EVE General Discussion

I imagine because they want to have something better than putting up a tower next to a moon and harvesting the goo from it. They've mentioned countless times that they want to put moon goo collection into the hands of the average player instead of at the alliance level. (Talking about ring mining here)

You do realise you are posting in GD, right?

You have a point there.

That's saying he'd like to do these things, not that they will be done.

Never, ever, assume CCP are going to do something until you see it on Sisi/TQ.

Nullsec players have shown that they'll generate content despite absolutely borked game mechanics, so CCP knows they can work on **** like tech and sov last, especially when they did an enormous nullsec focused expansion already (dominion).

Again, most of this is just hisec babbies crying over ship prices, which have more to do with the drone poo nerf than the tech bottleneck. Nullsec players have been asking for a tech fix for almost two years; we've trundled on anyway, and will continue to do so until CCP gets around to it.

I personally think the UI was a big waste of time, but spending the resources on hisec dec mechanics and lowsec FW was a much better choice than a t2 mat fix imo.

You have to remember what was said in the past compared to what was recently said to get the true realization of what has occurred.

When the technetium bottleneck was about to occur it was pointed out by the player base (Akita T and others) what was going to inevitably occur.

After dominion a suggestion was made during fanfest that a new type of mining be added to the functionality of the I-HUB. This was the idea of comets and their "ejaculates".

After the initial comet suggestion there came the idea of ring mining around planets for moon goo.

While these various ideas were being floated about in CCP various individuals in the playerbase continued to push the simpler solution of simply adding R32 alchemy. This suggestion was generally repeated again and again.

However, what was said to be inevitable way back before the technetium bottleneck finally occurred.

The old stockpiles ran dry. The tech moons were mostly snatched up by a large coalition. All of this resulted in the coagulation of nullsec (OTEC vs non-OTEC) and took away one of CCP's best selling points of the game, varied large scale pvp. With the coagulation of pvp methods (blobbing and grinding) nullsec becomes a dull and predictable/repetitive part of the game.

All of this combined with the pressure from the CSM to fix the tech bottleneck "ASAP" has caused the fundamental realization that the problem needs to be fixed quickly and simply. Of course, the quickest and easiest method of solving the problem was what the few people who saw the problem before it started have been suggesting... R32 alchemy.

However, CCP Soundwave (lead game designer) has said he intends to do alchemy for ALL the moon tiers, not just R32. There may also be the possibility that the he may suggest that all the tiers be connected through alchemy, but that would be putting words in his mouth. This change in mood from CCP Soundwave suggests that the problem is now in the process of being fixed and that he wants to make sure it is solved for now and for the foreseeable future seeing as he wants all the moon tiers using alchemy not just R64 and R32 (good thinking on the part of CCP Soundwave).

It must have hurt when you were told that your alliance couldn't afford reimbursing your ship losses during the war, and that you're required to find ways to make money in order to fly those manditory ops.

Once. One time does not equal many times, unless you have some sort of proof.

All it takes is a 3-digit search in Google to find the information on it. It's actually quite a good read & very informative.

And even if you see it on Sisi, don't assume that it will make it to TQ.