EVE General Discussion

And what happens during the time in between when say all the tech moons have shifted place in the universe, to when they've been found and started exploited?

Oh, right, resource scarcity. I'm sure that'll make things so much better!


I'm going to just go out on a limb and assume that these "big null sec alliances" won't "hold these moons" when they're on the other side of the universe, since well, they'd be on the other side of the universe.


We already have that. It still sucks, it still doesn't take care of the people who are doing reactions, and it still doesn't solve anything except maybe the problem of "how can we make moongoo even harder to get for my production line".

There is a big difference between mission running and moon mining. For one moon mining is a passive income once set up which runs 24 hours a day, so in fact you can moon mine and mission run at the same time if you wish. And although there is some trouble in defending the moon, this really isn't a problem at all for large null sec alliances.

One thing I would suggest with mission running though to shake things up a bit would be to move all level 4s to low sec, although I doubt that will ever happen.

Nope, because the resource distribution would gradual as I said, ie a planet would not suddenly go from having no resources to being a tech moon in one downtime. As one moon begins to fade another would gradually begin to generate resources over the same time period. You know, like how resources generally work in real life.



Even better, perhaps one benefit of this change would be null sec alliances would actually have to you know, move occasionaly. :) Also I don't expect large alliances will bother moving across the other side for a moon that will only generate resources for a month or so, but perhaps if they find one that will last a year + then it will be worth a little more effort.



I think you are over worrying things. Many of the issues you raised can easily be balanced out by relatively small tweaks to the system. The main concept to have in mine though is to move moon resources from static to a more dynamic resource.

If you take a look at the real world everything has a limit.

I agree that a lot of people play with an "old Mindset" to the game - they've got used to the way he system is.

Unforunately when something can be farmed thats when the sheep move and then it becomes difficult to get the so called "sandbox" moving again.

I am nor for or against resource redistribution there are plenty of pro's and cons for and against the idea. What i would like to see CCP do more of (and this is something i've often spoke about in my posts) is for them to think out of the box a lot more.

Eve used to be about allowing players to create their own gaming style and i think in the 7 years i have been playing this game it has lost a lot of that due tot he constant and consistent nerf bat.

Take for instance the way technetium has become a cartel, an option that I can see as relieving some of the dependancies on the alliances that are lucky enough to hold one or may be more of these moons would be to look at other ways of producing the advanced material. notice i said advanced material this is your fulleride, nanotransistors, phenolic composits etc. The thing with human beings is we like to constantly improve ourselves and do things quicker and better and cheaper. Unfortunately i think we are at a point in eve where the so called "player driven content" is saturated. My opinion is if CCP concentrated on creating new gaming sttyles allowing for new player driven content (and in new i mean not replacing the current system) this would close the doors to stagnation one which we see in null sec and moon mining (not to be confused with moon reacting).

The way I envisage it would be that moons would have a feature similar to that of wormhole. Ie once you have scanned them down then you can get an update by simply clicking show info. But these are really minor details that CCP could easily iron out.

So we're going to scan a few hundred thousand moons every x months to a year, and everyone doing reaction has to move their POS around as the mineral moves around, and no matter how much you handwave it away, it will cause a higher resource scarcity than we're seeing already, with the ensuing high prices. Only it won't just be for things like tech, it'll be for everything down to and including the least valuable moongoo there is.


I think there's this ... uhm, what's it called again?

Oh yeah, alchemy. That's its name. Alchemy.

Of course we'll also have to remove the agent finder, because forcing people to check every NPC station in empire to find where the agent they have standings with has gone to is just good gameplay.

It's only a shame that there aren't even more empire stations, because only having a few thousand to work through is pretty small beer compared to the 160k+ moons that moon miners would get to check, but I suppose there ought to be some advantages to being in 0.0.

Yes I agree, and by the same r3tarded logic we should also make all wormhole and exploration sites appear on the game map also, as you know, it is good game mechanics according to you.

Really, I hope your not going to be this dense if elected as CSM or I have little hope. I actually agree with some of your ideas on high sec, but you seem to have a complete deficit in logic when addressing any ideas which aren't your own.

my idea is that all moon minerals are removed and replaced with a single mineral, slurrytium, which balances moons perfectly

Or remove Technetium from the materials needed all together.

When a product is used to the point of disrupting a game to the ships have to be redesigned due to it (as it disrupted the very material market), that would've been a much easier solution.

There's w-a-y too many comfort zones here, when markets to minerals are never steady.