Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This topic has been discussed to death, mining with regular weapons.

Even though you suggest special mining missiles, what would be the point?
Logically, this form of mining would be inefficient compared to the regular mining lasers since you'd be blasting bits of the roid all over the place.

I'm assuming this idea comes from the fact that you want actual weapons on a mining barge?

Not to mention the fact that general mining/industry skills use different attributes than missile skills, which might to a lesser extend mess with peoples skillplan (although they wouldn't have a reason to train this over regular mining skills, since it'd be less efficient)

Then why not make said ship one big cargo hold and just drag the whole fricking rock in? ;p

Nomatter what, blowing a rock apart would not be more efficienty than dissolving it with a high energy beam, you would at least end up with larger chunks when "missile mining" making the more fill more in the cargohold..

I do not lack imagination in general, this idea just seems pointless.

Also, why would this ship be able to envelop a 60km wide asteroid while current tractor beams can't handle anything larget than a battleship wreck?

Will we be able to tractor ships now Star Trek style?

Will we be able to mine ships while we blow them apart?

I am not saying all ships should be able to do the exact same thing.

But, take a noctis f.ex, it is a ship with a specialization in tractor beams and salvagers, how much sense would it be that a mining barge should be able to accommodate a tractor beam hundreds of times stronger?

Same with capital tractor beams, these massive power eating modules, although having superior range, would still not have even a fraction of the tractoring power of said mining barge.

I was chatting to your mum the other day (whilst she was gyrating on my prodigious member) and she told me an interesting fact: You secretly want to be a miner but can't due to fear of being blown up. I understand, I truly do. Only the brave fly around in paper thin ships with no weapons and you are certainly not that.

So Vinn, care to explain why "EVE hates miners"?

Oh, and the idea of a missile mining ship is a terrible one. Completely unnecessary in terms of dev time and, well, any point whatsoever.

At what point did I deny that? I merely pointed out that missile mining isn't a particularly useful or necessary addition. I'd have no problem with additional T3 subsystems for industry as long as they were sensible.

T3 are already used by some people for industrial stuff anyway. I know someone that does ninja gas mining in nullsec using a rorqual and a couple of Proteus's.