Science & Industry

I had this grand idea and was gonna make pictures and everything with ****** photoshop but i tired so im just going to throw it out there.


basically what i propose is that using a survey scanner allows you to click on asteroids and opens up a view similar to how a plant looks on PI, the common type of ore will be *green*, pockets of conecntraed and dense ore can be scattered inside but low level people wont be able to see it until they mine into the asteroid, you active your miners and point and click and instead of cycling they start to vacuum up ore. higher level miners will see slight yellow discolorations when initially looking at an asteroid and will be able to micro manage going after better asteroids. as you vacuum up ore the green goes away until a particular spot is empty, or it will turn from green -> red as you get closer to a dense or concentrated pocket.

This allows people to continue afk mining but provides the option of more attention more isk. mining without the survey would deplete the entire asteroid of all its ore like normal, dense and normal, so you still get the same amount of ore per roid, however with the scanner and high skills players would make more money hunting down the dense nodes and switching asteroids ect...

Some balancing would have to take place, namely removing the dense/conentrated asteroids and maybe changing how much extra minerals the concentrated and dense ore gives you to even make it worth it.


I did decide to throw together a quick poorly drawn graphic to explain better see it below ^o^
http://i.imgur.com/n7MX4.png
just some clarification on my terrible wording, each miner will be able to hold 1 cycle worth of ore, but it can hold a mix of dense/regular, if you hold down the vacuum button it will take exactly long as the cycle time to fill up completely before it has to dump into your ore hold ect...
> another way to do it instead of a vacuum dragging across the screen is to click on the miner and then click on a specific spot on the asteroid, and it would mine for 1 cycle then require you to pick a new spot ect...

Thanks for reading i hope ccp looks at this cause this was inspired by their discussion from the CSM minutes that i read a grand total of 1 page of ;)

ADHD kids don't have attention span for mining, that's the real problem.

"ideas" actually have their own forum ... the OP is just a variation on several other ideas about making mining "fun". the problem is that "fun" is subjective. turning mining into a FPS or burgertime might make it fun for some, and ruin it for other people. luckily, if you don't like to mine as it is now, you have the choice to do something else.

I actually like this idea. It takes their attention away from the overview / local / UI and means gankers can ambush more effectively.

PRO IDEA!

Or there's just no game involved in it at all, press F1 drop ore, scoop ore repeat. It's not like this mechanic would remove afk mining for the 35 at a ****** job and lonely.

I fail to see how turning moongoo into asteroids is going to change mining mechanics to make them more interesting?

Actually, i don't like mining, so i don't do it, and i let people that like it continue doing what they like.

If you think mining sux, why the (expletive deleted) are you creating a thread about it?!?!

You can really only "AFK" mine with Ice. Asteroids deplete too fast to AFK mine.

^^ agree with Ooda.

Multi boxing an orca and 2+ huks already requires enough attention when using survey scanners and actually managing your cycles to reduce wasted time.

OP idea appears to be based on a solo afk setup and OP is bored as a result.