EVE General Discussion

Apostrophes are hard.

How about leaving things as they are with PVP mechanics in High Sec.

For ganking, which is TOTALLY legal........cost is 200,000,000 per ship Ganked.

You can have your FUN.....but at a PRICE.......................

Sounds EXTREMELY fair to me.

they dont need to make mining harder- just the process of mining harder- in order to eliminate the bots- which can be done

Frankly, I prefer to make mining more interactive. This has a two-fold effect. For starters, it makes mining less boring when you have to concentrate more and plan ahead more effectively. And second, it will put a dent onto the efforts of bot users. Personally, there is no need to buff the EHP of mining ships as there are already tools and mods available to do that. And no, mining should not be easier either as there are enough minerals being pumped into the market as it is.

Here are my ideas of interactivity:

1. Player has to periodically re-calibrate the mining crystals or else they would suffer diminished yields or module damage.

2. Asteroids should no longer be static horse shoe formations around planets. They should be in a single asteroid belt orbiting the stars while drifting across space at different rates to make it harder to AFK mine. Or at least cause the rocks to drift when a mining beam strikes the surface on one side.

Other changes:

1. Remove the re-processing of modules and ammo. I don't like it. It makes no sense to get back the minerals when their molecular structure has already been completely changed during the production process.

2. CCP should introduce damage-producing mining crystals that will allow a modulated strip miner to deal damage to a ship's hull directly. Considering the insane locking speed of a Hulk, this can allow a miner to fight back against high-sec suicide gankers. Of course, there can be a downside to this. The strip miners can suffer heat damage as well in the process and this can only be used when attacked unprovoked in high-sec. Imagine a fleet of Hulks making mince meat out of a suicide BC.

I've been screaming for them to make High Sec mining Probeable ONLY..............

Would solve absolutely EVERYTHING wrong with the whole mechanic, or at least 90% of the issues.

Oops. Wrong.

Minerals and elements such as Gold and Silicon are indeed retrieved in recycling of Electronic parts in RL.

OTHERWISE good post.

Bad idea.

Putting Out Fire With Gasoline isn't just a David Bowie song......................

(thank you CCP for eating my first post )

Mining is a PvE activity in a non-consentual PvP game. Mining is not for providing mineral resources (that's what reprocessing and drone poo are for).

Mining is in Eve because a segment of the PvP community wants to quickly and easily blow up another RL player without the risk of being mocked in local for failing. I'll point to the Tier 3 BC's as evidence of that, where CCP introduced a ship specifically designed to achieve this exact outcome regardless of what type of mining barge is targeted or interference from Concord.

It's not a game imbalance, it's game design.

Working as intended.

i always wonder: how it can be that "pvp-players" can discuss how it some battle stuff is overpowered or underpowered (BUFF HYBRIDS!!!!) and at the same time they can advice "forget about any efficiency, fit tank" to miners?

would you tank your stealth bomber? Or maybe you passive armor tank your interceptor?
Or maybe you fit your drake with blasters? LOL?

So why do miners NEED TO DO the same?

you are too lazy (or ... ) to even lock hulk and press F1???