My current thoughts and data:
Overall I love the changes that are coming! Time will really tell how it pans out in the sandbox of Eve, how the markets and players react to this. Phased ore in concept is interesting but it could become not worth it pretty quickly if prices for reactions are too much and/or the random reprocessing means you just loose out on isk too much.
Going to start with things I enjoyed the most:
Compression hot key, this, this is a fantastic quality of life change! Thank you!!!
Being able to see how full my mining hold at a glance if looking at my mining ship, interesting QoL change.
Looking at the asteriod to see how much is left is nice. Hearing this will also be avaible as a “health bar” on the locked asteriod is even better!!! I’m not sure if this is m3 or quanity remaining. I think it would be nice if the end user can select which one, but that is splitting hairs in the end. I know some minings like quantity other like m3.
The shorter mining cycles is nice, It prevents the need to short cycle lasers when you know the rock is about to pop and does not have enough m3 left for a full current time of the mining laser cycle, and trying to guess where to short cycle to pop it and not waste time. While there still might be some time wasted by just letting things run, its much much much less. Big win imo.
Mining Crits: Intersiting addition to the game. I’ll probably train the skills to max yeild over time. Overall imo its not that important and probably the last thing any miner will train as Mining rocks is done over a long period (or should be) so the yield from this in most peoples eyes will be averaged out over time. I want to know if the mining ledger API will call out crit yields as crits don’t effect m3 on the rock, at least from my understanding its just free ore from the ether. For those that mine moons and have to pay mining tax, this could get interesting. Seeing the new information in the mining ledger could be helpful.
Phased ore sites: It is an interesting concept for a site, Not sure about the risk vs reward yet.. Time will tell after the update is dropped a few months go by to see how the market settles back down. I do think at least in low and nullsec it should drive some pvp content. If these sites spawn in highsec it is going to be more combative mining with less risk just omg can I cycle and get the ore before you.. It might lead to a few wardecs but risk in highsec is low, maybe too low, imo. Gankers is about the only risk.
Reactions to control the output of the phased ore might need to be adjusted. With it only using a varible amount of Atmospheric Gases that is going to drive up the price there for a hot minute until the market settles back down. The real question will there be enough atmospheric gases in the game to meet the demands of controlling the output of the phased or and even more so will it worth it? If the prices go to high no one will mine it and the normal ore in the anonmaly will be the only thing worth mining. I would ssay stick with R4s maybe R8s for these reactions and spread the love around a little. Doing this will help keep the stress low on the market and make it worth mining the phased ore, and the supporting moons.
Built in ship scanning. I was happy to see after activing the mining ship scanning I could right click and get the “normal” survey scanner window. Downside Is I have to scan again to get the m3 to populate, Like I just scanned 1 sec ago, that data should already be there! okay ya its a small thing but really the ship already scanned it already has the data I should not have to scan again to fill out the chart since I have to do the scan to able to open the window in the first place.
Crazy thoughts:
The Squad/Wing/Fleet commanders should be able to see the % full on all mining ships below them if they are in an industrial command ship. That I think would be nice, crazy I know. But hey lets wish for the stars while we are at it right?
Another wish.. Increase the residue chance and multipler bonus for C crystals a little bit. Make it worth the time for some asymmetric mining warfare. Currently its really not worth it imo. Or hell give a rig that increases residue chance and increase its multipler. That would work too.