Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hey guys,

I had a really cool idea I wanted to share as I think it would add a lot to the game in terms of play style and content.

I propose a Mining Bomb that can be launched from stealth bombers. It would destroy every asteroid in a 15 km radius (same as a standard bomb) and replace each one with a can that could be looted. The bomb could also salvage wrecks in the area in a similar way, and maybe salvage active player ships (effectively killing them) too.

Pros:
Adds an interesting new play style of being able to black ops jump into null sec or low sec systems, nuke a belt, loot it quick and jump out, allowing for a hit and run style of mining.

Forces people to defend their space from raiders.

Cons:
Nothing I can think of.

Thoughts?

Well obviously you wouldn't get all the Ore, maybe a small percentage out of it. All of it would indeed be broken. I should have specified. Maybe like %10?

Only if they make defender bombs that operate like the defender missiles. You launch your bomb, I launch mine and stop you from blowing up the belt. Maybe a third bomb that acts as an anti-defender bomb. So my bomb blows up your bomb to stop your bomb from blowing up my bomb.

It's a trace hacker hacker hacker!

So you want to flood the market with so many minerals they approach zero value AND, not stopping there, you want to make all other mining vessels obsolete.

When you put out game destroying ideas you go all in, gotta admire that about you at least.


Just in case that was a bit obtuse, this ranks as one of worst suggestions ive read in 3 plus years of playing this game, so if you were going for some kind of award you won!

Wingspan , mining service since 2015

They just tried to make nullsec mining viable, why on earth would they want to introduce something like this that would let someone troll a sov holders belts with a few stealth bombers.

Omg I would abuse that so badly. It would be so much fun.

I too would abuse the hell out of this!
bring it!

Bombers can't be e-war'd to ineffectiveness in seconds flat. True Unguided weapon....align on path, press button, release package of fun.

troll captor can be shut down in seconds flat with e-war. You don't have to track to land a jam....just get the lock.

That and large mineral deposits was never an issue in 0.0. Could make the case of the theoretical market power of the drone space residents but that was long ago when drones dropped mineral loot. Even then....the Russians and drone friends pretty much kept to themselves anyway. That is gone, we can assume any reserves they had from this time have been tapped decently by now so that if they wanted to crash markets it be less effective, if effective at all really.

The heavy bash aspect prior...was a problem. Do a year plus of bash CTA"s.....man this crap gets old fast. Dominion replaced the prior use of pos SOV. I did both, both sucked massive ass really.

That and like I said some would troll themselves with this. Kill the ABC, bomb thelow grade rocks like trit. The rocks that quite often grow to their large size as no one could be assed to mine them in the first place. Then its wait for index boost and rock refresh. What they do now. Difference being is if the trit is left untouched....the ABC respawns like ass.