Ai Mei
Starfish Operating Syndicate
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Posted - 2011.08.25 06:55:00 -
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Listen, Greyscale.
The problem with making changes is going to be is this. Too many problems are so entrenched that nothing is ever going to change.
Removing high sec ice - WORST IDEA EVER!! Take a note from hulkageddon, in the 9 days that hulkageddons happened, ice prices went up nearly 50% in a lot of places within that 9 day period. Now imagine what would happen if you removed all high sec ice? You will be looking at prices of 1-2,000 isk per isotope, if not more. People dont ice mine in 0.0 anymore because pos towers are not required to have sov in the system. Most of the time you just have a tower for moon goo, a cyno jammer, a jump bridge, and a capital construction factory. Thats it, you dont need anymore than that to hold control.
Next ask yourself the question - why would anyone ice mine when they can simply rat for a couple of hours and just buy all the isotopes and ship it, which is much easier than sitting in a belt with a bulleye the size of a titan on it?
Now 0.0 people ask yourself, when was the last time you actually ice mined? Don't lie because you never ice mine unless you really really have to. As I stated it's just much easier to rat a few hours, have your buddy with a jump freighter buy a ton of isotopes and then jump them out there.
There in lies the problem WHAT MOTIVATION is there to mine in 0.0? There really isnt any unless you are mining high end minerals that yield zydrine, megacyte and mercoxit.
NOW with that all being said let me revise my idea.
First keep the buffing of 0.0 ores and ice and increase their overall refine yield, like 450 isotopes per unit of 0.0 ice.
Next, give 0.0 people a reason to mine, minerals and ice. Well this is a kill two birds with one stone situation, we have an over abundance of player outposts in 0.0 right? well like with pos towers why not give them a fuel cost to keep the facilities online? fuel costs will be dependent on the type of outpost in system and sov level.
This will give a reason for 0.0 mining, if you dont fuel the outpost then erp it shuts off facilities, like ooops no clone bay, or sorry the factory got shut off cause someone forgot to put in fuel. This of course would cause huge alliances to start to feel a huge strain as some have way too many outposts.
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