One of the possible solutions can be self-degrading of the whole spawn or just single tile - when the amount will drop lower than some predefined value, tile/spawn start to degrade slowly till fully depleted.

To me it looks like you are whining about the very effect the Devs intended to introduce with this change - making mining a bit less predictable.

Look I understand you weren't thrilled that you didn't immediately find fully red fields 2m from the terminal, but you make it sound like hours of coordinated effort were wasted while you ran around all of NIA. In reality you probably spend like 20min doing all of that.

I like this change, it makes all areas of the map travelled more, you find people in unexpected places and some areas can be a bit more tricky to mine.

Yeah you can't 100% afk from start to finish anymore, but maybe that's not such a bad thing?

Finally, if 2 people scan in 2 different directions guess what happens to the time it takes to find a good field? But yeah, other people in my MMO???!

Agree that fragmentation is a serious issue and definitely needs more attention from the DEVs.

I would say, its a miner code, to clean up after yourself.
If you don't like to find tiny spots, you don't leave tiny spots behind.
If everyone would follow this guideline there shouldn't be any problem.

As for griefing... there are numerous and way more exciting ways of griefing than mining for hours to leave a spot behind... (but you always surprise me )

Problem is, that on alphas we can't kill each other...no pedagogical effects can be applied

Requesting then an ability to shoot someone almost to death regardless of their pvp flag!

True, and don't forget that they have to have 100% scanner accuracy to see some of those like black tiles and *** too...

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this.

Any attempts to get EVERY miner following a "miner code" a just laughable. Even if we assume, anyone around is mining with a 100% effective geoscanner, (yeah now you have to first train it to lvl10, and equip a t4 geoscanner, if you like to mine on a riveler), and (lets dare to assume) following the "mine it completely out then leave" code
(which will never happen), even then there are always tiles left, that one easily oversee, as it might be dark, or a greenish-black tile is on a grass tile, or whatever....

Unlike some people might think, Im anything but whining about less profit/efort for myself. All Im trying to figure is, that the fragmentation problem WILL get worse and something should be done about it. But if devs and the majority of the alpha-miners think, its great the way it is, lets just the future tell us...

EDIT: I never said, I dislike the new field mechanics, its just the opposite: I like to not have to return to the same place over and over again. I like to go out and find something new. But how its currently setup, it will become a real pita for every alpha miner out there.

So what everyone is saying here is....

I want easy mode mining with out the expections of doing the job right! Why cant i lazy mine!

Spend the what 5k EP in to geoscanning?

T4 Geoscanner 70% accuracy

Termis - 5% bonus to geoscanning (lvl 6=30% bonus) advanced robotics

Giving you a 100% - i know hard right? i bolded it so you could read.

Then you get in your termis get your proper scan, then if you want to mine at top efficiencies you go get your big bad rivler to mine at your best rate with your accurate scan.

You don't see me hunting observers down and killing them with my detecting castel... i go get my mesmer mk 2 after i have found it and use my best bot to mop it up.

SO YES it is about easy mining.... if i leave 1 mob in a caravan it doesn't respawn does it?

Of course its easy mining mode I try to get, Im so lazy that I just dont want to scan 2hrs every time before Id like to go mining! But I didnt ever think of some "99% pvp beta megacorps" to give another response on such topics. They are the last ones having issues with that problems.

I woner why aren't you busy mining out those pesky tiles, typing here instead

Your right its not about guessing, so let my "mega-corp" ways enlighten you to the bulk vast majority opinion from within instead of a 2 man corp's opinion.

My top Alpha miner has now mined over 120m slig in just under 3 days casually. Why/How? Instead of undocking as he normally would and spend 30-40 mins scanning all his normal fields to find a good field he undocks finds his fresh field (on occasion a fragmented one) and then undocks his fleet and goes to take it out.

Now yes twice he has said he has hit a fragmented field on alpha and simply cleans it up to prevent it giving him issues in the future.

My mining fleet consist of well over 20+ dedicated Riv mk 2 pilots, all of whome with the exception of 1 agree the new system is better. Instead of tracking old fields down with resources you find a new one that has resource and go mop it up.

And no Line you know i don't have a single miner i have 9 combat accounts. i prefer explosions but in order for these explosions my miners have to mine to make bots for me to use to make them explode so there opinion i will argue for.