i agree doing other things whilst playing eve so you don't get bored or give up is a must after a certain amount of time unless you are in a Corp. I like Auto-Missiles for this purpose on my character i suppose drones would do the same job so you can semi afk. As long as i avoid low or null sec i should be ok. If i can't get enough ISK per hour i will look to join a Corp in null sec.
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I mined in an area that was an island surrounded by low-sec. In one direction I had to cross through 3 low-sec sectors to reach it. The other direction on had one low-sec sector.
As you would expect these were infamous pirate camping points. One direction someone had a twitch-tv feed that always looked at the gate they liked to camp so you could scout ahead before jumping through.
The other direction you just had to risk it.
Usually I'd take the twitch-feed route on the way back from Jita.
I'd take the risk when I had my big load and was headed to Jita.
I did occasionally die, but I often got away too. I'd basically rig my kit with ECM and things to try to counter people trying to stall my jump drives. I could usually get away if there were only 1 or 2 pirates. If there were more than that I was usually SOL.
Anyway I built the loss of ships into my business model. I had blueprints and factories usually building me some more so I always had extras to use.
The pirates did not piss me off. They were quite exhillerating and I was always cool and would tell them good job if they got me. Or send them a message saying "you had me sweating, you nearly had me... thanks for the thrill". They were adding content to the game. :)
EDIT: The island had sectors with decent ice mining, but I did calculations and was making more off of ore at the time even though I had some ships capable of ice mining.
i like the idea of using twitch to scout gates i wonder if large corps do that or just use scout ships. Eve makes me want to buy another monitor.
I was playing it on two monitors last time I played it. I had an account I purchased through Steam and one I'd had longer.
Too bad they don't take STEEM DOLLARS. :)