Science & Industry

On today's very special episode of, "What in Those Sticky Posts at the Top of the Page?"

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=233568&find=unread

Minutes to hours, depends on how busy the system and local area are. I know one area there's a system where the new Ice Field lasts tens of minutes, that's it. But another system not far from there (both Highsec) that has already been reported to last more than a half hour. Both systems are well known for Ice mining so they are on the short end of the curve, some systems might have an Ice field up most of the day due to low traffic.

Or you could, you know, read the patch notes, and scan down to the part that you know, lists the exact ice compositions of highsec belts.

GD at times has useful threads like this one: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=243565&find=unread

Short answer, between 4 hours and 15 minutes.
Now, if only you could shoot the competition...

actually, between 109 hours and 28 seconds. roughly.

This is what I was wondering about. Because if there is some guy with a fleet of NPS corp exhumer pilots eating the ice belt in less than an hour. Then they are exempt and own that ice spawn. Everyone else is SOL. Sorry but I can't afford 10 accounts.
The ice spawns are not very big either.

Yeah and on average in high sec systems (at least in the .5 system I mine in). The belts will last about 30 min based on that info.

I seems to me that solo miners are done because fleet miners will own the belt before a solo miner can complete a single cycle if not see a spawn at all.

What a tard lol. No one is forcing you to read it. If someone posts a stupid question just ignore it if you have nothing constructive to add. FYI this is actually a legitimate question, its a current topical post, wtf are forums for if not for players to discuss stuff about the game. I am sick of all snotty nosed stuck up little ***** that think there so leet with their snarky comments, you guys come of looking like the shiny end bit of a penis.

Yer lets be a dik.

To the OP, the answer to your question imo is that everything is a bit erratic atm and prices ect will be fluctuating, to get a more robust answer you will have to wait a month or so until things calm down. atm it seems everyone and his pet frog is mining Ice(so what are they neglecting? should be the question, but I digress), things will adjust imo in a fairly short time.

In Aydoteaux there are two ice spawns. After the DT "today" (my "last night") the first belt lasted about 3 hours from the time the servers were back up. There were about 30 in local, about 20 in the field that I was harvesting.

The spawn immediately before downtime lasted about 20 minutes the last time I was in one. Both sites disappeared within 5 minutes of each other. There were about 60 in local, 35 in the first belt while I was there, then about 60 in the second belt when the first belt expired.

And for the record, the first ice belt I harvested in Odyssey had the signature ID "BBQ-911". I'm sure someone will want to add that fact to their collection of trivia :)

Bump them out of range and you've forced them to restart their mining cycle. Not as good as as killing them, but they will get the message and stop mining in your anom.