Clansworth
Good Rock Materials
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Posted - 2013.05.17 00:57:00 -
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CCP Bayesian wrote:Clansworth wrote:I'm intrigued at how CCP comes up with what features need more interaction, and what needs less. Salvaging gets more passive with the addition of salvaging drones, while hacking and archaeology get more interactive with this new mechanic. Mining is as yet, untouched for 10 years now. It depends on the features being worked on and the intention behind changing them. As with many changes of management CCP Seagull taking over as Senior Producer refocused what we're doing with the theme of exploration being chosen. We as a team have been very much investigating the great gameplay we could add to the details of EVE. So we were asked to look at making what happens in a site more interesting. It was a no-brainer to make the hacking more interactive and immersive which quickly lead to a good idea through a card game I made. The scattering came from a prototype for mining developed by CCP Veritas. Other considerations are what interactive elements would be good for expansion elsewhere. For example a few people in this thread have got excited about the possibilities of what else could be hacked.
I have watched the prototyping vid, and it is interesting. I was not implying that mining should be made actively more interactive - but that interactie mining should be more effective than passive mining. Many suggestions have been made on these, and the old forums, for many MANY years, long before you were developing for CCP - some at the request of previous devs - and many resulting in huge threadnoughts of suggestions.
Personally, my long touted idea was one that would not affect the way mining is currently done (fly to rocks - shoot rocks - profit). But the rocks themselves would constitute different ores, in different percentages, and yield would be dependant on their actual content, and the type of crystal used. This would mean crystal selection could be optomized for any given rock - if so desired - but if all you cared about was the veld in the rocks, you could leave in veld crystals, and that is MOSTLY what you would get returned - or run non crystals, and get a proportional mix or ores in your hold.
Details here: (from - yikes! - 2007 - see, I told you nothing's changed in a LONG time) http://eve-search.com/thread/579110-0/page/3#83 |