Cause it would be a horrible looking FPS?

because if i had to pay that much attention, i'd be doing something worth more isk/hour. it's honestly that simple.

i did read it, but magically getting rid of 90% of belts isn't going to make mining more interactive or fun or anything. infact it's going to do the opposite.

also, how much crying do you think there will be from americans and australians when they log in and there's nothing for them to mine because every one in europe has already stripped all of the asteroids from high sec because you just got rid of 90% of the asteroid belts?

can you please think before you post?

no you haven't. null sec has an infinite amount of asteroids, high sec does not. hence low end minerals become even more of a bottleneck than they already are. honestly, you are completely clueless on mining works so just stop spewing bad ideas. please. for all our sakes.

you're not looking at the big picture, you're looking at a different game.

no it wouldn't get rid of the infinite belts; because you clearly have no clue what you are talking about. not to mention those infinite belts in 0.0 don't provide low end materials, that's half of the problem with 0.0 industry at the moment, the lack of low end minerals.

honestly, go and find out how mining works and THEN we can have this discussion where i'm not simply informing you how the game works because you decided to make suggestions on part of a game you know nothing about.

Large Asteroid Cluster
Bloodtear Industry Index Report
List of ores contained within:
Ore Amount Asteroids
Arkonor 65,000 1
Bistot 150,000 1
Crokite 40,000 1
Dark Ochre 50,000 1
Gneiss 60,000 1
Hedbergite 80,000 1
Hemorphite 80,000 1
Jaspet 120,000 1
Kernite 400,000 4
Mercoxit 10,000 1
Omber 400,000 3
Plagioclase 0 0
Pyroxeres 0 0
Scordite 300,000 2
Spodumain 50,000 1
Veldspar 0 0

wrong, was i?

Your idea wouldn't work OP for one simple reason; if miners wanted to PEW PEW we would be out PEW PEWing and not sitting around blasting rocks.

Your idea would be similar to tieing all PEW PEW PvP to mining; which ever side clears out the asteroid fields first wins and the other side loses their ships (they just disappear with no glorious explosion or kill-mail)

yep, so much low end ore in null sec that trit/pyerite etc is imported in jump freighters full of railguns used to compress the minerals. right ho, they just use jump freighters for fun right?

sure it's old, but you know what's older? grav sites, they haven't changed since that report was produced except the isk/hour values, which are irrelevant. the composition of the grav sites are still the same, and it's still a perfectly valid resource.

see, the fact that instead of going and learning about the activity you're proposing changes for, you're just making stupid comments.

i know, how about we remove rat bounties and all missions above level 3 because it's an isk faucet! see, i can make stupid comments on a subject i know nothing about too!

i think you need to understand what "proof" is, because that quote wasn't it. besides in your idea you took 90% of it out... so, y'know...

Right, big effort for little gain = not worth doing.

and if there's more effort then you won't be able to do it on about 8 accounts at once (slight exaggeration, but the point stands) so people won't get more reward, at all.

you don't mine, you've already said so, and demonstrated how clueless you are because of that fact. i'll give you 10/10 for the trolling though.

And people would fight over it, and ships would die... and not be replaced due to scarcity of materials. Remaining ships would be come outrageously expensive in game-terms, and would become perma-docked for fear of loss. Soon, there would be very few miners left - and those which *were* left would be able to mine the recduced belts in peace and quiet due the lack of other ships... and other players.

or we could just leave it alone because the system is perfectly fine as it is?

actually OP, how does this sound?

allowing you to take control of a system, and install upgrades. to install upgrades you have to mine ore, the more ore you mine the better upgrades you can install.
these upgrades will make more gravametric sites spawn in your system, containing rarer ores. also in systems you control, you could shoot enemies without getting concord aggression.

how does that sound?

I dont see any actual mining in that .....

From the clip it just appears to be yet another twitch-based space combat sim ..
im not saying thats a bad thing, just the name doesnt really correlate too well with the viewed gameplay.

Heres how mining works in Eve.

You need to have multiple accounts to make enough money for it to be efficient.

CCP therefore loves miners.

You know how to make mining pay better?

Kill all the other miners.