Ah. Interesting...

Seems to happen with a Riveler and a Symbiont, not with a Seth.

Reduction in surface hit radius for all light and assault bots required.

Yes, I do it with 2 Rivelers - one maxed and one with a tuner swapped for nexus.

It was always intense but manageable and since the infamous balancing patch (I presume why you said 'recently') it is more intense but still manageable. If fields had fewer tiles but same ore quantity it would be one way of making it more enjoyable.

This bug (Link) still exists and is the thing which makes maxed out Titan mining really infuriating - timely target switching is key and this bug makes it pointlessly difficult.

I like a lot of this idea.

I've always had an issue with infinite supply believing that given a fitted arkhe a player should be able to build everything in the game eventually, no market seeds (titan ore required to make titan mining charges is, frankly, ridiculous if you ask me)

but ... for a few reasons (NPC drops, recycling/mining balance, population etc) seeding is necessary. However, having every market seed in every location (there are exceptions but they are few) does seem to cut a potential profession out of the game.

In addition to Rolafen Azec's idea I would like to see the removal of the word "infinite" and instead have an appropriate quantity of item seeded which ticks down to 0 before being refreshed, maybe after a short delay and maybe consider a small amount of distributed NPC demand for seeded items too.

Well, don't I feel silly now. How long has that been there?

I have no idea what EVEs system is like but I don't think I'm suggesting anything complicated.

More and more stuff has been added to the terrain, landmarks and radar and most of it is irrelevant most of the time. I want to be able to turn off the irrelevant stuff such as assignment points (switches and the like) that are not part of a "live" assignment, similarly NPCs ... and we need an option to turn off anomalies too.

Maybe it wouldn't but it does seem to go against the whole principle which under-pinned the kernal drops from different NPC ranks.

Also, given that there are actually 48 types of beacons currently* and that "Teleport Attractor Ports (TAPs) ... basically hijack whatever is being teleported" as you put it, then it doesn't make sense that  ANY level 1 TAP can be activated at a level 1 anomaly. It should be TAP specific for race, level,light/medium,ordinary/officer. Given how easy you have made it to jump from anomaly to anomaly I don't think this would be an issue.

* I say currently because the existence of TAPs classified as "medium" implies that that type is in the middle of something - where are the large/heavy. Mind you, weapons have been like that since 2010 - still waiting for heavy ones

Hmmm. I was sceptical at first but the more I think about it, the more I like it.

A device which creates a port that attracts a stream of deconstructed atoms travelling between two teleports and "taps" into them.

Rewards do need to be tweaked upwards but I'd rather do it by having more waves of NPCs per anomaly rather than just better drops.

You don't want the effort of getting a team together, travelling to anomaly and hauling back loot to be 90% of the time you spend. People want to spend time blowing things up not doing logistics.

Two months since the roadmap DEV blog and some good community feedback since.

Please can we have an update on progress and/or revisions to roadmap. I think the community would be welcome it.

You know, balancing this becomes a lot easier is you change the underlying diminishing returns formula.

Currently it is purely arithmetic which means that changing the parameters just moves the curve rather than changing its shape.

Currently the curve is too steep at the low end to allow real differences between the 9 or so levels of facilities available* especially when you get to having level 8 relevant extensions.

A short while ago I suggested this exponential function: Recent post.

You should seriously consider it or something like it. It is far more flexible.

* Thinkng Alpha1, Alpha1 outpost, Alpha2, Beta1 Terminal, Beta 1 outpost, Beta2 outpost and Gamma T1, T2,T3