Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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As much as I personally like watching funny cat videos, I think it should be saved for when you're not playing a game :p

The only thing worse than the current mining system - which involves paying attention to Intel channels, local, and drinking beer while chatting on comms with your buddies - would be having to play some ******* terrible, repetitive mini-game for two hours straight. In other words, no, not supported.

If you don't want to mine, then don't mine, but don't make yet another thing in Eve into an even more terrible and even more repetitive process.

Not to mention that if people are actually AFK, they make great targets. Eve needs all the targets it can get.

A lot of people mining do so in high sec and the only thing they have to watch out for are people like CODE who suicide gank miners supposedly for the reason of deterring afk miners.

But again ultimately the reason afk miners exist in the first place is because mining gameplay is non-existent. You can try slapping people to keep them awake all you like, but they fall asleep because it's a mindless chore and that's what I'm trying to address here.
And do notice I'm suggesting it being am optional bonus to the actives, rather than a general nerf.

It truely is amazing yeah. I really think it's about time to give them some kind of gameplay improvement.
I like the idea of being a miner in many other games, it has an industrious satisfaction to it no doubt, but in EvE there's literally nothing to do other than waiting for your cargo to get full.
I know it can be changed though, as many other aspects of the game has been in its dynamic life.

As long as it stays optional and cannot in any way be done on more than 1 account at the same time, I'm for it. So the relaxing (high-sec) or chilling actual gameplay stay as it is, and people who want a engaging activity can have it, mining will stay a low-income activity, since the risk can be very low as long as the player stay sharp for his surroundings, but someone like me who really want to see more fun doing the industry-side of the game I would gladly welcome it.

And why precisely is that?

I have reasons why this is needed but im not going to give them


why not a good portion of eve is waiting. this seems like your personal opinion your trying to pass as a fact

I'm glad you mention fishing. Fishing you cannot do while afk. Can you relax while doing it? Yes for the most part, but you always need to be ready to wheel in the catch, and you can't be sure what you've caught either. Also if you do fly fishing, you need to actively yank on the rod (sorry) to keep the fly moving. Consider that a mini-game.

As for the problems.. One is that since you can mine while afk, people do it on many accounts at the same time, thus driving down the prices and leaving it very uncompetitive to mine on one account obviously. It's my belief that an activity should not be balanced for having multiple accounts. Eve subscription cost is equivalent to other MMOs and gameplay should be centered around playing one account for this reason.

Exactly that. It's no law of nature that it has to be so passive and unengaging, it's just a remnant of how basic the game was in the beginning on all fronts really. I realize though that people are creatures of habit, which is why I would favor the carrot rather than the whip, ie. an optional bonus you can activate (when not afk) and crank up as you like at the cost of making it more difficult :)