Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Good. Revamp mining how the OP is suggesting and mining will not be boring anymore. It will also draw in a lot more players to the game.

Making mining more "engaging" will not have the effect it seems. These suggestions would still ultimately be boring, which means miners will eventually stop doing it and accept the lesser yield methods. Thus, all this will do is lower mining profits, thereby lowering the incentive to mine even more so.

Perhaps this would be somewhat relevant in nullsec, but in highsec it will be the death of mining. As of right now people are only willing to mine in high because they can make an alright profit while watching Family Guy. Take away the profit or the Family Guy and they just won't do it,

They still can. You don't have to manipulate your miners constantly to get a decent profit, just every once in a while. You can do it every ad break to maximize profits, or just between episodes to at least make more than someone only checking once every few hours.

This would create significant benefits to those players! As it is, anyone who mines for less than a few hours picks up hardly any value. But in Abrazzar's suggestion, a person really could mine for just a few minutes and, provided they focus on getting as much ore as possible for that time, could get something significant. If they just want to turn on the lasers for 5-10 minutes to watch and listen to something soothing, it's not really going to make much difference either way.

I'm not 100% sure I like all the details, but in general a new mining mechanic will work well. Add in comets and you have a decent new system, i'll read the full details later

I see the thought here is a more targeted mining of roids that provide better return for harvesting.

I believe this makes an already complex topic more complex.

Arm the miners with weapons or tactics that improve their safety or capacity to harvest.

I still like the idea of a Ninja Hulk that can alpha shoot most attackers.

NO.

I say that as a miner. No.
Anything that add more M3 per cycle means that everyone will mine more, supply and demand means it will pay less per cycle. The mineral prices are already stagnant, this as any mining change will only drop them.

Botters don't run their characters skillfully in large groups. The characters who skillfully beat you at everything in large groups are actually operated by large groups of skilled people.

I looked at OP: "posted a year ago"

Well, nobody can accuse CCP of making hasty changes, that's for sure.

I'd go with the comet mining idea in preference to any captcha/minigame. Interesting to note that google are moving away from 'captcha' methods as they can be accuratrly interpreted by bots 99.8% of the time whereas people are only 80% effective...

I'd like to see more purpose for frigate/small ship mining along with a nerf to the ore hold size of the Venture, Procurer, and Skiff, by way of making occasional small bits of extremely rich ore which can be mined quickly but which are spread out and hidden enough that only an actively scanning player will be able to beat the income of a passive miner. This would make defensive warp-bonused small mining ships useful for making a few quick trips into dangerous territory to grab some rich ore bits. It could also be used in highsec for those who don't have much time, to hop on and do some quick mining. These should run out quickly but gradually respawn throughout the day, that way the AFK miners will ignore them as they do not provide a sustainable income in highsec, and that will leave them available for those who mine in short bursts.