Science & Industry

So i heard that CCP wants to make mining a mini game and i though that sounds cool to me...

So lets look at an asteroid... its just not made out of one mineral.. Usually there are deposits of the good stuff and the rest is filler... (the good stuff is mish mashed mixed between layers of the filler)


What I envision is when you target and scan an asteroid you get this pop up screen that shows where the best of the minerals are in that rock...

Now you have setting on the mining laser/strip miner that can go from high efficiency (basically cutting threw the sundry rock)

and then you have high yield (a lower intensity beam that is better for collecting the actual mineral like veldspar)

There is an automatic switch that you can choose (like automatic transmission)

and then there is a manual switch (like a manual transmission)

Now if you are active and switch using manual you get better quality minerals and can get threw the rock faster...

But if you select automatic you have a lower efficiency...

What this would do is benefit miners who are paying attention but still allow those who choose to do semi afk mining the ability to do so but at a lesser efficacy...

turning mining into a minigame doesn't mean turning it into an fps. What about letting exotic dancers popup when you deplete the magic roid and make a strip for you which no one else can see? lol

ehm..... exotic dancers female plz

nope; drone boats and missions.

just face it, there's no difference between hitting f1 on an asteroid and waiting as there is to hitting f1 on a rat and waiting for it to pop.

Except where that falls down is:

ATK missioning people get better isk/hr rates, because they don't have to super tank their ships, so they have higher DPS, so clear them faster.

ATK should always do better than AFK.

and how's that different from opening an asteroid scanner window and picking the bigger asteroids first?

mining isn't any less of an afk activity than combat is.

so can my drake do extra damage if i manually fire every salvo too?

Anything that distract player from monitoring local or d-scan is generally a bad idea.



You mean... like mining crystals? If you use wrong crystal mining yield is lower. If you use for example veldspar mining crystal to mine veldspar results in higher mining yield. Never heard of those... Wait a minute!

except reloading costs you 10 seconds of dps time, so it lowers your damage by choosing which missile to fire rather than just mindlessly pressing f1 then going to make a cup of tea while your ship automatically repeatedly fires at the refined asteroid... i mean enemy ship.

Just say no to mario party mini game mining exersizes.
I don't mine new mining like ring mining that is more dangerous and requires more attention but leave basic mining alone.
....unless you agree to tape your eyeballs to the screen for the whole length of time you are running PI or a manufacuring job.