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It would be nice to mine alone, sometimes
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Kruenix Gearsworth
Yuki Hama Space Jumpers
#1 - 2016-01-10 05:13:14 UTC
It thought it would be nice if small clusters of mineable asteroids would show up in systems but require a ship to scan down.
Fly safe o/
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#2 - 2016-01-10 05:52:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Zhilia Mann
Kruenix Gearsworth wrote:
It thought it would be nice if small clusters of mineable asteroids would show up in systems but require a ship to scan down.
Fly safe o/


The current mining anomalies used to require scanning. Now they don't.

Honestly I like it better this way. Gravimetric sites were a constant pain for people looking for exploration content and I could count on one hand the number of times I saw miners in them (which makes sense as miners rarely carry probes....)

A small number of scannable mining sites might be ok I suppose but they would have to be worthwhile enough to probe then go back for a mining ship then mine out without them being so damn good that everyone flocks to them at the exclusion of everything else. Though admittedly the Venture/Prospect make the idea somewhat more appealing.

Still. I'd rather not have to deal with probing down the damn things when I'm looking for actual content.

Edit: and as for mining alone? I hear lowsec is nice this time of year. Take a Venture or two out and find a nice quiet system with higher value ore.
Iain Cariaba
#3 - 2016-01-10 06:53:21 UTC
Zhilia Mann wrote:
Edit: and as for mining alone? I hear lowsec is nice this time of year. Take a Venture or two out and find a nice quiet system with higher value ore.

Just get away from the trade hubs. I run across lots of empty highsec systems in my travels through highsec.
Rivr Luzade
Coreli Corporation
Pandemic Legion
#4 - 2016-01-10 07:33:13 UTC
What Iain Cariaba wrote. Especially in Amarr and Minmatar space, there are loads of systems that are largely deserted, even some with fairly good infrastructure. And then there are some Relic and Data sites which also contain nice numbers of asteroids with feasible ore yields.

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Morrigan LeSante
Perkone
Caldari State
#5 - 2016-01-10 10:54:50 UTC
Loads of missions have roid pockets.

Even the level 1 security ones which you could do in the barge lol
Sobaan Tali
Caldari Quick Reaction Force
#6 - 2016-01-10 11:07:35 UTC
Some pockets of Amarr space tend to be pretty empty even at peak hours. Amarr is typically less crowded per system than other Expire territories.

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Lugh Crow-Slave
#7 - 2016-01-10 13:31:22 UTC
Kruenix Gearsworth wrote:
It thought it would be nice if small clusters of mineable asteroids would show up in systems but require a ship to scan down.
Fly safe o/


I remember when this was a thing then ccp want and made it "lazy friendly" and killed wh mining

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The 16.8km Bubble
Donnachadh
United Allegiance of Undesirables
#8 - 2016-01-10 14:18:23 UTC
Zhilia Mann wrote:
Honestly I like it better this way. Gravimetric sites were a constant pain for people looking for exploration content and I could count on one hand the number of times I saw miners in them (which makes sense as miners rarely carry probes....)

And yet back in those days I was in a corp that ALWAYS scanned every system in our local area for these and mined them because most of them contained ores that are normally restricted to low and nul sec.
Arya Regnar
Darwins Right Hand
#9 - 2016-01-10 14:46:59 UTC
You should mine in Uedama, the belts there have no mining barges and exhumers. Lol

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Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#10 - 2016-01-10 18:58:54 UTC  |  Edited by: Zhilia Mann
Donnachadh wrote:
Zhilia Mann wrote:
Honestly I like it better this way. Gravimetric sites were a constant pain for people looking for exploration content and I could count on one hand the number of times I saw miners in them (which makes sense as miners rarely carry probes....)

And yet back in those days I was in a corp that ALWAYS scanned every system in our local area for these and mined them because most of them contained ores that are normally restricted to low and nul sec.


I was in low sec. So yeah. No one was using them.

In high, sure, I imagine they were a bit more popular.
Hopelesshobo
Hoboland
#11 - 2016-01-10 19:56:10 UTC
Arya Regnar wrote:
You should mine in Uedama, the belts there have no mining barges and exhumers. Lol


Niarja has better ore though...

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