I've been playing for about a month now and after 3 weeks of training skills/missioning i've found that I actually like mining. Currently using 4 retrievers and a Bestower, warp into an asteroid belt, mine everything, then warp out .

My current yields aren't very good and it can take a while to mine everything out, but I find it strangely enjoyable.

Apart from some dick coming along and robbing my can today, but that's part and parcel of the game for now. Will soon have the skill to drop 'Giant Secure Containers' to stop that happening.

Got another 3 accounts training up miners too, but may switch them to mining fleet defence.....

It's NOTHING like wow, but it's enjoyable in it's own way