I think you could add a lot of "meaning" to the existence of RES without changing the gameplay aspect too much. The key is outposts / asteroid bases. Here's my idea:
Make a police-partrolled RES center around a friendly outpost or asteroid base. Needless to say the radius needs to be much larger than the no-fire zone of the outpost. It would make sense that miners would congregate here, since it would offer police protection and typical outpost / base services. As for the types of enemies one would encounter - have zones in concentric circles around the base. Circle closest to the base would like a low res, move further away and tougher enemies start showing up until you get what's equivalent to a high RES.
Make hazardous RES center on pirate outposts / asteroid bases. These bases would be run by pirate factions and have no police interference, as police would not dare even go here because it's like the bar where Hell's Angels like to party. This is where only the brave, well-equipped bounty hunters will dare to tread..
All of this needs to take into account the system's security level and the ring's "richness". I would expect high security systems to have few if any hazres pirate bases, whereas anarchies might have nothing but.
Disclaimer - this is just an idea, I'm not "demanding" it be implemented. If anything, I'm curious what other players think about it.
ps - changes are coming to mining this year, so now is the time to think about this!
Make a police-partrolled RES center around a friendly outpost or asteroid base. Needless to say the radius needs to be much larger than the no-fire zone of the outpost. It would make sense that miners would congregate here, since it would offer police protection and typical outpost / base services. As for the types of enemies one would encounter - have zones in concentric circles around the base. Circle closest to the base would like a low res, move further away and tougher enemies start showing up until you get what's equivalent to a high RES.
Make hazardous RES center on pirate outposts / asteroid bases. These bases would be run by pirate factions and have no police interference, as police would not dare even go here because it's like the bar where Hell's Angels like to party. This is where only the brave, well-equipped bounty hunters will dare to tread..
All of this needs to take into account the system's security level and the ring's "richness". I would expect high security systems to have few if any hazres pirate bases, whereas anarchies might have nothing but.
Disclaimer - this is just an idea, I'm not "demanding" it be implemented. If anything, I'm curious what other players think about it.
ps - changes are coming to mining this year, so now is the time to think about this!
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