Recent mining and gas updates clearly increase efficiency for organized fleets, especially when scaled across multiple accounts. That part is working as intended.
What’s missing is counterplay. Right now interaction with these fleets is mostly binary: gank them or ignore them. There’s very little room for disruption.
A possible solution would be navigation or ECM-style mechanics that disrupt fleet coordination rather than nerfing yield. For example:
temporary interference with movement or positioning
warp desync so fleets don’t all warp or land together
The point of this disruption is to create a short window of chaos. During that window, an attentive solo or small-scale player can:
force mistakes
split ships
delay escapes
or create opportunities to engage, steal, or punish errors
The goal is not to stop mining or multiboxing.
The goal is to add an attention cost: if you run multiple clients, you should have to actively manage them when things go wrong.
This keeps industry viable and multiboxing viable, while giving solo players real agency through timing and execution instead of raw force.
*This is about piracy-style asymmetry and adding some spice to the sandbox experience.
Large, optimized fleets are strong against force, but weak against a tactical disruption.
Piracy works by exploiting rigid, predictable operations to create chaos, delays, and mistakes rather than winning straight fights.
The idea isn’t to touch existing mechanics, yields, or balance — just to add short windows of chaos where attentive players can meaningfully interact without full escalation.
**Treat it as a documented guidance-system weakness unique to ORE hulls, exploitable by a single disruption module and isolated from other ship classes (not to effect large Normal/PVP).
Do you always give up so easily? You think there’s no way to disrupt an organised mining fleet? Get creative! They’re so easy to disrupt! You don’t even have to destryoy any of them.
Pay Aiko to warp in and do what she does for free.
Bring in your own mining ships equipped with Type C crystals and disintigrate the entire field. (Seriously- if you don’t know what type C crystals are, look them up- they’re the ultimate troll against miners!)
Bump the mining ships away from their rocks or bump the Orca off grid (it takes several minutes for the Orca to get back into position)
If multiboxing works because certain vectors are deterministic and near-AFKable, the sandbox should allow disruption of the following:
Warp timing
Alignment
Fleet cohesion
Multibox synchronization
Attention limits
This kind of disruption already exists in the real world with modern drones and coordinated systems, where signal interference doesn’t need to destroy assets — it just introduces noise, delay, and loss of synchronization.
Applying a similar concept in-game would add an additional pressure layer at the coordination level rather than focusing on individual rocks or ships, and would reward active management under interference instead of procedural safety.
To the replies:
I see what you’re saying, but I think we’re talking at different levels. My point is about disrupting coordination and synchronization, not individual tactics or existing counters.
Warp disruption already does that, you are not making a compelling argument by merely repeating yourself. Just use a hictor, dictor, or literally anything with a point or scram.