Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Mining ice in high security zone is difficult for an honest player who does not use a bot to mine.

For example, I use 2 mining barges and I have trouble to mine the amount of ice required to power a small POS ! .
If I compare with the old system of mining ice, I need to mine much more often for the same amount and it prevents me from doing anything else that would be more interesting than mining.

Below is a list for improvement for mining ice :

Note 1 : Sorry for my English language....

Note 2 : For me "wild mining" is a player who uses a robot or a player who mine regardless of other miners and happens with 12 barges.


1. Keep incomplete mining cycle
When the asteroid is entirely consumed, keep the portion of the cycle is not completed to continue the unfinished cycle on another asteroid.
OR
Another solution would be to not allow a barge to start a cycle if it is not able to finish.
This is required because it is really unpleasant for the player losing cycles mining. Moreover, this enhancement will also prevent the "wild mining" (Example: 15 barges on the same stone!)

2. Audible alarm on mining barges
Add an audible alert on barges to warn the miner that a vessel having a bad standing is in the system.
The player may configure this alarm according to the standing of the character, or the corporation or the alliance. This is necessary because the mining in EVE is soporific and you just need little moment of inattention to lose his ship.
- The configuration of this alarm is persistent and the player can adjust at any time.
- This alarm will only be available on mining barges.
- The default value of this audible alert is Off.
So, with this new tool, a player who legally mine (without using bot) will have an extra chance to protect her ship against troublemakers (Ganker).

3. Increase the amount of asteroid and spread it over a greater distance
This is necessary to ensure that all players can have a chance to mine ice. The ice asteroid fields do not last long enough. An average asteroid fields will depleted about 1 to 1.5 hour.
This improvement will allow those who are not make "wild mining" to move away from big players who are more than 4 barges. This will give more time to mine the ice.

4. Establish a system of concession for ice asteroid
Required to prevent the "wild mining" made by some players who use a Bot. (example 12 barges on the same asteroid!!!).
- Limited to 4, the number of mining barges that can mine an asteroid simultaneously.
- When the player leaves the asteroid to go unload its cargo of ice, the concession on asteroid will remain active for 5 minutes. This time will allow the player to return to the asteroid. After this time 5 minutes, the player receives a message asking him to renew his concession.This message will appear only once and will stretch the time (another 5 minutes) to allocate to return to the asteroid.
- If a player leaves the game, the concession is automatically removed.
- The waypoint of asteroid concession automatically appears in the fly menu (right clic mouse button). This allows to jump directly to the asteroid concession.

1. Keep incomplete mining cycle.
Maybe the other solution is better : Another solution would be to not allow a barge to start a cycle if it is not able to finish.

I can see how the new system has affected high traffic areas of highsec but overall i like the new system. It's kind of reached that equilibrium point and i would be hesitant to mess with it.

Caldari Control Towers are the most popular because White Glaze is found in Caldari space, which is also where Jita is.

First, I know the difference between a bot and a human. The behaviors are not the same.

Secondly, if I would use a Bot I could configure it so that my ships can automatically leave the mining area when a player with a bad standing come in the system. So, CCP should give me similar tools (Example Audible alarm to advise me when a ass ..... come in the system for make trouble).

Third, a concession system (see first post for details) greatly help small players and would balance things a little more (small vs multiboxer).

Fourth, do not allow a barge to mine if it is not able to complete the cycle would avoid many unpleasant (especially when there is almost no asteroid and all miners mine the same).

In conclusion, for me CCP must organize so that ALL types of players will find their account.

I think it was not a good idea to put several proposals for improvement in the same post.

I will create a post for each of the proposals in order to have a good feed back on each of the proposed improvements.

Sorry for the inconvenience. I do not post often.

I seem to have failed to find the part where you explain what problem you're trying to fix?

ah yes, the month i mined 15k of isotopes and then went "**** this ****, i'm never mining again" and purchased a machariel and decided to impose myself on anyone stupid enough to invite me to a fleet when i X up in their incursion communities.

that's what happens when you own 3 accounts, don't have a job, and want to test the limits of how much torture you can impose upon yourself.

Step 1. Stop mining ice.

Step 2. Do literally almost anything else for money.

Step 3. Buy POS fuel with the proceeds.

Step 4. Profit.

Another miner who thinks he is entitled to mine free AFK highsec ice in complete safety as much isolated as possible from competition.

CCP worked hard for the last 10 years to remove almost all the risk to highsec mining and to reduce the effort to one push of a button per hour. And you still demand more safety, more AFK and more isolation? How about we improve the parts of the game where people actually play the game?