Player Features and Ideas Discussion

that is an interesting idea. Would be something for ring mining . as it is supposd to be a different style of mining .
Probably the would have one person controliing the laser, Thasher of doom and have other people gathering the loot.

Though ccp has mention that current mining of mindless ly shooting asteriods will be the same.


Person A
Using Scanning to fine the belt,
Person B Finds the Vaine in the belt of the ore
Person C Starts the Mining Process crushing the roid, with thrasher drone, Missiles, Lazers, artillery, etc Modified Bombardment ship
Person D is in a collection vessels like Gas harvesting is done (Close range may have to move around abit. for so collect the Material from the dust cloud meess person C is making. And Jet can the ore for pick up by Hauler class ship. to be taken to the processing plant (POS) or ship
Person F is in a Rorqual Boosting and Compressing the Ore to be Jumped out latter

The mining process is explosive so Harden ships are required.
Rates in this area are "NASTY" with upgraded UI because this stuff is Valueable requiring combat ships to be not only on belt but also on call for PC Roams and The odd Blob NPC encounter.
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because multi boxing hulks (and other logistics) takes some attention if you arent botting.

all other activities while mining, (reading, forum posting, watching tv or movies, anything else, i do housework, cook etc.) can no longer be possible while mining. the long cycle times of solo or near solo mining is very boring but workable if you have another activity.

much of the anti-bot spam that goes on in eve is from people used to missions or pvp where the action takes place very quickly. in mining its not so much, so response times are understandably slower then for jumping into a gatecamp. asking for ways to meta game mining will mean it gets further restricted to bots as as the semi active real people leave it in favor of other activities entirely.

in the above example, what you will see is t3 scanners and ore sniffers (roles a and b) followed by several drakes and a boosting orca. nothing which enriches the mining experience at all or seems to be dependent on mining ships themselves.

For something which people are presumably going to have to do for many hours, say , to build a carrier or dread, orca or freighter, or hell even a battleship, this idea makes it that much more annoying logistically to do. Im not sure what kind of reward you could put to move miners away from belts or grav sites in hi/null to make it worthwhile without breaking some other part of the game.