Player Features and Ideas Discussion

That's one way to ensure the target will stay put. Bump them till they turn this module on. Then gank them.



If this requires a miner to sacrifice yield, many will not use it. They are the ones whining.

...This is the kind of bullshit I see in F&I that makes me want to gouge out my own eyes.

Miner bumping is a legitimate and hilarious way to mess with AFK miners. Anti-bumping measures already exist - they're called orbiting, keeping at range, and having someone on hand to web you down.

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This is an acceptable option. However, I chose mids since most miner ships are shield tanked due to yield mods taking up the lows. Also, this idea revolves around making a miner have to choose between bump harassment or being an easier gank target. Taking up a mid will further diminish said shield tank. While, taking away a laser will undoubtedly make the miner not use the module at all imo.





Sorry, but a resist reduction of that magnitude would create lol scenerios where t1 frigs would be popping hulks. Its just not a fair trade off.

As for having a module-related skill that reduces un-anchoring times, this is an acceptable idea as well. All the inferno modules got skill books, so why not.

bot much?

TBH I play mostly in wormhole space so it doesn't really affect me and if it did I could probably come up with ways to counter it - but I know of 3 people from a gaming forum I frequent who have tried to get into eve casually and quit playing due to miner bumping and one guy having 5 retrievers suicide ganked in about 3 days. I don't really know much about it but from 2nd hand information it seems like its turning a good number of people away from the game and thats not really a good thing.

If your friend's idea of "casual play" is paying $15/month to sit and stare at rocks then that just makes me sad. There's so much more you can do, even on a casual basis, than sit in a barge and mine.

I play regularly now, but when I first started playing I was on maybe one day a week for a couple hours, and I made enough money derping around doing missions and exploring to satisfy my needs.

Maybe your friends should try exploration or missioning, instead of rock munching. And to be honest, if bumping and ganking are turning you away from EVE then you're probably not the kind of person who would be a benefit to the game and community anyway.

No idea what they did and didn't do but for all I know they may well have changed systems and/or made attempts to evade it. Being new they probably wouldn't have had much idea as to if there were/are systems where bumping doesn't happen.




They'd only been playing around 2 months or so possibly less - maybe if they'd carried on to play longer they'd have got into that other stuff. Mining is one of the most obvious ways to make ISK (atleast it was when I started) as a new player.

Making the module require a midslot is good. Make it consume a fair bit of resources so that you can't really fit much of a tank. Of course a module like this would have to divert power engines and ore processing in order to reinforce the barge's stability systems so no movement is possible with the module active and mining yield would have to be reduced.

Don't put a suspect flag on it, but do give it a Weapons timer just like the Bastion Module will have. No docking up or jumping system for a minute after the module is disengaged. Now you have the choice between miner bumping as usual or balanced, bump-proof mining that makes you an easier gank target.

I support giving miners the ability to make choices, but only if those choices have both benefits and drawbacks, just like any choices the rest of us make.

It already exists, it is called self destruct.