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Mining: Audible alarm on mining barge

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Katas Strophe
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#1 - 2014-03-05 13:05:31 UTC
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).
Corraidhin Farsaidh
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2014-03-05 13:14:28 UTC
Sorry to be devil's advocate again here but I think that it's up to the player to be vigilant in local/overview. If you afk for some reason you are then accepting the risk of doing so.
Kev Ftw
The Filthy Few
Break-A-Wish Foundation
#3 - 2014-03-05 13:33:05 UTC
This is not necessary. A moments lack of attention can lose you your ship during any activity, not just when mining.

If you are "legally" mining you don't need an extra chance, pay attention to local and your overview instead of suggesting crap like this.
TehCloud
Guardians of the Dodixie
#4 - 2014-03-05 13:41:11 UTC
Corraidhin Farsaidh wrote:
Sorry to be devil's advocate again here but I think that it's up to the player to be vigilant in local/overview. If you afk for some reason you are then accepting the risk of doing so.


This is the perfect answer.

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Ayeshah Volfield
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2014-03-05 13:41:33 UTC
Local and D-scan are all the sources of intel you need, alongside proper piloting. If you want to afk and remain safe, stay docked or cloaked at a safe spot.

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Lephia DeGrande
Luxembourg Space Union
#6 - 2014-03-05 13:43:13 UTC
God some people are lazy as ****...

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Samillian
Angry Mustellid
#7 - 2014-03-05 13:46:26 UTC
Lephia DeGrande wrote:
God some people are lazy as ****...


Not empty quoting.

D-scan and local just aren't for the AFK.

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masternerdguy
Doomheim
#8 - 2014-03-05 13:48:05 UTC
How does it feel to think the world owes you things?

Things are only impossible until they are not.
Corraidhin Farsaidh
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2014-03-05 13:56:32 UTC
masternerdguy wrote:
How does it feel to think the world owes you things?


I'll let you know when the cheque arrives...Smile
masternerdguy
Doomheim
#10 - 2014-03-05 14:00:21 UTC
Corraidhin Farsaidh wrote:
masternerdguy wrote:
How does it feel to think the world owes you things?


I'll let you know when the cheque arrives...Smile


Well played, mate.

Things are only impossible until they are not.
Lilliana Stelles
#11 - 2014-03-05 14:07:13 UTC
Bacon will get you banned.
They wouldn't deliberately add a ship with bacon capabilities.
Suddenly mining barges would become the best intel ships in the game.

Not a forum alt. 
Katas Strophe
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#12 - 2014-03-05 14:10:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Katas Strophe
Ayeshah Volfield wrote:
Local and D-scan are all the sources of intel you need, alongside proper piloting. If you want to afk and remain safe, stay docked or cloaked at a safe spot.


To talk like that you are not miners. Shocked

When you are in combat, you have alarms that can warn you that your ship is damaged. On a barge these alarms are not helpful.

You can not always have your nose glued to the local chat and overview. My technical mining is the one I used when I was in area 0.0. My barges are always placed in the right direction to be ready to go and my local chat is fully open. And despite my vigilance, sometimes I lose a ship.

When you mine you have many things to do and an audible alarm could be very usefull to prevent of danger.
Batelle
Federal Navy Academy
#13 - 2014-03-05 14:32:56 UTC
Katas Strophe wrote:
Ayeshah Volfield wrote:
Local and D-scan are all the sources of intel you need, alongside proper piloting. If you want to afk and remain safe, stay docked or cloaked at a safe spot.


To talk like that you are not miners. Shocked

When you are in combat, you have alarms that can warn you that your ship is damaged. On a barge these alarms are not helpful.

You can not always have your nose glued to the local chat and overview. My technical mining is the one I used when I was in area 0.0. My barges are always placed in the right direction to be ready to go and my local chat is fully open. And despite my vigilance, sometimes I lose a ship.

When you mine you have many things to do and an audible alarm could be very usefull to prevent of danger.


Audible (hey, you're on fire!) alarms are just as useless on other ships as they are on barges.

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Corraidhin Farsaidh
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2014-03-05 14:35:38 UTC
Lilliana Stelles wrote:
Bacon will get you banned.
They wouldn't deliberately add a ship with bacon capabilities.
Suddenly mining barges would become the best intel ships in the game.


Dammit, now I need a barge that serves me bacon sandwiches in the morning...

Would that be the T3 barge?
Lephia DeGrande
Luxembourg Space Union
#15 - 2014-03-05 14:43:22 UTC
Katas Strophe wrote:
Ayeshah Volfield wrote:
Local and D-scan are all the sources of intel you need, alongside proper piloting. If you want to afk and remain safe, stay docked or cloaked at a safe spot.


To talk like that you are not miners. Shocked

When you are in combat, you have alarms that can warn you that your ship is damaged. On a barge these alarms are not helpful.

You can not always have your nose glued to the local chat and overview. My technical mining is the one I used when I was in area 0.0. My barges are always placed in the right direction to be ready to go and my local chat is fully open. And despite my vigilance, sometimes I lose a ship.

When you mine you have many things to do and an audible alarm could be very usefull to prevent of danger.


Only because mining is boring doesnt mean you can do other stuff, someone who does AFK Missioning (yes i see you dominix) is risking his Ship too, but i suppose that this fact wont even bother you, am i right?

BTW: If you can overlook the Bad Guys on local you also can overhear them, just saying...

Also: Eve has Sound?

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Corraidhin Farsaidh
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2014-03-05 15:06:07 UTC
Lephia DeGrande wrote:


Also: Eve has Sound?


Yep, you can hear the sizzle from Bacon guns in the distance followed by the blop-blop-blop as brown sauce drones are deployed to provide covering fire...
Katas Strophe
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#17 - 2014-03-05 15:09:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Katas Strophe
We are in a futuristic world where technology is very advanced. What would prevent me from having an alarm to warn me that an ass.... is in the system ?

In this case, why do we have a big visual alarm when we have a incursion ??? and I can't have a good tool when a ass... come to the system ?

It's not logical ! Shocked

Peace!
Ayeshah Volfield
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#18 - 2014-03-05 15:11:42 UTC
Katas Strophe wrote:
We are in a futuristic world where technology is very advanced. What would prevent me from having an alarm to warn me that an ass.... is in the system ?

In this case, why do we have a big visual alarm when we have a incursion ??? and I can't have a good tool when a ass... come to the system ?

It's not logical ! Shocked

Peace!


Local.

EVE is what happens when the rule of law does not apply and Darwinism is allowed to run freely.
Corraidhin Farsaidh
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#19 - 2014-03-05 15:11:43 UTC
Back to my first reply, logic doesn't really come into it. It is a means to make you choose between sitting and being vigilant or going afk and taking the risk. An artificial means to an end maybe but still effective.
Lephia DeGrande
Luxembourg Space Union
#20 - 2014-03-05 15:13:58 UTC
Katas Strophe wrote:
We are in a futuristic world where technology is very advanced. What would prevent me from having an alarm to warn me that an ass.... is in the system ?

In this case, why do we have a big visual alarm when we have a incursion ??? and I can't have a good tool when a ass... come to the system ?

It's not logical ! Shocked

Peace!


Thats not an Argument!

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