Player Features and Ideas Discussion

no

It would force people to play the game in a certain way just to be able to play it the way they want.

If I want to be an industrial pilot, then why should I run missions to grind up rep?

Also, what about Noobs in their noob ships who get missions to mine?

Furthermore, the effort required for reward would be out of whack. You would have to grind tons of rep to get to be able to mine in high sec just to mine the worst ore...

So yea, your idea is very bad.

you are trying to reduce ice mining blobs, everyone ice mining is afk you can either A remove Ice all together or B make ice mining fun in some way.
grinding standings is already notorious in eve for being one of the most annoying things you can do..

Mining has always been its own thing. You can just start doing it. All you need is a ship, a turret slot, and a mining laser. This takes away from that, forcing missions on people who don't like them.

Now, just to be clear, I think this is a good idea, I just don't like the affects. Even if there was reserved space for miners in good standing, that would go against mining philosophy.

My suggestion would be to give all space a chance of having some ABC ores, make asteroids have some mixture of ores and require some ACTIVE mining to get the good stuff out.

Then boost the heck out of low sec, and make null sec so profitable that people risk Skiffs through gate camps to get at it.

Arbitrary restrictions to prevent people with low standing from mining in high sec is ham fisted and poor game design.

That's an interesting idea.. but I don't think there is any way you can create enough value in Nullsec to get people to risk Skiffs in gatecamps without destroying the economy. I think near the whole of Null is mining these days with the GSF blockade on Highsec mining.

Maybe I'm the only one that noticed the Highsec minerals are the ones that are 2-4 times their proper values and Nullsec ores is incredibly cheap. Next to worthless in fact, when compared to its value before all this.

I'm only speculating of course, based on my watching the Megacyte market drop to well below normal levels. I know it hasn't changed in usefulness, and I know it is a Null miner picking it up, so it must be very plentiful. Plentiful means someone is mining it.

On the other hand, the Trit, and various Highsecs are stupidly expensive, as are some of the High-lows and I'm pretty sure at least some of the other Nulls are rock bottom to, though I haven't done a true comparison, and I know it doesn't balance out exactly accross the board. Close enough, and we know all people really like to mine are ABC's given the choice.