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yes. and there is no need to change that.

Pos password is required to enter the force field. That is a good thing.
But why JB required password, if the module itself is located outside of force field, is a mystery.

It's not rocket science or a conspiracy.

They had a tiny skeleton crew (20ish) on EVE for years, with the vast majority of their employees working on Incarna, according to publicly released blogs during CSM5 and CSM6. After reallocating everyone to Flying in Space, suddenly we have content the customers actually want.

edit: yeah i don't call Incarna 'EVE', what up

It is not correct, and no, the CSM were not consulted. I think that instituting some kind of protection against scamming for newbies would be wise from a business perspective, somewhere below the 1-million sp level. However, most of the people who fall for recruitment scams are veteran player who should damn well know better, not newbies.

So here we see a policy apparently aimed at protecting newbies that offers no such protection, cuts off an honorable and noble profession, and coddles the weak, wealthy and ignorant.

My CEO

Also newbies generally have nothing to scam, protecting them anyway. Plus you don't want to scare them away to early by making off with everything they have, whereas veteran players generally have a lot of stuff stashed away through years of grinding lvl4's.

I really like the removal of jb passwords, it makes navigation a little easier yet still providing smaller entities something to get easy kills from so its quite balanced.

That idea in like, page... 3? About hijacking ships doesn't pan out, but there is an idea there -- how about having Salvaging affect the drop rate of mods from PVP targets? A person good at salvaging would be better at recognizing that that Dark Blood Mega Pulse Laser would work just fine with a little polish and duct tape, for example.

Or, oh hey, maybe a small chance for a "ruined hull" to drop whenever a ship is destroyed, allowing people with big enough cargo holds to scoop those up and repair them via the crafting system at a station someplace. Would add an entire new dynamic to post-fleet ops, and give newbies and craft-centric players something to do -- instead of just cleaning up belt rats via Salvagers and Tractor Beams, a newbie grab a broken version of a Gurristas Saboteur and make a frigate out of it.

To say nothing about the dynamic that could add to faction spawns and the like. Get an officer spawn, luck out and have the ruined officer spawn's hull drop, and drag that sucker back to a station to repair it for yourself.

Someone pointed out that a major component of the nullsec economy revolves around ship losses, so not sure if this is feasible. I would think that it would be an interesting alternate path for crafting-types to explore, however, and would definitely shake up the Tech 2 and Tech 3 ship markets.

And yet, he's still better than the AFK mission/miner bot running pubbies ruining the game. Different strokes for different folks.

You wouldn't know me, although I've flown with you on occasion in the north. My problem with eve currently is that ... mining is dead. Not that I mine a lot anymore, it's just not a useful past time. I prefer pew pew a lot of the time anyhow, but sometimes I'd really just like to make a bunch of isk in bulk in my barge for a few days before going back to combat.

Much of the issue with people playing the game is that they cannot fathom the economics involved in this issue. They all wish to change mechanics and ships in order to make miners get more money. Where the real issue is the degredation of the isk itself due to RMTers mining on such large scales that they end up setting the price of minerals to lower than time/effort should dictate.

I put this proposal up earlier, I don't really expect it to get a lot of play. However, I think even if this idea in itself isn't taken on, something LIKE IT needs to be adopted as a fix for mining/industry in general in order to really wage war on the RMTers.

CCP said a long long time ago that they would wage war on these industries and yet they still thrive. This is obviously because of a lack of commitment by CCP to fix anything that's not PVP related or starbase related - Not to mention WIS.

I'm sure there aren't as many people that mine in EVE as there were 5 years ago when I started. The mining community often is made up of newer players that just "dont get it" yet or older players that just refuse to change but hold on to their playstyle no matter what.

As it is mining ships are feeble when attacked, meaning that every time one undocks the risk is higher than a combat ship of the same value. They sit for hours in the same place where combat ships often change systems or at least belts. Don't get me wrong, I think the amount of risk is fine for mining ships. The problem is the reward.

The risk and reward vector of this industry drastically needs changing to become a viable PLAYER DRIVEN instead of BOT DRIVEN industry again.

Facts -
High end minerals have not grown in the past 5 years (There aren't new belts being added to the game).
High end mineral values have decreased around 30% in the past 5 years and yet the player base has grown exponentially.
The same amount of minerals for more demand but lower incomes for miners.
The price of Plex has increased by 25% in the past 6 MONTHS.

Soon RMTers will control most of the industry going on in New Eden.

Please help.
RR.
(having issues linking the proposal so here it is in text)
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=345889#post345889

Ah so you did post in the wrong thread. Please don't **** up my manifesto any more.