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Yamichi Wiggin
Caldari
Thurisaz Robotics Corporation
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Posted - 2009.03.04 23:58:00 -
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While I welcome this change as the graphics are a bit dated in the roid belts, I am curious when CCP will go about fixing mining?
Let's look at a scenario that shows why mining is completely broken:
There is a rock in a belt with 600 m3 of ore in it. A hulk arrives, mining 1500 m3/ minute. He targets the rock and engages his lasers. A minute and a half later, an osprey shows up mining only 600 m3/ minute. He targets his lasers and fires. one minute later, the rock pops and the osprey has 600 m3 of ore. The hulk (who should have popped the rock before the osprey arrived) has the target disappear, gets no ore, and his lasers don't even deactivate.
When is that little issue getting worked out?
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Yamichi Wiggin
Caldari
Thurisaz Robotics Corporation
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Posted - 2009.03.05 05:41:00 -
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Edited by: Yamichi Wiggin on 05/03/2009 05:41:17
 Originally by: Mara Rinn
You've answered your own question right there.
Contrast this to: "The Dominix (who should have activated his armour repairer before going into structure) pops because he wasn't paying attention."
Oh yeah- my bad. In a fight, all the damage done happens at once at the end of three minutes... just like in mining.
I never said that mining wasn't manageable- it is. But making the rocks pretty is the least useful upgrade to mining CCP could have possibly chosen. Most miners are zoomed out too far to see the rocks anyway- you mine off your overview.
I keep telling people that the way to beat macro miners is to mine the asteroids out from under them.
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Yamichi Wiggin
Caldari
Thurisaz Robotics Corporation
The Fifth Syndicate
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Posted - 2009.03.10 16:49:00 -
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It's really a shame that the only Dev response so far has amounted to, "LOL- nothing new but pretties. Deal."
As a miner I can say I'm not rejoicing.
Everything else I'm seeing in Apoc looks cool but again miners get no love. No rigs, no new ships, no changes in the grossly flawed mechanics...
Why didn't Apoc have an industry team?
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