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Reeno Coleman
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Posted - 2011.10.20 10:06:00 -
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Here is an idea to make high value mining less static:
Make huge comets or asteroids appear randomly, flying through space. Players can scan down these comets and warp to them. The comets themselves however are too big and too volatile to be mined directly.
Instead, every now and then, chunks of it break away, these chunks move at certain speeds (higher speed=higher value?) and can be mined close up, but not dragged with tractor beams. While these chunks get farther away they slowly disperse on their own, until they vanish completely at a certain distance. That means time is of the essence.
The asteroids immediate surrounding or its tail where chunks break off could be volatile, meaning AE damage is dealt to ships staying close. The closer to the comet, the more damage. However, freshly broken chunks could yield a higher gathering rate or higher value resources, making it worth staying close.
This would enable 3 different breeds of miners, all of them needing active skills to do their job:
Speedminers: flying after chunks and mining them on the move. Tankminers: flying close or inside the comet tail, tanking its damage to get to the best bits. Instalock-short-cycle-miners: locking chunks fast to gain the most out of valuable stuff that flies by at fast speeds. (As an option we could have specialized scanning equipment for comets, and a fourth mining specialist.)
And most important of all this enables: Competition! |
0Lona 0ltor
Mean Corp Mean Coalition
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Posted - 2011.10.20 11:34:00 -
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But if you make belts only reachable by scanning all the botters will actually have to do something, like scan stuff after the downtime.
Making botters even do one little thing is just unfair and CCP will never do anything to harm their precious botters unless all the bitter vets ***** some more. |
Shingorash
No.Mercy Merciless.
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Posted - 2011.10.20 11:41:00 -
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Yeah and make tractor beams slow them down as well! <-joke
It would certainly slow the botting down and it sounds rather interesting, would make people actually engage with the game.
Perhaps they should make it so you have to scan down your own mission site as well. Maybe that will slow down the macro missioners too. |
Reeno Coleman
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Posted - 2011.10.20 11:56:00 -
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This is not a measure against bots. It's an idea to enrich gameplay (:
The bot thingy is a nice bonus catch, although i would not suggest a mechanic like this replace the old mining capabilities. |
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