Just something I was thinking about and wanted to bounce it off the forums.

Due to a night temp of "Satan's butthole hot" I was unable to get as much beauty sleep as someone of my stunningly handsome stature requires. So I decided to do what any normal person would do when they're up at oh-**** o-clock in the morning, I logged into EVE and settled in to do some mining.

After checking a few belts, I noticed something. Virtually all of the advanced versions of the standard ores had been stripped out. This was curious, so I swept all of the belts in the system I was in and I found a cluster of barges near the end of the list hoovering out the Azure Plagio and Viscous Pyro. Perhaps its just this system, a few early risers or people on different timezones. Out of curiosity, I decided to check other belts in other systems just to see what there was to see.

The same story, advanced ores stripped out. I checked a total of twelve systems and the story was the same; a group of miners chewed away at roughly half the belt and removed almost all of the higher yield ores.

The time when I checked? +1 hour after end of daily downtime.

Essentially, a great deal of the mineral wealth of belts is stripped out in the blink of an eye before most can get to the belt.

I'm curious to get other people's feedback. Do you think this is a problem?

Why or why not?

Nope it is not a problem,

Downtime is at 11:00 am EvE GMT so the Date line is starting at 11:00 pm the same day and the other side is at 11:00pm the previous day.

And due to the fact New Zealand and Australia and Russians contain a small percentage of the players so they gobble a small amount in their before bed period. then in Europe the story gets a bit worse as they have the whole afternoon following work to mine but again they are still a minority number of players.

Finally we get to America making up the majority of players and they subsequently destroy what is left.

So although the current system is beneficial to New Zealanders then Australians and Russians, then progressing west, there is no other way to do it. If you had the DT more beneficial to Americans that would mean nothing at all would remain for the rest of the world.

So in saying that the main people the current DT time helps is the unemployed world wide and they would not care what time the DT is anyway.

Have you considered moving to a less populated area there are a lot of them still around where almost nothing is touched except on weekends?

Edit: or you could move to Australia, New Zealand, Rassia or a lot of nice places away from the backwards hemisphere

Finally we get to America making up the majority of players a minority (actually, a third) and they subsequently destroy what is left.

Nope it is not a problem,



Finally we get to America making up the majority of players and they subsequently destroy what is left.

Mining away from your home base is a pain, and more of a pain now due to the barge changes. Previously you would fly to the "away" mining site, mine your ore, refine it, dump the minerals into the barge and fly home.

Now the minerals will not go into the barge as they are not ore. So you got to fly the barge home, switch ships and do another round trip.

This is the exact opposite of trying to get people to spread out. It encourages you to mine in your home system. I propose the "ore hold" be changed to a "mining hold" that can hold both ore and refined products.

Note: For me this is actually not an issue as I multibox 2 hulks and an orca. But for a new miner with their first barge, it encourages staying in one system.

If you didn't insist on playing an MMO solo this would not be an issue.

People who work in teams have haulers and don't have to mine 2 jumps away from Jita where the ore is gone by DT + 1 hour.

Ever notice how 90% of the "problems" are only problems for solo players?