Galadea
Alpha
- Joined
- Mar 1, 2006
- Posts
- 658
- Location
- Omegatron West
- Society
- The 3-Toed Sloths
- Avatar Name
- Galadea Gala Durutti
I stopped playing Entropia post VU10. I used to hunt a bit, but my heart was in mining. Back in the day I used to profit from mining, because I mostly mined high markup ores. Some enmatter, too, because there were some high markup enmatters which could be farmed easily. The fun in mining for me was that it required a certain level of knowledge to be successful but the activity in itself was pretty monotonus, hasslefree and easy going. Especially the last part changed completely.
When I recently logged in and started mining I tried it the old way and at my favorite spots. But I couldn't find any relaxing mining spot, either there were millions of mobs, millions of hills or no ressources at all. Especially the hills are a huge hassle. Sometimes I did fall off and was killed by the damage, sometimes I slided down but got stuck in the hillside and had to teleport out, etc. After four hours I dropped 50 bombs...
I though maybe I am doing something wrong and i need to get a vehicle. So i bought one but instead of reducing the hassle it even made everything more complicated and elongated. Press key to spawn vehicle, find a suitable place to spawn your vehicle, enter vehicle, fly up, move, land and start mining...after a few runs my droprate of bombs still was very very low, I just covered more space and the problems with the silly amount of hills persisted.
Currently mining is zero fun for me. It is more about micromanaging your vehicle, travelling around for ages, trying to not get stuck, etc.
So my question is: How do you mine today?
When I recently logged in and started mining I tried it the old way and at my favorite spots. But I couldn't find any relaxing mining spot, either there were millions of mobs, millions of hills or no ressources at all. Especially the hills are a huge hassle. Sometimes I did fall off and was killed by the damage, sometimes I slided down but got stuck in the hillside and had to teleport out, etc. After four hours I dropped 50 bombs...
I though maybe I am doing something wrong and i need to get a vehicle. So i bought one but instead of reducing the hassle it even made everything more complicated and elongated. Press key to spawn vehicle, find a suitable place to spawn your vehicle, enter vehicle, fly up, move, land and start mining...after a few runs my droprate of bombs still was very very low, I just covered more space and the problems with the silly amount of hills persisted.
Currently mining is zero fun for me. It is more about micromanaging your vehicle, travelling around for ages, trying to not get stuck, etc.
So my question is: How do you mine today?