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I had 2 ppl tell me it was over 4 hrs today

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Exactly. Multi-player means just that; there's otther plays to interact with. It doesn't mean that one has to work with them.

As a miner one interacts with the other pilots by means of the markets and, to some extent, competition for the ores.

What MMO doesn't mean, or shouldn't mean, is that one player has to invest in a fleet of pilots to make it a Multiple Mini-Me Organised game to get things done. Nor should it demand that one has to work alongside other players.

There's a lot of players out here, not all but a fair number, whose real-life constraints mean that they can't sit down for hours at an end every evening and play Eve. With the current system these players are excluded from Ice mining.

No problem, there's always rocks to pound on an ad-hoc basis until I, at least, can spend a day in pvp which is also an example of interaction within an MMO. So, really, your point is sadly misguided.

Regards

Seems like there's a glut of ice and plenty of stockpiles. Prices are not rising and basically no icefields in low/null are used.

Hey guys we have an update and bugfix to announce.

The systems of Feshur, Anath and Pemsah in low-sec Aridia were not properly given ice anoms in Odyssey, because of a bug caused by their low truesec. These systems are the three lowest truesec ice belts in lowsec, and are in a range that actually gets rounded down to 0.0 for most calculations.

When fixing this defect we decided that the uniquely low truesec in these systems makes them ideal for some unique flavor, so they will have the distinction of being the only low-sec systems to contain the "Weak Nullsec" Ice Anoms.

The fix should be deployed shortly.

I endorse this plan. Makes doubly good sense because Aridia is so isolated.

This should represent a 2% increase in lowsec mining volume... from .5% to .51%



(It's a neat idea though, I approve)

There is also the system of Cumemare that had nullsec ice that was removed in the expansion.

To compress 1 ore anomaly need 3 hour of work of a rorqual, but to compress one ice anomaly need 12 hours , may be to reduce manufacturing time of the blueprints for ice from 1 minute to 25 seconds?

I won't give anything close to exact numbers because those would be incredibly valuable for price predictions but I can talk a bit about the way we're looking at these metrics, how we feel about them at this early stage.

Overall we're happy with what we're seeing so far, but it's far too early to tell what the total impact of the Odyssey changes will be long-term. We're still near the start of an extended period of transition where the markets adjust to the new realities and player behavior adapts to find the optimal methods of profit making in the new ice landscape. Honestly these kinds of transition periods can take years and I probably won't feel comfortable saying "mission accomplished" until we've been able to observe the effects for at least a year. Our key goals during this period are to ensure that any price and supply shocks are manageable and that the overall market and gameplay effects are pointing in the right direction. On both counts we're quite happy right now.

Ice mining volume in high sec is obviously significantly lower right now than it was in the big rush immediately before Odyssey, but it's also above where it was a year ago, which places it well within our target range for this period.

Volume in lowsec and nullsec are both up (although they are still well below high sec of course) and the combination of increased ice volume and growing ore volume has given last week the record for the most mining ever done in lowsec.

Consumption of ice products is very healthy, and there was actually more control towers online last Friday than there was at Odyssey's launch.

So overall we're still extremely early in the process of evaluating the changes caused by Odyssey's ice rebalance, but nothing we're seeing so far gives us any reason to doubt our grand plan.

Rorqual compression has always been pretty horrible. Now it's just laughable rather than useless.

e: I'll elaborate a little here. Rorquals can only keep up with the mining output from a few (3?) ice mining hulks. Ore isn't as bad, but the ability to compress minerals by making guns and ammo just makes it obsolete.