Sure, but at the same time it also needs to be enjoyable gameplay. And connecting the player with the main gameworld.
I could say you need to type captcha’s every 5 seconds to prove you are being attentive. By your definitions you have used so far that would be more attentive gameplay. But that would utterly disconnect you from the actual game, and be utterly unfun.
This is why I say minigames for mining are bad, because they do not meet the important tests, we need to find another way of achieving the attentive gameplay for mining that is not a minigame.
I’m thinking more about mineral scanner and minigame similar to relic/data opening, with “analyzing” asteroid before “opening” it, with gradual bonus derived from solving the puzzle.
Then that can be enhanced with a % holowness. If a roid is 70% hollow, your yield will be 30% of the actual yield.
The howloness is only accessible with a minigame scan on the roid.
So you can cherrypick the roids to have the one with a low hollowness, or random pick the roids and thus have a % of yield lower. And shoot the hollow roids with guns or a DD.
Depending on your skill levels, in many areas, you get a bonus per level for cycle time and amount mined per cycle. You can not get these bonuses if you are not actively mining. If you are AFK mining you are not mining continuously which means that an active miner will out mine an inactive miner.
I’m not sure of your knowledge of mining or the amount of skill and time it takes to be a really efficient miner but CCP took options away from me and reduced my game play to a trit only dealer and replaced them with options that are unrealistic. I do not care for PVP or PVE in EVE and CCP took the only reason I played EVE from me. CCP is doing all of this because of the AFK players and BOT cheaters. I do not deserve to be tossed under the bus because CCP is to dumb to deal with AFK players and BOT cheaters without attacking those that don’t do anything wrong. I pay a monthly fee and CCP is taking advantage of the customer monthly fee to fix mistake that CCP and the BOT cheaters created. Not one discount offered to the players while CCP fixes their mistakes. So not only do I feel like CCP is attacking me for no wrong at all, I also feel like they are ripping me off and making me pay for CCP’s mistake.
Yes they will, when they can gate camp and do roams in null all day while their AFK miner brings in $200m to $300m in ISK or the gankers are out ganking alphas and pushing them out the game, they have their AFK miner or ratter earning them ISK. So yea, they would leave a machine on all day for that.
Man you just can not make a post without throwing the old " gankers target the children and make them quit" line can you? How about you fly a freighter and I’ll fly a venture through some .5 systems for awhile and we will see if the gankers want you or the poor little alpha ship. Look, I hate the idea of being ganked as much as the next guy, but I get it. The vast majority are in it for the money, not the 1:1 kill/loss of losing their 10 mil catalyst for your 300k venture.
Gankers and the null alliance are the biggest AFK players in the game. If the miners are forced to suffer because of BOT CHEATERS and AFKERS, than the blame needs to be directed to those guilty of the crime. Innocent people should not be punished because of CCP’s mistakes or the undesirable game play of gankers and the big alliances. You not defending cheaters are yea?
Are you defending cheaters? You seem a little salty that I am going after AFKERS and BOT CHEATERS just like CCP and most everyone on these forums. That is the narrative of CCP and the reasons for all of CCPS NERFS. If you are getting salty with me you must be a BOT CHEATER or are you one of those AFK miners that is to busy GANKING or doing work for your NULL sec alliance?