[IDEA] Mining Protection Service.

wire2k

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I spawned in LHS 3447 and quickly moved to Eravate.
Didn’t take me long to build up a bit of cash and I now spend most my time in my Viper either doing assassination/kill x number pirate missions or patrolling for bounties in nearby anarchy systems.

A lot of the anarchy systems I visit don’t have nav beacons but have a few asteroid belts where I find my prey and I had the thought that I could provide a protection service for miners from pirates as well as scare off the npc miners that may try to hustle in on their claim.
I think this would be mutually beneficial miners could concentrate on their mining and have to do less evasion and escape and I would have an information network alerting me to where prey can be found and if the miners want to drop a few cans of ore in gratitude then all the better.

However im not sure if this is possible I have not added any friends ingame yet and not sure how comms works in this respect, do you have to be in same system or even same instance to comm with friends?
Also are the asteroid clusters instanced? Would I get a ‘Need help in cluster 3’ and then find noone when I get there?
 

wire2k

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Well i wanted to go the honourable route and i did say 'if they want to drop a few cans' but yes it did cross my mind to go the opposite direction of a 'Gimme some of the fruit of your mining labours and ill make sure you dont have a miner accident (see what i did there).... like me blowing you out of your socks' but then it would become the Mining Protection Racket
 
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wire2k

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I thought this would be a mutually beneficial idea as miners would be able to have their loadouts fitted more for mining without needing to sacfice some of their slots for protection and wouldnt have to run everytime a npc showed up and would give me eyes that could point out where there are npcs i could kill for bounties.
Raf has raised that there might be fear that i would just come along and pirate them as well but that will go with trust and i believe the friending and comms doesnt tell you where people are so if the miners fear im a pirate they dont have to call me.

As i said with my questions in OP im not even sure this is viable but i quite like the idea of being about my usual patroling for bounties and get a distress signal 'Miner under attack in Belt 2', jump in, save the miner and bag myself a nice bounty in the bargin.
 

Raf von Thorn

Raf von Thorn
Well, im not having anything against, infact, i approve the idea. When i was mining, i would gladly share, those pesky pirates were unwanted distraction. i Had to turn my ASP around and change weapons, only to blast this puny Viper out of the space... You know what they say:

[video=youtube;8cT_Ulmcrys]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cT_Ulmcrys[/video]

I think you just need to try to go out there and try do that, im sure lot of mining commanders would approve.

And about the "racket" video: well, it was simply too juicy, i had to do that :D.
 
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alkemdah

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This exists in eve and can exist in this game.only one key components missing. Social tools to facilitate this type of interaction.
 
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