What to do then? Remove all Drones?!
That’s because you did not finish the reading of your own quote.
If the orca has to be AFK then it can’t “contribute directly” to the mining op.
Yet that is what happened. Shocking, I know.
Much as I know you love to pretend to ignore me so you don’t have to deal with someone making a coherent argument.
Adding drones did make the Orca less AFK. Because the Orca literally did nothing but boost.
Also historically COMBAT drones have been AFK gameplay due to aggressive mode. Since mining drones do not have aggressive mode they are no more afk than shooting 1 strip miner at each asteroid is.
Citation required more than a throw away comment from a single Dev.
As I already said, mining in it’s entirety needs a rework.

So buffing the yields of all mining ships would be working at cross-purposes towards that end. And this is your suggestion, because you selfishly want to maintain your AFK, low-attention Orca mining.
So… what worth does a higher Yield has, when there is less stuff to mine?
Think about that.

As I already said, mining in it’s entirety needs a rework.
Uuhm… looking at how nice it looks in Elite Dangerous,
i guess we are on the same opinnion here.
I would sign that.

That’s because you did not finish the reading of your own quote.
If the orca has to be AFK then it can’t “contribute directly” to the mining op.
Sure, but the reason in CCP’s own workds, was because of community request. Nothing to do with CCP’s aim to make the ship non-AFK.

So… what worth does a higher Yield has, when there is less stuff to mine?
Think about that.
Again, I think you should follow your own advice, and think about it for a little while: have you noticed the price of Tritanium for the past year…?
Yes, i noticed.

Sure, but the reason in CCP’s own workds, was because of community request. Nothing to do with CCP’s aim to make the ship non-AFK.
No it’s not. The reason in CCP’s own world is to make the boosting ships non AFK. That’s literally written in your quote.
specifically,

to allow them to
Okay good. So you’ve noticed that the price of all the minerals have increased, but Tritanium has remained flat. Where is the only place to really mine Tritanium right now? HiSec. Which rocks are the biggest in HiSec? Veldspar. Which rocks allow for the most AFK-ability of Orcas? Veldspar. Noticing a pattern here? Your suggestion is to increase the yield of mining barges and basically reverse the repair of EVE’s economy because you’re selfish. In the words of Joe Biden: CMAWWWN MAAAN, gimme a break.

That’s literally written in your quote.
It literally isn’t, with the proper use of literally.

It literally isn’t, with the proper use of literally.
it literally is explained , as I quoted.

to allow them to

Where is the only place to really mine Tritanium right now? HiSec. Which rocks are the biggest in HiSec? Veldspar. Which rocks allow for the most AFK-ability of Orcas? Veldspar. Noticing a pattern here?
Correlation is not Causation.
A more likely causation is the fact that they massively reduced the spawning of most other types of asteroids, which means the supply of everything else got hit harder.

It literally isn’t, with the proper use of literally.
Ignoring Anderson’s pedantry, stop playing dumb to try and win the argument Scipio. It clearly was part of CCP’s intent that Orcas had active mining game-play where as before they didn’t.

it literally is explained
Nowhere does CCP say they made the change exactly to make the Orca non-AFK.
Literally, they have never said that.

It clearly was part of CCP’s intent that Orcas had active mining game-play where as before they didn’t.
I totally agree with that. If that was what was written, then I’d agree.

Correlation is not Causation.
A more likely causation is the fact that they massively reduced the spawning of most other types of asteroids, which means the supply of everything else got hit harder.
Except Mexallon and Pyerite also increased in value. Thanks for trying though!

Nowhere does CCP say they made the change exactly to make the Orca non-AFK.
Literally, they have never said that.
They literally wrote that they wanted to make the orca contribute DIRECTLY, that is in the grid, while it was not before, that is it was AFK before. Before, the orca was in a POS, AFK, and they wanted to remove that and make it a valuable on-grid gameplay.
Just like, for the other boosting ships.

Except Mexallon and Pyerite also increased in value. Thanks for trying though!
Uh… and how does that go against what I said, do you want to inject some SP into reading and try again?

Uh… and how does that go against what I said, do you want to inject some SP into reading and try again?
Because the available quantities of Mexallon and Pyerite haven’t been significantly nerfed. In fact, they were dramatically buffed relative to other HiSec minerals due to the amounts found in moon ores. But Orcas don’t AFK on moon ores the same way they do on Veldspar, because most AFK Orca pilots don’t have refining skills and moving compressed ore is much easier than moving around raw minerals. And they don’t AFK on Scordite, Pryoxeres, or Plagioclase because they mine out too fast (Plagioclase may be a slight exception, but it also contains a bit of Trit).
Just take the L with grace bro. You’re trying to operate way above your cognitive processing speed here and honestly it’s not worth my time to address your posts.