Science & Industry

This is plain untrue. I have known many miners over the years. The mining we did together was fun, relaxing, and cathartic. For those that truly find mining boring avoid it but have the consideration to leave the rest of us to enjoy what we have. As a mother, I have to say I have enjoyed having an activity I could do while my attention divided between that and my children. I have no problem with movements to add new and more dangerous mining types into the game as long as the basic mining stays the same.

Rocks orbit the Sun, they don't appear in the same spot everyday on cue.

I have not read every post so if this has been suggested I apologize.

I would like to have a way that when in a fleet there is some indicator that another fleet member is already mining your intended rock. I know you can merely follow the laser but having something on the UI would benefit greatly.

The Survey Scanner could be improved to display units and volume (m3), just to simplify the process and remove the math equation. My mining lasers, ore hold, cargo holds, and station hanger all read m3. I know this is a humble module and this will get not get the time of day. But here was a year long thread about them and a Dev urging players to post.


https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=237199

Lots of crazy in it but a lot of folks just think that reading in m3 would be a nice improvement and make it more useful.

Make the "Mining Foreman Link - Drone Coordination" a real thing as I understand it was a gang mining link that was never put into the game. It would be more useful than reducing the cap usage of mining lasers(any one ever even use this link?).

A true "mining" small gang command ship, either let the Orca mount mining mods or a 'new battle cruiser sized 'venture' with mining links that can 'MINE'. It don't even have to use strippers just the lasers/gas harvesters/ maybe Ice.

Bring the Rorqual to HS.
It would take the smallest amount of changes to the Rorqual and it would be a highly viable ship again.

All it would take is letting it com into high sec and travel in and out like a Jump Freighter.

It would yield the following results:

1. Would reinstate the Rorqual to its rightful place as the Crown Jewel of the miners progression path.
2. It would actually allow the Capital tractor beam to be useful
3. It would allow corporations to use the Jump Clone Facility and get members jump clones rather than have them have to leave the corporation and join another to get clones and then come back.... because of the FUBAR standings requirements. This would fix what is now a work around to an onerous and broken mechanic.
4. Allows for mobile compression. Again, the idea of having to drop a POS and run it for an hour to compress ore and then turn it off again... is just another ANNOYING non game enhancing workaround. Make the Rorqual use fuel blocks for all I care... but it can move and compress with the mining fleet.
5. This would boost a flagging capital ship industry which is on the ropes since jump fatigue
6. Would drive trit and low end mineral prices down, which could possibly push the sagging high end mineral market back up and helps make null sec capitals less expensive. (.10 change in trit prices basically changes the price of a dread by 20 mil or so)
7. Allows for some protection of mining fleet in the belts from gankers. Does not prevent it of course, and with all the other top slots running, allows only a few spaces for remote rep units. But it gives some protection.
8. Allows for the transportation of an entire mining fleet...miners can be more nomadic. Can function as a mobile base of sorts.
9. Encourages miners to join groups that can field this force multiplier -- encouraging more social interaction.
10. Of course corps that actually field one would be much more juicy war targets, but meh, there are work arounds for that.
11. Will not interfere with the role of ship carrier that the Balloon Head will take.
12. It will be the first ship in the miners inventory without a glass jaw.

This combined with Fuzzy Steve's ideas of prospecting and/or other peoples suggestions of more random grav sites, this would add some much needed content to the mining profession.

Finally, yes isk per hour would drop for those without access to the Rorq,....but meh, adapt or die.

Oh come on. I don't want the Gas sucking Phoon/Ferox back. That was bad.
How about reinventing the Primae as a mobile GAS COMPRESSING ship? Because gas compression is what we really need as far as harvestable gas-related ops go.

I would go as far as removing Ore/Ice/Gas harvesting modules from Turrets category and introduced a new high slot category, "Harvesting Equipment Mount Point". I'd like to see combat vessels denied the possibility to directly obtain harvestable material altogether.

I would like to see Mining Drone bonuses and Combat/EW drone maluses on the Mining Frigate, Mining Barges and Exhumers with the possible exception of the Procurer/Skiff hull, where I would like to see the bonus/malus inversed).

I'd love to see mining as a profession positioned more so to be really specialized, not scoffed at like "mining, meh, i can put some miners on my Vexor and mine almost as much as your Retriever, scrub"...

That Gas Liquification.. Enabling in at a ship (only), requiring special equipment like a mini-industrial core, and only allow re-gassification at a POS...hm..I very much like this idea :)

How about making a Heavy 25m3 ice harvesting drone? As only barge type ships can fit ice lasers this would open the field a bit.
Gas harvesting drones.
Combine the drone mining of this post into a new field of harvesting based on drones with a 'mining drone fleet leader' a BC drone boat with bonus to drones and able to fit mining links.