Paying Attention to Environment

Paying attention to environment and your surroudnings is crucial and key to your success as a miner. For one thing, different land areas and environments contain different resources, which means different markups and different prices. In addition, looking at your landscape usually tells you where there isn't a claim.

A steep mountain where you probably can't even get the claim isn't the smartest place to place a bomb/probe. Nor is a town or a field filled with mobs that you cannot kill.

Sometimes, following your intuition on where the claims are can be your ticket to success.

Getting better Markup % for your Resources

If you can afford it, its much better to hold onto your resources in order to achieve a better markup % from traders. How is this possible? Usually, you will have small amounts that traders/resellers on the streets of Teleporters will buy. They will always buy for a profit.

However, when you have bulk, you are able to negotiate a better price for your goods, or even auction it off without getting huge fees.

If you can't afford it, try looking for a deal in the offtime you're not mining for the small amount of resources you already have.

Mining Tip # 8 - Increasing Productivity

Time is money. Literally. Who wants to waste time walking around with a heavy load? Here are some tips on how to increase productivity.

1. Make sure to buy all your probes/bombs beforehand, so that if you forgot to buy a good amount, you won't have to prematurely end your trip.
2. Bring Mind Essence and Teleport Chips, they greatly save the amount of time walking back to a near Teleporter.
3. On the run itself, bring a refiner to refine your enmatter/ore. By doing so, you decrease the weight load, making you run faster.

Mining both Enmatter and Ore

Many people suggest that while one is doing bad, the other does fairly well. In this case, you can break even, even while one is doing terribly bad.

Personally, however, I believe that while theoretically it may be true, it's not a good idea because of the skill levels. Each ore has different skill levels, enmatter with prospecting and drilling, mining with the others. Skill levels are a big part in determining what kind of enmatter/ore you get. Doing both will limit your skill level.

Mining Tip # 7 - Mining in PvP Areas

Mining in PvP areas can work to your advantage, but also to a disadvantage.

Since its a PvP area, less people mine there due to the danger of being killed and losing their ore/enmatter. With less people mining there, there are more claims to be found, leading to an increase in profits. If you find any time of claim, don't tell anyone otherwise they might kill you for the resources you mined.

Obviously, you could get killed and lose all of your resources, leading to a huge deficit, large amounts of frustration, and time.'

It's up to you to take the risk.

Mining Tip # 6 - Measuring Distance

Finder's have a radius ranging between 50-55meters. What this means is that in order to achieve maximum efficiency, you want to walk at least 100-110 meters in any one direction in order to ensure that your finder's radius do not overlap.

In order to measure your distance, you should count about 15-20 seconds between probes/bombs, or press P in order to be more accurate. Pressing P gives you exact coordinates, so you can use simple math to calculate the meters.

NRF - EU Mining Program

Like I've stated before, once you get the hang of mining, you will be returning to the same spots.

NRF is a program that allows you to record your runs, locations of claims, and much more. To learn more, click here

To accurately track your mining log, you should put in all the correct information, from mining amp, radius, tracker, and type of mining you're doing(enmatter/ore).