Alvatore DiMarco wrote:Now you're talking about "other professions" that are "suppressed" because of "rats dropping too many things". What other professions are suppressed, then? I'm interested to hear the list of professions that would suddenly be free to grow if rats dropped nothing but ISK and these weird "upgrade pieces" that a lot of players would be too lazy to bother with.
saying that nobody would bother with them is probably the most moronic thing ive heard today. Mission runners already loot every wreck for every piece of equipment they can get, and in fact most of them come back and salvage the missions too spending additional effort to get things out of the wrecks . . . now i wonder . . . why do they do this?
Im just under the assumption that they are selling those items to other players who manufacture them into things, or if they want to be vertically integrated, the manufacture the items themselves. So what you're saying is that mission runners would stop collecting items from wrecks to sell? especially if these items had other uses beyond just repairing.
Alvatore DiMarco wrote:Mining: I think the big thing suppressing mining is the fact that it is soul-crushingly boring and really only suitable for people who are AFK, alt-tabbed, trying to manage 10 accounts at once or not actually human - that is to say, a bot. If mining were.. you know.. interesting, then I'm almost completely certain that many more people would do it. There'd be people and more competition and it would look like an actual community.
well you think wrong . . . I know several people who mine because they like it; they think it's fun. I dont really understand them because to me that isnt fun, but he actually made a game out of how many asteroid belts he could clean out in a play session. The problem was, they cant ever make enough isk to keep their accounts plexed because mining's isk/hour is terrible.
im not saying this idea is perfect, or even very good, but it definitely deserves some consideration more than *WAH WAH WAH DONT NERF MY MISSIONS!!!!111oneoneone*
in fact this could even be a bonus to mission runners and PvPers, these items could be smaller than the modules they represent because they cant be used for mineral compression. This could actually be a mission running buff.