Player Features and Ideas Discussion

so you have no basic understanding of how supply and demand works. ok.

may i suggest enrolling yourself in some basic economics classes, i feel they'd be a great help to you.

You won't destroy the market. You'll just drop the bottom out of minerals, and make it even more difficult for the people who choose to do so to make an in-game living through mining.

Maybe that's what you want, to drive your your own competition? If so, you should take the direct route with some gank Catalysts, instead of asking CCP to introduce new gimmicky ships and mechanics to do it for you.

Well i think mining deserve some love from developer. i disagree mostly on the yield part as it was stated increasing yield might reduce mineral price, it would take some time but in the end

Rather than increasing the yield giving miner some more expensive but convenient alternative does sound like a good thing.
I mean you can mine in a rokh or any other turret battleship to get more tank & maybe the use of sentries to defend yourself but in the end its not very efficient (having to cycle modulated deep core miner II due to much more yield than cargo)

Maybe a new capital ship that would mine, about as much or little less than a hulk, with a huge ore bay/mineral bay & able to use some kind of siege module that would provide refined ore (instead of unrefined one) at great mineral loss like 25-50% mineral loss & better yield than a hulk (meaning about the same amount of mineral as a hulk yield - ie more yield with mineral loss = as much yield-) providing on site refining & faster belt clearing (industrial indice null sec)

in the case of that t3 why not about the same yield as the mack but with a mining drone bonus (yield & navigation) that would give with all skill maxed nearly as much as an hulk?

some of the ideas proposed by OP are interesting in my opinion!

Cette idée est mauvaise et vous devriez vous sentir mal

lawl.

An empty hulk with no modules is already an attractive ganking target.

I just want inspired CCP

What you want your own special ship? Everyone who mines has the option of training for it and using it...much like exhumers. When you hit an ice belt you see mostly mackinaws and some skiffs. If your ship idea is the best option for mining then others will start using it.

And yes, there are many parameters for mineral price...you are suggesting chaning one, maybe more...hence a new equilibrium will obtain and it is almost surely be lower. Lower price, with the same output means lower isk/hour. Even with higher output it could mean more or less isk/hour.

So again...careful what you wish for.

I don't use them at all, except on a (very rare) lark.

But my belief is that discussing how to fit a hulk to avoid ganking is a misdirection of effort. The ship costs 200 mil and has the ehp of a frigate. Let's get serious...