I enjoy most of my mining sessions, specially when I started playing Perp, it was my main source of income. Finding a huge red stermonit field on daoden after scanning on all alpha islands was a delight find, couldn't wait to bring my shiny new termis over and spend all day mining and hauling the stuff back to market at TMA or ICS. The time spent felt rewarding.

Apart from my perspective, now things have changed. My high skills and low cycle times means targeting tiles far too frequently and cargohold fills up quicker too. To put matters worse last Indy changes made skills don't extract more ores out of a tiles just faster which made it even less enjoyable. Hence titan being the worst  ore to mine imo.

I always had some issues with mining:

Observers disrupted your mining session, no capable defences from a solo miner or dual miner/hauler combo. Where as a bunch of roaming arhkes would have been possible to take them out with launcher or a shield to tank.
This would have also made it more enjoyable and still be less passive.

The tile scan should be live once found and seen by squad. Changing colour as you go on mining, and see you progress live. I like to see what is left without sacrificing a head slot.

Separate live window showing amount left on field to mine in percentage and quantity, with estimate time for completion.

Mining should remain a real time passive time sink , though that does not mean there is no room for improvements.

Sounds great in  first glance, but would reduce usage of geoscanner. In fact each real miner has no geoscanner equipped while mining, so that's probably no real loss in geoscanner usage.

Well it would only make result updates at a discovered field easier. To find a new field, a geoscanner module would be still more viable since you have to move around.

Being able to see the tile color change in real-time would make it more interesting, you can actually see results, as well as knowing about when your're going to need to change tiles. It would also remove the need for Einstien level geo-spacial awareness when using a single scan bot and trying to line up 4 mines with it.

@hunter - Resource gathering is never going to be arcade style fun. It simply needs to be rewarding, but it will always be boring. The only way around that is to limit the TIME that players can spend mining. For example, I would mine every night for 4-5 hours, there's no game ever designed that can keep someone entertained for that long, but it was rewarding in the sense I was accomplishing quota goals. Yes, its like a job. That's just the nature of mining/resource gathering; Unless you only need a small amount of it, but that doesn't work in a game that has a player economy and player built objects.

just make the geoscanning something that doesnt need a specific module and ammo when doing it with a MINER bot

what does it really add to the game that that whole mechanic is a module with ammo consumption??

while your at it - merge chassi and cargoscanner, and make it perma-equipped module on light ewar bot.

edit:
*i dont mean to remove those modules, but make them only necessary on NON mining bots.
**Also, i mean that geoscanner should not consume the ammo, so you only have to cary 1 per type to calibrate them. See details in my ammo topic...
*** btw, that would probably be WAY LESS PROGRAMMING then adding another game mechanic like the geoscan beacon there, with almost the same outcome.

That may be true, but what does it have to do with constant scanresult updates? The two are completely different issues. Or do you mean to run your geoscanner module all the time?

DarkOver: the Nexus system works by applying a simple modification value to the stats of your robot or modules. It cannot "send" geoscan results, it's a completely different system.

I'm not sure I get some of your logic jumps

Does anyone still use result sharing by creating items? If not, what would change if we removed the option for it?

As I wrote in the other topic, uploading a result will be optional after the next patch. So you will be able to run geoscanners constantly if you want, without the need to upload results. (Well, except that geoscanners currently do not cycle automatically, but that's just a setting.)
Changing ammo consumption wouldn't really change this mechanic, the only result would be that you wouldn't have to bring a lot of charges. Sure that makes things easier for an individual, however it still wouldn't do anything in the issue of result sharing. It's not my impression that "forcing" every miner to run a geoscanner constantly would be a welcome feature. Hence the idea of an independent beacon which "radiates" result data to a squad.

2Arga: Isn't this a game? We came here to play or work? You said: but it will always be boring - so the game will be always with low online. More than everytime there will be toons of sh*t in chats after each kill instead of friendly conversations.

2Zoom: So do you think that itroducing the little thing should increase the ppl interest to the game? Will we play harder after implementing the field geoscanners?..

Thats cause it's been 2 years of 3-4 scrubs getting hung up on intricate microfeatures nobody cares or has ever cared about.

Make a deployable & destroyable PBS that auto-mine already. It's not like everyone's not already using scripts, bots and everything in the Holy Bible to get around chewing mud for 12 hours a day on Gamma. Problem solved!

Yes. Not on regular base, but from time to time

hmm, lets see how it will be balanced,

a geoscan beacon will have:
1. a price
2. infinite geoscan charges?
3. a volume
4. broadcast its results to everyone in a 50+ agent squad?
5. 100% accuracy?

will it make T2-T4 geoscanners obsolete for minerals?
(deposits can be found with directionals and syntec scanner)
will it only help those who can field at least two bots to the mining operation?

if you want to make something re-collectable like terraforming beacons, then start with field container and proxy probes.