Assembly Hall

This has been probably already addressed before, so I am most likely repeating myself.

Problem:

As with being a miner, it is pretty important to maximize your available time. With this being said, I find it rather curious that a mining laser would continue to work on asteroid that no longer exists. I imagine that there is some code that makes the mechanic of when a mining laser deactivates it then determines how much ore was extracted based upon the time it was active. I understand that this is a game and that mechanics don't necessarily mirror real-life situations, but it really doesn't make sense why a mining laser would still be active while an asteroids mass has already been completely depleted.

Solution:

Make asteroids "like" structures giving them hit points. Make mining lasers like regular guns that will reduce the structure of a given asteroid by the amount equal to whatever turret is being used and skill points given.

I understand that this would most likely change the entire mechanic of mining since the minerals gained would no longer be attached to a cycle time. I also understand that this would have farther reaching effects in regards to mineral prices on the market and so forth. I thank you for your time and consideration.

Best Regards.

AlkoliK

Solution.

Dont use all your mining lasers on the same asteroid.

While the people above me did give good examples of how to work around the issue. They need to fix the issue, instead of having people work around it.

It's small things like this that really display how clunky EVE is.

It's almost as if when a ship was destroyed, your computer still had it locked, and you continued shooting rounds at its wreck until you ran out of ammo.

Only less important cause it's mining.

I'm a carebear at heart and I no longer have a problem with this. I skills up enough to where I could use a T2 survey scanner and I just keep an eye on my cargo hold to know how around how much ore is left. A little subtraction is all that's required to keep your lasers on task :)

Actually, if you cancel your miner mid-cycle, it only takes a portion of that cycle's worth out of the asteroid.

Thus, it should be actually fairly simple for a bit of programming that should be something like this:



Translation to non-coders: Add a simple script that once a second, checks to see if the amount of ore the module can collect in a full cycle, divided by the full cycle time, then times all that by the current cycle time, is greater or less than the amount of ore remaining on the targeted asteroid. If there's less, the script exits, shuts off the module, and announces the module is completed.

That's all there is to it. Of course, I don't know how the coding ACTUALLY works, but this should be a fairly easy to add code if CCP decides to try it. :)