VanGogh Gaming's TinyMiner EVE Online Mining Bot

This should convince new people thinking about acquiring TM, that that is one solid decision the would make!

Some people will never learn.

A year ago I notice a corpmember suddenly having a character absolutely not fitting his wallet.
Then suddenly he has a CNR 30 jumps away from the spot where he was assisting someone less then an hour before in a(nother) CNR.
So I asked him to tell me (pre-fitting screen tool) his fitting.... all faction of course...

Month later he has 3 chars, all 30-40 million SP, all faction fittings, never cried over a loss (took his CNR into low-sec...) and still no feasible industrial / production plan to explain where the ISK comes from. So... I had a chat with him warning him for the risks and to see if he could be trusted enough to point out TM.

During a visit to his house after a EVE meeting we had nearby I checked all his inventories and his wallet transactions while he was taking a dump.

Noted, the guy is buying ISK in bulk.
My estimate was he must have bought over 50 billion in ISK in less then 3 months and transfered onto one char!!!

WTF? Lost your marbles or what?

Yeah of course CCP caught up on him. He lost 2 of his chars, and got one left (Hulkminer).

Only shortly after he was kicked, he is back. Asked me on advice on buying new chars. I warned him not to buy more then one Hulkminer and use patience and 'a program like TM', being careful enough as I did not trust him to put a hold on his shopping addiction.

Well, he bought 2 Hulkminers and did not get caught amazingly enough prolly because he actually listened for once what I told him, he used a site where he bought goods to sell on market instead of buying ISK plus bought and sold some PLEX's on market to cover his illegal ISK revenues.

Then half year ago it turns out he spent all his family holiday allowance on EVE, lost his job nearly a couple times for playing EVE at work or calling in sick and he had to turn to church to help him with his shopping addiction in which EVE was just the channel, not the problem.

Suddenly 2 weeks ago he is back, like the guy who tried to stop smoking but could not...
His first email was; pls advice on buying some chars with a bunch of urls from the bazaar.
His 2nd email; forget about it, I got kicked by CCP ....

Why? Coz the wanker bought 15 billion ISK at a site, completely neglecting or prolly stupidly ignoring his past bad experiences with that!

Now he is back... again, only shortly after he recieved his last kick.
The irl money is gone, he lost his job and if I don't give him one of my chars he will tell CCP about me having pointed out the goods-site and the plan to cover the financial revenues in wallet..

I had a wholeheartedly laugh in his face.
With what... your ingame mail got deleted with your chars dumbass.
I spent hours on helping him out and if he showed any brains at all I would have pointed him out that TM was the solution.
Soon I will have a year use of TM and I will see to make some time to put my 'spoils of EVE' into a thread.

Lessons to be learned for people coming here the first time and thinking about buying TM.

DON'T BUY ISK!

USE TM, PATIENCE AND YOUR BRAIN!

and for godsake, be a little patient... it's a game that will run for years, not a game you can 'win' in a couple months!

Good post! Thanks for sharing this with us.

oke what a fool really.

EVE is just to small to buy ISK the change of being found is way bigger than say wow. (Well oke wow is like 0.001%)

he should just have stick to using TM on two account or so yield enough for game time and that CNR he liked.

Still nice story.

Nice story dude, got some laughts at it, there's ppl that just don't learn

Mining is nice but only when i'm not at the pc, i found lvl4 missions in high sec more profitable and risk free


Cheerz

Thank you for the story, it helped me very much to break out of the circle I was caught in. Even when I didn't came so far as your corp mate did, I have kind of a similar story to tell. It's now around a week, that I am gone from eve. And after guess like 2-3 weeks intense playing and living a full grown addiction, I slowly cool down. I played eve 2 months, I got 20b in rmt and earned 40b ingame. The last 3 weeks I did 18 hours / day simultaneous on 4 characters (3 manual, 1 with TM). One Mission Runner, two freighter pilots and one miner. Lately I started a 5th account first to found my very own corporation and second to get me an amatris ed. iteron, to complete my iteron collection. I did around 50m isk / hour with mission running, around 800m isk / day with trading and in addition TM created around 25m isk / day in tritanium.

I can't tell when or if I will return to eve... I was close to meatgrind all my chars and to petition ccp to delete my accounts. But then I thought it is a good idea having my old characters as a reminder not to fall into the same pit again. To be honest, I still feel the urge, loggin in, just to put something in the learning queue of my chars, but this urge gets weaker every day...