EVE General Discussion

With the current war showing how much some of the large null sec alliances will to to protect their SRPs, while at the same time completely blowing out of the water the old argument that, moon mining isn't worth that much.

Moon Goo seems to be a great conflict generator, if the system is not allowed to rot in place. It would be good for the game as a whole to not see Null sec turn into a ghost town again.

What I would like to know is will CCP be considering randomly moving the moon resources in 6 months time? or are we in for another few years of stagnant Null sec? and by randomly I do mean randomly, yes it is as boring as hell to scan planets but given the amount of gold at the end of that rainbow, players will and for that matter have rescanned moons to find it.

People have been suggesting things like movement of moon goo for ages. The people that resist such a change are the nullsec alliances themselves, who are making isk hand over fist from them. I'd argue that their desire to mostly keep the status-quo is the whole reason for the blue donut. Why risk all that isk generation?

I doubt CCP will risk shaking things up so much though, and risking annoying so many of them, regardless of how much of an awesome idea that it is.

It is rather a disappointing concept, especially as the Null sec alliance have proven
1) It is worth a but load of isk
2) That they will fight for it
3) That they will go and scan down every moon

Null sec is currently alive with the biggest battle ever occurring but yeah now we will have those alliances arguing that they don't get much isk from moon goo, that they would not fight for it and if it was changed they would not go scanning.

It is a shame that CCP will just keep them happy rather than keeping Null vibrant and alive.

Get run over by a car, then tell me it does not hurt, because it only happened once.

There are things that require a vast data set and things that are obvious, or are you a government employee trying to get an open ended appointment to see if water is wet.

Must study that data

You must be a government employee.

Otherwise you you would have just said water is wet. Some things in life are obvious, but apparently you are too blind to see.

But your drivel hardly removes the fact that a huge war has broken out over moon goo, so it is worth the isk. So it would pay to move it every 6 months.

Amazing and in all of that you did not state why water feels wet.

Greetings Government Employee

Oh and over on another topic "So...what happens to EVE if/when TEST lose and the CFC claim all Fountain goldmines for themselves?"
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So you are just an alt of a Null sec character and subsequently you will lobby to keep your isk fountains, exactly like I said above, we have had 'Moon Goo is only worth an ice miner', Moving the moons will not cause conflict' and ' No one would scan all those moons again', now we are down to sample size

Pathetic

"nullsec would be much more vibrant if you removed a major conflict driver" - frying doom

Frying Doom: While yes in this instance the moon goo changes have caused a war, this is not necessarily the case every time. This time not only introduced new moons, but it changed what moon goo was required, making R64's more valuable. As previously technetium was the leader of the moon goo, and now that has been relegated behind the 4 R64s, a move to get more R64s was required. The cost of the war however will not be recouped from R64 goo within 6 months.

Part of the war was also because Fountain had already been publicly scanned so it was known to have a lot of R64 material before the new moons, so if the change was random every 6 months, it would take longer than 6 months to rescan down all the moons and make an effective plan to invade a new location. By the time you have set it all up, the moons would move again.

It would also make no RP sense as to why the material of the moons was suddenly changed. The current change is easy to explain because it could be there were R64s all the time on those moons, but the technique to scan for them was new, resulting in higher accuracy on scan results.

All in all if this change was made, moon goo simply would get dropped in favor of other forms of income as it would no longer be efficient when you take into account the logistics and cost of finding it and fighting over it every 6 months.

glad to see you DO want to see the moons changed from time to time.

Lets face it, it was not a conflict driver till it got changed, or would you like to cite me an example of another battle like the one that was just had.

I doubt the moons had much to do about it... theres a lot of back room talk before huge things like this happen, its likely just for the fight itself and keeping the members occupied