EVE General Discussion

OP, if this had been in place since the inception of moon mining, in my best original star trek episode Errand of Mercy, klingon grin - "It would have been glorious"

moon mineral rotation is the dumbest idea ever

there are 3,960 systems where you can mine moons and they have 171,799 moons between them

hope you enjoy 10x price spikes for every t2 hull/mod

This man knows what's up.

Have you ever dropped a tower? Do you know how long it takes for a gun to online? Do you know how many guns go on a standard large harvesting tower? How to configure the hardeners properly?

I have had to erect POS towers for moons. It's not something I would like to do every few weeks. I would literally rather cut my own heart out of my chest than have to take down and re-anchor a few hundred towers every month because someone can't be bothered to take his own towers.

Say this after you've actually maintained a network of POS.

No, it's still a terrible idea. I think pretty much all goons would much rather have all or the majority of moon materials moved to mineable belts.

Oh, so they can use their large numbers to mine it out even faster? Fantastic idea.

The concept of non-static moon minerals isn't as dumb as the 'My Viator has two highslots' OP makes it sound. The problem is the fact that the database has never been designed around it, and the concept of desirable moons being points on conflict doesn't work if which moons are desirable changes too rapidly. Add to that the fact that if your intel becomes outdated too rapidly, the effort of your recon group becomes even more of a sisyphean task.

Moon minerals changing on something like a 6-12 month scale could potentially be an interesting mechanic. It would force relocations, rescans, wars, invasions, and such constantly on this scale of a time period (for reference, it takes about a month to take a single region when no one shows up to defend it, simply due to the amount of timers involved). Any shorter, and there'd be such constant flux in what is valuable where that it'd be a crapshoot, and the only point in owning large chunks of space would be the off chance that something valuable turned up in your yard.

CCP has actually stated that they don't like that the main value of owning space is moons, specifically Technetium moons, and are working actively to fix this bottleneck, with ring mining. This is a good thing. A stopgap solution that involves existing mechanics would be something more along the lines of R32 alchemy.

But, no, instead, by all means, tell me more about how you've scanned entire regions in your Viator without a cloak.

Only those of us living in deep space, and even then we usually have backup fuel stashed away. But even then, we maintain so many defensive modules that having them flicked on and off like a light switch is bound to wreck havoc, especially when the system can't determine which modules it should and shouldn't allow to be online lest it overload the grid.

hey maybe not monthly, 6 monthly perhaps give entities time to capture, then profit from their conquest, but not give any one a perma license to print isk.

Tal