Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I would rather see mining become more like exploration, do away with the static belts and let miners search for flying comets that travel through systems.
So you find it through some way ( probing maybe) , when on grid the comet is actually moving and not static.
The trick then is to find out where the hotspots in the asteroid are akin to PI hotspots.
Once you know where they are the actual mining will take a fraction of the time.
But could maybe require that you manually fly the ship to keep up with the moving comet

In general make mining more about finding it, instead of doing something else while mining.

In general I see no real future in the current scheme of parking a mining boat and suck rocks, so let's make the finding interesting, and keep mining to a minimum.


Or maybe think in the lines of PI, setting up PI was ok, running PI is boring as hell.
So make a sort minigame where miners set up a mining collony on the asteroid, and once completed it will suck it dry unattended for 1 hour after which you can pick up the ore.

OP,

could you try and pass your ideas via the formal channels (Jita park or whatever it takes for this to reach CSM and CCP), some of the freshest ideas I've seen on the forums.

I once visioned that mining could work a bit like the PI scanning interface, you would rotate the asteroid in order to find hotspots & nuggets visually, and then target your lasers there for max yield. Anyway the final details of the "interactive minigame" of mining 2.0 are best left to the professionals :)

I just fully support anything that increases the human part of mining, and anything that makes mining more fun and profitable. The miners deserve some love!

Good to get this into discussion! A few years back the same idea was suggested in the features & ideas forum. Mining could be improved by a mini-game and by rare loot.

The suggestion back then had the two combined:
*The rare loot would refine into crystals used by mining lasers, providing immense boost to mining speed when used.
*These crystals, by nature, would be fragile so that when spotted, they would require careful mining laser frequency and intensity juggling to aquire. Damaging the crystals by not finding the right laser calibration in time would either destroy the loot or provide worse quality crystals, which would expire faster when used.
*An "officer spawn epic mining diamond" would have the potential to mine at quadruple speed for days on

Huh.. it would be nice to see a patch that was dedicated to industry for once.

There needs to be a BIT of a ladder to climb. Nothing wrong here.

You miners really are a different species to what I belong to. You should all be marginalised and made our pets, you wouldn't even notice it considering your love of menial labour. I'll toss you a bone every so often to keep you entertained but dont get me wrong.. You'll be required to wear a gimp suit and live in a cage in my basement when you're not mining.

This, or something like it, is actually a very good suggestion.

(Also, 5%:95% is 1:20 not 1:10 )

This is why mining will never get fixed. Could you imagine how expensive a ship would be if CCP did as you suggested? Most people in HS would still be flying their rookie ships and would do so until the bulkheads failed.

I think CCP's inaction on mining for the past......oh since game conception....speaks volumes. Skill training is a big enough deterrent for many gamers. If they had to spend 6mos saving up enough isk to fly a ship they spent the last 2 months training for, how long do you suppose it would be until the game just died?

I agree, something has to be done for mining to make it more interesting and to deter botting but, what that is, IDK. It's going to require something a bit more sophisticated than decreasing the availability of minerals.

Getting rid of local in null would deter botting, at least the 23/7 multi-box completely AFK variety where people make billions of isk never having sat at their computers for the past week. At least with no local the botters would have to have a network of real people monitoring the system's entrances. That's something.

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This is going to be my first draft to the miners , should get a few takers :)

Seriously though, I like the OP's idea, He/should strat the process of getting it onto the next CSM agenda.

Also eliminate moon goo. Make ALL ships be built from minerals that can only be obtained through mining ore from a belt or a site "belt".

This would make carebears more important to 0.0 alliances instead of just their whipping posts.

And no whining about how ship prices would skyrocket... mine your own ore and build your own ships?? duh..