handige harrie
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2014.09.04 19:47:00 -
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It would be nice to see an alternative way of acquiring Ore that has more to do with interacting with the space you're living in and stealing from thy neighbor and less with sitting in a ship waiting till stuff to flow into your cargohold.
Make a new shipline that can drop Mobile Mining Units. These units mine everything with about a fifth the speed of a yield fitted Mack, increasing the ship skill increases the amount of units you can drop (up to a total mining speed of a yield fitted mackinaw).
The Mobile Mining Units start mining asteroids nearest to far out to a max of range 22km or till their cargo is full, than they just sit around idle.
Shooting Mobile Mining Units gives you a suspect flag, after shooting the mobile mining unit into structure you can loot it.There is no reinforcement timer, so if you want to kill it, just keep shooting. The owner of the Unit will get a message that one of his units is under attack.
Scooping the units can only be done if you're in the new Mobile Unit dropping ship. You will scoop them including their Ore, you can't loot them if their armor isn't breached. You can extract the ore in a station or near a fitting service.
There should be different types of units, with more defenses (eHP) (gives you more time to respond to an attack), with a bigger hold and a faction from Empire Industrial LP stores who has a vastly reduced yield, but compresses Ore inside the unit over time. Unit should come in multiple versions, one with more eHP for the slow responder, one with more cargo for the person who doesn't want to empty them often and a LP unit which has a vastly reduced mining yield, but compresses the Ore inside the Unit.
Prices should vary between 3M isk per unit for a basic one and 50M per unit for the LP compression one.
With this system you can be truly AFK and with some luck or a good system you should be able to gather a lot of ore but slowly (only hauling it to station/POS), this will of course include useless ores since the unit doesn't cherry pick.
As someone who wants to mess with miners or wants a fight you can kill them in the hopes that a smart unit miner drops his units and reships into a pvp ship, waiting till he gets a message that one of his units is under attack. If he doesn't respond, he will lose his Unit and the time he wasted waiting for it to fill up. If he does respond you just created another interesting e
Ninja Miners can just crack the units open and take the ore with a hauler if the owner of said unit is too slow to respond, this way supplementing his own income from units that he has running himself.
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