Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I have a mild issue and thought I would post up in hopes that CCP will view it on this forum.

ICE Belts in high sec and Scheduled Downtimes.

I live in the USA central time zone, at downtime most Americans are getting ready for or going to work.. ICE belts are

in very high demand in High Sec for obvious reasons.. You don't have to deal with pvp'ers looking to ruin your

day.. Its so safe in high sec that I witnessed a multi-boxer having a Freighter, orca and about 9 skiffs in his

complement.. Result - ICE Belt was depleted by 7am or 1-2 hours after downtime.. I leave for work in the am and

come home to no belts.. This Downtime gives Ice miners in other time zones a distinct advantage - or you might

even call it an intrinsic 'exploit' of the system.. Now if you give me a fair shot at these belts I'll guarantee

you my Orca and 2 Hulks will get their share!

I don't really have a suggestion how to level the sand in this box except maybe Random time spawns on belts and anomalies so

that all Eve players might have a shot at this lucrative niche..

Enjoy this game greatly = its $ and resource efficient economy is just as it is in the real world, but that

being the case resources are limited and scarce sometimes.. I don't believe the makers of EVE intend for

scheduled downtime to tilt the odds in favor of some players, shorting others in the process.

I just wanted to 'bubble up' this issue that I have experienced.. no doubt CCP has to have the maintenance but

how to do it without giving a geographic area or time zone an advantage or disadvantage?

As I mentioned above the only thing I can think of is to randomly repopulate belts, anomalies etc through out the 24 hour run period.

Given the random population scenario we ALL would all be searching for ICE when and where it spawned. Instead of finding

empty anomalies every day or sitting waiting to horde it all after downtime because some of your competition is off to work in the

real world..

Thoughts derived from many moons of EVE gaming exp - thanks for reading = )

Ummmm... don't ice belts now spawn in anomalies?

Which themselves spawn 4 hours after the previous one has been depleted?

Regardless of the time zone?

And can be warped to by anyone... even gankers... without the use of probes?


The problem isn't that you are in the wrong time zone OP. It's that other people are faster and more dedicated at harvesting a limited resource.

Also... the reason why ice is so expensive right now is because few people can harvest it. If more ice is made available for harvesting, prices will drop and you make less money.

What if... it is not supposed to be "easy pickings?"

What if it is designed to be fought over?




And again... timezones do not matter. Ice spawns ~4 hours after the last belt has been mined.

ShahFluffers

I don't want more Ice, scarcity is good.

Not slow by any measure but cant sit here on Eve all day so I will check my facts more on the respawn times.

I can tell you that the particular anomaly I checked was repopped after downtime only - 3 days in a row..

Not whining as my operation is also large scale = )



Thanks for the reply mate

The only thing they need to do is get rid of the spawn at dt itself. The rare occasion that an ice anom isnt finished before dt and it spawns half finished or more is fine too. But get rid of it almost always being there full at dt just like officer hunting right after dt got nerfed too.

cool info Steppa Musana, I did not know this.

no not a drop lol.. ; )

Bull-****, it's in my freezer.

To be fought over is all good. To have them depleted while you are at work in real life is something entirely different.

EVE is a world wide game and this time zone issues is part of that. However the OP is correct when the game only spawns a certain resource once per day, assuming it only spawns once per day then the static nature of downtime gives some players an advantage. Perhaps it is time for CCP to explore having spawns on a more regular basis for the basic items like ore and ice belts.

and for UK, downtime is in the middle of the day when everyone is actually at work...we miss both when its depleted before hand and when its respawned after.

and for AU and NZ its in the middle of the night when everyones asleep cause they are at work in the morning.

TL:DR
Work affects everyone's ice mining. fix it so ice is unlimited forever!

or make it spawn every 4 hours so all TZ's get a go...oh wait.