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Vos Landsener
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#1 - 2011-11-14 07:03:41 UTC
I often find things when using scan probes but can't always be bothered to exploit them.

Should there be a mechanism to 'publish' the location of a find (like wormholes and such)? We should be able to sell this data for ISK (as it's the product of our investment of time).

Thoughts? Cool
Serker
Perkone
Caldari State
#2 - 2011-11-14 07:08:16 UTC
You can sell most locations to players already.
Emperor Salazar
Remote Soviet Industries
Insidious Empire
#3 - 2011-11-14 14:15:15 UTC
Bookmark site. Contract bookmark.
proxwar
Doomheim
#4 - 2011-11-14 14:40:01 UTC
i do a LOT of exploration, mainly in black rise/lonetrek/the citidel and only bother with radars and GSO's.

Everything else, ladar/grav/mag i just ask in local if anybody wants the site, unfortunately due to EVE's rep, everybody suspects it as a tarp and only twice have people actually taken my BM's.

Any WH's i find i used to check them out to see if they are vacant, and if so advertise the BM in sell orders for a few iskies, not so much anymore, WH's just get ignored mostly.
Derath Ellecon
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2011-11-14 14:43:53 UTC
GL. With that.

I have found on multiple occasions a nice high sec grav site, even in a system full of hulks. I have offered the BM for free and got no takers.
Mr Kidd
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2011-11-14 14:45:30 UTC
Regardless of the mechanics of having a financial incentive to do so, most people will not trust anyone enough to run such sites found by others, especially in dangerous space. Even hisec has the potential of being a gank trap should someone with an expensive ship show up to run them. But, good luck.

Don't ban me, bro!
Orlacc
#7 - 2011-11-14 16:08:04 UTC
As mentioned, the mechanic is already there and no one seems to use it. On the other hand, I make enough exploring to pay for multiple accounts with little effort.

"Measure Twice, Cut Once."
Kesshisan
#8 - 2011-11-14 16:53:34 UTC
Derath Ellecon wrote:
GL. With that.

I have found on multiple occasions a nice high sec grav site, even in a system full of hulks. I have offered the BM for free and got no takers.


If I can't give something away, I usually warp to the sun, drop a can with the BM there, and make the can blue. I then say something in local. And if someone really wants it, they'll warp to the sun and get it. If not, in 2 hours, poof.
Alyssa Yotosala
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#9 - 2011-11-14 20:43:08 UTC
Kesshisan wrote:
And if someone really wants it, they'll warp to the sun and get it. If not, in 2 hours, poof.


So in 2 hours, does the can turn homosexual?
zatazon
State War Academy
Caldari State
#10 - 2011-11-14 21:57:11 UTC
Alyssa Yotosala wrote:
Kesshisan wrote:
And if someone really wants it, they'll warp to the sun and get it. If not, in 2 hours, poof.


So in 2 hours, does the can turn homosexual?


yes, yes it does how did you ever guess
Desudes
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2011-11-14 23:45:25 UTC
Derath Ellecon wrote:
GL. With that.

I have found on multiple occasions a nice high sec grav site, even in a system full of hulks. I have offered the BM for free and got no takers.


Wow, really? How paranoid can people be : /

Why not take a grav site; who would set up a gank at a grav site that couldn't just hop to your belt and pop your hulk? o_O

Excuse me, but what the f*ck are you desu?
Derath Ellecon
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2011-11-14 23:51:50 UTC
Desudes wrote:
Derath Ellecon wrote:
GL. With that.

I have found on multiple occasions a nice high sec grav site, even in a system full of hulks. I have offered the BM for free and got no takers.


Wow, really? How paranoid can people be : /

Why not take a grav site; who would set up a gank at a grav site that couldn't just hop to your belt and pop your hulk? o_O



You'd think. Maybe they were all bots. I had warped to the site and saw no miners. Nobody seemed to want high sec jaspet.
mxzf
Shovel Bros
#13 - 2011-11-14 23:53:14 UTC
Derath Ellecon wrote:
Desudes wrote:
Derath Ellecon wrote:
GL. With that.

I have found on multiple occasions a nice high sec grav site, even in a system full of hulks. I have offered the BM for free and got no takers.


Wow, really? How paranoid can people be : /

Why not take a grav site; who would set up a gank at a grav site that couldn't just hop to your belt and pop your hulk? o_O



You'd think. Maybe they were all bots. I had warped to the site and saw no miners. Nobody seemed to want high sec jaspet.


That could be because Jaspet was less profitable to mine than Veld (last I checked atleast).
Jak'rat
Doomheim
#14 - 2011-11-15 11:22:11 UTC
Desudes wrote:
Derath Ellecon wrote:
GL. With that.

I have found on multiple occasions a nice high sec grav site, even in a system full of hulks. I have offered the BM for free and got no takers.


Wow, really? How paranoid can people be : /

Why not take a grav site; who would set up a gank at a grav site that couldn't just hop to your belt and pop your hulk? o_O


Because at that stage its not a grav site, it's just a bookmark with no way of teling where it leads.

That bookmark could lead you to Recon 3/3 in your shiny... expensive... slooooow hulk.... or it could lead to some other ungated high level aggressive rats. In either case, you go pop; the bookmark dropper giggles a little, turns in the mission and goes loot your wreck. You cry in local (or in your tea) and swear never to take bookmarks from strangers again :P

The additional precautionary work puts people off : stop mining > go take the bookmark > dock up > swap to / purchase an expendable ship > undoc > check the bookmark for safety > redock> swap back to hulk > go to bookmark again.

Personally, I take bookmaks all the time. Half the fun is not knowing and taking the risk.

"That's not a ship, it's a flying shotgun..."
Jak'rat
Doomheim
#15 - 2011-11-15 11:25:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Jak'rat
Double post. "ganked" error >.<

"That's not a ship, it's a flying shotgun..."
Nevryn Takis
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2011-11-15 17:14:18 UTC
Derath Ellecon wrote:
GL. With that.

I have found on multiple occasions a nice high sec grav site, even in a system full of hulks. I have offered the BM for free and got no takers.

You're obviously offering it in the wrong places ...

And anyone who warps their in their hulk without running it in a cloaky first deserves everything they get..