Player Features and Ideas Discussion

My first reaction to finding out about the intended changed for having to scan out ice fields is that this was CCP's brilliant idea to end bot mining of ice. It will be VERY difficult I imagine to write a macro for the scanning process. Of course - all this will do is send the bot miners back into the astroid belts.

I would like to offer a very simple method to finally end bot mining for once and ever.:

Require a "capcha" to be entered once inside an ice field or an astroid belt in order for the mining modules to be activated. I know - this is a pain in a way. But out here on Earth we have to do this all the time for silly stuff like enrolling in a on-line newsletter. If we could actually eliminate bot mining and its negative impacts on the economy I think it'd be worth having to enter 3 or 4 randomly generated digits. I am sure that the very creative minds at CCP could come up with a "story" for why this is necessary; or just to say - HEY you gotta be a REAL LIVE POD PILOT to mine resources - not just some lump of code!

Yona

Bots are better at those things than humans are. I can't read a lot of them and I don't even have vision problems, what would you do about all the people who are now not capable of mining, since they can't read them?

no, let's not make mining even more dull and tedious.

if you want to get rid of bots, ban them rather than breaking the game for all of the legitimate players.

people with ideas like this honestly need a forum ban. ruining the game for legitimate players is not a useful or meaningful contribution to the forum or the game.

It is easier to design a macro that can pass a captcha than it is to design a macro that can use scan probes.

So you hate players who legitimately pay for and play the game with 2 or more accounts and dual/multi box said accounts? Probably 1/3rd of Eve has more than 1 account and at least dual boxes at some point. I can guarantee that those of us that are dual/multi boxing are NOT bots.

OH my!



BTW Dave Stark - just 'cause you don't like my idea doesn't mean I should get a forum ban. My opinion is that bot miners "ruin the game" far more in their negative impact on the market and economy than it would be "ruined" by having to enter a short randomly group of characters to turn on mining modules. My friends and I report suspect Bot miners over and over and they never get banned. We can pick them out easy breazey but CCP never seems to have the proof they need. You are obviously entitled to think that this is a seriously bad idea but one of the positive's of "brain storming" is that one doesn't know ahead of time what would be a good idea or not.

Danika Princip - you make a very good point that some folks can't read them - my brother of the heart is color blind and I'll bet he has difficulty with these too. Perhaps a choice to hear them?

If Captchas are so easily macro'd, why is the real world full of them?

Nevyn Auscent - I did try to search but as usual found that the results were not very helpful to me. Also - just because some one says something over and over doesn't make it true.................

Captchas inside of video games are a terrible idea. If you're seriously considering implementing them for mining then why not look at implementing them for any bot-able activity?

Market trade - captcha
Activating a gun module - captcha
Mining - captcha

I can't think of anything more jarring to my ingame fun than having to solve annoying captcha.

Sure... no problem.

As long as you apply this capcha to:
Incursions
Misisons
Accepting / creating contracts
PvP

F1
"You're attempting to activate a Strip Miner I, are you sure? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y
It has been 30 seconds since you last activated your a Strip Miner I, do you wish to keep it active? Y/N"
Y

Now that would be emergent game play.