Player Features and Ideas Discussion

so, why does everyone feel like enforcing their play style on mining?

how about we force PvP and missioners to play a minigame to start firing their guns similar to the exploration minigame?

we wont, and you know why? it doesnt match the mindset and demographic that playstyle entails. mining is for players who want to focus more on talking with their buddies, and taking thinsg slow, perhaps doing a term paper, or eating a sandwhich, without being completely excluded from advancement.

semi-afk gameplay is mining, thats what it is, thats what it needs to be.

besides that, loot spew of any kind is seriously old, got boring after the third time (minigame was boring after the fifth), all it did was make me click 8 times as much for almost the same isk.

Proven FACT, any mechanic introduced to "break up the monotony" of a task that must be repeated often enough to become "monotonous" will NOT, magically, make it "fun for the whole family". all it will do is add extra clicks and time to accomplish the same monotonous task, making it even more boring, and making more people grow tired of it.

lets compare it to something else, how about, for POS bashing, CCP makes POS's completely invulnerabel until you capture 3 nodes surrounding them to drop its second shield. this extra mechanic to break up the monotony of structure shooting does NOT make it "more fun", it makes it take even longer for the same result to be achieved, which is why nullsec wars end with so many burnouts.



so to reiterate AGAIN, mining does NOT need to be "made more fun" because by its very nature it CANNOT be "more fun". it has a place, it fulfills that place, if you feel bored doing it, then find a different aspect fo EVE that IS designed to cater to your playstyle.

my perfectly trained 4 hulks / freighter and orca become pointless .. nice.

i payed to train them for nothing..

guess i won't need to plex them anymore.

if you think this will have any benfit fo eve .. your mistaken..

may ore prices sky rocket and your ships become unafordable..

and if you think it's easy to keep 4 hulks mining at perfect effiency .. your wrong.

seems it's not alt accounts that are killing eve but the war against botters.

Almost everybody as at least 2 accounts,which means that if multi-boxing would be banned,CCP would lose at least half it's income,probably much more than that. EVE would die.So no, multi-boxing is NOT ruining EVE.

Mining is mostly fine as it is,but perhaps adding some sort of mini games that slightly increase your yield would be a nice addition...As long as it's not obligatory and you can still chose to afk mine,and also as long as it's not a click fest.