Bots can be detected server side by their patterns. Humans are much too random to follow that level of precision.

Change reprocessing to require Scrapmetal Processing.

Those that already have it (say 0.0 manufacturers) will not be impacted, but the casual recyclers (mission runners, etc.) will either have to commit significant training time to get it, sell loot as is on the market, or just ignore the crap loot drops.

I'd rather see that done as a first step before drone goo is removed.

Short version:
Supply down -> demand up -> prices up -> combat up -> prices up -> players unite for combat and supply ->friendship -> more evenly spread of players across systems.

... Lol friendship in EVE.

There's this little thing called an RNG. All computers have them. While they're not quite random, they're close enough (unless you start getting fancy like power supply manipulation. Security researchers are nuts.) A decent bot program adds random factors.

Bot detection, without something monitoring the client, isn't easy.

Make mining interface into a "mini game" ...

won't work.
prices up -> less people want to risk by stuff and ships -> less pvp

Less PVP, less mining for you because you aren't killing the other miners off. Works in a circle.

Less PVP, less mining for you because you aren't killing the other miners off. Works in a circle.

No. Less PvP, same mining for you, prices go down, more PvP. That is the circle.

"I would stop mining if they implemented that. I only mine when I am doing other things on the other screen."

Apparently you missed my point.. and quoting me out of context.
I'm not suggesting a full interaction "mini game" but that it requires a direct human intervention every 6 minutes or similar time cycle to empty a hulk's cargo...
.... the main point is to not have a fixed pixel location on the screen to program the bot macro to. Whatever you want to call it whether it be a "mini game " or redesigned GUI is not important.

... might be to reduce the minerals that ore produces and in turn how much ore is in asteroids.

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1. Yield drops
2. Prices remain the same
3. Frustration - some miners do other things.
4. Supply drops
5. Demand remains the same
6. Prices rise
7. Miners have to go to more belts and systems (vulnerable at gates as will the increase in haulers.)
8. Miners try to out mine each other and win systems peacefully.
9. Conflict goes up, more ships are destroyed
10. Demand goes up
11. Prices rise again
12. More corps are pushed into bigger alliances and there is more people doing PVP
13. PVP / missioners are paid to be near at hand to keep territorial claim of systems
14. Bigger alliance start moving into low sec and low class worm holes
15. Risks increase, more ships destroyed
16. Prices go up.
17. There is less and less griefing combat, ships are too expensive to throw away like that.
18. More people are pushed to corps for a supply of ships, ore or ISK
19. Even larger alliance now start moving into high class worm holes and null sec.
20. Blob warfare is reduced, ships are now too expensive to throw away to protect small assets or low yield systems.
21. More strategic game play, information gathering and so forth goes on. Using ISK to defeat opponents without throwing away expensive ships increases.
22. Players are more spread out, more options are open to them and they are more in demand
23. They feel more closely connected to each other and encourage more players to join this tough but rewarding universe.

Short version:
Supply down -> demand up -> prices up -> combat up -> prices up -> players unite for combat and supply -> friendship -> more evenly spread of players across systems.

2. Nope. supply drops, as there is less minerals being refined from ores. This means we will need a new list from this point.
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Vicous Cycles are fun!

Makes me feel less like a fox and more of a hamster.

Market is full of sell orders, that is ore waiting. There will be a period in which the people wake up. Then there might be a panic buying run, driving he price up dramatically, then a selling run to cash in on the new high prices and then the rest continues.

Sorry to disappoint you. I have no qualifications and no experience. I buy company shares from time to time but I usually just let them sit. I started with one when I was 12. One week's pocket money turned into a month's salary 10 years later.
"Economist," "Architect," "Editor," was my suggested top three professions, when I did my psychometric testing before starting tertiary. However, I hate money, I don't want to help make peoples' lives better with housing and offices, "More tar and concrete? No thanks," and the media .. ugh ... don't get me started on them. So I ended up doing programming with an aim to go into game design. Fulfilment would be in the art, writing and logical challenges.
That probably will never happen. Any-whoo, there in ends another sleep deprived ramble that will doubtlessly turn into 10 pages of attempts at trolling and snot flicking contests.

Want to buy some A grade A ore? I have some B and C but the A is coming out of my ears

only if miner will do PVP at all......
for me it sound as LOL as if elite-PVPer will make T2 ships for his needs

So what you are saying, essentially, is that ...

.. for all ore mining

Oh, your points are really short term. ...

Make mining interface into a "mini game" ... [/u]

'm not suggesting a full interaction "mini game" but that it requires a direct human intervention every 6 minutes or similar time cycle to empty a hulk's cargo...

Currently

That is the problem, it promotes kills just for "lulz" because ships are so cheap. We should be competing for the resources, not just picking any high sec system and having no worries.

But your mining ABC in null, what are you worrying about highsec about..... ah, your fallacy that EvE is too bountiful.

Hemorphite is one of the best ores, better than Pyro on the market, so I scan down grav sites with it in then I watch for probes because I am all paranoid like that now

...Was that you I beat to the pinpoint last night? :P

Never thought that probe scanning would become a PvP thing, but it did.

Where did you get that? Perfect for this thread. Thank you.

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