EvE rocks. It's a game that can let you do things like this:
Me and a few friends have set up our own little miners company. We have set up our headquarters in in a space station making weapons and ships, set in the vital crossroads near resource rich asteroid belts and the most transversed trade routes. We have rented space on the base to set up our own little factory, and using hard earned funds we made from mining asteroids, we each set out in pairs to obtain blueprints for certain items like weapons and equipment located all over the domain space. Many solar systems however, are low security and full of pirates which is why we needed to travel in pairs or small groups. Once we obtained the blueprints we needed the ore to make the items. Asteroid belts in high security (heavily police patroled) areas tend to be raped clean of the more valuable ore because of the massive mining ships used by the bigger and longer established corporations. Someday, when we can afford it, we will obtain a big mining and transport ship of our own that lets us haul nearly 3,500 units of ore instead of a mere 200 from our civilian frigates. So it's important that we could sell stuff.
Many of the valuable ore however are located in low sec areas full of pirates, and the more valuable the ore is, the greater the pirate presence. We set up some armed reconnaissance missions towards asteroid belts in low sec areas with one frigate armed with a survey scanner, while others used armed frigates. We encountered some resistance, kiled a few pirates and took some loot home, especially captured weapons and ammo.
We have managed to locate some valuable ore but the area is really pirate infested. We sent out an armed mining party with three mining frigates and three armed frigates. The ore is located and the miners went to their task quickly, some of them deploying mining drones to speed up the task. The pirates came in waves every five minutes or so, and we did have a tough time protecting our miners from their insistant attacks. With no insurance policy we cannot afford to lose a member or a ship. We managed to fight off the pirates and send our armed convoys safely home. The pattern was repeated a few times until enough of the necessary ore ingredients are obtained.
The ore is refined to obtain valuable minerals and soon the items were made. Soon we were able to build some frigates too based on the blueprints we paid so heavily to obtain. The items and the ships were left in the open market, and we decided to call it a day.
Next day, the items and ships were gone, sold out and there is a healthy increase in our corporate wallet. Soon we will be able to afford our big mining ship, train our characters with new skills, and upgrade some of our ships and weapons. We dream of obtaining our own cruiser or battleship, as we fear that some other corporation with more Mafia like tactics would try to assert dominance in our free asteroid belts using goons in heavily armed ships. Already one of our corporation members was attacked by a player pirate affiliated to an outlaw corporation in our system, and we placed a hefty bounty on this player's head.
This is a typical day and life of an EvE denizen.
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Sat May 24, 2003 8:30 am 
