How many people have run screaming from mining?

[Hielor]

You're asking the wrong question, I think.

Setting up a mining character is still pretty easy, no harder than it was before.

The problem is that once you've gone through all that setup, you still make less money than you can make from trading. Mining might be useful to get from Hegemon-buying territory into 5k-buying territory since it's better than trading in a 3k, but once you have the ability to get a 5k transport mining is now worthless to you.

Unless, of course, you have a large number of friends to help you out whenever you want.

Since I don't have any friends, I have "run screaming from mining" in favor of trading as my primary money-maker.

Which gives me a Thought: Add another larger generic mining ship. Make it about as maneuverable as the 5k transports, and bigger/more unwieldy than the Hegemon. Maybe not 5k hold, but above 4k.

That might make it worth it. As it is, notsomuch.