Kahega Amielden
Minmatar
Suddenly Ninjas
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Posted - 2009.03.29 05:09:00 -
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Granted we are, as a player base, relatively new to w-space, however with so many players already throwing in the towel I can already see T3 as a widespread item is doomed. Players in general hate gas harvesting with a passion, and I agree a new type of mining ship dedicated to gas harvesting might actually loosen this bottleneck. A ship both able to run Gas Harvesters and able to take severe punishment from sleeper spawns. This ship should have no other use in game, not even ore mining.
This would be because the vast majority of the playerbase does wormhole exploration like this
a) Scan down WH in hisec
b) Go through. Scan down sites and run them. Pray that you don't get ganked because you're totally incapable of watching your d-scanner
c) Farm the ****tiest spawns wormhole space has to offer
There are six "Classes" of wormhole space. You're not going to find much good going one wormhole deep from hisec, as you're going to be in the ****tiest space.
Once real wormhole exploration starts getting done, T3 will be a bit more common
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The next major issue is with so many sites in a compact area in w-space, the recent nerf bat to DSP, and no available history for sites scanning has become total hell in w-space. You basically need a character with very good skills, a cov ops, sisters probes and launcher, and a implant set to even make it worth the time. Now while I agree it needs to be difficult this is a bit much for the player base to deal with. I'm not asking to make it easier, but at least give scanners a way to distinguish things they have already scanned via the scanning interface. If it has already been "pinpointed" a player should be able to toggle it on and off of his/her map.
That's making it easier. One of the skills involved is scanning is interpreting results...it's not hard to look at a hit and say "hmm, that hits runs right next to a site I already scanned down. I'm going to stop scanning it because I know I'm just rescanning the same ****"
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The bottom line here is with the current mechanics T3 prices will never fall to the places CCP intended. Now while some of you may be thinking I am whining about current prices or I cannot afford a T3 ship, you are sorely mistaken. Right now T3 is a luxury only the very rich can afford. I want to see T3 get used regularly in PvP and be replaced daily. I want to see it become yet another major part of the player driven economy. I want T3 to actually become available to the general player base.
T3 production is incredibly complex and most people know **** all about properly exploration W-space. You can say nothing about what t3 will be like until things settle down a bit more.
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