# All Asteroids - All Clusters - Leeched to 5 mins left to mine **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [November 10, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/all-asteroids-all-clusters-leeched-to-5-mins-left-to-mine/279029 "2020-11-10T03:38:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Okpu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/okpu/32/239892_2.png) [@Okpu](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Okpu)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/all-asteroids-all-clusters-leeched-to-5-mins-left-to-mine/279029/1 "2020-11-10T03:38:22Z")
Amazing. For the past 2 weeks in Ekura and Tsugawa area ALL asteroids have been mined from Downtime to downtime to 5 mins left to mine on each asteroid. So basically I am mining an asteroid for 5 mins and switching to another and so forth 🙂 This has been going on for the past 2 weeks. What gives? ---
**Author:** ![DeMichael\_Crimson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/demichael_crimson/32/514115_2.png) [@DeMichael\_Crimson](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/DeMichael_Crimson)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 8:10am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/all-asteroids-all-clusters-leeched-to-5-mins-left-to-mine/279029/2 "2020-11-10T08:10:40Z")
CCP probably coded NPC Mining Fleets to do that. And it’s a good bet the NPC Mining Fleets are doing it in all systems. ---
**Author:** ![Nevyn\_Auscent](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nevyn_auscent/32/255124_2.png) [@Nevyn\_Auscent](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nevyn_Auscent)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 8:16am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/all-asteroids-all-clusters-leeched-to-5-mins-left-to-mine/279029/3 "2020-11-10T08:16:38Z")
@Okpu You might need to give more details, how much is 5 minutes to mine in m3, is it always exactly 5 minutes to mine, or just an approx figure you’ve given, are you mining the entire belt out every day (or is someone) etc. _Removed the off topic portion of the post. -ISD Dorrim Barstorlode_ ---
**Author:** ![you\_are\_evil](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/you_are_evil/32/246754_2.png) [@you\_are\_evil](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/you_are_evil)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/all-asteroids-all-clusters-leeched-to-5-mins-left-to-mine/279029/8 "2020-11-10T16:48:18Z")
The asteroids are simply very small, so they are usually empty by the second cycle. So it is not worthwhile to mine the same asteroid with both laser. ---
**Author:** ![Siegfried\_Tahl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/siegfried_tahl/32/377209_2.png) [@Siegfried\_Tahl](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Siegfried_Tahl)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/all-asteroids-all-clusters-leeched-to-5-mins-left-to-mine/279029/9 "2020-11-10T17:10:06Z")
> **[r/Eve - PSA to new Miners: Asteroid fields respawn smaller if you over-mine...](https://old.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/y3bo5/psa_to_new_miners_asteroid_fields_respawn_smaller/)** > > 58 votes and 75 comments so far on Reddit > **[Farming asteroids](https://eve.fandom.com/wiki/Farming_asteroids)** > > Asteroids in a belt don't stay static from day to day. They lose ore to mining, and during the daily downtime, they slowly regenerate themselves. Belts, similarly, spawn new asteroids to replace popped ones to prevent a wiped out belt from staying... Are those mechanics still in place? I think they are. If you pop asteroids in your belts, it takes longer (several days) for them to grow back. It became nigh impossible to cultivate _your_ belts with NPC miners around though. But the systems without them do exist (no NPC stations) and they tend to have ginormous rocks, while others only have pebbles. ---
**Author:** ![ISD\_Dorrim\_Barstorlode](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/isd_dorrim_barstorlode/32/361083_2.png) [@ISD\_Dorrim\_Barstorlode](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/ISD_Dorrim_Barstorlode)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/all-asteroids-all-clusters-leeched-to-5-mins-left-to-mine/279029/10 "2020-11-10T17:20:31Z")
Removed some off topic posts. ---
**Author:** ![you\_are\_evil](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/you_are_evil/32/246754_2.png) [@you\_are\_evil](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/you_are_evil)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/all-asteroids-all-clusters-leeched-to-5-mins-left-to-mine/279029/11 "2020-11-10T19:27:49Z")
> [@Siegfried\_Tahl](#): > > If you pop asteroids in your belts, it takes longer (several days) for them to grow back. The problem is, in some systems nothing left to grow because of NPC mining fleet… ---
**Author:** ![Professor\_Yoshun](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/professor_yoshun/32/291146_2.png) [@Professor\_Yoshun](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Professor_Yoshun)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 2:38am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/all-asteroids-all-clusters-leeched-to-5-mins-left-to-mine/279029/12 "2020-11-11T02:38:58Z")
was advised earlier its better off to just not minepyrox/scordite etc now and only mine veldspar which is now everyones go. ---
**Author:** ![Gleb\_Koskov](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gleb_koskov/32/374138_2.png) [@Gleb\_Koskov](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gleb_Koskov)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 7:50am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/all-asteroids-all-clusters-leeched-to-5-mins-left-to-mine/279029/13 "2020-11-11T07:50:55Z")
Attacking them doesn’t trigger concord response I believe. You have to make sure they are destroyed or they warp out and come back later though. ---
**Author:** ![system1](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system1](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system1)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 7:51am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/all-asteroids-all-clusters-leeched-to-5-mins-left-to-mine/279029/14 "2021-02-09T07:51:02Z")
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