Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Forums are constantly bombarded by people who fit their barges for yield over tank, then come here to cry about how a single catalyst did violence on their boats. This particular bad idea of yours will only do two things:

1: Cause more people to prioritize yield over tank, thus losing their ship and shiptoasting on forums about the "problem with ganking.
2: Cause more minerals to be available on market, thus driving the prices down further. This would have the effect of your income from mining remaining the same, and possibly dropping if enough people used the feature.

Basic rule of economics. If you increase supply, in this case by increasing yield, without a corresponding increase in demand, prices drop. When prices drop, the supplier makes less money.

So, not supported by me. Should not be supported by any miner with a grasp on basic economics. If you want a long term reduction in your income through mining, then by all means keep supporting this bad idea.

So another ship mode?

We have Siege, Triage, Defensive, Sharpshooter, ETC. Why not a Strip mode?

Tis the seaons for lots of modes.

Or a strip mode that lock us in place and doesn't give any bonus to defense, only to cycle time

But seriously a overheating would need to be so good that it would compensate the price of the repairs of module or nanite paste at least.

The penalty for heating a module no matter what the temporary bonus gained is and should remain the eventual burn out of that module. It is the penalty for every other module in the game and I see no reason why it should not remain so nor do I see a compelling reason to make an exception in this case.

That aside I don't mind miners actually being able to overheat their strip miners or ice harvesters as long as burnout applies. Although I do have the feeling that any gains they make using heat would probably go straight into the pockets of nanite repair paste manufacturers.

This would be true in the short term. However, in the long term, lower mineral prices will effect even the thermo 5 skiff pilot as more and more minerals are dumped on the market without an increased demand to give them a place to go.

I like the idea of overheating mining lasers but it shouldn't affect your ship's defenses. You should be able to overheat them much longer than other modules can overheat, but still much shorter than a normal mining timeframe. The purpose of it could be to get a useful ore haul out before you're caught. Useless in highsec, as it should be. It could be a great way to use a venture or skiff.

required for my support:

overheating affects RANGE of strip miners only

requires t2 strip miners

does 10x the amount of crystal damage and once the crystal is destroyed/removed, heat damage applies to strip miner module.

Reasoning: this would let miners keep mining when their non-overheated range is cleared out, while approaching the next group of asteroids. It is not meant to be used continuously, and affects yield not at all, nor resists. it also means a longer duration for overheating modules with t1 crystals. the choice of t1 vs t2 crystals is then one of yield vs overheat duration.

not as useful as op wants, but certainly less of a game changer than stupidly messing with yield/tank

You'll only ever have range issues when you have 10+ hulks mining the same belt faster than they can move along it.

Suggest you learn more about how the game really works before you promote suggestions that, while you think are helpful, actually make things worse in the long run.