Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I was thinking about it, and i don't see what the reason behind the mining laser(or variant of) not automatically stopping once the asteroid runs out mid cycle, considering that the laser will still mine a half cycle and even a quarter cycle, why not just clean up the cycle time?

yes, it would make botting easier, but it would also make mining in essence faster, as you are not wasting as much time getting nothing

*additions
The ability to see the current cycle's yield relative to % of the cycle complete

It kind of does make sense that it would stop automatically once the thing ran out.. How do you mine something that isn't there? Although if they changed it so that things go from "XXX Asteroid" to "Empty Asteroid" (or something like that), then it'd be fine.. The asteroid is still there, but mining it yields nothing.
Anyway, +1 for OP because it makes sense RP wise.

You answered your own question. Mining is already a 99% mindless isk earner, would be stunned in they pushed it any further that way without a proper overhaul of the core mechanic.

Not that you're wrong about the logical weirdness of it.

Uhh, do you have numbers which demonstrate how much server load this would actually cause?

OP, this is why survey scanners exist, without overcycling they would be rather useless except maybe to save you an ounce or two of capacitor. The mechanic may not make sense but I think it's good to reward attentive miners at least a little.

so some sort of timer could make this more appropriate in your concept;
say every 5 seconds, there is a check?
So on each timer end

If (the Yield of the current laser cycle) = (Asteroid Remaining Yield) Then
Cycle.End --- and standard cycle ending actions result
Else
Timer.restart - and cycle continues as normal
End If


this timer would also stop depending on the age of the cycle (last 4 ticks are nearing unnecessary)

this is a bad idea mining is easy enough anyway with no risk at all (if you get suicide ganked that's not a risk of mining that's a risk of not tanking your ship or warping out when you see those catalysts appear on scan). Stopping your mining lasers when the rock is empty is easy , looking how many minerals are left in the rock is easy, mining is easy.

This change should happen along with removing all tanking from mining ships so that a kestral can pop them in one shot and blowing up mining barges gaining you Ore lp.