Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I fly a venture from time to time because it's cheap. I like to try mining a little bit sometimes, and when I mine, I don't bother going to a mining post I have already setup when I just met someone to mine with and he's in a new area. I don't bring my barges over to him either. I buy a new ship and make a new mining post. I have about fifteen mining posts and still don't have half of the good spots covered.

So I'll buy a venture if I don't plan to mine in one spot for long, or just to see if the system is any good.

ya I agree venture is fun ship. pathetic ore capacity and mining yield compared to barrages but it's situational . it's fun ship to fly, easy to fit and what's not to like in 1000 m\s mining ship :)

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@Cardano Firesnake didn't see your post until I posted.

few things,
it's not just distance or cycle time we talked here about features... parheps I wan armor tank mining ship? or mining ship which utilize EWAR to it's protection.

to many options for just strip miners, and current barrages are pathetic fitting capability wise. I got PG operation and CPU operation on V and I got loads of other relevant X Upgrades skills to 3-4 and I struggle with anything which is not skiff\procurer when I fit it.. so much that I need to min max to the 0.1 range.

In truth it's easy to fly an exhumer, you don't really need to master any skills and you can fly a t1 fit and nothing will happen (though t2 is miles better). Thing is as a miner which like to mine and not sit in orca and just boost there doing nothing except the casual drones defense or pulling cans into the bay, past exhumers I got nothing to look into ... it's ultimate mining ship so far and I got nothing better to aspire.

Let's take other ships and such,
haulers > we got loads of those.
combat ships > lasers, missiles, guns drones... each of those got lots of variety and then there are capital and super capital ship you might want to fool around with.
EWAR ships \ Explortion ships - this got some very interesting options I noted from frigates up to battleships at least if not some cap ones. on this section and combat section you also got cruiser class (easy to train as you need skills for those and to fly bigger ships anyway) T3 cruisers which are highly modular and nice to fit.
Pirate ships > want to spice up your profession ? there are those nitty pirate ships which utilize number of skills at once for unique gameplay experience like missiles and drones line of guristas etc....

Overall as a miner which wants to mine I got Venture > barrage > exhumer. all of them got same basic function of point to rock and click, all of them utilize mining laser with MLU on low and maybe some drones for defense and shield tanking. All of them limited on high slots so I can't fit let's say salvager + tractor beam to make extra cash from wrecks etc, their mining yield from drones do not exist therefore drones got better yield on drone ships like vexor for example which is funny as that not mining ship at all :X

My point we need some end game all security levels modular mining ship to spice up mining as an activity in the game.
Hell, I wouldn't mid if they'll add some mining system overhaul to make it more interesting like asteroid belts are random locations and maybe asteroid drifts on 0.01 speed so you need to catch them. perhaps even wormhole which spit "Planets debris" which is basically the average roid which will make them random bit like exploration so you won't know what to find or where and this will benefit miners which choose to train variety of ore specific skills so they can use all T2 crystals, which btw takes too much space on cargo bay I never understood why they take space like 30 drones :X

thanks!

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btw another interesting thing I thought about will be "disruptor" module which allows you to lock on a rock and as long as you locked on it no other mining ship can be locked on that rock.

if I had it my way.. a BS sized hull. 2 strip/gas lasers. the yield of a maxed out skiff or Mac, 4 weapon slots. a decent Mac sized ore hold.
too much yield and there's no sense using an exhumer.. too much dps and everyone else will whine.

love the t3 idea to mix/match what you need it for instead of moving 3 exhumer around low/null.

I'm not terribly fond of mining but wouldn't turn down the fleet invite to roam around in a pack of these..

might sound silly but...

its true that simply a new ship to skill for is not the right way but in the end what other option are there a miner reachs the top in no time and orca and rorqual are only support ships

I understand a common complaint about Afk miners and dislike the idea myself. The problem lies mostly with how Ming works as a whole. Once you activate the module it requires little to no input from the player. Especially true with ice mining. Whether I stare at my screen or go make a sandwich, nothing changes. The only thing left for me to do is scan roids and plot out my next target. But that only goes so far too with the range of scanners sometimes less than that of a strip miner (thank you boosts). Once they change mining to reward active input from the player you won't see as many "afk" miners (granted botting will never disappear). But I do like the idea of a flexible ship that can perform multiple roles at once like T3s. So the ships and Afk mining are really two seperate problems that affect one another but need to be handled individually.