Hey, nice module. It makes AFK mining harder for AFK miners. Good thing they can't just not fit that module.

Oh wait, they could just not fit the module since you know, there is no benefit whatsoever to having it.

HERP DERP.

Did you read the OP?

Not having the module would cut your yield by 50%.

Did you read the OP?

Not having the module would cut your yield by 50%.

Honestly no I did not read your OP fully, I just scanned it and made a kneejerk post ridiculuing your idea because there are dozens of other things in EVE that are worth the dev time to fix other than this. You caught me.

It would literally take hundreds of manhours to implement this idea.

I'm still trying to figure out what these afk miners are doing, that harms the game for these so-called pvpers.

Why aren't these pvpers, pvping, instead of flying around watching to see if a miner is afk or not?

I guess I'm not suppose to go pee, until I finish filling up the ore hold of my retriever.

PvP includes removing the ships of those who can't be arsed to actually play the game from space, via the medium of glorious explosions. It's not particularly high brow PvP but it's still PvP.

Botting is illegal.

I can empty a system and keep it empty while AFK in null. No explosions, glorious or otherwise. Just quietly cloaked.

Not particularly high brow PvP, but it's still PvP. If you accept that as a mechanic, and plenty do, then there is nothing wrong with being AFK in a belt.

Mr Epeen

I am in no way defending afk miners, I dont do it myself, on the rare occasions I do mine I am at the screen. But what all these people dont realise is that if all the miners stopped mining, like so many people seem to want, where would the minerals for your ships come from? Reprocessing scrap only gives so much.

they can remove afk mnining when they remove afk cloaking and easymode pvp, k?

I just had a lightbulb go off.

Boting is software, having a mechanical device press the key isn't.

Yes your lighbulb clearly went OFF.

When it goes on, post something thats a 3 year old can't get around.

I keep hearing this but hisec is only a source of trit pyerite mexallon isogen. Your nocxium megacyte n zyd are from low n null. Or repro'd mission loot. Read a thread years ago citing stats that most value of mins comes from repro mission loot. Bulk of the low price stuff is mined, but bulk of the valuable stuff is repro'd or shipped in from null.
No i don't have graphs but would love to see some, mining in hisec is terrible money even if boosted and maxed out.

Botting is illegal.

Which is why all those Falcons camped on every nullsec entry gate on the map is manned by wide awake human beings 23/7 all year round, right?

Puhleeze. You're not fooling anyone.

"You may not use macros or other stored rapid keystrokes or other patterns of play that facilitate acquisition of items, currency, objects, character attributes, rank or status at an accelerated rate when compared with ordinary Game play."

I think having a device press a key for you every 61 seconds would not be considered ordinary Game play.

I also think that CCP would never ever implement something like this. If CCP had an issue with AFK game play they never would have added the autopilot.

If you are aware of a way for miners to mine AFK with no third party programs 24 hours a day without being at their machines and managing cargo then I'm all ears.

Which is why all those Falcons camped on every nullsec entry gate on the map is manned by wide awake human beings 23/7 all year round, right?

Puhleeze. You're not fooling anyone.

The reality is the nullbears only hate certain bots - namely, the one's that hisec miners use. Their own bots, well, those are sacrosanct. We certainly can't get rid of those, EvE would implode!

Whaaaaaa...

I just had a lightbulb go off.

What if every barge got an extra high slot, which was a "hardpoint" for a certain module.

Call it the "Harvester Yield Actuation Device" or something.

It has a 1 minute cycle and does not repeat. When it's on, your mining yield is normal (what it currently is). When it's offline, your mining yield drops in half.

Miners who wanted to AFK would get **** income and thus not AFK as much.

Genius.

INB4 this has already been suggested.

Which miner got on your bad side for you to go through all of this trouble to try and regulate how we do our mining? Do you need a hug?

Hey where do you mine I'll come join you.