The Captains Log 26/1
Ship: Mackinaw
As part of my plan to generate more ISK I am getting a couple of my characters the standings they require to run level four missions. This means a lot of mission grinding, which can get a little boring.
So I decided to liven things up a little by doing some Ice mining on one of my characters. Yes you heard right; I was going to relieve the grind of running mission by mining. You see mining has a couple of nice benefits. Firstly it would allow me subsidise part of my fuel bill for my S&I POS and secondly other people like to mine as well. Some of those people like to jet can mine which naturally attracts other people who like to can flip the miners in the hope of an easy kill.
Now I like to jet can mine, though not because it’s quicker or more efficient. I like to do it in the hope that some prick will come along and can flip me so I can bring my mission running character out in a PvP ship and blow up some poor unsuspecting can flipper. Now don’t get me wrong I couldn’t care less about people can flipping, I only want to blow them up to get a bit of amusement out of it.
So when I see a hauler warp in to the Ice belt with me I got really excited thinking I was about to be can flipped. I was therefore very disappointed when a Retriever warped in beside him and proceeded to mine Ice. Now using a hauler to haul the ore out as you mine it is a very effective way of avoiding can flippers and remain productive. However, it is not foolproof as the miner still has to jet can his ore for the hauler to pick up. If the hauler fails to grab it quickly enough I can grab it first. So that what I did. I got up nice and close to the Retriever in my Mackinaw and grabbed his ore when he jet canned it. Then been the nice guy I am I jettisoned it for him to grab. He wasn’t going to do that though. So when my cargo hold gets full of Ice I warp out of the system to dump my Ice at my POS. While I’m gone the hauler thinks it’s a good idea to take his Ice back and deliver it to the station next door. When he jumps the gate though he runs right into my Wolf who is waiting to teach him about why it is bad to steal ore. Needless to say the hauler’s life span was dramatically shortened when he made the decision to steal his ore back.
It was a good day to be a miner (for me at least). The next day was even better.
Warping into the same Ice belt the day after I found a person jet can mining. He had three jet cans full of Ice just sitting next to him so I decided to be a helpful and caring person and came along in my Iteron V to haul all his Ice to my POS to save him doing all that hard work. After I did all that hard work for him he didn’t even thank me, which was very rude of him. My only regret is that I didn’t have enough time to can flip him. Ahh well we can’t have everything in life and Ice miners can’t have their ore.
