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Make it faster, so we don't have to spend so much time doing it. Mining is safe and essential to the Eve economy but, it is an unpleasant chore for players who would rather be helping their buddies win wars. The simplest way to reduce mining time is to reduce the cycle duration and capacitor consumption of all mining lasers.

The Eve market will automatically adjust itself to this change. When the supply of something goes up, the price goes down. When the supply of something goes down, the prices goes up. The supply of minerals drives the Eve economy the same way energy drives the real-world economy.

1. Increasing the production of minerals will reduce the price of minerals.
2. Reducing the price of minerals will increases the production of ships and equipment.
3. Increase the supply of ships and equipment will reduce the prices of ships and equipment.

To allow manufacturing to keep up with the increased supply of minerals, manufacturing time for all BP should be reduced as well.

Another couple of source of minerals comes from reprocessing and scrap metal processing, which are useful but undermines the mining industry and reverse the natural flow of energy from mining to manufacturing to the Eve market. At the same time, the increased sales of ships will increase the demand for rigs. So, to arbitrate the situation, I propose that reprocessing and scrap metal processing be changed to yield salvage materials rather than minerals.

Absolutely not.

Most of the mining is done by bots anyways. You want to increase bot efficiency by 90%? Hell no.

Of all the terrible suggestions on how to improve mining, this is one of the worst.

I ONCE THOUGHT MINING WOULD BE EXCITING LIKE EXPLORING VAST SPACE WITH BARELY ARMED MINING VESSAL AND THEN I WOULD SOMETIMES HIT JACKPOT AND FIND EXPENSIVE ASTEROIDS AND MINE THEM FAST LIKE IN COUPLE HOURS BEFORE OTHER GUY COMES OR BAD PIRATE. ALL TIHS EXPENSIVE STUFF WOULD OF COURSE GO INTO MY LARGE CARGOHOLD.

BUT THEN I LOGGED IN 2ND DAY AND I REALIZE MINING IS MEANT FOR BOTTERS NOT FOR ACTUAL GAMEPLAYERS.

You want to increase thousands upon thousands of bots mining efficiency by 90% so that a "select few" can profit a little more?

Fail.

Yes, I do! Because the supply would saturate the market with minerals, reducing the price to near zero- not a bad thing for manufacturing. Lower prices for minerals and cheaper ships and equipment means less mining and more combat.

Not quite. If you wanted to make mining faster, you would increase the yield of ore tenfold, then reduce the quantity of ore spawned tenfold. Thus miners would mine ten times as much tritanium per hour as before, the belts would run out faster, and mining would no longer be AFK friendly.

Mining lasers have two attributes that effect the mining rate, cycle duration and yield. I considered increasing the yield before I made the tropic thinking it would have the same effect. But then I realized it wouldn't because a full cycle would more than fill up a ship's entire cargo hold causing large quantities of ore to be wasted for lack of room. I chose to increase cycle duration instead to minimize waste. I see no need to reduce the capacity of asteroids though.

[quote=Jade MitchI considered increasing the yield before I made the tropic thinking it would have the same effect. But then I realized it wouldn't because a full cycle would more than fill up a ship's entire cargo hold causing large quantities of ore to be wasted for lack of room. I chose to increase cycle duration instead to minimize waste. I see no need to reduce the capacity of asteroids though.[/quote]

Increase the mineral yield of the ore, reduce the quantity of ore seeded. Thus you can mine faster in terms of ISK/hr, but the fields will be depleted quickly. The mining ships will still be able to proceed semi-AFK, and people insisting on mining while at the keyboard can continue to be bored out of their brains. Everyone wins!

What the I don't even... grow a pair.

As much as I agree...grow a brain and say something creative as opposed to the usual "grow a pair" that you say in each-and-every-freaking-post.