I'm in a low sec corp, When you own certain systems you can just mine there and most the time your corp is already killing people who shouldn't be there. Mining is a horrid way of making isk, time wise and finance wise, but it shouldn't just be horrible all around because people like being afk.

Would be sort of neat if the challenges of actual mining operation challenges that take place on earth (draglines & shovels) somehow could be transplanted into eve mining. Mining is effortless, skill-less, and mindnumbing. Actual mining takes millions to properly build an actual revenue producing mines, drilling, probing/testing, setting up infrastructure to get the metals/ores out from the mining pits. In eve, all the hard work and what makes mining - 'mining' doesn't even exist. Click here and a click there.

Mine as a Corporate Fleeted group and talk on Chat for a few hours.

It's actually the ultimate in interactivity in the game.

Only YOU can make it boring.

Mining is a an activity that is beyond boring, and on top of that it has to be the least interactive thing imaginable.
Am I the only person who sees this as a problem?
They made a minigame for hacking which is really nice and interactive.
In mining you literally just sit there, a lot of the mining deaths are from sheerly being alt tabbed or afk, why not make a minigame that's interactive and gives bonuses to mining like -5 s activation time or +5% yield.

As a new player mining was a major let down and it has got to be literally the most mind numbing task you can set forth in this game, even gate jumping is more interactive.

Why hasn't this issue been addressed at all or at least even slightly improved after 17 expansions?

Mining is a an activity that is beyond boring, and on top of that it has to be the least interactive thing imaginable.
Am I the only person who sees this as a problem?
They made a minigame for hacking which is really nice and interactive.
In mining you literally just sit there, a lot of the mining deaths are from sheerly being alt tabbed or afk, why not make a minigame that's interactive and gives bonuses to mining like -5 s activation time or +5% yield.

As a new player mining was a major let down and it has got to be literally the most mind numbing task you can set forth in this game, even gate jumping is more interactive.

Why hasn't this issue been addressed at all or at least even slightly improved after 17 expansions?

Adding a small minigame to mining, like... activating your lazers in a specific order every 15 sec or so.
(need to give all mining vessels atleast 4 mining lazers though...)

If you nail the sequence, you'll gain the largest yield of ore
If you miss, you'll only recive 75, 50 or 25%

Best minigame ever in combination with some alcohol :D

And the botters will moan in agony across the galaxy :P

No Loot spam like exploration pls. Active good, frantic bad.

Heh, already having nightmares?

You have encapsulated the essence of mining perfectly.

Back many moons ago, my old corp lived in wh's.
We went on a wh rolling/ site running / resident shooting binge for about 24 hours straight.
Everyone was so intellectually and physically spent, that on the following day we simply closed all the wh's save our static, and rolled out the mining boats, and did nothing but gab, nap, and mine in our home pocket all day.
It was great.

That being said, you KNOW that CCP plans on destroying this playstyle.
soundwave has wiped out almost every form of passive income in the game (of course for moon go, MUST NEVER touch that), and he is quite likely to decide that sitting back mining semi-afk is just too passive.

For a second there Dinsdale you weren't spewing forth null sec plots and conspiracies. Then I read the second part...

more pirate NPCs in the belts.

decrease number of asteroids per belt and make the belt NPCs drop mined ores.

Mining is a an activity that is beyond boring, and on top of that it has to be the least interactive thing imaginable.
Am I the only person who sees this as a problem?
They made a minigame for hacking which is really nice and interactive.
In mining you literally just sit there, a lot of the mining deaths are from sheerly being alt tabbed or afk, why not make a minigame that's interactive and gives bonuses to mining like -5 s activation time or +5% yield.

As a new player mining was a major let down and it has got to be literally the most mind numbing task you can set forth in this game, even gate jumping is more interactive.

Why hasn't this issue been addressed at all or at least even slightly improved after 17 expansions?

Please make mining more interactive. Multi-boxer tears, best tears.

Yes, make everything more interactive. You should have to aim your guns when you shoot other ships. Have a little hacking game to load the gun, and then you have to click on spew cans to collect more ammo.

Mining is a an activity that is beyond boring, and on top of that it has to be the least interactive thing imaginable.
Am I the only person who sees this as a problem?
They made a minigame for hacking which is really nice and interactive.
In mining you literally just sit there, a lot of the mining deaths are from sheerly being alt tabbed or afk, why not make a minigame that's interactive and gives bonuses to mining like -5 s activation time or +5% yield.

As a new player mining was a major let down and it has got to be literally the most mind numbing task you can set forth in this game, even gate jumping is more interactive.

Why hasn't this issue been addressed at all or at least even slightly improved after 17 expansions?