Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I was thinking more along the lines that they compete with player miners by actively deplete any minerals - I wasn't necessarily thinking they'd drop vast amounts of loot (if any). I was also thinking they'd be more heavily armed and armoured, so as to pose a bit more of a threat to miners (especially AFK ones).

Fixed it for you.

Well, except that it kind of is. Mining is a simple enough activity that I suspect it is exceedingly hard to find. Just need enough random variation to pretend to be human, but on the whole it's just emulating three mouse clicks per rock. Having the interaction be slightly more complex would assist in finding these bots.

+1 CCP should endorse.

-1 from me, there are many ways to add to active mining, having to use explosives for the rock, explosive roids, random comets landing on grid to be mined, better drones etc. this one isn't good.

also this doesn't add to immersion at all, seeing rocks appear as I travel down the line, I pretty much rather they keep it this way, warp to belts etc. and add NEW rare belts or something that can be discovered from scanning, along with the other changed proposed to mining a long time ago, using mines, explosives... no more "minigames" especially for mining.

It was more of a technical point I was making about spawning/despawning objects and how that could be feasible. The idea would be to have it visually appear seamless.

I don't mine, but +1 for real belts (and comets).

+1
I would like to see more cooler environments such as very different asteroid belts, and not just a line of asteroids, there could be like asteroid belts that has some chemical reactions within them, while there being some bigger asteroids or asteroid (planetoids) around or under the belt itself, they could be remains of some smaller moon or comet that stopped circling its orbit. A cluster of asteroids that still hold a volcanic activity (some smaller, those are the ones that are to be mined) and bigger that would made the scene and environment interesting, with better fog effects and stuff. Maybe you could even fly the ship freely through the huge asteroids while watching out for the volcanic activity or just exploration.
These things is what I would love to see in EVE in the future. And the game desperately needs it to make doing anything in space much more entertaining, something that would keep miners going back to mining with excitement. It would make environments much more interesting as or even more than going down to a planet.
Anything that exists within eve lore and universe, or anything that we dont know about that exists in eve universe, and there s infinity of stuff there, could be added to the game. CCP said that these things or any features are just being opened to us but they already exist in the EVE Universe itself, some for a long time some may be new. Its known fact for example that with ships its the same thing.
The ships that we can use as a capsuleers in EVE arent even 5% of the ships that may exist in the EVE Universe. This is what CCP wants, as much diversity as possible.
(EDIT: just posted my opinion on asteroid belts from different thread but its still the same I feel about it all the time.)

That's really cool, actually. I learned something today.

Sounds good.

I also think that these belts should contain asteroids big enough that you can draw on with your mining lasers, so that you can grief miners by literally vandalizing the rocks.