EVE General Discussion

Ring mining... I thought I'd try and look up a bit on it....


If you are going to look it up, don't make spelling mistakes and hit "I'm Feeling Lucky".... its not pretty and its not natural :)

It's rather conventional, if unimaginative. From an industrialist perspective, picking up stakes and putting down stakes for moon mining is extra work that they can do without. It gets tedious after the umpteenth time - not to mention the behind the scenes logistics. There will also be a need to perform regular moon scans - who's going to get saddled with that? Ultimately, the whole idea of a dynamic (and even static) moon resource needs to be scrapped and design be modified to player centric resource building. In short, you build upgrades and such to improve yields. The moon yields themselves should be re-balanced to a commodity level similar to PI, so there will be no single bottleneck that drives prices up for one item.

Now some people might say there's no conflict driver if you remove the T2 moon goo off the table. Is that that completely true?

Regions/constellations themselves can be coloured with various "space bonuses" that affects everything you do in it. (Where have you seen this? wormholes) This would differentiate the best regions and the worst regions on a scale. The gist of it, move the conflict drivers into something that easily more changeable/controllable (from a game designer standpoint), de-coupling it from an item to an area effect that requires a more holistic player investments (i.e. not just setting up a POS and mine away).

^^ This above statement is a total complete lie.

The moment Tech (or any other high end moon) is discovered, it will drive conflict. No one will just sit by twiddling their thumbs while a neighboring enemy gets rich. That said you will need to nerf power projection (which needs to be nerfed insanely hard anyways) in order to keep the super power blocks from just trans-versing the galaxy in fifteen minutes to sit their fat ass on the latest high end moon that pops up.

Sure there will be other tweaks that need to be made, but to say no one will engage and just wait their turn is simply asinine.

Any change to moon mining the Null bear GOONs and their pets will eventually whine like little babies saying it is too hard for them blah blah blah blah. But do not worry someone high up will go....never mind cannot really say that without getting in trouble.

Once the ring mining comes out we will hear the 0.0 tears hitting the floor as a flood comes crashing through the forums
anyone got a few spare freighters?

"People will travel farther and fight more if it's harder to travel because ________"

Purestrain publord, right ther.

yeah just some badass OTEC member who spends his day probing one of the 100,000+ moons in 0.0/low that take 40 minutes per probe is going to stumble upon your sweet brand new tech moon

sounds like something to worry about

tl;dr - "rotating moon goo deposits" is an idea invariably suggested by people who have never probed a single moon ever

With the untimely passing of the Dear Leader, who among us is left to look at the things?



are you kidding, that would be awesome

It's a terrible idea and a completely unnecessary effort.

CCP knows how to fix moon-mining, it is simply a rebalance of components, with depleting and semi-randomized mineable "t2 belts" to relieve pressure on any new bottleneck the system creates.

Stop coming up with awful ideas and, even more importantly, stop making awful threads about said awful ideas.

This can be locked now.

having them rotate in a predictable manner is a bad idea. they should be randomly spawned in 0.0. forces people to go out and look for them. nothing wrong with having some exploration in a space game. might even give some smaller entities the chance at some before the larger ones discover it and take it.