Jonathan Dawnchaser
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2009.11.10 23:07:00 -
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1. Just because your alliance can't Flag all those systems doesn't mean you can't utilize them still. You are still able to rove through them ratting and what not.
2. Even if another alliance tries to move it, it will take 7 days to get to Sov level 1. When does Cyno Jammer become available? Level 3? (based on the dev blog showing strategic 3 with cyno suppression as a "?") That takes 35 days. I am sure a big alliance can cobble together some sort of fleet op given 7 weeks.
3. It would be nice if the "biweekly" cost could be subsidized by minerals. Thereby allowing mining to directly pay for system costs, but that would tamper with the market (unless the mineral floor was less than the market rates). But then it removes player interaction.
3b. Instead what your alliance can do is to try to establish "little Jitas." Hubs on the edge of low-high sec to vend all the stuff you loot. Put enough bulk for a particular segment and you can attract usage (be it buy or sell orders). The only reason Jita is popular is because of its "one-stop shopping" appeal. You or I might not get the best prices, but we aren't going to have many of the 200-300 unique item stacks left over for lack of a potential buyer/seller.
4. Yeah it sucks that POS refining isn't instant, but if it was, those POSes would be offlined until there is a large quantity of ore ready to be refined. Refining time is to encourage pipelining, which encourages stations always being on. Maybe CCP can be convinced to allow a refinery array to be tied to the system Sov (i.e. can't be offlined) and then get a bonus from the Industry Level to reduce the refining time. Since the Industrial level is tied to utilization, the more you use it, the better you get at using it.
5. Yeah the market value of a lot of ore/minerals is low. And while there isn't anything that can be done for highsec minerals, but nullsec minerals can be increased in value by engaging in corporate sabotage. Go attack each other. You don't even need to necessarily fight, just being in the constellation can send miners scurrying to their holes. Congratulations, you didn't blow up a ship, but you just interrupted production.
This effects the supply of minerals on the market, which can in turn drive up the demand price.
6. I know I am suggesting changes in our behavior, but that is what CCP is going for with Dominion. They are changing the rules of the game to force player groups to adapt their strategies because as it is now (pre-Dominion), certain strategies are just so effective (moon mining) that others can be neglected entirely.
And it is entirely possible that these changes may encourage CCP to make refinery arrays better than 75% yield as a best case.
No matter what, I know that just whining is not going to convince CCP of anything except that they need to make another HTFU rap video (*shiver*).
This post wouldn't be complete if I didn't plug my bid for a seat on CSM4. To everyone that didn't "TL;DR": Thanks for reading.
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