True mining is an activity that the devs put in the game, but times have changed since beta, and we can't ignore present day realities. Mining is so boring and monotonous that the players have built bots to automate it for them. CCP I think turns a blind eye to illegal botting because if it were to disappear suddenly the economy would probably fall apart, because not enough players can bear the thought of spending their game time mining when they can do practically anything else in the game and get more isk/hour.

You're playing a game that goes to great lengths to have one single un-sharded universe full of thousands of players. If all you do is shoot red crosses or mine rocks with the extent of your interaction with other players being chatting in corp or sperging in local because someone flipped your can or stole your salvage, then yes I think that I have reasonable grounds for accusing you of playing the game wrong.

But as I said, it's not your fault, Eve doesn't train the player how to play like other games do.

Compare your newbie experience in this game with that of Evian Drinker's newbie experience, a 1 day old player who on his first day helped tackle and kill three Tengus. We have another newbie, Orion Winters who got a warp-in on a Nyx Supercarrier on his second day, first supercapital kill of 2012. On your second day you were mining Scordite in your Bantam or grinding level1 missions. Can you imagine how different your Eve life would have been if you had that kind of start?

Please try to understand where we're coming from. We're playing the game as it was intended. We're interacting with each other in a multiplayer game like we're supposed to. We interact with each other all the time, cooperating and helping each other (or not sometimes). we interact with neutrals and reds using the myriad of ships and modules explicitly designed by CCP for combat.

We're doing all the things that CCP keeps making (very misleading and misrepresentative) trailers about. CCP don't make trailers about solo mining or mission running publords in high-sec for very good reason.

[quote=pussnheels]Please try to understand where we're coming from. We're playing the game as it was intended.