Player Features and Ideas Discussion

What your proposal will do is give multiple account bot farmers perfect ore returns while destroying mining for people that play by the rules but want to play a low key aspect of the game.

In wow I came across bots that could carry on complicated and varying combat sequences and farm from what they killed. I give it 3 months tops before botters are laughing at how awesome these changes would benefit them at the expense of most of EVEs EULA abiding players.

Sounds like demagogue. Care to explain why you think so? What will be used by bots in the OP, what is not already used by them now? I see it quite opposite. If you are not bot / ak, you can follow vein to increase your yield, for example. That would give real miners sugnificant benefit.

Change is known and it is awfull. They are going to make all ships just more expensive, whithout real fix of the AFK / multiboxer problem. As soon as AFK / multiboxers will be hit by mining mechanics itself, null sec will get its natural buff. Cause mining in high sec will be reduced by large numbers.

Bots outperform humans in captcha tests hence google stopping using them, I'd be interested to see how such a mini game would avoid this.

Bump

I am not sure about 'mini" game. How about normal game, no special windows or dialogs like for hacking. You zoom the asteroid in and start looking for place to target mining laser at. The better skill - the more accurate you can find and target. The whole banch of events can interrupt your mining path. Like explosions of overheated gas/ice in asteroid can change the vein so, that it would be hard for bot to adapt. Asteroid can start rotating in other direction and so on...

Any news on the future changes in minig process?

+100 for all of OP's suggestions

Sidenote to all talking about how gamebreaking bots are -- yes I agree with you.. here is a following solution that I personally have trialled and tested, and it worked great...

Once upon a time I was a miner.. and in the system I lived and mined in with a large contigent of local people who eventually became very good and close friends of mine.. we were plagued by alot of botters who consitently mined many of the belts away.. so when it came for the guys from the US to login, many hours after DT, alot of the decent ore was gone, mostly due to the bot parties going around everywhere and munching everything up

Therefore I spoke to everyone and we halted our training on our main characters, and spent around 20-25 days training alt characters to fly catalysts to gank the botters

At first we declared war on their corporations and got some nice kills in (hulks, macks, even a few orcas) until the botters decided to go NPC corp.. and then we started suicide ganking them.
We told the botters' masters, that if they left the system and never returned, we would not pursue them, and we would only gank them in our system.
The botters tried to use highly tanked skiffs, even with damage controls.. but there were too many of us (like 20 or so) and we even ganked skiffs before concord came to kill our cats...

Eventually.. the botters disappeared into the void, and we havernt heard from them since. Even today I travel back to my old mining system, just for nostalgic purposes and I can greeted by the mass of blue contacts I have in local, and I smile


TL;DR -- make a gank alt and kill botters
Protip -- do not chase the same character(s) around all of new eden, as this can be classed as harressment and you may be subject to an EULA violation (I believe)

Thank you sir o/