Amin
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Posted - 2003.11.10 11:51:00 -
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Edited by: Amin on 12/11/2003 04:28:55
Couple of area's where i disagree on:
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Keep mining with industrials as they should have been in the first place. This also makes it easier for noobs to get quick income with mining at a relatively lower level.
Industrial ships have always supposed to be haulers and not miners, hence why so many ppl are against afk mining.
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- Industrials. Everyone can get up to five mining slots depending on Industrial Skill level....
....Thus, if you fit an industrial with 3 of such modules for example, it can get 600m3 worth of drone space that can be used for harvesters or scout drones for protection.
Here all your doing is making an uber-miner. This no longer is an industrial ship, its a thorax with a huge cargo bay. Infact all you have done is make it easier, cheaper and quicker to strip mine a belt. Instead of a corp with 5 cruisers mining and 2 haulers, all you'll have is 5 haulers mining indiviually, with no teamwork involved. Corps wil be able to do it at the fraction of the cost as indys are alot cheaper, if anything the strip mining will only increase.
What about mining in 0.0? I can see some drastic changes happening there aswell.
Also, this only makes the whole grievance with "afk battleship mining" alot worse as people can be afk, or not really paying attention to what their doing, for longer.
A think that alot of people are missing the whole point. The solo battleship miner is not stripping all the belts in secure areas. Its medium sized corps with organised mining ops involving many members. Furthermore, frigates/cruisers/battleships are supposed to be combat AND mining ships. It even says in some of their descriptions. By having no mining turrets your alienating all the ppl that have chosen a career as a miner and invested huge amounts of time and ISK into getting a battleship.
But having said all that the lack of roids in 1.0 space need to be adressed. Here's what i propose:
- Systems that are 1.0 - Only frigates can mine
- Systems that are 0.8 to 0.9 - Only frigates and cruisers can mine
- Systems that are 0.0 to 0.7 - frigates, cruisers and battleships can mine
Newbie systems will be safe just for them to mine, with enough ore to get them into cruisers and out of 1.0 systems.
Has anyone actually scouted and seen how many 0.1-0.8 systems are untouched? Pick a region next to one of the starter regions and have a look. Belts are full of roids with lots of ore and the systems are mostly deserted as noone ever visits them.
Another idea would be to move plag out of high sec systems and move it too 0.6 and below. This would automatically force some miners to move to those systems. I always though it was too easy to get large amounts of mex in secure systems.
Well thats what i think, any input will be aprechiated.
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