EVE General Discussion

Wheres this going?

I have poses set up for reacting complex materials on dead moons - i buy everything and react everything....

The latest Dev makes me think this sort of gameplay is dead in the water - any Dev's or speculators want to comment on this?

I've said for years that moon mining isn't the problem its the act of allowing the biggest entities in eve to monopolise an entire market with seemingly no way to combat it. I think Alchemy won't touch that unless they increase the refine rate,

I quite like moon mining/reacting since i think the risk versus reward versus time model is inline with current mechanics... I would say kuddose to anyone who changes the difficulty of making a pos go offline or into reinforce mode - everyone hates pos shooting and so people can play the whole "disrupt isk making" role, pos'es should really have smaller defences to appeal to the less than 20 man gangs.

I can see your point,

but i can point to this - > "the bigger players would be able to field fleets to defend their holdings from raiders" currently that doesn't happen. I can't get in a fleet big enough to do any damage in the first place and if i do, when the ref-timer is out there is a fleet twice three times that of ours waiting - i was more thinking along the lines of 10 - 20 man fleets being able to do some damage. In fact i don't know of any alliances who go to kill a moon for the fun of it. Moon taking is a sign of an alliance wanting space to live in. there are entities out there that don't want to live in space but do want to disrupt isk making in the hope of a good fight and to ruin some ones day. To me the whole Pos and Ref-timer mechanic create stagnation.

On the other hand would forcing bigger alliances to defend their assets cause them to stay in their space....unlike stations being anchored on moons 4 or 5 regions over just becuase "they can".

and to point out smaller pos owning corps don't cap the good moons becuase they wouldn't be able to defend, meaning the only moons that are left are the low end and dead moons that bigger alliances don't need.

Sorry, Dominion happened a few years ago. Moon taking is a sign that someone wants some income or needs to set up a POS, nothing more.

Dropping SBUs is a sign that an Alliance wants space to live in.

I saw another suggestion somewhere, and I liked it a lot.

I can't remember the specifics, but the gist of the idea is that each race would have a specific T2 component that is used in the construction of each race's T2 ships and weapons. Instead of Technetium being the bottleneck, there would be four of them, respective for each race.

These four new race-specific bottlenecks would be distributed according to racial regions, the higher concentrations in the specific race's lowsec and nearby nullsec, with a slight dusting of each spread about throughout the rest of the universe.

This may be a possible solution, but it may not work out.

Ummm, you mean like how the Carbides work?

"Tungsten Carbide is a much-used composite, greatly favored by the Amarrians for construction of their advanced technologies."
"Due to its immense strength and molecular malleability, Titanium Carbide has become the darling of the Caldari technological industry, seeing use in everything from reactor units to weapons systems."
"An exeptionally hard material created from crystallite alloys and carbon polymers, crystalline carbonite is a primary component in various forms of advanced Gallente technology, such as thrusters and armor plating."
"A revolutionary ceramic carbide compound, much favored by the Matari both for its earthy quality and its extremely wide range of technological uses."

Anyway, there were multiple bottlenecks before CCP changed all the Component formulae to reduce the amount of R64s needed.

I'd say there's roughly 0 chance that CCP can successfully control the strength of any bottleneck they try to create.