Mining is becoming preferable

After a brief rest this morning I went out for a lunch time hunt. I didn't have long, so only took 10PED of ammo with me. I ended up wandering in to a nest of Sabakuma's so spent a good while fighting with them. I got a long run of small handfuls of PEC and quite a few cans of orange paint. It didn't really seem like a good return on what I'd spent.

Doing the sums for this hunt showed I'd spent 7PED on ammo and looted 4.50PED. Repair costs on armor, guns, and FAP came in at 4.79PED, so that wiped out the loot completely. So a 7.29PED loss - wonderful. Clearly hunting, at least in short bursts, is not a good idea.

This evening I changed my plans and went back to mining. After advice yesterday I upgraded my enmatter detector. I first tried an MF-102, but turns out I'm not skilled enough for that, so I've put it in storage for the future. The MF-101 gave good results though. 13.5PED of probes gave me 12.38PED of enmatter, which when sold will effectively break even. To top that off, repair costs for mining gear came in at under a PED.

Mining seems to be doing well for me today, and the costs seem clearer.

I'm still feeling quite disheartened though. It's so hard to do well here, and I'm already struggling for money. I shouldn't have bought all those clothes :-)