EVE General Discussion

and why would it be so bad for me to be able to warp in to a belt, equip crystals for whatever asteroids are left after i get home from doing whatever i was doing that day and beginning to mine rather than having to warp there, check what's left, warp back, get crystals, warp to the belt again etc.

honestly; what is being broken by just letting us carry the crystals, like we can now?

as for your comment about crystal less t1 strips etc; that's kinda the point. if you use macks then you don't need to be crystal less since due to having less strips you have space for a more reasonable compliment of crystals. also depending on the size of the op; yes an extra miner with people in "inferior" ships will be more efficient. so even in a fleet the hulk isn't really filling it's role.
granted it's only valid for small ops however generally if you offer some one a roam over a mining op people will go on the roam. there aren't many people who would rather shoot rocks than other people in my experience.

There, I fixed your post for you.

You don't know but T20 and sub cap killing Titans fits are NOTHING compared to how absolutely game breaking is being able to bring the crystals you need. You'll be lucky you don't get a RL lawsuit for your felony even just at thinking that.


I am really curious to see what will happen when CCP will start nerfing Drakes and Tengus. I mean, if letting miners use crystals has such a nuclear fallout imagine when they will touch "real ships for the Real And Only Players".

i was informed that the drake "nerf" ain't that bad. from the rumour i heard they were changing the kinetic bonus to a rof bonus (ability to effectively use different damage types, weheeeee) and i can't remember what was happening with the resist bonus.

Wait, first you say you have to plan out your mining, and then you don't care? Make up your mind and quit changing sides.

Poor decision making will always end up with mistakes being made - no matter the .

That said, there are no game breaking issues if you make every crystal (& spares) available at one time to a miner in their hold. There are game breaking issues if you limit it. In the end, people will decide how well CCP has listened - and CCP does appear to be listening.

It all boils down to balance.

You don't add choices by making stuff less configurable and imposing fixed holds and similar.
Let people decide if they want to bring 1, 10 or 50 crystals and give up i.e. on ore space. That's choice, mkay?

Reading is hard, isn't it? No, that's not what I said. Try again.

…aside from removing much-needed choices and decision making, and that limiting the ability to go after anything doesn't remove anything that anyone needs.

Of course you do: do you choose combination AABB or ABBC or DEFG or…

…lots of choices, lots of decisions. On top of this, you have to choose how much ore you want to carry, what yield you want, how much tank you want, what utility equipment you want, and you have to way all of that against everything else. More choices. All of these are choices that didn't exist before because the choice was obvious: Hulk + tons of crystals. At every step, more choices are added. 'Tis good.

No, what they're doing to the Hulk is limiting it to 4 (with the current numbers, which will change) different ores, which is more than sufficient. Oh, and a Falcon with all four jammer types will be fairly limited in how well it can engage other targets, but if it's the only jamming ship you bring, then that's the downside you have to deal with… kind of how you have to deal with the downside of trying to do everything in a single Hulk.

Luckily, there are ways around that, but they require some forethought and planning.

Keep up the good trolling!

Even if it was, how does not caring invalidate the need for planning?

So long as you are aware of and willing to deal with the consequences for violating the EULA. No one else gets to wish all their tedium and planning away by screaming a bot could do it, why should miners?