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Montaire
Lacedaemon. Fallen Souls
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Posted - 2007.08.12 03:50:00 -
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I see a lot of people bieng upset about mineral compression getting hurt. Keeping in mind that I am a serious hardcore 0.0 logistics officer, I love these changes.
Mineral compression was basicly a completly broken work-around. It got around existing game mechanics in a way that was badly abused.
Moving minerals around is not supposed to be easy. Its supposed to take freighters and haulers to do so. Ever see all the trucks running on the roads, or the trains - those are moving things. Logistics is a big deal and frankly right now its too easy.
So now instead of moving TRIT your going to move Compressed Veld, at probably a pretty damn decent compression ratio.
And Motivated Profit said "I can move a titan and half of mins with one carrier" --- This is so ludicrous that it borders on insanity. (Although my shares are probably going to get a hit) You shouldnt be able to do those things.
Just because you've been able to borderline-exploit a broken mechanic for months doesnt mean that the mechanic shouldnt be fixed. Frankly the ease at which so many mins could be moved with such little risk was somthing I allways felt was wrong with EVE. Supply lines are CRITICAL, one of the most important things a real general has to deal with is getting his troops ammo, food and water.
Logistics should be a very legit target in alliance warfare and they havent been partly because mineral compression works so well. Its easy to get what you need out to super-deep 0.0 and build what you want with relative ease and immunity. And without ever having to mine at all.
Im VERY glad of these changes, and I think they will make eve a deeper, richer experience.
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Montaire
Lacedaemon. Fallen Souls
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Posted - 2007.08.12 13:38:00 -
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Originally by: Lazaroth well this pretty much kills the hope for the little guys who had any hope or dreams about building the big stuff. I'm sorely disappointed there has to be a better way then this..
Laz
No, it doesnt.
In about 30 mins me and 5 other Logistics people worked completely around this issue in a cost effective way that was only about 10% more time consuming than our current method.
What this does is increase the probability that any mineral you use will be MINED instead of originating in reprocessed loot. Which overall isnt necessarily a bad thing.
Anyone who take a few mins to reason on this issue is goingto realise its NOT a bad thing.
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Montaire
Lacedaemon. Fallen Souls
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Posted - 2007.08.13 14:03:00 -
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Okay, get over it.
ALL this means is that you have a 20% 'tax' on compressing your mins for ludicrous, easy jumping and movment. 430:1 -- And you thought this gravy train was going to go on forever ? Now thats just stupid.
Its a trade off, and a pretty decent one at that. Eve is full of them.
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