EVE General Discussion

While scoping out spots for mining recently, I have noticed two things. One, you're ****** if you don't live in the EU. They'll cherry pick all the good stuff while you're still drinking your morning coffee at work in South/North America. Two, if you wanted to do something about it, that is, follow the EVE mantra of limited resources = conflict driver, you can't because the war dec mechanics make that impossible.

Is there or has there ever been any possibility that respawn rates for roids might change? Not necessarily that all of the roids in a belt would respawn, but that individual roids would respawn on some sort of random schedule.

Is there any way to compete for the roids other than time zone hopping to mine before they do? Is there any way other than suicide ganking to get at someone who leaves the corp you dec?

There are some mining groups out there that are stripping entire constellations. It doesn't seem EVE-like that I can't get at them. I'm more than willing to hop in a ship for some pvp or to hire mercs, but neither seems realistic. Am I missing something?

that has nothing to do with my questions

IF anything was ever to change for mining, it would have been perhaps part of Ring mining. Yet that's been put back for a POS overhaul first. So many next winter... or longer. Since mining as a mechanic haven't been touched much since its creation. You wait or get a new job. They have been stating in the past two years or so, they are not much for bandaging mechanics and waiting tell there is ample work load on the project. As I peek over FW... I wouldn't get my hopes up on ring mining either.

Not really evidence, people were stripping entire constellations of all the good stuff way before CCP buffed the mining barges. I have a character with a procuror that mines outside of the EU TZ (primarily because I'm an insomniac) and don't have any real problems pulling in all the the +5 and +10% ores even at silly'o'clock GMT, sometimes I mine for so long I create a dirty great hole in a belt and think "I did that" and then go back to the station to roll around in my pile of minerals whilst giggling like a little girl.

Find a 0.6, 0.5 or a lowsec system with very low average population and you'll find fat belts ripe for the plucking no matter what time of day it is, unless I've got there 1st in which case :razz:.

That seems to be the answer for everything nowadays, doesn't it? But it's really to be expected from someone who can't even attribute their own forum signature to a proper author.

OP: if it's a timezone thing, then you'll have to hire someone else to either go to war with them (despite Inferno, this is still viable to the last tiny shred of extent), or maybe bump-grief them out of the systems you like. This option has the positive side effects of creating more pvp opportunities in empire, and supporting the mercenary industry. You can also consider moving to more out-of-the-way areas, which are seldom populated. You'll need a freighter to move the minerals, probably.

Or you can just take the corpse's advice and pack all your crap into a hauler and take a trip to null, so the sheeple derpers who are too chicken-**** to die in groups of less than a hundred have something to hot-drop.

Ohh noez the system I want to mine is getting strip mined and I can't be bothered finding low population systems! What ever can I doooo?

~ Start training your skills for probing and use them to scan down Grav Sites

~ Go to Amarr Medium Sec by Gallente Space where all the Kernite is

~ Get in a Wormhole Corp and mine their Roids

~ Go to Nullsec, join an Alliance and mine their Roids

~ Find quiet space and mine Roids

~ Get in a Lowsec Pirate gang and mine Roids while they Gatecamp

All good suggestions, however please don't give people ideas, besides at the moment Scordite > Kernite

Australia would make it happen even sooner

*edit: Or later, depends on if you go east or west to get there

Funny how, by the time the Euro TZ people come home, the belts have already been chewed on for 6 hours and yet how they apparently manage to be pristine up until that point…