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PROPOSAL: New purpose for Mobile Siphons
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Elyia Suze Nagala
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2017-05-18 01:01:28 UTC
Perhaps they shouldn't be called dead yet. Just an idea, what if:

They could be setup so that they would mine unattended moon goo asteroid belts created by the up coming refineries. The advantage of these is basically the structures around it will not attack them, only direct player interaction would result in them being destroyed.

The higher the meta of the Siphon, the quicker the cycle times and/or ore storage, thus the quicker the profit and the greater the chance of reward before the refinery owner can defend his asteroid field.

This proposal gives new functionality to the soon to be defunct deployables, and could make countering the economic gains of an adversary more easily achieved.
Nevyn Auscent
Broke Sauce
#2 - 2017-05-18 01:08:12 UTC
So basically a return to passive mining, since the owner would use them on their own field instead.
How about NO!
Lugh Crow-Slave
#3 - 2017-05-18 01:19:43 UTC
Or we just call them dead.

Tbh they were dead week one

BLOPS Hauler
The 16.8km Bubble
Casivek Andrard
True Drone Expanse
What Could Possibly Go Wr0ng
#4 - 2017-05-18 02:21:15 UTC
Elyia Suze Nagala wrote:
Perhaps they shouldn't be called dead yet. Just an idea, what if:

They could be setup so that they would mine unattended moon goo asteroid belts created by the up coming refineries. The advantage of these is basically the structures around it will not attack them, only direct player interaction would result in them being destroyed.

The higher the meta of the Siphon, the quicker the cycle times and/or ore storage, thus the quicker the profit and the greater the chance of reward before the refinery owner can defend his asteroid field.

This proposal gives new functionality to the soon to be defunct deployables, and could make countering the economic gains of an adversary more easily achieved.


This is worse off than the one I proposed as it promotes afk gameplay, this in it's essence would only waste the time of the devs with what they have intended to do with the changes this winter.

The only way something like this would even work is if it only works when the owner is on grid, and is a one time use.


For those interested in what my proposal is here is the link as to not just hijack this thread.
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=6943357#post6943357
Lugh Crow-Slave
#5 - 2017-05-18 03:12:22 UTC
A thread so redundant it links to the other thread i love this

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