given the recent sprout of different small mining dedicated vessels,
it would be nice if there was some other small (and medium) mining rigs avail…
maybe a 20% crits increase rigs…
or a -20% cycle rigs…
mining range rig…
AND
Mining Hold space increase… so that…
We could bring a Venture CI mining hold up to 10K…
and an Endurance up to 28-29-30K…
Or an Ourider, from 20K space up to… 24K with a +20% mining hold rig…
on a mining Hauler like Miasmos three of those would give +55%?
So a Lv5 Miasmos could take 150K of Ore… that would be cool…
Other ships would take advantage of new mining related rigs…
Which will bring down the price of ore and minerals, meaning what you are mining will be worth less than it is now. The more you have of something, the less valuable it is. That’s why the economy of EVE Echoes is so screwed up because you can’t be killed in high sec and miners have flooded the market with ore and minerals, making them all but worthless…
Again, you will end up with what EVE Echoes has, where an Astero costs 1.2 billion ISK and supers costs upwards of 1 trillion ISK due to hyper-inflation….
It’s not the problem that smartphones can be cloned by the thousands with a just one mac pro?
I’ve convinced one friend in trying EVE Echoes and played a bit for him … I didn’t notice there was a mining problem… that might be true but … are you sure for the right reasons i.e ungankable HS??
And I’m talking about maybe one-two small rigs, for Expedition frigs , firgate mining ships and mining destroyers… no way a small output increase will move the needle of the Megamining corps used to barges and exhumers…
it will move the economy needle and the fun needle for Alpha and early birds… maybe…
rigs costs and few Alpha ever rig their ship past maybe a T1 rig..
OR they can make it like PI for Omega’s, able to mine at moons the set up like PI in high sec and just randomly spawn ore as they are now for everyone making it more of a competitive event.
Again, you are comparing a game for TEENS to Eve…
Eve can self-balance what Echoes cannot…
Echoes is made for ALPHA first, if not only.
EvE Aplha is a gateway to OMEGA…
Alpha’s can’t even mine ICE in EVE…
I’m afraid they are going to buff the new ships even more just to juice some sales and make the retriever (or at least any using the old rigs) obsolete… in fact this is exactly why I didn’t like the idea of introducing an in-between ship to bridge the gap between the Endurance and barges, this was a bad idea. Could they intorduce new mining mechanics in a way that doesn’t obsolete what people already bought? Yeah if they get their numbers right, but their track record with new mining mechanics has been very bad.