Originally by: Ricdic

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Not possible, that would require a major industrial expansion. Similar to the one we didn't have a year ago when it was promised.

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Originally by: GyokZoli

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Well actually, the roids do damage your ship in Blockade level 2 if you mine them and you need a good tank to survive.
So it is already implemented.

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Originally by: Zex Maxwell

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Yep, and if you want more/better ore, you just need to grow some balls and mine in low/null sec. I got sick of mining veldspar, and I moved to 0.0 where I am renting space so I can mine the better stuff.

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Originally by: Dav Varan

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I vote moving asteroids in huge belts circling planets / stars.
Imagine having to match velocity with roids before you could mine them.
Roid collisions that cause loads of shrapnel with deep seams exposed full of nice ore would be cool too.


and little alien spaceships that shoot at you with perfect acuracy and kill you unless you hit hyperspace ...ermm wait sorry wrong game.

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Originally by: Roto Rooter

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Look, CCP has always had the ability to detect and ban ISK farmers and macrominers. They finally did get after ISK farmers but they still fail to do anything about macrominers. It's a CCP problem and CCP holds the solution in their hands: datamining. Almost everything that happens in Eve is already logged. Anything needed to be logged that isn't, easily could be with small amounts of code. It's just silly to think that CCP can't do anything about ISK farmers and macrominers. I can fly around and in minutes spot macrominers who are mining 24 x 7 and have been for months. It's not complicated for CCP to write datamining queries to detect and verify that chars are operating in ways prohibited by the terms of service and EULA, and ban them.

To suggest that game mechanics for legitimate players have to be crippled because macrominers might benefit from more or better belts is, well, silly. CCP needs to get after those abusing the mechanics and spoiling things for the rest of us.

It's also silly to suggest that updating belt numbers to keep mining resources in balance with the mining population would somehow throw things economically out of kilter. What is messing things up is the FAILURE to keep mining resources in balance with the growing population.

And no, I will not be forced into low or null sec just because nitwits at CCP think I should go there. They can "force" me out of the game but they cannot force me to play in ways I choose not to. It's my money and they don't have a gun to my head to force me to continue paying them if the game play is unsatisfactory to me.

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Originally by: Roto Rooter

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I think those are two very different classes of problem. The POS exploit was essentially not known, so it was difficult to look for something unknown. ISK farmers and macrominers, though, are known phenomena to anyone who has been in Eve for more than a few months. So on the one hand no one may have been looking for the anomalies caused by the POS exploit, but CCP should have been ferreting out ISK farmers and macrominers. And it should be relatively easy to do so, given all the data that is recorded by Eve.

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