EVE General Discussion

Wow do you need some cheese with that whine, seriously I live in the US and I can say personally 5 minutes before downtime there is plenty of roids untouched in every part of highsec / Lowsec / Null. You sir take lazy to a whole new level.

While I understand the mentality of "LOL, move further nub!" I can see what he's getting at.

I'm starting to see it too. Almost every 0.5 we travel to seems to have people stripping it clean daily.

CCP, can we get some sort of metrics on how many roids deplete per system and/or how many systems ever reach belt depletion? The further and further out from trade hubs miners have to go the more adverse new people will be to mining.

It's kinda sad that Veldspar is more valuable than omber right now and scordite is the most valuable ore in all of highsec.

Do we really need that much pyerite and tritanium?! Scordite has been on top for a while now, and even though it is just as abundant as veldspar the price isn't being driven down much at all by people mining it.

We need either denser roids or new refiner values if we ever wanna make low end minerals actually have low end value (per m3 of ore mined).

Also why the hell does kernite show up in Caldari and Minmatar lowsec? why not dark ochre?!

ABCs and Mercoxit can be the null sec ores.

use the map statistics if you're getting frustrated. 0.5 sec status systems with low activity or no station in system are always a good bet. if the system or the system next door has a station with the best base refine efficiency (50%?) then you've hit gold, or kenite more likely. and you can most likely tap this system every time you want to mine and contract the minerals if it's really far away from a trade hub, it's really very inexpensive.

There is one reason why scordite holds better value, IMO: asteroids are small and thus less proficent to bot. The average scordite asteroid will waste most of any third cycle before depleting and triggering the bot to lock another one.

It does not work like that. That is the Cosmic Anomally and Cosmic Signature way of re-spawn. In the public belts roids re-spawn or grow at down time.

Oddly in the last month or so this problem has been slightly less. Last night I actually found plenty of ore with little searching. On a Sunday night (US west coast time), usually the worst possible time to get ore.

(a) go to dotlan, click on your desired region, click on systems till you find one without a station. Congratulations you just found maxgrowth roids an hour before downtime. Bonus points for choosing a deadend that nobody goes to where you don't get ganked.

(b) mining missions

(c) do low level combat missions until you get a big belt, and then mine that - bonus points for being in a private deadspace where only combat probes can find you and enjoy your relatively gankfree existence.

(d) probe some gravs.

To answer that first question, yes. Yes we do. Tritanium is the basic building block of EVERYTHING and pyerite is pretty close to that too.

As the single largest group of players are in the U.S. it may well be something CCP will look at in time.

"He who pays the piper calls the tune" and all that class of thing.

Mind you, as others have said, just move away from the major trade hubs etc and there are plenty of belts to mine.

Because 0.0 mineral supply is grossly imbalanced towards the ABCs.

Exactly. While 0.0 really only mine the ABCs highsec is the bottleneck for all of the low ends. That is why mining in highsec (esp mining veld) still remains profitable and there are still teams of guys (and bots I assume) flying around targeting purely veld and scordite.