EVE General Discussion

You're almost there. The new battlecruisers will hopefully lead to a huge increase in highsec ganking. That in turn will leave a lot of extra miners needing new ships, for which they'll have to pay a bit more money because the minerals they're mining just went up in value. Increased numbers of ships being destroyed (by whatever means) are good for miners.

Unless, of course, you're posting daily on the goonswarm forum to let them know where to come and find you.

This. Basically, it's a game of “keep the reticle within the circle” where the circle keeps shrinking as you suck up more ore, and the reticle keeps bouncing around, trying to get away from the centre of the circle.

Better mining drills gives you more control (by slowing the slippage down and/or by increasing your ability to push back). More valuable ores can be had by first stripping away the outer layers and then drill at the core, when the circle is at its absolute smallest.

If you're too slow/hamfisted to control the drill, it slips outside the drill zone and starts overheating. Overheat too much, and the whole asteroid explodes, making you lose all the ore from it. At any time, you can simply stop and collect however much you've extracted so far (so if you're about to explode, it's better to just take what little you have, rather than try to fight for control and lose it all). Once you've stopped drilling — either by overheating, by interrupting the process, or by finishing up with the core drilling, the asteroid is no longer available for further attempts until it respawns. Of course, a lot of these details are matched to how GoF handles respawns and availability in general (it's an SP game so you have no real competition, and no-one gets upset if you just blow every last rock to pieces), so all of it isn't exactly directly transferrable to EVE… but some of the basic ideas might work.

Make it so the asteroids deploy defenses and throw rocks at you.

Its time Asteroids took a rock hard stand against this aggression.

Something that has always bothered me with the mining system we have now is that it is too tree-huggery.
Mankind's methodology for extracting ore has always been: nuke everything and sift through the rubble. But Eve has surgical lasers gentle enticing rocks to hand over their valuables?

I propose we base it on one of the greatest games ever created: Asteroids!
Not only does it make more sense, but it will make militarized mining ops viable and mining in general more "fun".

Basic concept;
- All rocks break apart when subjected to brute force. Once they are gravel/dust they can be collected.
- Any force (DPS) will do. Strip Miners are attributed 1k DPS or there about. Gravel/dust clouds dissipate over time.
- [New module] Wide Tractor Field Array.
Exactly what it says on the tin, not strong enough to move larger solid objects (cans/wrecks), covers a conical area in target direction.
- WTFA are only usable on Rorqual/Orca and T1/T2 Mining Barge's. Rorqual/Orca are given bonuses to the size/speed of the field in place of or in addition to regular tractor bonuses.

Extra/Optional:
- [New Bomb] Gravitational Shear Bomb.
Designed to tear apart porous solid objects (refined metal = ships = denser). Honours the age-old tradition of throwing explosives at a problem.

And there it is, outline anyway. Protection details need never be bored to tears (probably still bored though), Rorqual's get a reason to join the belt parties and door is opened for hostile's to burn the fields.