belt I find a guristas frigate there. There goes my good day. I find it ironic as he burns through my shields I burn through a azure plagioclase formation. I get my fill pretty fast and my shields seem to be dying so I warp off.

I decide I need some protection. I decide to invest in my survival. I buy a hobgoblin I. Kinda expensive 9500 isk but I think its going to be worth it. As I arm myself I hit the 25 minute mark. Good news is I have 31000 isk. Well after I buy the drone only 22000.

As I arm myself I decide I might as well buy another miner and I do. My wallet shows 11869. The pesky Guristas frigate seems to have attacked a hulk after seeing that I rejoice and scoop my shiny drone and start mining that asteroid I like. As I start filling a can with ore I arrive at the half way point.

The 30 minute mark. The hulk decides to warp off and the fearsome pirate starts burning for me. I decide I aint running this time until I hit my structure and release my drone. As he tears my shield my drone rips his shield and enters armor. A second later a violent explosion.I blink but its not my ship, its that pirate his nice 9000 bounty entering my wallet and his 125mm railgun enters my cargohold.

Maybe I should be a bounty hunter. I shake that insane idea off quite easily and decide to dock up and throw the ore and “loot” haha loot I have accumulated.

From all that excitement I missed the 35 minute mark and enter the 40 minute mark directly. I have less time than I thought. I quickly start getting what I mined from the belt to the station and reprocess it. My wallet grows several times bigger and my happiness with it.

As I move my stuff from the belt to the station the 45 minute mark hits.I finish and my new balance is 165530 ISK. I feel like giving everybody in the station a free drink.

I decide to go to Kausaaja for expanded cargoholds and there seem to be 150 belts there so i could mine here too for the 10 minutes i have left of day 1. I get my expanded cargoholds and warp to a belt to make myself some additional income.

I decide to switch to scordite because the price of pyerite has really gone up. 5 minute remaining, I find a wrecked guristas on the belt i warp to. Serves the basterd right. As i haul my last load in and reprocess everything i get 264316 isk. I’m a quarter of a milionaire now.

This story was originally written by Gosha Mecha on the eve forums (The original thread can be found here). All credits go to him, I merely formatted to be more readable.

Since we were deployed into a null-sec area near high-sec for a week now I’ve had the chance to do things in empire again. I haven’t been to empire in a few months except the one or two runs to get some blueprints.

As I wanted to make some quick money I decided to check for a good agent again (Can only do level 3 missions) and settled in that system. The station my mission agent was in also had about 50 free production slots (And about 10 free PE slots) so I decided to invest some of the money I made with the missions into manufacturing and research.

After researching some profitable items I headed into Jita to get the blueprints and materials (Fortunately we weren’t wardecced at that time), after hauling them back I started the manufacturing jobs and waited for them to complete.

I hauled them back into Jita once they completed and behold my first manufacturing profit, a nice 1M ISK (Gotta start somewhere).

I’ll be keeping one of my clones in high-sec now to jump back and forth between high-sec and null-sec, currently I’m preparing for another production run, this one lasting 3 days and netting me about 30m profits (20m investment, 50m return).

I’ll keep you posted on how this production run will turn out.

~Xeross

This is a video I found when CK twittered he added this to his favourites, after watching it I agreed on that decision. So without further ado, here it is. Enjoy

Credits go to the creator of the videos ofcourse

After reading this post by Myrhial Arkenath I decided to overhaul some aspects of my blog too, adding some plugins and changing some settings.

Permalinks

As you might have noticed I have changed my permalink structure, up till about 10 minutes ago the structure would’ve been /year/month/day/post-name however the date part is completely unneeded and just makes the URL longer. So now I’ve changed the structure to be /post-name as can be seen in your url bar right now (probably).

Plugins

Next to this I’ve also added some additional plugins, for info on what they do again check Myrhial’s post

• WP Super Cache
• SEO Slugs
• Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs aren’t yet implemented in the blog theme but will be added soon.

~Xeross