Elite turning into Eve?

The drones will be automated? if they are I can live with that, if not its a waste of development time as you'll still have to spend time manually collecting the minerals.

Depends on what kind of drones they come up with, and whatever else they add to mining (certainly needs moar depth but hey, early days). IDK if they're looking at autoscoopers or working in some kind of more complex mechanic for them. I'd imagine the larger/ more expensive your kit, the easier it would make it to collect and proc ores. Though I'm not against a remote-controlled unit for entry-level kit. It'd at least save people having to fly the full ship around like a madman. A smaller unit could alternatively do some kind of scan, land, and drill method. That'd eliminate playing fetch altogether for smaller mining ops.
 
Played EVe for 9 years off and on (I usually just drift away). The forums here are very friendly and I hope that never changes.

As for gameplay, I can't see anything from EVE i'd want Elite to copy. Now, feel.... I may be in a minority but I want the dog eat dog, encourage to lie, cheat and scam attitude (during play) of Eve. It is after all, called Elite: Dangerous. Unlike EVE, the player who doesn't feel comfortable with this has two different options. So, if anything, it has the option to become even more ruthless than EVE because it is entirely voluntary. Also, it would make any act of altruism even more worthwhile.
 
ED cant turn into Eve because you dont need at least half a Year to have the Skills to fly a good Ship or Mine Ore

lol 6 months, you can be in a mining barge in 2 weeks if you plan ahead. I won't comment on "good ship" because what you call a good ship and what I call a good ship is a whole can of worms.
 
EVE got me to forever hate mining.

So I hope Frontier will make mining great, so that others will do it and I don't have to.

Tractor beams? by all means, its sci-fi, right?

Long range mining drones? cool.

Inflatable ore containers hanging off the stern of your ship? awesome.

Plasma rays that superheat the Asteroid, refining minerals out of the ore right on the spot? Bingo!
 
Ok OP so if this is not the biggest troll post I have seen in while then it is a close thing, you say you are looking for constructive responses and the you pick on three of the biggest issues of contention in the game and comment on them but then say that is not what your post is about, so that when people post in response to your comments you can tell them that is not what you were posting about. The best way to garner constructive comments is to make an open constructive post, which this is not. If your are really interested in interactions in the forum there are better ways of finding out.

The first clue to your true nature is the title of the post "Elite turning into Eve" rather than "Is this forum becoming more like the eve forum", do you write for the Daily Mail.

Then you post a sweeping statement to the effect that if a play enjoys mining they are in the minority, later stating that this is just an example. An example of what? How to get a rise out of people by insinuating that their view is not valid.

So very clever and well done now how about telling us the best thing that has happened to you in ED and the worst, using no more than thirty words for each.
 
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