Topic: Mining seems to miss something...
Im one those ugly ones, who like mining.
I did it for a long time in stEVE and so i got a mining char here.
Personally, i think there are some issues with it that are preventing me from having fun here.
- Mining Nodes : Ugly Bars. Sorry, its just ugly. The plants look nice but the issue with them is allready discussed in another Thread here.
- Scanning : Dunno if i just need to have 10 Points in multiple skills, but most time, scanning means : Get into another fast mech and scan .... 0,00% .... scan ... 0,00% ... repeat until you get something like 0,20%. Perhaps i just havent found the right spots yet, since im doing this on alpha and it may be overfarmed (with how many players online ? *sigh*).
- Feat. req: Containers : No permanent ones, only 4 digit code, someone here allready posted stuff about macroing it ? Permanent ones would be nice and/or make them safer.
- Containers : Range is veeery limited, especially if you have to move a lot while mining. Currently my alt is having the container open (so its not poofing) while the termis loads its cargo and drops it off every now and then. Kinda stupid to have an alt for that.
- Missions : Get 30000 titantium. Okay ... T1 mission. Arriving at place, the spot is nearly empty and you have to struggle the last 10 cycles out to get the mission done.
- Missions : Whee, i can do T2 now, wonder what i have to get. 30000 titanium, umh, okay
- Cycles and Locks : The ugly bars only give a rough estimate on how many cycles you will get out. Why not put a number on it like the plants have ? With a termis and 4 beams, only able to lock 3 targets at a time you are allways re-locking. Since we dont have information which beam does which node, you also have to memorize it (boring) or wait until the beam cycle finishes and you can visually see which node is depleted. Got a second beam on it ? Umhhh .. on which node was it ?
- Replenishment of Nodes / Rescan : Mining, doing a rescan .. WTF ? Im mining sucessfully from an empty node! (You can still get plenty of cycles from a "now-empty-node" when you startet mining from it before the scan. Also the whole minerals in the region seem to just randomly shift places.
More issues ... but those are the ones that really make me want to stop doing the mining thing.