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Posted - 2009.06.05 00:33:00 -
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 Originally by: Akita T
Edited by: Akita T on 05/06/2009 00:26:48
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Yes, you heard right, Veldspar was originally intended to be worth barely above 1/16 of Arkonor, but due to all these changes which are basically CCP's doing (ironically, in the name of free market and all that nonsense) it ended up as being one of the more valuable ores in spite of its abundance due to the imbalance between obtainable amounts and needed amounts in the system.
So, after CCP radically changed just about everything about the mineral prices, and screwed up the supply side of it all by so many additional vanues to obtain minerals... what exactly do they do for mining itself, which is not completely off the initial balance ? NOTHING !
So, they can break anything (as long as it's not intentional and are not aware of the repercussions it would have, in spite of many players warning them of the exact type of effect their changes will have), but when it comes to fixing things, it's suddendly "we can't interfere"... well, guess what, you already interfered in the first place, so you might as well interfere a bit more to fix what you broke in the first place.
Of course, why would anybody bother with lowsec belts (granted, lowsec ore sites are marginally decent), when you can get just as much, if not MORE cash from mining just about anything you can find in highsec ? And why risk 0.0 mining (good luck even GETTING in a place with enough Ark, you'd be lucky if you have access to Crok) when it pays barely two or three times more than safely shuffling for Veldspar in highsec ?
Is it any wonder nobody bothers mining in lowsec anymore ? And that outside of deep alliance-controlled 0.0 space, very few people bother mining ?
The solutions are multiple, yet for years, CCP has done nothing.
It can be something as simple as, for instance, completely revamping the CONTENTS of ores, so that in similar security ratings you usually obtain just about everything you need for ship construction in the proper ratios if you mine some of each type of ore... the only difference being that you'd get more of everything as you go on to ore that can only be found in lower sec ratings. It's a brutal change, but it would be an extremely EFFECTIVE change.
Another alternative would be a complete revamp of the mining system, with all ores available everywhere, but instead of having a fixed yield regardless of asteroid mined, you could have things like 1/10 yield, or x10 yield, depening on type of ore and security rating you find yourself in (Arkonor rocks in highsec would have the lowest possible yields but x1 yields in deep 0.0, while Veldspar rocks would have x1.0 yields in highest highsec, but insane x10 or even x16 yields in deep 0.0).
And those are just two of many possible fixes.
What do we see ?
Nothing.
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