EVE General Discussion

High Sec High Pop areas...

Or move onto Ice until the frenzy of the new Barges settles.

Nope it is not a problem,

Downtime is at 11:00 am EvE GMT so the Date line is starting at 11:00 pm the same day and the other side is at 11:00pm the previous day.

And due to the fact New Zealand and Australia and Russians contain a small percentage of the players so they gobble a small amount in their before bed period. then in Europe the story gets a bit worse as they have the whole afternoon following work to mine but again they are still a minority number of players.

Finally we get to America making up the majority of players and they subsequently destroy what is left.

So although the current system is beneficial to New Zealanders then Australians and Russians, then progressing west, there is no other way to do it. If you had the DT more beneficial to Americans that would mean nothing at all would remain for the rest of the world.

So in saying that the main people the current DT time helps is the unemployed world wide and they would not care what time the DT is anyway.

Have you considered moving to a less populated area there are a lot of them still around where almost nothing is touched except on weekends?

Edit: or you could move to Australia, New Zealand, Rassia or a lot of nice places away from the backwards hemisphere

I don't think it's a problem at all, don't want other miners in your area taking your ore...stop them. I chase exhumer pilots out of my areas all the time...mostly all it takes is a little harassing by mining off their rocks so they cant have them or threating to suicide gank them. Had to suicide gank 1 a while back because he wouldn't get the hell out of my system, and he hasn't been back since.

Actually there are better ways of doing it. Example: Have roids spawn continuously throughout the day. Divorce spawning from downtime, sort of like exploration sites are.

Edit: But I do not think cherry picking the best ores is that much of an issue. When I mine I burn the belt to the ground, take everything. The lack of a few roids that are 5% or 10% better does not make that much of a difference. I would lose time with the strips running to go chasing after it in any case.

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I am not a fan of static Belts to mine and even though some people claim that it inst a problem I feel it is. Mining should be more dynamic then what it is atm if people are constantly mining one system it should spawn next to no rocks for that system. This should be the case for everything including rats. If people keep harvesting the resources out of a system it should become a barren system and force people to move to other systems so it has time to replenish. I know lots of people are going to flame at this but this would be a good way to encourage people away from the most densely populated parts and have a more spread out system. I am also in favor of no high end variants (dense, pristine) and a slight reduction to the amount base minerals in Hi Sec space. It would give miners a reason venture out into the low sec areas to make their riches. This also could cause people to rush to the forums and claim that I am trying to make them play the game my way and not theirs. These are just Idea but I feel that belts and rats should be dynamic through out EVE if you abuse them in one system that system will go dry. Could you imagine people getting combat missions in Jita or Dodixie and being forces to make 2 or 3 jumps to the system because of the over farming of those areas. It would help in the long run but I feel to many people will fight this for it ever to happen.

Not a problem. Let them fumble around with their mining cycles and tiny roids. It's a good example of terrible Mining Yield per Effort.

Yeah, has always been a stupid aspect to eve. And it's not just asteroids, other things are set to spawn after downtime. I've heard this is the case with officer spawns. But then I wouldn't know, never having seen one, because I live in North America. It's just easier to code things to replenish after downtime I guess. And yes it has meant Russians for the most part get the first crack at it all.

Of course CCP could make this whole situation more even by coding for dynamic and continuous spawning. Some things are that way. Surely someone there could figure out how to make blets and officers be less predictable.

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