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+1!!!!

yeah, larger belts (maybe in grav sites, instead of static) would be great.

There's this planned for tomorrow --> 14:00/07:00 EVE is Real - Asteroid Mining

Perhaps Soundwave dropped an early hint?

Turns Out, It is another Eve to Rl presentation. Nothing to do with the Thread. Let's Keep this Idea Flowing.

I also personally loved his idea that in conjunction with the larger static belts versus 100 small belts in system. Adding/removing off grid gang links and possible having them Be local to the fleet. Where you may need multiple boosters to cover the "Belt"

+1. The weird semi-circle belts really screw with immersion. Having massive, broad belts that actually span a solar system would be pretty amazing -- especially if the belts had interesting things to find/explore.

I have been thinking a lot about this little Easter egg Soundwave let loose during Fanfest.

I agree. But not only with what CCP puts into the belts, I believe this would create a massive amount of player driven content as well.





Loney, I am not sure about this, As new players often default to using the civilian miner to make some isk in the very first few moments of their EVE career, and Tackling scanning is something of a challenge, Even for Vets.

would be awesome ... gigantic belts covering multiple hundred kilometers ... MASSive roids as well as normal ones...


would be even cooler if we had real LOS mechanics (Line Of Sight) , so that smaller ships (ventures, frigs and such) could hide in belts .. when attacked by bigger stuff.... larger ships (barges, battlleships, orcas etc) would have to stay on the edges , while smaller, more maneuverable ships can dive deep and discover stuff like hacking and archeology sites and stuff.....

oh and orcas and rorquals and such would need to be on grid to boost... making security and ptarolling of belts mandatory for larger fleet ops.

+1

Love this idea!!

Also being that the new expansion is all about exploration I believe that by making the grav sites go away and a new Ore Site for the on-board ship scanner to pick up better and easier for new players to get the hang of.

As for the LOS idea, again all for it though I'm sure it would cause lag issues and other problems that CCP doesn't want to deal with right now. However it might come up when they start working with local and player visability. Which would fix lag issues but heh all in CCP's hands.

Yep absolutely right, also if all belts were scan down belts they would change position every time they are either cleared or despawn. This would prevent bot mining, also it would force mining corps to move around system to system when they have to wait 4 hours for the next belt to spawn. Another thought is the rats in belts could be more aggressive. High sec is Frigates, Low sec is Destroyers and Cruisers maybe a battle cruiser, null is battleships. Combat sites in High sec have up to Cruisers, low sec has up to battleships (I could been wrong been a while), Null has up to capital ships. Why not put up to cruisers in high sec and progressively get harder all the way down to null. Could you imagine having to deal with a NPC super cap fleet in an scanned down asteroid belt? That would be "AWESOME!!".

Though it does bring to mine the whole fact that people that usually mine don't want to deal with that sort of thing. They just want to warp in with their mining boat, mine, and warp out. I think there was a presentation about that at fanfest, for the people that do archeology etc. Anyway I liked how belts were in WH a while back, warp in clear it of the sleeper and it was clear until the belt or gas pocket despawned. I feel that, that would be a good trade off. Have no more then say 5 belts in a system, and 5 quick respawning combat sites for people that want to rat grind.

Oh one more thing that just kind of popped in my head regarding industrial manufacturing. Why not have everything made from components like T2, capital ships and T3. Would make everything more interesting also would make the market even more complex which is what eve is all about complexity, depth, and FUN!!!!

That was what CCP Soundwave had mentioned in the Fanfest Stream, I created this thread originally off of that Idea. I am hoping that it gains enough attention, From both miners and pvpr's alike, I think it would open a new era into EVE.

Revision of belts? Sure, let me spend five minutes brain-farting and twenty minutes typing it down.

General 'look':
Each system has one to three belts consisting of an entire orbital path as physics and aesthetics dictate.
Belts are divided into X number of grids.
Majority of the belts is 'empty' rocks out of necessity as the sheer scope would otherwise make it a mining bonanza.

Interaction/Exploration:
Some grids in belts contain probeable/scannable concentrations of mineral/mineable ore (think current belts).
Other grids can contain exploration content as per normal mechanics.
Still other grids contain asteroids the size of moonlets which must be found the old fashioned way (ie. cannot be probed/scanned) and are large enough to establish asteroid bases on.
- Moonlet bases consist of half buried POS with structures on surface, otherwise same function as POS.
- Moonlet bases can mine the asteroid they are embedded in, providing lower tier moon minerals. Mining the moonlet is temporary as it will eventually break apart from integrity-/mass-loss with room for structures gradually decreasing.
- Upon breakdown the remaining base structures are destroyed and a similarly sized moonlet appears elsewhere.
- Moonlet bases can be established by pirate factions and will function as drug labs (Booster/Gas!), ship yards (BPC's), mining operations (ore/minerals, duh!) etc. Pirate bases do not degrade the moonlets and can be taken over once it is destroyed, but they are heavily defended (think Incursion level defenders).
- 'Settled' Moonlets (except pirate ones) can be probed down, difficulty depends on extent of established base with signature as pertains to probing determined by power consumption vs. max power (secret bases ahoy!).