Twitch Gameplay
We totally understand your concerns about how the scattered can collection will work as it is a departure from how the rest of EVE works. The mechanic itself comes from a mining prototype developed by CCP Veritas and does work well within EVE as far as we can ascertain from our user testing of it. It's not a crazy clickfest as it will take several seconds to pull each can in. We are in a phase of playtesting and refining how long, how fast and how many cans will scatter. The 'twitch' side of it is no more than exists in EVE interacting with the UI now, the main difference is that you are interacting within the space scene itself.

From the stealth "it's ok that we screwed up exploration, because soon mining will be just as bad" thread.

Enjoy "ice spew" and "rock spew" and chasing evaporating cans at the end of every cycle of the mining lasers.

Just gonna keep posting this in every idiotic whine thread I see:

http://imgur.com/aNMdLoZ - 3 hours in low sec.

If they do to mining what they did to hacking and arch sites, mining might actually be worth doing.

The ISboxer tears would be hilarious, too.

From the stealth "it's ok that we screwed up exploration, because soon mining will be just as bad" thread.

Enjoy "ice spew" and "rock spew" and chasing evaporating cans at the end of every cycle of the mining lasers.

I assume we can look forward to "salvage spew" as well. And logically when we shoot any ships those also should spew loot into evaporating cans instead of making all those stupid wrecks. No more AFK salvaging!

It also would be cool if every time you buy something off the market whatever you bought is blown out the docking port of the station so you have to undock and play grab ass with everyone else around the station trying to loot your item from a can that will disappear in five seconds. It would sure put an end to people AFK'ing on the market window anyway.

EGOSOFT X SERIES uses this mechanic, it would literally be intellectual theft no matter who wrote the code.

it would literally be intellectual theft no matter who wrote the code.

Obvious anti-bot mechanic imo.

More like an anti-multiboxer mechanic.

It also would be cool if every time you buy something off the market whatever you bought is blown out the docking port of the station so you have to undock and play grab ass with everyone else around the station trying to loot your item from a can that will disappear in five seconds.

I only tried the mini-game a few times. I didn't really notice a pattern. Can spew looked pretty random to me. When people say there's a method to it, I'm reminded of those experiments on pigeons that show the them developing a kind-of belief system based on something that is actually random.

Did you try using a cargo scanner?

I only tried the mini-game a few times. I didn't really notice a pattern. Can spew looked pretty random to me. When people say there's a method to it, I'm reminded of those experiments on pigeons that show the them developing a kind-of belief system based on something that is actually random.

From the stealth "it's ok that we screwed up exploration, because soon mining will be just as bad" thread.

Enjoy "ice spew" and "rock spew" and chasing evaporating cans at the end of every cycle of the mining lasers.

I assume we can look forward to "salvage spew" as well. And logically when we shoot any ships those also should spew loot into evaporating cans instead of making all those stupid wrecks. No more AFK salvaging!

It also would be cool if every time you buy something off the market whatever you bought is blown out the docking port of the station so you have to undock and play grab ass with everyone else around the station trying to loot your item from a can that will disappear in five seconds. It would sure put an end to people AFK'ing on the market window anyway.

Yeah, no. Different items go in different can types and it's not even remotely ambiguous.