Mining seems currently as too simple way to earn credits. I think afk miners annoy most of the community.

So here goes the suggestion: using mining beam should drain energy, so if the drain will be 55/sec you have to get back to game at least every 55 seconds

Oh, crap... I've just invented how to bypass it via simple lua bind :) Then maybe make beams to use ammo? But that will be too annoying...

Hmm

Any thoughts?

Make a newb char and go shoot them?

And why is it exactly they annoy you?

I dont understand this. If an afk miner bugs you, shoot him down, grab the loot and cash in.

I'm with Miguel here.

How about anytime anyone is in a sector for more than 30 minutes, a random npc pirate comes along?

How about NPC miners which would heat up any rare ore roids in safe locations? Seems to natural enough and could tie into the new economy planned.

Until then, just ram them at the roid at 220 m/s =P

What exactly is wrong with AFK mining?

They won't mine as much as someone who is paying attention, due to heat build up and filling their cargo bays.. They are also wide open to being killed..

Depending on where you mine, NPC pirates DO spawn and kill you already..

AFK miners are the ansers to all us lazy PKers. Not to mention they are not that hard to find.

Although it'd be nice if Incarnate did what he said once upon a time he was going to do and make the rare roids NOT occur in station sectors...

I'm still of hte opinion that there should be NPC miners that hang out in all the station sectors(kinda like the Collector bots gfor the hive) and just fly around extracting from all the roids... they dont even have to actually heat the roids, just give the ones in a station sector a start temp of 200K :)

There was once a whole guild (the 1st IGPK) dedicated to afk mining.

They provided much amusement: stop yer bitching; get yerself a Hog II or a Valk; find the miners and kill em.

Xith roids in station sectors ARE usually at 200k temp anyway :p

There are lots of things you could do to AFK miners, if they are part of your faction you can still ram them either into (if you're mean) or away from the roid.. When they come back to mostly empty cargo holds I'm sure they will be oh so pleased :p

Do it right and they'll issue on the roid =)

I sense the beginnings of a new guild here...

Needs a good name, but essentially it would go around killing AFK folks and crackbotters and cheaters/exploiters.

ISSP

The first guild ever. (VPAI was better, though! :-) )

oh right the international society of stupid people

No, it stands for

the International Society of Stupid trollBs.

Why didn't they name it ISST, or spell Trolls right? Because they're STUPID trolls. :D

[disclaimer] I don't even remember what the ISSP actually stood for... but I'll be money it's not actually what who? me? sais... [/disclaimer]

-Calder

Ask Genin what ISSP stood for.

not sure myself, but the anime Cowboy Bebop featured the [I]ntra- [S]olar [S]ystem [P]olice....

(lots of resources claim it's Inter-, but Intra- makes more sense :o )

A) I'm going to be redistributing the ores and minerals around the universe. I'm also going to be adding more types of them.

B) More valuable minerals and ores will also be pursued by the newer Hive, so there will be more contention for those resources. This will inherently make afk mining more.. difficult.