Yes massive rouge asteroids... give them even less reason to alt tab into the game

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Nothing beats ISK/hr of selling PLEX so I do that for money and anything else I do in game is just out of love, curiosity, boredom, sudden interest, lolz and :reasons:

Now, how about them bigger rocks?

How about this: new modules allowing to "expose" ore better for lasers to gather.

And since ore would be only discoverable (sites) and scarce (no more than x simultaneous per system or sth) and elusive (signatures fading away with time) cycles of actual mining lazors could be make faster without worrying about saturation of market with instant ore fountains.

- Remove all static belts, including ice belts. Make them spawn randomly in all areas of space and not appear on system scanner.

- Give the survey scanner selectable "scripts". Not scripts that you actually have to buy and store in cargo, but they are built into the actual module. Right click and select the ore type you want to find.

- Run the survey scanner while looking at the map overview to get a bunch of little colored dots to warp to. Color of dot tells you how concentrated the ore you are looking for is in that area. So set survey scanner to veldspar, run module, see dots. Set to plagioclase, run module, see different dots. Some dots will be small pockets of roids in the middle of nowhere, most will be parts of the rings around planets or solarsystem. Warp to your chosen dot.

- Run survey scanner while looking at all the pretty roids to get a graphical sweep in space, like the probe scanner when you enter a system. It will show a heatmap overlaid on the roid models that will dissipate after some time. So if you have survey scanner set to veldspar, it will highlight the rocks containing large amounts of veldspar. Load plagioclase script to see plagioclase. etc. The roids themselves are not named by ore type, and can not be visually identified either. You could use the cloven asteroid model from missions, and it may or may not contain any of the ores. Survey scanner will help you identify whats in there.

-Roids can contain several ores. Running lasers without crystals, you may get an assortment of ores from some roids. Usually mostly one ore, with trace amounts of others. Using crystals you can pinpoint and only receive the ore you want in addition to the higher yield rate.

- Roids don't pop but the ore you want depletes quickly and doesn't give huge amounts. So you have to move around more from roid to roid, leaving barren roids behind.

- Make mining ships align faster, move faster, can fit prop mod, can warp a lot without cap depletion, etc.

So miners have to search for their ore and be more active. Likewise gankers will have to search for the miners. Bots will have a more difficult time probably and end up mining crap roids for trace amounts of ore. Survey scanner is now a more useful module. Tiers of survey scanner can have different effects. Maybe the T2 version is more accurate than the T1.

I still stand by what i said to you on reddit the other day when you posted it there.

First thing game should have implemented and provide is interesting and engaging gameplay for players not anti-bot safeties :)