This would drive miners out to lowsec, where they have to have friends to protect them. This encourages team play, and makes mining a riskier activity.

Did anyone watch the Alliance tournament today?

One of the developers said he had spent time on a project designing ways to make mining more interesting. I couldn't tell if the project was active or defuct but he also did work on the data/relic mini-game.

When Ark is basically the same ISK/hr as Veld, something is badly wrong, and it's not just because hisec miners are pulling in too much ore. As I've said before -- the problem is that nullsec can't get enough cheap trit, so they're overmining high-ends to squeeze out more trit locally. I thought that adding compression arrays would alleviate the problem in hisec and make mining veld and scord more atractive to hisec miners, but apparently that pipeline hasn't yet caught up to the requirements of nullsec. Also I've heard a lot of complaints from null that the cost of compressed low-ends are still out of whack in Jita.

The solution to the high-end/low-end imbalance is to get hisec miners to go after veld and scord more often, and to compress the ore rather than refining it.

I don't know why more hisec miners don't go after veld and scord, myself. That's pretty much all I ever mine, unless I need other minerals for manufacturing. Veld is the best ISK/hr ore in the game (though Scord has been doing better recently due to the high pyerite prices). The addition of compression arrays was a boon, since I already had a couple of sticks going to support mining ops already. Being able to compress and haul in a Miasmos rather than a freighter is a real boon.

As I've said here and elsewhere, another good fix would be to add a Mobile Compression Unit so that solo and small-gang miners can just compress right in the belt and save the logistics hassle of maintaining a POS just for compressing ore. Right now the need to run a POS is the biggest bottleneck in the supply of compressed low-end ore. It's not that big a deal to run a POS in hisec now that no standings are needed and you can anchor in any system, but the startup cost and overhead of a POS is non-trivial (mainly fuel + charters). Of course you can leave the POS offlined until you need to actually compress your ore, but that just leads to other hassles (mainly, hauling all your ore back and forth to your POS for compression). An MCU would neatly solve the compression issue.

Well that says it all !! We don't anyone involved with what has happened to exploration going within one hundred miles of anything remotely connected with mining.

Forgot to add mining missions. They are pretty much useless. Their main use before was just to grind out faster standings to set up a POS. I don't know a single player who runs mining missions. They should be looked at to serve some sort of purpose other then "we have mining missions too."

I don't see the profit in mining and compressing ore in high sec as compared to just running a few level 4's . But then again I'm pretty much a solo player right now because real life has caught me... Work, wife, kids and other stuff that screws up men's lives.

Plus running a POS is way too expensive to compress ore. At least for someone in my boat.

I would like to see a change in the balance for minerals in ore.
As a nullsec miner I find my chokepoint mineral is mexallon. Followed perhaps by isogen, though I tend to find enough locally from the hedbergite miners usually.

CCP's Mineral Welfare Program should probably go away already. The current asteroid spawning system highly benefits Russians/Europeans while leaving players from other time zones with the scraps. There should be some balance on roid spawning mechanics. Same with Ice spawning, I've seen European players go nuts just before down time trying to mine out that last bit of Ice so they can have themselves a fresh new belt without waiting out the 4 hour timer like everyone else does.

More hedbergite and hemorphite anomolies in high sec.
Add a small percentage of megacyte to one or both.

A second turret on the skiff.

Eliminate the broken mechanic of getting stuck on a rock.

One change would increase mining yeld and improve safety would be auto targeting roids so lasers never go offline.

Several miners could clear a belt fasters exposing themselves less.

Holy God, could you be more bot-aspirant? Maybe you would like a 'remote mining bot' that strips the belts for you with no work and no risk while you remain safely in a station as well?

I posted something on this a fair time ago

Short form:
The basic process of mining works. There are many people who mine, because they don't want to do something that's at all actiony. Just get to a roid, and mine it for a few hours to relax.

I don't particularly see that change (only thing to do at that point would be to add something more active, but that's time limited in some fashion.

Where I would like to see changes is with the meta around mining. Static respawning asteroid belts offend me. What I'd prefer is the ability to prospect for your own sites to mine, and one you have them, you can stake a claim on it (at least in high and low) where if anyone else 'claimjumps' you can, umm, interact with them. More than a suspect flag, something longer term, and more targeted. (Kill right style)

I'd prefer claims were at corporation level (So NPC corp members can't claim them. An actual, mechanics based, reason for miners to join a PC corp. As there really isn't one right now) and possibly able to be set open.

The act of prospecting would create the site (so no 'I claim all the sites in a system), and it would be able to support a reasonable number of characters mining, for a reasonable length of time. Big corps would have a reason to have dedicated prospectors, so they can keep their miners actually mining, rather than every so often, a player has to go scan their own site.

Claims could also be sold, allowing freelancers to have a market.

I'd also like to see mining missions updated, to have actual ore in them as well. Which would allow for people who don't want to mess with that side, to be able to make an income.

The lore has ORE finding a huge asteroid with lots of nocxium, which led to their current preeminence in mining. I don't want to see it go quite that far. But something similar.


Yes, it would then be harder to find miners to gank. But it's not like people don't gank mission runners. Just takes a little more effort.

I'm not going to make myself popular here.

I mine irregularly. I mine in high sec. I have a very busy job in real life and I like to mine BECAUSE it's slow. I use it to relax and to take the time to get my head out of the tornado.

I mine because it allows me to chat with friends and contacts within and outside EVE while I'm doing something that contributes to my manufacturing.

I've been doing this since 2005 in this way.

and I think it's perfect

working

as

intended

If I were to change one thing about mining, it would be this: to make high sec asteroid belts have about the same size rocks as null sec belts but fewer of them. I don't need to be kept entertained while I'm mining. I entertain myself. CCP's idea that miners need entertainment by constantly moving aroudn and locking new rocks is the wrong paradigm. What miners are after is not action... it's the exact oposite of action. It's rest.

Adjujst the size of the rocks. The isk per hour can remain the same.

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#1 on everyone's list I'm sure is how incredibly boring mining is. .

Comet Mining.

A comet spawns randomly in a system, it has ice as an outer layer, once the ice is gone, it has minerals as a second layer, and when that is gone, a little moon goo as the core. There is a trail of gas that can be mined as well.

The trick is, it moves at 1000 m/s (unless you web it), and particles fall off (so you take damage from the comet itself while mining).

It has to be scanned down to be found.

Oh, I like this idea!

I remember posting this idea back in late 2003, so don't get your hopes up!