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Greetings! And thank you!

And of course, I will try to go ahead and touch on everything, and yea, I did focus on mining there because is it the most active part of mining compared to the other Indy related professions. I don't feel that making mining more interactive will reduce a players scale personally. In this case, the one that I mentioned, about a asteroid scattering and potentially "dropping" another rock to mine - it's not reducing their operation; if anything it's giving them something new to look forward to. It also adds to a nice little reward for mining the rock out to full. Say you completely mine out a rock of Veldspar, a much smaller Veldspar appears, and the units are small, but it's a different type that yields more Trit . That is just a rough example or course. So something like that I don't feel would reduce any operation, it would simply be adding something "rewarding" and interesting and interactive. If they don't want to go after that drop, they don't have to, but it's there, and possibly make it even so that if you don't start mining it in a certain time (say an hour) then that rock scatters with the rest and you loose it (kinda like a normal drop if you were to get a wreck for killing a npc or player). But again that's just a rough idea but I hope that answers your question on that part.

As for PI and Moon Mining, the two passive income, yea we do have that, but there are also other ways to make passive income as well. Ie. looking at say research agents, or even selling kill rights (Yea, I consider those two passive as well). Although setting up a planet and a moon do take a lot more effort IMO.

PI - You need to open your planet view while in space in order to place command centers (cloaked or pos up), and then once you get in place you start trying to scan the planets to find what you need and then place command centers and your buildings and what-not. This is time consuming more than anything IMO, but the end result is passive income, so you can't really complain there.

Moon Mining - This is the same as PI, but instead of scanning moons, you shoot a probe at a moon and wait X-Minutes (depending on the probe you are using) and then your results pop up. From there you set up your PoS and moon harvester, silo's, some defense, and fuel it up. This too is tedious but it's also passive income so can't complain too much there either. Though you do have to calculate the cost of running the PoS and the profits you're getting to see if it's worth it. So there's that, if your not taking that into account, then you could be paying more for the PoS than what you are mining. Which isn't a good thing there.

So anyways, I probably went on a tangent there - I can write a lot when I get going - but in any case, I hope it answered your question in regards to the mining.

Thanks

Greetings! Thank you for the support as well!

Just going to touch on the suggestions as well, which they are all interesting suggestions. I also agree that mining has never really changed. We did get new visuals, which are nice, but it didn't add anything “game-play” wise.

The mini-game sounds interesting with regards to the ore that can drop after mining an asteroid being ore samples that you have to analyze before you can actually mine it, does sound interesting. I would like to play with that idea further though.

As for the adjusting, I am not sure about that one because if you get the T2 strip miners you have the crystals. Which do in a sense “tweak” your strip miner so that you can yield more. Unless I am reading that wrong on that part, I think that's fine the way that it is.

On the defensive mining ships, I'm not saying they should be able to win over a combat ship, but more rather adding a “get away” defense. For the instance that I stated; adding an extra high slot that can say, be used for a Nos to drain your target and better your chance to get away. It would add more flexibility in my opinion. It would be nothing more than that. You could have a friend watch your back, but a ganker in high-sec for instance isn't going to go after a mining ship that has combat defense with them (well they can, but it's not usually likely unless they have friends close by). They would have to be off-grid somewhere or docked. Which by the time they come out to defend you, it can be too late if their fast enough. At least in this case you would have more “options”.

Interesting idea on the passive mining, however, I'm not to keen on the idea of making mining passive and belts claimable like that. Belts should be open to everyone. Mining should remain active; as in you have to be in space and activity mining the ore in space.

- Ah, alright, so I did misunderstand that. Thanks for explaining that there for me. I see where you are going with that now. Now that does sound interesting there and it does make sense, though it sounds like instead of a mini-game, that it would be similar to what you do with PI and trying to find the right spots to go for. Would be a interesting interaction addition to mining.



- I understand that, however in your case of the Hulk, you have to sacrifice yield to fit that cloak, but if you look at a lot of combat ships, they have extra high slots that they can utilize whereas none of the mining ships have. Combat ships that have that extra high slot, don't have to sacrifice their turret bays for the dps. Maybe call it balancing as well – the extra high slot can be for say set mining ships – say adding the high slot to just retrievers and mackinaws only, so you have to choose.



- Interesting idea on this part, but I'm still not keen about claimable belts. I understand it would drive conflict, which is always good, There needs to be conflict in Eve, we already have Null-Sec where you can stake your claim and fight for systems. If someone comes into your system to mine and they are not Alliance/blue, well, they are asking to get shot to be honest. So in a sense belts are claimed by who holds the Sov. in that system. I think that's fine how it is personally.

That's great! And thanks Mintaki for the support! :)

Yea, I agree there, I'd like to see it on the skiff and procurer as well. Macinaw and retreiver was the first that had popped into my head to write as an example. lol.




Giving a chance to smaller corps and alliance, that does go into how I feel about null-sec currently with how stagient it is. It's very hard for a smaller groups to claim anything with the way it is right now. Unless you know one of the main power blocks, you can't expect to really go very far. Which is discouraging.

What I would like to see on that regards is to get rid of those power blocks. A lot of them have systems just for the sake of having them because they can.; meaning they don't actually use them. What I would like to see on that end is that if a system isn't actually being used by the holder's alliance, then that sov should drop. Or something to that extent. That's a rough idea that I had for a bit and something like that would open the doors for smaller groups wanting to claim their stake. It would also help if coalitions were recognizable in-game.

I did place these maps side by side to show the difference:

http://eve.icefaerie.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/sov_map2-15.png

But anyways, I probably went off on a tangent there, however I think once the null sec problem is resolved then those smaller groups will have that better opportunity to claim a piece of space for their own.

Thanks for the support!

As for the T3 Exhumer, it does sound interesting and I have seen this idea pop up in the feedback and suggestions forum, but I'm not sure how it would work; I don't think it should be invulnerable, I think that's a little bit too much imo, so that would need tweaking, and yes I do agree there that it would be nice to get some new industry ships.

That would be a beast barge +1

It's actually been better personally. There is only one mineral that is hard to get out here, which when we need we usually head into high-sec to get it (Mexillion). Aside from that I have no real issues and I find it safer out here vs. being a high-sec miner. Better ore as well. The only time our operation has really been effected is when our system was under heavy traffic by Gorgon and they have attempted to take it over; but we readjusted our operations and now are back to being pretty steady.

As as far as the extra high slot, it's to give more options - in this case of the extra high slot, it would make better sense to give it to the skiff and procurer since those two are meant to be able to tank and hold off pretty decently. The high slot vs. power grid, I think that the high slot would be beneficial because it can give you a better chance since a lot (if not most) are usually solo, and again, gives you that extra option for survivability, and not having to rely on having backup at all times. Extra shield doesn't give you that. even if you have backup, that backup may not get to you in time, so having that extra option if you choose to go with a skiff or a procurer would be nice.

She has been a great corp member and works hard!!! Definitely has my vote!!

In my humble opinion, being an Industrial representative means a general understanding of what effect industry has on this game as a whole and not just one aspect of it.
Mining changes are brilliant, I'm not knocking that, but industry details so many more aspects than just mining and I'm curious as to your understanding of the rest of the aspects.
For instance, you said you're a freighter pilot, do you have a detailed understanding of how the changes in the Rhea patch effected industry and the impact that change has on the markets throughout all of New Eden?
If you're only running to effect change in mining, how can you be an effective representative of industry as a whole?
You should then be running for "Mining Representative" and not a full on Industrial Representative, again just in my humble opinion.

Also another major concern of mine is the fact that you are so involved in EvE-Radio as a manager etc, do you really have the time and energy needed to dedicate to CSM with your other duties?
FunkyBacon was just a DJ/Blogger yet he proved to not be an effective CSM Representative as his DJ & RL duties took away from that.
Running for CSM should be to improve the game as a whole for your constituents that you are there to represent, and not just one single aspect of it (ie mining).