Was switching from BH to mining a mistake? (profit/h dropped to 1/10th)

[Vultan]

So, i made my first 2 million via trading back before all credit gains were buffed, then now i made 220 milion via BH. Recently i switched to a mining anaconda.

I wonder if i made a mistake. With a FAS i could easly make 5-20 million credits in 1 hour killing npc's, depending on enemy spawns. But with the Anaconda miner, i make maybe 500k / h.

How much cash do you guys make mining?

[haibeo]

I made around 1 - 2 million per hour in ASP mining (about 100 cargo space or so).
Anacoda should be much higher than 500k/h, heck even a Type 6 with 64 cargo space can make more than that!
P/s: Go to a pristine metallic ring and mine 3P (Painite, platinium, palladium) + Gold + Osium. Priority as what I listed. Try grab any mining mission available to boost income, dump anything lower value than those.
P/s2: You do use prospector and collector limpet right?

[Legion]

If you are doing anything purely for profit/hr instead of enjoyment you are only gonna burn yourself out. Mining is a bit like fishing; slow-paced and low stress.

It is possible to make large profits from mining though. I make about 10-15 mil a trip in my T9-Heavy. The key is mining missions, which are usually issued by a high tech station, and pristine metallic rings. My home system has a high tech station adjacent to a pristine metallic ring. Stock up on a few quests, head down to the inner ring, mine away. When I return, I turn in the quests I have and then flip game modes to spawn more quests until all or most of the quest-related ore is liquidated. Then I flog the rest on the open market. Flipping game modes is not necessary but it dramatically increases profits when you can effectively sell your ore for 7x market value through them.

[Tempestus_L'Cie]

Yeah, when I need money I go trading or bounty hunting for our Emperor. And when I want to just hang around and watch anime on other screen. I just pick up mining equipment and go mine to a pristine rings :)

[Vultan]

thanks for the tips. And no i dont do mining just for profit, i just tougth it would be nice to make some money while mining =)

But ye, il prob have to stack missions to earn the big cash.

[Steve]

Tip: Stop looking at your credits, if you purely concentrate on max cr per hour you'll get very bored of the game very fast. Instead try different things out and stick with what you enjoy doing, regardless of how many cr it makes.

Quite frankly I'd much rather play for 8 hour earning 10cr an hour and having a ball, than playing 8 hours being bored out of my skull and making 800m cr.

[Vultan]

引用自 PaulFoster：

Tip: Stop looking at your credits, if you purely concentrate on max cr per hour you'll get very bored of the game very fast. Instead try different things out and stick with what you enjoy doing, regardless of how many cr it makes.

Quite frankly I'd much rather play for 8 hour earning 10cr an hour and having a ball, than playing 8 hours being bored out of my skull and making 800m cr.

I was having alot of fun killing everything in haz-rez earning 9-10m /h on average :P

[Dark Thoughts]

500k per hour? So you mine like 5 tonnes? :P

Use a prospector to tripple the yield and mine only painite, platinum, palladium, gold and osmium in quantities of AT LEAST 20%+ while keeping painite, platinum and osmium for mining missions instead of selling them on the market (those require trade ranks + standings though so that's something you need to build up).

[The Muppet Surgery Special]

This is the same mistake they make in Eve, ISK / hour lol, I always cringe when I hear stuff like that.

Why not play for "fun" and see whatever way the dice rolls :) I do that in Eve also (at least there you can win BIG if you get lucky once - or twice... or thrice...).

Wish we could player trade here, or control markets :) *g*

Elite is a space shooter with trade enroute, plain and simple :) I treat it as such.

[astromedia.only]

Im not much of a fun of "currency / hour" either but in my case i would like to be explorer but that seems pretty expensive (1,5M scanner) so i started by mining as well, it can be exciting sometimes if player gets lucky but im afraid i would be after few days (not gameplay time) bored by it but still its necessary for me to get some cash before i could do what i want .... so thats my point :)

Edit: would be nice to be able to start whatever carrier player would like at aproximatly same point.

[Mr. Fibble]

Do your mining at the moment and next community goal that has a delivery part do a few runs.

The last one ran for a very short time and I only got 3 runs done but that let me collect 7.5 million once it was over on top of the profits I made from the trading. CG's do require you to go back and collect the reward once it's over but are a nice distraction between exploration trips.