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Mining: Consolidating Mining Crystals
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KayTwoEx
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
OnlyFleets.
#1 - 2012-07-12 20:50:42 UTC
Hello everyone,

I'm not much of a miner but I do enjoy a nice and good mining session together with my friends every now and then. What I see as one of the problems with mining is the thing that you need to get mining crystals for every type and change them when you change the type of asteroid you are mining from. It is especially annoying in Nullsec where you can find all the different types of ores and you need to change so much.

I suggest that you make one mining crystal out of all the different types. This would remove one of the most annoying things about mining. To make a difference between the asteroids there could be an increased damage-rate depending on the type that is being mined.

I am sure that I am not the first person to have this thought but I did not see it in the commonly proposed ideas thread. I hope you liked the idea. Thank you for reading.
Corina Jarr
en Welle Shipping Inc.
#2 - 2012-07-12 22:06:55 UTC
This will actually be less of an issue when the barges are changed.

You still will need the variety of crystals, but you can have them in your hold without worrying about it interfering with ore.
KayTwoEx
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
OnlyFleets.
#3 - 2012-07-12 22:56:37 UTC
Corina Jarr wrote:
This will actually be less of an issue when the barges are changed.

You still will need the variety of crystals, but you can have them in your hold without worrying about it interfering with ore.

Its not the carrying it around, its the changing all the time. Also that you cannot stack the used ones so even if you only have one set of each it takes more than 30 slots in your cargo...
Corina Jarr
en Welle Shipping Inc.
#4 - 2012-07-13 00:06:24 UTC
KayTwoEx wrote:
Corina Jarr wrote:
This will actually be less of an issue when the barges are changed.

You still will need the variety of crystals, but you can have them in your hold without worrying about it interfering with ore.

Its not the carrying it around, its the changing all the time. Also that you cannot stack the used ones so even if you only have one set of each it takes more than 30 slots in your cargo...

1) cargo doesn't have slots. Unless you mean visually, in which case so what. You never need to look in your hold to change crystals.

2) they switch fast and take a while to die. Be glad it isn't like ammo for guns, takes 5-10 seconds for reload and runs out fast (lasers aside).
Barbara Nichole
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2012-07-13 00:31:12 UTC
KayTwoEx wrote:
Hello everyone,

I'm not much of a miner but I do enjoy a nice and good mining session together with my friends every now and then. What I see as one of the problems with mining is the thing that you need to get mining crystals for every type and change them when you change the type of asteroid you are mining from. It is especially annoying in Nullsec where you can find all the different types of ores and you need to change so much.

I suggest that you make one mining crystal out of all the different types. This would remove one of the most annoying things about mining. To make a difference between the asteroids there could be an increased damage-rate depending on the type that is being mined.

I am sure that I am not the first person to have this thought but I did not see it in the commonly proposed ideas thread. I hope you liked the idea. Thank you for reading.



I would go for a way to combane them like fuel but only if they were quite a bit less efficient after combined. There needs to be a massive advantage for those who are willing to continue to use the purified crystals.

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Hiyora Akachi
Blood Alcohol Content
T O P S H E L F
#6 - 2012-07-13 00:43:18 UTC
With the barge update adding an ore hold, carrying them won't interfere with mining capacity.

As for the delay between switching roids? So what, everyone else does it with Ammo/crystals when a certain damage is needed, barges can do it with crystals as well when they change targets.