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Preparation for removal of Belts?
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Danbar Roth
Tax Avoidance LTD
#1 - 2013-04-28 14:12:48 UTC
With the coming expansion and the movement of Grav belts to the System scanner and the fancy new graphics for it, is this a push towards the removal of normal belts and the introduction of just grav sites for mining?

Wouldn't be hard to do, remove re-spawn of normal belts after DT and just let them fade out over new eden and bump up the grav site frequency x5 maybe x10
Brooks Puuntai
Solar Nexus.
#2 - 2013-04-28 14:14:18 UTC
About time if they did.

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Danbar Roth
Tax Avoidance LTD
#3 - 2013-04-28 14:16:26 UTC
I agree, I think it would be great, add that even small increase in the "enjoyment" (lol) of mining
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#4 - 2013-04-28 14:16:48 UTC
Sure hope so. The current rock fields make no sense anyway.
Josef Djugashvilis
#5 - 2013-04-28 14:17:59 UTC
Make sure you have some braces.

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Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2013-04-28 14:23:10 UTC
*lol* imagine the outcry from all the miners ...
Lors Dornick
Kallisti Industries
#7 - 2013-04-28 14:25:04 UTC
Solstice Project wrote:
*lol* imagine the outcry from all the miners ...

Depends, not all miners are afk or bots ;)

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Abrazzar
Vardaugas Family
#8 - 2013-04-28 14:27:12 UTC
Solstice Project wrote:
*lol* imagine the outcry from all the miners ...

I'm sorry, but I won't be able to hear that outcry over the sound of my own cheering.Bear

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Felicity Love
Doomheim
#9 - 2013-04-28 14:28:44 UTC
Danbar Roth wrote:
With the coming expansion and the movement of Grav belts to the System scanner and the fancy new graphics for it, is this a push towards the removal of normal belts and the introduction of just grav sites for mining?



99% certain this has been mentioned at Fanfest discussions before, as a desireable change.

Could be that ice fields are not only the "guinea pig" for this idea, but also the first of several changes yet to come.

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Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#10 - 2013-04-28 14:29:39 UTC
Lors Dornick wrote:
Solstice Project wrote:
*lol* imagine the outcry from all the miners ...

Depends, not all miners are afk or bots ;)
Oh, i wasn't talking about these exclusively. ^_^

There are bots, afk miners, those who simply oppose any change,
those who believe that it's too much of a hassle and not worth their time,
then there will be those thinking that it'll be even more dangerous,
those who won't simply be able to warp to a site, because they don't understand it (yes, i'm serious),
those who'll complain about belts being gone simply because they are gone ...

... now my brain hurts.
Brooks Puuntai
Solar Nexus.
#11 - 2013-04-28 14:45:20 UTC
Abrazzar wrote:
Solstice Project wrote:
*lol* imagine the outcry from all the miners ...

I'm sorry, but I won't be able to hear that outcry over the sound of my own cheering.Bear


Its been a long fight.

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Danbar Roth
Tax Avoidance LTD
#12 - 2013-04-28 15:17:16 UTC
It kinda makes good sense now really, with the tags for sec system thats coming in and the reduced need for ratting for sec I think dropping all the belts to grav sites would be a great introduction now everything is set up
Nexus Day
Lustrevik Trade and Travel Bureau
#13 - 2013-04-28 15:21:56 UTC
Tippia wrote:
Sure hope so. The current rock fields make no sense anyway.

Because there are no asteroid belts in space?
Danbar Roth
Tax Avoidance LTD
#14 - 2013-04-28 15:25:28 UTC
Nexus Day wrote:
Tippia wrote:
Sure hope so. The current rock fields make no sense anyway.

Because there are no asteroid belts in space?


Their are but how many do we have in our solar system? Not saying its the same in each one but 1-20 a system? if your going for realism then you point is invalid
Eddie Meth
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#15 - 2013-04-28 15:27:14 UTC
Nexus Day wrote:
Tippia wrote:
Sure hope so. The current rock fields make no sense anyway.

Because there are no asteroid belts in space?


Rather because they do not appear from thin air, and mined they tend to dissapear. Or reduce size.
Makoto Priano
Kirkinen-Arataka Transhuman Zenith Consulting Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#16 - 2013-04-28 15:30:25 UTC
Also, because they're weird small semi-circles with rocks in close proximity, whereas the belt in our system is much more diffuse, and covers the whole system.

+1 for ring mining and grav sites.

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Perkone
Caldari State
#17 - 2013-04-28 15:38:01 UTC
Eddie Meth wrote:
Nexus Day wrote:
Tippia wrote:
Sure hope so. The current rock fields make no sense anyway.

Because there are no asteroid belts in space?


Rather because they do not appear from thin air, and mined they tend to dissapear. Or reduce size.


Yeah because the fact that asteroids respawn is literally the only aspect of EVE to require a healthy suspension of disbelief in order to maintain the illusion of this perfectly realistic space simulator...
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#18 - 2013-04-28 15:40:54 UTC
Nexus Day wrote:
Tippia wrote:
Sure hope so. The current rock fields make no sense anyway.

Because there are no asteroid belts in space?

Asteroid belts, yes. Rock fields, no. The closest thing you get are planetary rings. The average distance between asteroids is measured in millions of kilometers — not the thousands of meters we have in EVE.
Danny Hanther
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#19 - 2013-04-28 15:56:06 UTC
Nexus Day wrote:
Tippia wrote:
Sure hope so. The current rock fields make no sense anyway.

Because there are no asteroid belts in space?


real asteroid belts have all the asteroids miles apart from each other.
stoicfaux
#20 - 2013-04-28 16:00:29 UTC
Tippia wrote:
Nexus Day wrote:
Tippia wrote:
Sure hope so. The current rock fields make no sense anyway.

Because there are no asteroid belts in space?

Asteroid belts, yes. Rock fields, no. The closest thing you get are planetary rings. The average distance between asteroids is measured in millions of kilometers — not the thousands of meters we have in EVE.

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