EVE General Discussion

the reason concord was always in an ice belt was for protection against suicide gankers

here's the trick

have someone in a rookie ship sacrifice himself to bring concord to the belt. they hire on someone once to trigger concord

when blown up concord always sits in the belt for hours

now making in suicide ganker get insta popped if they tried.




great protection tactic that has been used for years, at least since 2007 when I started

Here's my feedback.

The new ice anomaly system is working fine.

1) Curtailed the never-ending ISK fountain of ice. Check.

2) Encourages pilots to cooperate and communicate in an interactive manner, if only to take turns "keeping watch" for the next ice anom and then spreading the word. (Or not, if they feel devious and decide to shiv their "buddies".) Check.

3) Put a serious crimp in botting. Check.

I had no trouble findng ice anoms on the first day. You click on the "Scan" icon on your hud, keep it activated, and the scanner will sweep the skies every minute or so. EASY. Even for the whiners.

Then again, I only have two ships -- not 6, 8 or 12.

Which is to say I didn't get addicted to a single, zero-effort style of game play to pay for my PLEX each month.

GOOD JOB, CCP... the new ice anom system gets the slackers OFF THE DOLE.

Which is why I said "serious crimp" rather than something along the lines of "extinct".

In case you did not notice, bots infest ore belts just fine and ore belts have the same roid depletion mechanic.

There's also a "perk" I have found out in the scanner window that makes a simple algo able to detect the ice belts and auto warp to them.

Note:
sitting in belt you can be suicide ganked
sitting in station - you are safe

addition to player interaction i guess

Sounds like ice miners are getting a s.mall taste of what it's like to live in a wormhole, waiting for sites to randomly spawn.

Many of you ice miners are looking at the spawn mechanics the wrong way. CCP wants to limit high sec to only 80% of the total population's ice needs. This means, if you are a miner and not finding belts, then you will need to maybe look somewhere else besides high sec.

For those of you old enough to remember, back in the 70s and 80s, it was common to see 3 or 4 gas stations at the same intersection in various spots across towns. Now, its rare to see more than 2 per an intersection. What happened to the other gas stations? They closed up and disappeared or moved to another location. If you can't see the analogy I am making, then you will most likely be one of the ice miners who disappears.

.. and like in WHs they can make hundreds of millions a hou.... oh wait.

Blah blah I have done mining everywhere. Guess what, even just to go mine low sec you need to be part of a powerful corporation that can protect the miners (and only a minority of low sec corps want to do that), camp the gates and scount the WHs.

In case it was not clear enough, those who do pay $15 but can only play 1-2 hours a day, are not welcome to those corps, neither because of being industrialists (and not PvPers) nor because of doing so little in the corp.

I *was* in such a corp, then RL took over and now, no low or null sec adventures for me any more.

But keep harpying, I am sure you'll convince those RL work bosses to give bountiful additional hours to their workers so they can join what's needed to go mine low / null sec.

It should be less then 80% of the total ice needs. But it's a good start.