Lets Do some improvements to the industry. I purpose the following

Laser Count
First off, 1-3 lasers is very yawn. Lets reduce the cycle time, and Cycle amount, but increase the amount of lazers possible on the barges. This will help improve the fun factor of mining.

Mining Drones and Mining Cruisers
There is some cruisers (tech I) in game that get marginal bonus's to mining (like the arbi),
however these bonus's to not encourage you to use the arbi as a mining ship (Making the bonus useless).
In order for these bonus's to be competitive, the arbi would need around 250% Mining Bonus per a level just
to even out.

i purpose + 2 Mining drops per a cruiser level, and 50% Base Mining bonus per a level. (btw, arbi needs it's drone
damage buffed, or to grant 2 drones per a level for combat aspects).

This would put the arbi at perfect skills around 2000 ore per a 180sec cycle, which is just under the mining barges.

Mixing up the mining ships

Fix the fittings for all barges to equal of that of the procurer. Grant all barges 6-8 Beams. Brant all barges + 1-2 High slots (for things like cloaking) But retain the same mining rate on the barges. This will make all barges better at survival in all area's of eve (having something like the current proc's tank). From here we change the bonus's

Proc - Ore Mining Something Similar to current bonus rates.
Cov - Ice Mining - Something similar to current bonus rates
Retr - Ore Mining. + 2 Mining Drones per a level, + 50% mining drone speed Per a level. Role Bonus: + 200% Mining drone amount. 1 high slot


Then we give similar changes to the exhumers are the above barge changes (but using the skiff as a default go-to).

Venture and Prospect should get similar "Quantity" Beam upgrades.


Add New Mining Ships

The "Harvester". A new Tech III Mining Barge. Obtains Covert-ops Cloaking, Is Very Quick, Agile, Equal mining to other ships.
+ 25% Ore Hold per a Level, + 10% Strip Miner m3 amount per a level. Can Compress its Ore.

This ship should have in the area of 20-25 Days train time from Start, and should work out to be something between barge, and exhumer.