EVE General Discussion

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as an old SWG player I was used to the fact that resource spawns were randomly placed all over all the planets at random locations with random stats. Every few months there was a really great spawn of iron or copper and everyone stockpiled up on it as good as they could.

So how can we do that approach in EVE? Everyone (more or less) is complaining about the super-blocks in null and that there is no reason to fight over the areas again with the horrible sov. mechanics.

Wouldnt it be great if moon minerals would be "kind of" like PI resources? You scan moons (probes have to get more range) and you see the current minerals available. A moon with a rich tech reservoir would be very desirable and people will fight over the right to mine it. Then you claim your reward as the winning faction and harvest for some weeks / months until the resource is depleeted. So, now you gonna sit there and blue everyone again? No! You will go and find the next good region to claim and harvest for ISK.

Just a rough idea and needs serious thinking on various things but, why not?

This thread will end well...

want to know how i know you've never actually scanned down moons before?

Please use the Features and Ideas Discussion forum.

You'll find it easier to have a discussion there than here in GD.

That will NEVER happen...

Moons are individually vast. The population of EVE is relatively tiny. Even the vast appetites of the industrialists can't hope to make more than a small dent in their resources.

Better question. Why are we still using an antiquated system for moon goo extraction. Shouldnt it mirror planetary interaction? I mean, we put a man on the moon. We cant colonize the moon(s)?

More importantly, why don't highsec ice resources deplete?

Here's the problem (aside from what's been covered already). A moon has a fixed value (72,000 units per 30 day month), and a fixed cost to maintain (21600 fuel blocks per month, assuming a large tower with the sov bonus). Right now, valuable moons are worth fighting over because if you take it, you plan to hold it for the indefinite future.

If they depleted? Not so much. First off, moon scanning sucks even more when you're trying to do it in hostile space, and you'd have to do it all over again to see if your neighbors had moons worth taking at all. You're then weighing the cost of invading another area of space to try to take their moons against the cost - reimbursements, fuel, etc - to take them. In that equation, it's pretty hard to say that invading would be "worth it". You'll spend tens or hundreds of billions of isk to take them and by the time you do, they'll be partway through the respawn cycle already. With that in mind, simply sitting in your region of space and taking what you get as things shuffle every few months sounds a lot more attractive. Sure, you'll have your poor periods, but you'll have rich ones as well, and you won't waste more money than they're worth fighting for other player's moons in the process.

Do people realize there's a real economy in EVE?