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Only if you assume that people mine cobalt at a profit...
Which they don't

Hmm… was that before or after he said it to everyone present (and watching the stream) at fanfest?

Pff! That just proves you're in on the conspiracy. Everyone knows you shouldn't crumple the foil — that creates mini-parabolas that strengthens the signal. It needs to be smooth an angular to deflect stuff, stealth-fighter style.

Sure. Why not? OTEC put a lot of effort into monopolizing the tech market, so why shouldn't they be rewarded for that?
But now there is a theoretical limit for how far they can raise their prices- and that sounds good to me.

Clearly the solution is to add moon goo into wormhole space. There's hundreds of completely empty wormholes just waiting to poop out tech. Combine that with NOT listening to the terrible ideas about "stabilisers" and whatnot and you'd actually have some interesting mechanics imo.

I high-lighted the whiny part.

gees.. another day, another plonker

Oh man, OTEC is probably going to QQ pretty hard at this. But I'm pretty sure they've already extracted their trillions out of it already.

on a semi-related note, wouldn't it be spiffy if, in the real world, if we don't like OPEC having a monopoly on virtually all the oil on Earth, we could just "tweak" the laws of chemistry and physics so anyone can make a replacement for oil in their basement?

ah, if only reality had benevolent Devs.

Yea that and your request for Ice belts not 3 pages ago too right?

The system he describes did however not only come from those changes.
There were other realizations involved as well. For example that the people that pay you for access to a 0.0 system are generally not the people you want to have to call upon for its defense; they are usually rather useless. Additionally you will need some sort of bidirectional communication channel over which you will leak bits of critical information into corporate structures that are probably much easier to infiltrate than your own.

And you did not address his main point, that from conquering the towers to the protection of the supply routes, moon mining is player-driven pvp income. And it is to be converted into stupid plex carebear ****, further removing EvE from its once proud pvp core.
And if you take the 1500 players that regularly show up for tech timers (both sides combined), average the form up, actual fight etc at 4 hours and take 80m isk/h as base for PVE activities in 0.0, those people could actually have earned 480billion ISK. New ISK, not ISK aquired from other players via market.
In the end, this means that the tech moon needs to be uncontested for over 40 months, to generate more income than the people that fought over it could have earned instead.

The economy would be lying weeping in a corner, were it not for the fact that these fights over tech towers occur with all their ship losses, instead of those players doing something else.

That said, the t2 production system in the days of dysprosium and promethium was broken. And the fixed technetium system is broken even more. It is just sad, that more and more sandbox content gets replaced with themepark **** as that is easier to balance.

I'm a proponent of such an idea.

Opponents state that keeping it static causes tension and pvp to happen.

We know the realities not quite what is desired.

feck...