Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Do not deny the stagnation that has consumed most of 0.0 conquest.

Its not a punch in the mouth, its just another level of complexity into a game that obviously isn't complex enough yet.

=)

Right now Moon control is easy if you have simple numerical advantages. There is little actual ~effort involved.

I am glad that you are starting to see the light. This change combined with other renovations in the POS, material, and infrastructure part of the game will move everything in a positive direction. =)

move along troll

This idea will only negatively effect the organizations with disloyal scouts. Because It is simple to expect that anyone out scanning would quickly bring in their own tower with an alt corp or otherwise, before informing the alliance directorate. Sure, this Idea is HALF BAKED. But there is promise to dynamic distribution.

I do believe that dynamic distribution is more appropriate than a one-time redistribution.

If I was trolling I'd make some comment about Raiden. throwing away all their tech moons overnight and then you suddenly deciding that it wasn't fair that your leadership's incompetence had disadvantaged you, so everyone else's tech moons should be thrown away by a CCP diceroll every three months to level the playing field.

The idea is bad for multiple reasons (though to be fair it was bad every other time it has been suggested by other people too), as have been posted over and over in this thread and elsewhere, and when confronted with tangible objections you handwaved dismissively and finally suggested that, rather than changing the Bad Idea, it should just happen less often.

That could probably work too.

If the Money Moon was an r64, any r64, there'd be much less complaining because r64s have a much more equal distribution throughout the cluster unlike the mostly northern-based technetium.

I think everyone who is touting moon depletion/moon shifting is forgetting 2 things:

#1. How much of a pain it is to scan moons - For a large alliance, they may control thousands of moons, even if the moon materials only ever respawned at downtime, that means that every moon would have to be re-scaned every day.

#2. Knowing where the moon mats are keeps material prices low - This example is obviously extreme, but imagine if tomorrow, all of the moon materials disappeared and were randomly reseeded on different moons. the price of T2 would go through the roof because most of the moons wouldnt be scanned for weeks!

Right now, basically any moon that is worth mining is being mined, and the only other factor effecting the prices is carteling. If moons were randomly reseeded, you would have the chance that some of the moons with critical materials like tech on them dont get scanned for weeks or months! That would be months of non production on top of all the other market factors.

TL;DR
Random reseeds of moon materials would make the situation worse not better.

We get around this by paying our dudes to do moonscans and finders fees for money moons.

Guaranteed payout for reporting in a moon beats potential payout with the risk of getting your altcorp tower sieged by the next group of moonscanners.