EVE General Discussion

It means new bottlenecks, with potential for new abuses no doubt. Doubt blue donut will implode straight away but the financial incentives for peace will be a lot less.

that doughnut has red sprinkles... and NIP does not mean dont shoot it just means dont kill infrastructure right?

In general an interesting topic worthy of discussion, but in this case caged in by too many false premises to be worthy of applying effort.

Ask again as if you weren't a mewling idiot, and people might be more inclined to give you informed responses.

the troll is strong with this one.

Nothing has changed.
The game mechanic of massive income for a select few remains.
It just means that 227 more moons are involved to maintain the same income streams as before.
CCP could have shut down the null sec cartels overnight by not only adding low end ores to the null sec rocks, but by adding moon goo to those rocks, and simultaneously changing the static variables defining moon goo outputs to zero.

But instead, we here from CCP that is "hard" to change to ring mining.
A first year university programming intern could have altered the code in a week to institute ring mining.

Has CCP demonstrated the ability to alter static variables? Ummmm, a chimp can do that.

Has CCP demonstrated the ability to add existing items to an old object. Gee, I dunno, sort of like adding Veldspar to Arkonor. Not sure CCP can do that one.

Does CCP have the ability to randomize the location of hidden grav belts anywhere in a region/ constellation? Of course, they do it now.

But CCP instead chooses to say "it is too hard", and instead burns who knows how many programmer-weeks in a NEW exploration system that NOBODY asked for, while people have been clamouring for ring mining, for how long now?

Bottom line, the null sec cartels are terrified of losing their massive income stream, so CCP won't wipe it out until richer income streams are established for those cartels.

how about they change probing grav sites to be new sites that are like complexes but contain rocks that are filled with moon goo?
there are what r64 r32 r16 and r8 moon goo types?

why not make 4 different 0.0 complex sites that can be scanned that contain these types of moon mins...

that would sure put a dent in static moon goo holdings... and help drive down the cost of tech II gear...

Sure. But why would they want to do that? What would be the point?

Not that I have anything against the few brave souls who try and maintain some sense of logic and sanity in this shitheap of a subforum, but it's definitely not a course for me.

I am very far from an expert here, but doesnt new moon distribution randomly over any area in space just mean: the more space you control, the higher the chance you end up with more than enough of those new moons ?

so, the large entities we have right now, probably dont have much to worry about.
and since they did nothing whatsoever to the curret sov mechanic, they can always keep on blobbling if they should need new moons. I think chance are pretty good we might see an increase in interregional trade and exchange of needed mats, but not so much of real smaller, regional conflicts.

The big changes are the end of regionalization and a much greater spread of value. The total value of the t2 market will (hypothetically) be spread across many more moons, and these moons will be spread over a much greater area of space. It will be harder and harder for each individual organization to control each additional moon as it spreads itself further and further. Furthermore, the incentive for each additional moon will also be lower. The result will be that conflict will be more regional instead of one big winner and everyone else a loser. It will lower the incentive to form and maintain coalitions, as your best bet for new income is your neighbors, and there is less of a chance of some other coalition coming from the other side of the galaxy to stamp you out because they no longer have the everything to win and nothing to lose moon distribution of pre-odyssey.

That said, strategic organization is a hard thing to reverse once you've started, but this will at the very least slow or stop the progression towards greater and greater hierarchies of organization, and hopefully when existing coalitions break up, they will have much less incentive to reform or reform as large and cohesive.