# CCP sucks all flavour out of mining with 'Veldspar II-Grade" **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [November 8, 2025, 11:41am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-sucks-all-flavour-out-of-mining-with-veldspar-ii-grade/500455 "2025-11-08T11:41:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 139
**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, 2025, 6:18am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-sucks-all-flavour-out-of-mining-with-veldspar-ii-grade/500455/139 "2025-11-10T06:18:07Z")
> [@Antihrist\_Pripravnik](#): > > What instant gratification players? 🤣 In EVE? I mean… we could argue about the existence of gratification, but there is definitively nothing instant about EVE. 😄 Obviously you haven’t been playing this game for very long or you’d know exactly what I’m talking about.. Let’s use Exploration for an example on how this game has been dumbed down and turned into lazy instant gratification mode… Course this just shows the changes over time without digging into specific dates… Anyway, a long time ago various different scan strength probes had to be used just to find a Cosmic Signature… Would take a good 5 to 10 minutes or so to pinpoint a signature at 100%… Years later CCP condensed all those various probes into 2 different types, Core and Combat… No need to swap out probes anymore which cut half the time off of scanning Signatures to 100%.. Also back then in order to find a Cosmic Anomaly, you’d have to warp to within 4 AU of each Planet and conduct a system scan… Years later CCP expands the system scan to encompass the entire system and show all Cosmic Anomalies after system scan is activated… No more warping to every planet and activating system scan at each one… Years later CCP implements all Cosmic Anomalies in system to automatically show in scan window when opened on every ship… No need to activate the system scanner anymore after entering system… Just open scan window and warp to Anomalies… Years later after that, CCP implements the system scan sweep which automatically highlights Cosmic Signatures and Anomalies right after you enter a system, basically letting you know if anything is there to scan… No need to open scan window anymore if system scan sweep doesn’t highlight any Signatures or Anomalies… Years later CCP implements The Agency to list all systems with Cosmic Signatures and Anomalies… No more searching, just set destination to system, open scanner, warp to Anomalies or drop a few probes, do a couple of quick scans and you’ve got Signatures at 100%… Also during that entire time frame the Exploration skills were first condensed, then simplified with reduced training time which also included skills for scanning ships… So yeah, that’s just for exploration, all other careers and activities in Eve have also been simplified, skill condensed with shortened training time… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-sucks-all-flavour-out-of-mining-with-veldspar-ii-grade/500455)._