Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I actually would much rather belts be entirely removed as objects to do that kind of thing.
Instead just do continually respawning grav anomalies. (Possibly not instantly, but on a fairly short timer at least)
Then you only need three or four in a system, rather than 20 or 30 belts. So you can significantly reduce the number of grids in use for mining, as well as removing the time zone bias involved in mining.

This also turns mining more active since you can't just have 10 anchored containers you dump it into and warp to the same bookmark every time, but have to go to a new site each time.

You could easily use the few larger asteroids with veins and some form of yield finding to focus & improve yield as well (I'd say up to 50% yield increase sounds reasonable). But.... Would have to give mining barges real cruiser fittings if you want them all to have to choose how to fit. And just limit strip miners & MLU's the same way as command links are limited on command ships. That way they have enough fitting options to choose from, rather than the current 4 slots total to pick fittings from which are what make for such obvious fits.

Yes. I never mine, but it's always bothered me that the asteroid belts aren't belts, just random collections of rock sitting around a planet. Of course, I'd also like to see planets that actually orbited, but that's probably not happening anytime soon.
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