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Heh, that makes me want a Metal Scraps BPO.

All in all I do very much like the direction of these changes, but I wish CCP would learn subtlety. "Mineral Shock" isn't covering what we are seeing here, let alone what is to come. Already inflation is rampant (yes it really is inflation, even if it's caused by speculation of future inflationary moves). While it may make some miners happy for a short while, Hulkajitageddon will take care of that, and buying new Hulks will be ruinous. I predict a fall in PLEX as people get frustrated after these two releases unless the current course is changed, price of just about everything else is headed through the roof.

There are a number of changes going in at once, botters being banned (yay!), drone droppings elimination, elimination of level 0s (which honestly are rarely used for anything but reprocessing and raw materials with some exceptions like ammo and drones).

One wonders if CCP understands the impact of "Shaking the Ant Farm" (which makes me not feel particularly valued by the way) and when does that turn into kicking the ant-hill?

These things could be done in stages to lessen the impact, and perhaps not so all or nothing.

For example: Adjust drone drops down 25% and give 25% of the target bounty. In the next pass you could move to 50-50, and so on. To be honest it might be worth while to keep some of the droppings, perhaps ending up at 75/25%. They do provide something interesting and different.

Bot-bans are fine by themselves, the market can recover from that, but these added pressures are starting to create major volatility, just in anticipation. (Maybe it will calm down with more certainty.)

T0s could have been cut in half or lessened by 25% or so. But why use a scalpel when its more fun to swing the sledge and watch the chaos, eh?

Feels futile to post this though, most feedback gets brushed aside and CCP keeps rolling the dice. One wonders if you've heard of Gambler's Ruin? Where is your staff economist? Does he just sit there and say "that will be interesting?" I bet he's learning a lot about what happens when you really screw with an economy.

Please, learn the value of subtlety. (Also applicable to ship balancing, btw.)

Neither is isk.

They said that they filled in all the gaps in the DED sites last march...

But I have yet to see a Serpentis 6/10 and I haven't heard of anyone finding an Angel 6/10

Do these exist?

Oh almost forgot,

This is at you CCP/CSM;


Inferno will ONLY work if you reduce the (base) bill of materials on all ORE mining ship Blueprints

avg pool / pond has more little fish then big fish, where the little fish are easier reproduced

On the other hand, the mining community might consider:

Learning how a Hulk "can" be tanked to withstand even a Tornado gank attempt.

Or alternatively, and much more importantly,

Learning the rudimentary skill of being alert enough to not be there when the gank attempt happens.

If you want incursions to be interesting, make the spawn triggers completely random. (sometimes killing the full wave, sometimes individual kills, sometimes aggro drawn... never the same way twice. Predictability in a game is dull.)

So CCP you get called out on this BS of a nerf called an "Iteration" And predictable you retreat into no posting mode.

Ill repeat in case you forgot. Where is the fixes on Mothership spawn time? Where is the fixes on mothership loot theft by scripts?

Where are the fixes for going AFK while cloaked for nullsec?

Where are the Structure HP buffs for mining vessels?

Why is this crap going in while badly needed fixes I noted above go on the backburner?

Well If it applies to anomalies I can just warp my Ishtar into a anomaly and go afk for 30 minutes and come back to 25mil

Those tweaks are interesting, but they are only tweaks, so nothing that exciting.

Since miners are getting some love back i'd make their ships more resistant. After all, all they have is cargo space, everything else composing the ship should be about resistance... I'm no miner, i'll let them push the idea further.

Since you're touching PVE content and doing only easy tweaks, why not boost the LP rewards for Distribution missions. I had to grind some standing for R&D and I was disgusted by the low amount of LP given. Running LVL 3 combat earned me between 680 LP and 2900 LP + bounties + loot + mission rewards, running a LVL 4 distribution missions gave me a steady 680 LP + mission rewards. That sucks big time

Putting Mineral gathering back in the hands of miners is a good change. High Sec Incursions and lvl 4s really needs adjustments, much in the same way as Nicky Santoro and his brother get near the end of the movie Casino.