Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Greetings,

I'm a long time pvp in eve, and i was looking at mining in the game (via my recent return). I find this system to be extremely Dry, repetitive, and overly Dull. I'd like to make a few recommendations .

New Mining System
Anchor a "Drill" that mines automatically. (it sort of works like huge mining drill with a beam).
After a Duration (OR) Indefinite mining cycle.
Give the drill an Ore Hold (10,000,000m3)
Drills Mine Extremely fast (at rates equal to 5 exhumers)
Drills can be used on all types of Ore, Ice, Gas But has a specialized drill built for each type (1 basic ore, 1 adv ore, 1 ice, 1 gas).

New Mechanic
Drills Summon Rats In waves. They progressively get harder (up to 5 battleships).
At Battleship spawns, you will continue to cycle new BS Waves.

Ore Spawns
Create a new system that mining causes the asteroid to "leak" minerals on the opposite or random side of the asteroid for x seconds. This would encourage miners to orbit in some way so they can pick up "bonus" minerals or ore.

Benefits
Haulers become valuable in the ore mining option's again
Achoring has new flavor
Mining has new flavor

The deployable drill has been proposed regularly but makes every miners skills and ships useless, so -1 for that. Miners need a overall in gameplay but these have been proposed in different ways of mining ores (second link in my signature, comet mining or planet rings), you'd be better looking at those instead.

No. You are not by chance, one of Deep Nine's alts are you?

Surprised that no one has mentioned this so I will.

Seems more like an anti-gank idea than a general improvement to mining that is badly needed so -1.

I should really make this my signature. There is nothing wrong with mining as it is now. If you make the entire game about pew, pewing you hurt the game fundamentally as you take away game playing styles because YOU don't like mining. The solution to the problem you are having is you are playing part of the game you obviously don't like. You sound as though missioning or some similar activity would better suit your personality.

Oh and your mega drill would 'drill' ore prices down to like .0000000001 ISK per tritanium.

I can assure you i am noones alt... Hell for the first 6 years i played eve i didnt even HAVE an alt:) Then we needed a new off grid booster and i was all "ugh sure" and that's the one i alt i have :)

Edit Ask Baboli he knows me irl:)

So a drill that after a time has 40 BS, 20 cruisers and 10 elite frigs sitting on it, none of them give bounties and they're incursion level?

Sounds good. Talk about a useless structure.

[quote=Aminari Talar]Greetings,

I'm a long time pvp in eve, and i was looking at mining in the game (via my recent return). I find this system to be extremely Dry, repetitive, and overly Dull. I'd like to make a few recommendations .

New Mining System
Anchor a "Drill" that mines automatically. (it sort of works like huge mining drill with a beam).
After a Duration (OR) Indefinite mining cycle.
Give the drill an Ore Hold (10,000,000m3)
Drills Mine Extremely fast (at rates equal to 5 exhumers)
Drills can be used on all types of Ore, Ice, Gas But has a specialized drill built for each type (1 basic ore, 1 adv ore, 1 ice, 1 gas).

New Mechanic
Drills Summon Rats In waves. They progressively get harder (up to 5 battleships).
At Battleship spawns, you will continue to cycle new BS Waves.

Ore Spawns
Create a new system that mining causes the asteroid to "leak" minerals on the opposite or random side of the asteroid for x seconds. This would encourage miners to orbit in some way so they can pick up "bonus" minerals or ore.

Benefits
Haulers become valuable in the ore mining option's again
Achoring has new flavor
Mining has new flavor





as a miner i have to agree with his observation. mining is mind numbingly boring.. mining by itself doesn't take alot of skill points but by the time you factor in refining skills command skills and the drone skills and the constant upgrading of your all-round support skills like engineering, electronics, armour ect. a considerable amount of training is invested. and with that training also comes a considerable amount of isk invested in ships and equipment to mine more and mine efficiently. and the player just sits in the same place mining for hours not moving.. its ridicules. someone stated that the mining drill platforms will make all miners obsolete but that is total bull crap. you would still need all your skills if you replaced your ships with mining platforms. and its not like they would mine 24 hours straight you would have to watch them. anyway i defiantly believe that the time just floating in space watching your strip miner cycle tick over and over could be better utilised. also id like to point out that even with multiple accounts mining isnt as well paying as other ways of making isk in the game that require more draconian and fun methods. i guess what im saying is that in the future where pilots fly ships in space one would assume that technology would do alot more.. automated.

Mining IS boring, but its something you can do semi afk or multibox many account (up to the point is just as hard/engaging as any other pve)

If you change mining from boring semi afk to "sit at screen doing something all the time" you will loose all the multiboxed accounts and most of the semi afk miners. 2x mining yield and no afk/multibox would still mean prices sky rocket

You want automatic mining into a 10 million m3 orehold.

Well there you have it, gentlemen. The most outrageous mining idea in the history of EVE forums.