Hello spacefriends!

Starting from today, we (Team Phenomenon) have now enabled the new Mining Operations on Singularity.
Some of you may have read the CSM minutes or perhaps have seen this teased on our Updates website, More Activity In Asteroid Belts.

This is a first stage at creating new procedural PvE content for EVE, to make the universe more exciting, vibrant and alive.

What you can expect to see across the universe, are NPCs mining asteroids inside asteroid belts. Due to the procedural way in which these spawn, it will be hard to recommend a specific system(s) to visit, so I would have to encourage exploration of the belts for now. These NPCs will appear in mining frigates, barges, and exhumers. Haulers will be coming to retrieve their ore when they are almost full, and the asteroids will deplete if mined out by the NPCs.

The mining NPCs will react to hostiles if you should attack them, and call in a fleet for assistance. They will also react according to your standings, should they be negative. This fleet will be composed of several roles, and will behave differently than you have seen before in the game. Expect to see their fleets made up of logistics, tacklers, and specialists in EWAR tactics.

All procedural mining NPCs will be flying ships denoted by a diamond (GÖª), for example you may see some of these in the overview:

Ducia Foundy Venture | GÖª Venture
Minedrill Retriever | GÖª Retriever
Astral Mining Inc. Iteron Mark V | GÖª Iteron Mark V
Minmatar Mining Corporation | GÖª Scythe

Additionally, your standings against the mining corporation will be reflected in the overview, you will see the icons color change through the following gradient depending on current standings:

Terrible - Red
Bad - Orange
Neutral - Blue
Good - Light Blue
Excellent - White

We will be conducting a mass test at a later date, to test the NPCs specifically. Please look forward to it!

There will be more information at this years EVE Vegas, which begins this Friday (28th October) at 11:00PM EVE time, I would recommend checking this out. http://vegas.eveonline.com/

Note:
Current Mining Operations are, Amarr, Caldari, Gallente, and Minmatar. There are three mining corporations running operations from each of these all over the universe. Pirate operations will be coming soon.

Thanks for reading, capsuleers.
-Team Phenomenon