Player Features and Ideas Discussion

You've created a clever and interesting way to mine planets, adding a third person paradigm, but you stopped short of letting it be fully automated. I don't understand why you can't just turn on the factory and let it run forever. Mining asteroids is a totally unimaginative and boring game mechanic, I think you recognize that. You've come up with a better way to mine, but it still turns into a grind eventually.

The fun part is setting up your operation - choosing planets and products and establishing the factories. But why do the hot spots have to run dry? It's kind of like playing Civilization and having your mines and farms disappear. And hauling is no fun either. Why don't the spaceports spawn little drone robot haulers to take the products to market?

It's something like a cross between Civ and Warcraft, where you design your resource gathering, but we have no peons!! We have to carry the gold back to the base in the first person!!

So give us peons and gold mines that never collapse. Let other players kill the peons without getting Concorded, but make them turn red to everybody else.

You did something innovative with PI, you merged gaming paradigms. Now carry it further and overlay more of the RTS game. Add the fun parts of the RTS and get rid of the grinding.

oops didn't see the book:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=7655&find=unread
but i didn't notice robot haulers in there...

Wait for the 2.1 assembly hall version.

It has NPC hauling contracts to move your PI goods to stations for you, or vice versa.