Make it faster, so we don't have to spend so much time doing it. Mining is a chore that nobody likes and few people have time for, but it's necessary. The less time we spend doing it the better. The simplest way to reduce the time it takes to mine is to reduce the cycle duration of all mining lasers- reduce it by 90%.

At least test the idea on the server before dismissing it as unbalanced or op.

Entirely too OP.

The market is finally close to balanced after nerfing the drone regions...

there's no way increasing mined ore by 1000% is going to help anything.

Make it faster, so we don't have to spend so much time doing it. Mining is a chore that nobody likes and few people have time for, but it's necessary. The less time we spend doing it the better.

The simplest way to reduce mining time is to reduce the cycle duration of all mining lasers- by 90%. The overall effect will be be positive. Reduced mining time, reduced mineral prices, reduced ship and equipment prices, more pve and pvp.

First off, if mining time was reduced by 90%, the price of the minerals would rapidly drop. This would mean that you now have to mine some 10 times longer to make the same ISK.

This effectively just removes mining from the game. May as well make unlimited minerals available for free.

If mineral prices drop by 90%, you would only have to spend the *same* amount of time mining for the usual amount of ISK.

You won't have to mine ten times longer unless prices drop by 99%. I don't really see that happening but, so what if it does? Like you said, it's only temporary. The Eve economy can and will balance itself.

Make it faster, so we don't have to spend so much time doing it. Mining is a chore that nobody likes and few people have time for, but it's necessary. The less time we spend doing it the better.

The simplest way to reduce mining time is to reduce the cycle duration of all mining lasers- by 90%. The overall effect will be be positive. Reduced mining time, reduced mineral prices, reduced ship and equipment prices, more pve and pvp.

Problem 1
Reduce mining lasers cycle by 90%
More minerals dumped on the market
Prices drop by 90% to balance the surplus
ISK/hour is now back to its normal value, you're not making ISK faster than before

Problem 3
Bot mining will explode

Problem 4
Battleships will now cost 1 mil ISK to produce. Is that really want you want?

Problem 5
Unless the belts are adjusted, one will be depleted in a matter of minutes. NO!

Faster mining.... No, I think it is fine the way it is
If you want to make it faster there are better ways.... different mining ships with better bonus's for the high level miners.

I do think that the use of mining drones is under utilized in-game, would be nice to see a drone miner that can compete with a Hulk.

PvP is the blood of EVE but mining is the backbone, would be nice to see some null sec ore pop up in the mission sites, perhaps this could be used to stimulate more PvP fights in high sec since now there are reasons to fight for it. Before you yell unbalance, I'm not talking about huge amounts of low-sec ore, just enough to make it interesting and perhaps get a high-sec miner interested in heading out to lower sec space.

Have you taken any kind of History class ever? Does the phrase "just print more money" ring any bells or set off any sirens?


Lets see if you can draw any connections

Have you taken any kind of History class ever? Does the phrase "just print more money" ring any bells or set off any sirens?


Lets see if you can draw any connections

- Reduce Cap Usage by Y%
- Reduce Ore Yield by Z%
- Add 'Mixed' Asteroids.
- Add 'sweetspots' that are denser. You would need to aim the mining laser to get a better yield.
- Add 'dryspots' to compensate for the addition of 'sweetspots'. 'Dryspots' are the exact opposite of 'Sweetspots', you have to aim your laser to avoid them if you want the Optimal Mining Yield. Obviously you would have to find a way to do this that would outsmart your average Macro-Miner.
- Make new Blueprints for more items to put minerals in higher demand, helping to increase the price slightly.
- Add new ISK Sinks and Faucets to help stabilize the economy.

Make it faster, so we don't have to spend so much time doing it. Mining is safe and essential to the Eve economy but, it is an unpleasant chore for players who would rather be helping their buddies win wars. The simplest way to reduce mining time is to reduce the cycle duration and capacitor consumption of all mining lasers.

The Eve market will automatically adjust itself to this change. When the supply of something goes up, the price goes down. When the supply of something goes down, the prices goes up. The supply of minerals drives the Eve economy the same way energy drives the real-world economy.

1. Increasing the production of minerals will reduce the price of minerals.
2. Reducing the price of minerals will increases the production of ships and equipment.
3. Increase the supply of ships and equipment will reduce the prices of ships and equipment.

To allow manufacturing to keep up with the increased supply of minerals, manufacturing time for all BP should be reduced as well.

Another couple of source of minerals comes from reprocessing and scrap metal processing, which are useful but undermines the mining industry and reverse the natural flow of energy from mining to manufacturing to the Eve market. At the same time, the increased sales of ships will increase the demand for rigs. So, to arbitrate the situation, I propose that reprocessing and scrap metal processing be changed to yield salvage materials rather than minerals.

How is this supposed to buy fun from mining that we don't have right now?