Science & Industry

Yeah, which is the incursion code. No way CCP is stupid enough to let people hold them open.

I run combat anomalies all the time. They most definitely despawn, as a signature, whether you leave them or not. The space doesn't vanish off grid until you leave, but the scannable definitely disappears whether you leave or not.

welcome to the party, you're late. however, the good news is that we haven't quite run out of beer yet!

bots don't need to scan. you just warp to the anom that you automatically scan for on session change.

Rather bad move I believe.

I like the idea of depletable ice belts, don't get me wrong. Not against having scannable ice belts too. But essentially they are creating a scenario which will impact things even worse than the drone poo evaporation.

Let's be clear everyone knows where these belts will be, they are in already existing ice systems. Guess where the cloaky cyno droppers and bombers will be in the future? Doesn't take a genius to figure it out.

I think the mistake is much like the drone poo they are taking it to far to quickly. A transitory stage where they reduce the size of current static belts, start having ice deplete from space, and sprinking in hidden ice belts to see how the changes go would have less market impact, but given the history of how they essentially killed the drone regions I won't hold my breath.

The Ore belt rebalancing could help address problems that the drone poo evaporation created, however if you depress the value of minerals by introducing more of them, less miners will mine them and thus less of that resource will be available creating inflation, this is something that the devs don't seem to understand or don't care about.

Anyway back to ice, the way I'd rather see changes would be ihub upgrades for each racial ice that added a belt of racial specific ice to a system in a hidden belt. It's fine if it decays as mined out, even okay if it takes this belt 4 hours to respawn in the system. I think that would be a better way to handle the situation, and move more mining to 0.0, plus it would allow ice mining in virtually any system that had an ihub.

Are you playing an alternate Eve in a parallel universe? There was nothing bad about the death of gun-mining.

Hopefully current stockpiles hold up until the high sec peoples can secure that 80% we need daily.

I expect something along the lines of hulkageddon to happen once this change is made though. Best way to capitalize on the market speculation.

I think a lot of you are missing this.

http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/resource-shakeup-blog#ICE



This means that if you mine a site dry in an hour, then there's going to be 3 hours where the system will have nothing.

Massive fleets are either going to have to move, depending on their extraction rates, or they are going to have a fair bit of downtime.

Spawn, GO GO GO, depleted...
wait wait wait,
Respawn GO GO GO, depleted.
wait wait wait
go find something else to do.


They are halving the cycle time too, so things will deplete faster IMO.
It will be interesting to see just how many miners a site can support over 4 hours.
It will be even more interesting to see just how random visitors will be treated by existing locals.


There may be a case for Ice miners using their own alts to suicide unwelcome miners.
Having Ice miners eat their own kind makes me warm and fuzzy.

You quoted me too early.

Stop that.

And a long pause between spawns will definately mess with bots.

I wish they would remove Ice from all high sec and be done with it.

The fact several years ago the ice fields stopped refilling has had little to no impact on ice at all...