EVE General Discussion

no, i don't, because you don't seem to know what you are talking about, and i do. i doesn't make anything harder, i been doing it with regular mining for over 5 years now.


wrong. fleet warps out, unloads at station, warps back to the ship being used as anchor, every 15 minutes instead of 30. if all strips have the same cycle time and focus the same rock the only moment where a boxer would be at a disadvantage would be if the amnt of rocks left is less than the sum of all strips. something that only happens at the end of life span of the rock.

also should the boxer decide to focus on different rocks, he can still reposition the anchor and issue a "regroup" fleet command. (one nifty command most people don't even know its in game)


you don't see multiboxing ice fleets actually, you see random players who are taking advantage of a broken game mechanic. the same way you weren't seeing FW plexers months ago before the plex nerf, they were just taking advantage of a broken game mechanic.

as soon as this change goes live those people will leave the accounts lapse. they are not "multiboxers". multiboxers enjoy multiboxing, the game they are doing it in is secondary. and they will continue to multibox regardless of whatever change is implemented on the game.

the advantage i was referring to is the advantage that arises from the 4hr respawn mechanic.

every 4hrs a boxing fleet will walk out with the biggest share of the ice, end of story. what effect will that have on other miners is what matters. and if regular mining is anything to go by, my money is on them finding it unfair. and honestly i cant blame them.

also, considering this https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=230931&find=unread you can see how this can turn ugly real fast.

the 4h respawn is a bunch of crap. they should just make ice spawn everywhere like they already do with ore with respawns at downtime.

Then you know what to do: wardec the multi boxer and kill him.

Repeatedly.

And you point is? You have only 1 ore/gravi site but 5 or more regular belt. So you as a ganker where you will warp first, the gravi site ori pick a random belt in the system? I'm taking about null and WH space where a miner suppose to hang out in the gravi sites and not the regular belts.

Those whom never had the time to check out how the new ice belts looks like and their composition in hi sec, here is a pic from the test server.

no you don't, you have up to 9 (if i read the dev blog correctly) grav sites in null.
if you want to check how much ice the anoms have, fozzy made a post about it almost a few days ago.

You don't have to wardec them. In many cases you can't.
The real solution is, warp several smartbombing battleships into their midst and activate them all at once.

can you pick one and stick to it.

are we talking about ore anomalies or ice anomalies?

ore anomalies will be up to 9, ice anomalies will be as many as there are ice belts currently.

oh, nobody really mines in grav sites at the moment. they're full of **** ore and takes too long to scan them down (assuming there is even one there to mine) nobody likes omber.

in null sec in an indy 5 system you get 1 grav site for each industry level, and in odyssey there will be 5% and 10% variants of the level 4 and 5 indy grav sites (according to the dev blog)

Maybe they are reigning in the boxed accounts a bit. It has gotten a little out of control, with some miners running 6 to 12 accounts simultaneously.

The only reason to keep alternate accounts around is really content creation. Many boxers point to the price of PLEX, but honestly CCP can raise or lower that any time that they need to.

Boxed accounts load the servers. If they are not paying for the servers directly or by creating content then there is no reason to keep them, let alone cater to them.

I'm posting to confirm that I am an active multiboxer. I man a 12 man fleet via multiple screens, selected clients minimized and stacked on top of each other to monitor ore depletion or watch turrets in case I didn't hear an ore depletion warning.

I don't ice mine, never have in this current metagame. It isn't as profitable as active ore mining, as has already been stated. Current ice mining caters to a broken mechanic and an inactive player group exploiting easy isk. It gives those of us who are real 'multiboxers' a bad name. Some of us like mining and pve. It helps support the indy back bone of the game so that other people can fly around with their multipliboxed pvp ships and blow up multiboxed mining fleets.

I don't have the time to pvp like I would like, but I do enjoy the EvE atmosphere. I can talk with my friends and listen to their pvp ops while I mine, and I even throw out a suggestion from time to tiem that they didn't think of, that helps them out even though I'm multi boxing my miner fleet while theyre out doing the pvp's.

I don't do low or null sec mining b/c the current meta game does not encourage joint miner/ pvp ops like it used to. If things changed and I could mine in nullsec knowing there was a 15-30 man fleet, on my side, roaming around our backyard keeping myself and others safe, then I'd be much more inclined to move back to nullsec and whore up indy sites for a corp that would appreciate the extra ore income miners like myself would bring in. Old game mechanics used to support this type of play, current mechanics simply do not. A long time ago I used to mine dark glitter for a nullsec corp. They watched my back religiously, and I sold DG to them for 50% of market cost, but that was still MUCH more profit than high sec or even low sec ore mining. I enjoy being a working member of a large group, even if I don't pvp.

I'm a multiboxer and enjoy it. I do it in any game I play nearly. Multiboxing is what's fun (for me), the game is just the vehicle in which I use to get to my destination.

... marvels at the number of people who thought CCP was doing them a favour with the upcoming double speed cycle for ice mining... think it through next time.