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I disagree a few of these points. There should be belts that spawn but I believe that a system wide belt that requires you to scan down and find better yield asteroids would be much more "epic." Survey scanners I believe should tell you exactly what it does now i.e. how much of whatever mineral is in the asteroid. Also they should have all the names of the asteroids as "Asteroid" so you need to look at or use a survey scanner to determine what type of mineral you will get. Mining is usually considered as a semi afk activity and there are lots of out crys that I've seen saying that they want it to stay more or less that way. It is a fairly relaxed profession and should reflect that, leave the high isk out in low/nul where people are much more willing to pay attention and aren't doing homework/cooking/laundry or what have you. By all means voice any and all concerns about mining in the thread below.
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=59357&find=unread

This is a decision regarding to mining development that has to be considered extremely carefully. I understand that some miners enjoy the semi-afk game play it allows, but this is also the same quality to mining as an activity that makes it a prime target for griefing.

Miners who want to protect mining as a semi-afk activity must also relinquish their rights to complain when the Goons come and kill their barges, or Hulkageddon keeps them docked for a week or two. Some do, most don’t.

I think we’ve all settled with mining as being a boring, afk activity only in the absence of CCP offering something much more engaging. I think most miners would prefer to spend a couple of hours with an entertaining feature that requires their full attention, than spend half the day babysitting something valuable that can be taken from them in a moment’s notice and jeopardize all the profit they could have earned had they been at their computer.

I’m trying to approach the mining issue with respect to the negative impact it has had on the entire social fabric of EvE for years now. The mining/ganking/botting argument circle has been going around and around endlessly and I feel it’s such a waste of time when we could simply come up with something fun to play instead. Mining remains one of the most outdated professions (along with industry) in terms of development; I see no virtue in preserving a relic from the past if CCP can be convinced to dedicate the resources needed to iterate upon the core system.

A large reason that it is griefed is also due to miners not fitting any tank whatsoever and then the very small crowd of loud people complaining about it all over the forums. There are PLENTY of people who suck it up and take the risk or tank up their battle hulks and don't complain about it on the forums because they know how and why their ship got blown up. On the post that I mentioned earlier there are complaints about mining turning into some kind of minigame or quicktime event. Changing the things that I've mentioned would in my opinion keep things closer to the core of what eve is. Player made content - risk of being scanned down and being shot up. Going to low and null and taking those big risks of a ship being blown up.
I know that the player made content comment is going to get me flamed all to high hell but I think that keeping the mechanics of mining (Point laser - Shoot rock) close to being the same but the logistics (Having to scout out the best part of a belt to mine from) behind it all much more deep will satisfy the most amount of people.

Hi Hans,

i just read your pdf and tried to read all your intervention on this post.
While i like some things (farming SS only in low sec is a great idea), i have an awful feeling about your SS system changes

In your pdf, it seems like you want to make the low sec a wide place for free for all FW : PvP without consequences.

But there are already ways to do this (FW, mutual wardec, NPC 0.0 and RvB), why would you want low sec to be like this?

I live in low-sec, i earn isks through trading and PvE and enjoy PVP from time to time, i know pirates are around and i like it. I like the risks, even though i earn less than i would in high sec. But if every one can shoot me without consequences, this would not be possible anymore. Low sec is not a battle arena, it's a place were PvP is more likely to happen and you must be prepared for it. I don't want it to become a place where every one can do anything without a second thought, EvE is a game where your actions matter, and this is great. Destroying a passing ship is not consensual PvP, it's piracy and should be treated a such.

Living in low sec is hard, if anyone can go in it, kill me a bunch of time and return to high sec when they are broke, making twice as much money as i do, i'm doomed. (i'm just realizing that this is what pirates are living against anti pirates)

Don't get me wrong, i don't want low sec to be secure. But it must be (as it is now) between high sec and null-space.

Some of your answers in this post made me think that somehow you share my vision of low-sec, but i don't think this is consistent with what you are proposing in your pdf.

So my question :
- Do you think that low sec should be a place where people can live in doing other stuff than PvP? or should it just be a battle arena where anyone can shoot at anything?

Greetings, all players need to be represented on the CSM. 8% of players live in 0.0; 67% live in 0.5 or above. Votes for candidates should be allocated based on population. It is absurd the CSM should be so misresented as it was last year. I've played EVE since September 2003. I've done everything except FW. Am going to support you, let me know if in my modest means I can help. QUESTION: I hate botting, there is a lot of it going on. I propose that at the announcement "Request for docking permission" the pilot would have to enter a randomly generated password for docking permission to be granted. Comment?

Thanks for the inquiry, Grumpy Owly !! I specifically discuss Malcanis's bounty hunting system as part of my core platform. I encourage you to read my platform document, it's linked in the second post in this thread, let me know if you have any other questions after reading what I have to say about the subject.

I appreciate your interest in my campaign!

Sure thing, Grumpy. I'll be happy to summarize my thoughts for you, I have been asked a few questions now that require more detailed answers now so I'll catch up when I get home from work.

Thanks for asking! I appreciate your patience.

What're your thoughts on... LOKI BOOSTAZ. And boosting T3s in general?
(Can you haz pl0x remove dem pl0x? I won't even be mad).

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I don't think many people in low sec are deterred from ganking you due to the anti-pvp ss mechanics. Either they have decided they will not shoot neutrals, or they likely blow up your ship if they think they can get away with it.


Also he is not trying move all of low sec to the sisi. Ships and modules will still cost isk so PVP will still have consequences.