^ just edited it slightly to make my point clearer for you.

Also, true aligning means not just pointing in the direction you want to be able to warp too, it's also moving in that direction to avoid the long & dangerous acceleration time of mining vessels. Considering the mining lasers limited range, that means you often out range the rocks before you fill your cargo and that's assuming you are not trying to fill a can or something. What happens when you are out of range? You warp off and then warp back to your original position? Or maybe turn around and get closer again so you can then realign to your warp out and repeat (this one completely defeats the aligning purpose)? Neither of those two scenarios do anything but make mining even less profitable than it is already. The time wasted cuts deeply into the already low bottom line.

what bots?

Simple yes or no answer please and then list your reasons why.

There is something very charming about the idea of playing a space miner and I don't like how bots (and drone compounds to some extent) have ruined it as a profitable activity. Thinking about it, mining should be the most lucrative step in the entire production process simply because it is so boring.

I'd like CCP develop a game launcher that resides in memory while you play and looks for suspicious activity and known bot processes. I also think making mining somehow more active so that a person needs to be in control would help a lot as well.

Mining is easy and risk free. So everyone does it. So it doesn't provide much income (drone poop is a problem, but fixing it won't help Hisec mining income much). Other Risk free activities (missions, etc.) don't suffer from competition as much, though the do cause inflation, which hurts their real income (and helps that of miners).

Manufacturing runs the risk of changing markets and traders doubly so. So they make more money for accepting risk. If you'd like to capture that isk(and risk), WELL, Have I got news for YOU. With my patented 20d Skill plan, YOU can be manufacturing your very own items out of the very same kind of minerals YOU already have.

Edit:
Something like Warden would alienate the userbase, wouldn't work if you run Eve in a virtual machine (like the official Mac Client), and is easily bypassed or confused anyway. So no thanks to the Warden idea.

Hey, I'm not trying to upset you here. :) Mining is easy and fairly risk free in the sense of getting blown up (usually), but it is also BORING and labor intensive. In an MMO, under normal circumstances, anything that's boring and labor intensive and can be done by someone else for a price, usually commands a high price. (And I don't mine any more, btw. It's too boring for me.) Personally, I think it's a shame that bots ruin what could be a good source of income for new players.

As for a warden-like program, I'm sure CCP can think of something if they try. And players wouldn't mind if it meant significantly less bots damaging the integrity of the game.

^ just edited it slightly to make my point clearer for you.

Also, true aligning means not just pointing in the direction you want to be able to warp too, it's also moving in that direction to avoid the long & dangerous acceleration time of mining vessels. Considering the mining lasers limited range, that means you often out range the rocks before you fill your cargo and that's assuming you are not trying to fill a can or something. What happens when you are out of range? You warp off and then warp back to your original position? Or maybe turn around and get closer again so you can then realign to your warp out and repeat (this one completely defeats the aligning purpose)? Neither of those two scenarios do anything but make mining even less profitable than it is already. The time wasted cuts deeply into the already low bottom line.

What I don't understand is why miners aren't ganking the f**k out of each other. Surely you would make more profit if there was less competition? It's simple economics - reduce supply from others and protect your own supply.

for the same reason why you don't kill your brother as child just to get more at christmass

I would love to see a hardline stance on botting in this game, I even had hope about it when they announced back at FanFest that they were going to do something about botting. However, other than the initial shock of a small penalty ban the whole thing fell off the radar and the 'updates' that came out were nothing of real value or interest (and several months late). Since then, we've seen little and heard nothing.

The bots are a lie Linkage - Linkage ? Can you spot the timer settings?

for the same reason why you don't kill your brother as child just to get more at christmass