Karn Velora
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Posted - 2010.12.20 02:40:00 -
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Edited by: Karn Velora on 20/12/2010 02:45:29
I have not noticed my extractors having any change in the yield at all, making me think there's another type of depletion at work altogether... Could it be that "depletion" is simply a function of the number of harvesters already placed in an area, and once placed, the harvesters keep the yield they were created with? That would mean you don't notice depletion after your colony has been built, however, any opportunist that shows up and dumps extractors on top of yours, will notice a low yield, as someone else is already grabbing the ores. That would also safeguard people from "assault-extraction" or "grief-extraction" - ruining other people's business and rendering expensive permanent non-refundable investments useless. And yes, you really can build your extractors smack on top of another player's operation; I've done it myself. (Hey, I wanted the NonCS Crystals!)
Such a functionality would be easier than any other to implement as resources are indeed stationary and unchanging, and determining yield would be a simple a matter of BaseResource-(NrOfExtractors*constant) at the time of the extractor's construction.
Currently, we have just about zero information on the subject. The wiki mentions "Please note: This entire section is based on comments by CCP Incognito." Based on comments, and later references to undiclosed factors - this is vague at best. Without looking at Incognito's statements first hand, there's no telling how all this actually works. From what I can see myself so far though... I'd wager a guess: either it takes a heck of a lot of extracting to deplete anything to a noticeable degree, or "depletion" may just be a fancy word for "too many harvesters already", like I described above.
Who knows? Would be nice to know though.
Should be easy to check though... Take two alts, dump a crapload of extractors in the same hotspot, and copy the operation with the other alt. If the chars have different extraction rates, despite being in the exact same spot... then ya'll owe me a cookie. :) I'll find out soon enough though, as I plan to have my alt copy my own setup, and "clone" the colonies. If anything funny is going on, I should know in about... oh... 48 hours or so.
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