skimmed old posts, didnt see anything like this.

make available for upper level miners, a divice that gives off a hive type signal causing said ships to have a 35-85% chance to detect miner as a non threat.(depending on level of enemy) the device would not function in the presence of onboard weapons systems.(mining only...not combat)

allowing miners greater access to hive controlled roid fields, but not unrestricted.

srry if post has been made already

There's hardly a point to this since you can mine in bot-infested sectors with a few colleagues and a bit of planning.

Also, how would this work, exactly? Does this have a range? Will hive bots scan continually, so is it possible for this to 'fail' if it 'worked' just 5' before?

I like the idea of a hive transponder equipt. The way I see it (since VO is NOT a % driven game) if should be effective 100% of the time. However only works if you are 500m? away from hive ships. Thus if a hive ship strays within 500m? of your ship it will see you and attack, otherwise it will leave you alone. Right now hive bots can see you from 5km away, even in ion storms. This would reduce their view of you to a much smaller radius. Additionally it would use up a weapon port you could otherwise use for a mining beam, so playing in a group would still be more effective for mining.

tosh: not every player has colleagues, especially to mine with, and especially right now with only 20-50 players on at any given time.

wouldn't that kill the marginally fun multi-player cooperation of mine botting?

UC: not if it requires a weapon port (which could otherwise store another mining beam) to work. It would just let you mine if you didn't have a group mining with you, though you wouldn't mine as fast. Make it a L-Port addon and group mining would still be much much more rewarding.

drazed: And that's a reason to encourage doing more solo? This is a Massively Multiplayer Online Game, not a Single Player Game.

Not so subtle Ecka trolling.

i am a sloooow typist and groups really are not my thing....no friends play this game (they are all WOW junkies)and i kinda prefer soloing mundane missions anyhow....thats why i would like to see something like this emplemented......perhaps upper level ships should have a special port for mounting high level reward special items, that are niether wepon or mining based.?

as far as range and specifics.....i would leave that to the developers, based on the current game peramiters...they would be the judge of fair ranges and such.