Wouldn't it be neat if you could only mine certain minerals from the inside of roids?

You would need more large roids with cracks, and most of the bots would be inside there, Writing the AI ought to be more interesting if you design the AI to fight in the cracks ONLY.

It would make both botting and combat mining more interesting.

Heliocene might be found only in combat sectors with Arklans in the roids.

Furthermore, because of the "2-dimensionality" of the roids, protecting miners becomes much more interesting.

(Posted this in the RP forum to the Crackbotting thread, but it makes more sense here, and the devs are more likely to see it)

One moment people flame at botcracking but now they want to botmine?

I've used some cracks to mine before. I assumed that a sector rich in heavy bots would contain some pretty darn interesting ore. I was wrong.

I'd ratter go mine in a hot sector and have a couple people defend the miner. Now THAT would be ubber sweet. Have a moth pick up worthy ore while at least two others must defend.

But right now, there's no such hot ore sector (that I know of). It doesn't mean they dont exist though (heck, i've never found pentric ore so I assume it has to be in one such hot sector).

Nah, the "flaming" to botcrackers was more due to the fact that if you know the right spot, it requires no skill at all. My suggestion was to the effect that you could set up fighting against bots inside the roids, and thus turn something of an exploit into a fun activity, flush with rewards.

Note: Also the flaming wasn't really flaming, more of a heads up that those who use these spots are bait for pirates.