Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Yes I agree, you would have less bot or afk mining, because it will be rewarding and if we follow some thread, it will be uneasy for bot to scan the comet and have meet there.

Another idea, would be to have the comet disrupting usual fleet booster, you need to have Industrial ship near it.
I like the idea of having some sort of bastion mode in order to do it.

This is a great idea ,,,

Keep the idea simple and it will work.

Maybe what makes the T3 mining ship T3 (and not step on toes of other mining ships) is it has the ability to lock onto these Comets.

So you scan it down, and you can mine them with T1 or T2, but every hour you have to find the darn thing again. (make it go fast enough an orca can't keep up). But the new T3 can "lock" onto the comet and not have to rescan.

It can have a "Mass driver" engine. So it locks to comet and maintains the pace with the comet by expelling the mining waste for propulsion. This makes it less useful in regular belts since the propulsion from mining will constantly shove you off the stationary belt.

Then players can either Jet can when hold if full, and have corp member pick it up. Or they can release the asteroid and use slower propulsion to get to station. Or they team with a DST to use the fleet hanger and speed to catch up and empty these T3 miners.



Love the idea of comet mining - very neat =D Good job

Some time ago, well not too long ago, there was a lot of discussion about alternative methods of acquiring ice products and moon goo. Both of these ideas were visited and discussed during fanfest. Nothing came of them unfortunately. Why? I would guess because they would require actual development hours.

Instead we got deployables and exploration loot spew. We all know what happened to loot spew. And all the deployables except the mobile depot and mobile tractor unit are either useless or broken.

Honestly, I think all ice materials should be gathered from comets. They're huge. They have lots of ice. Its a no-brainer. At the worst it would only have required some new art assets. At best it could become an interactive mining op for multiple types of mining activities, with certain types of mining required in certain orders or combinations under varying degrees of difficult (or not so difficult) circumstances.

Ring mining is essentially dust/rock mining of moon materials. So why not make a category of items that are mined like either asteroids or gases, and when refined give moon goo?

These rings could be celestials just like standard celestials. Literally no reason not to be. They shouldn't move around. But the contents should not be excessive. We don't want to break moon goo. We could even explode moons on the premise that some nefarious mega-corp has been doing illegal research into dangerous materials (like Isogen-5) and screwed up big-time.

Or, they could simply be rare asteroids randomly seeded throughout the universe in existing belts. Nvm, no. That would just be dropping moon goo into belts. Bad idea.

The idea of having some form of ring mining sounds cool. But at the moment, I don't think moon goo needs any more nerfs or adjustments.

Another form of mining industry that is in dire need of help is booster manufacturing. The entire process is tiresome and difficult. But it all stems from gas clouds; specifically cytoserocin.

Cytoserocin is a biochemical product found in gas clouds in nul and losec. It s harvested using Gas Harvesters, typically on a Venture mining frigate. (Best in game extraction rate and large gas/ore hold.) Its cousin, Mykoserocin, which is used for the legal 3% Synth boosters, can be found in hisec and losec. These products are reacted in a POS exactly like moon goo and hybrid compounds. When combined with at least one of water, oxygen, and/or spirits, and always some megacyte using BPCs found only in rare nulsec sites, they produce combat boosters.

Comets in RL contain a plethora of frozen organic and inorganic compounds. Many things from carbon monoxide, to cyanide, to even rarely amino acids can be found in comets. I see no reason such gas clouds should not be found in the vicinity of a comet "site".

There can be various comets that are made up of different contents in different amounts and proportions, just like existing gas clouds. They could even be conducive to producing certain higher level boosters that require multiple types of cytoserocin.

What about Cometary NPC Rats that would be present either mining the comet or using it as cover to launch ambushes from?

Maybe Planetary Interactions could be established on a Comet as well.

Let's not forget incorporating a comet into the backdrop of D514 either as capturing the comet would add value to those present in the D514 environment.

bump, id love to hit 50 likes

T3 industrial: make it happen CCP!

Moving objects in space: most definitely yes!

System-wide asteroid belts: I want to see that!

So, has CCP given a reason why they don't want to implement this idea, maybe in past CSM meetings or forum posts?

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Going to ask seagull about this at vegas... bump come on 60 likes..