Valtis Thermalion
Caldari
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2011.08.15 11:46:00 -
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How about the following:
1. Move all high end ores to exploration, leaving lower value minerals to belts (such as veldspar)
2. Introduce anchorable module that can be only anchored to belts that would automatically mine for you. Owner of the module would only need to periodically empty its cargo hold. Limit the effiency of such module that proper mining op would still beat it.
This would introduce a way to gather lower value minerals in 0.0 without forcing players to waste their time with low isk per hour activities and limit the need of importing minerals from hi sec. This would also present a target to roaming gangs - if defenders don't show up, roaming gangs can kill these harvesting modules. Balance anchoring times\hp\cost in such way that deanchoring them when gang is reported is not really possible (for example, 15 to 30 minutes - perhaps they would show up on overview too when deanchoring), killing them won't take hours and that losing them is annoying but not the end of the world.
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Valtis Thermalion
Caldari
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2011.08.15 12:13:00 -
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Edited by: Valtis Thermalion on 15/08/2011 12:16:32
 Originally by: Velicitia
for #2 they *have* to be nullsec only, and only able to get certain rocks (i.e. you can't use it to get any low/nullsec ores). It'll destroy empire markets if it is allowed in empire.
They might work in lowsec too, pirate population would make sure it would never be too popular, but yes, it shouldn't be allowed in hi sec obviously. As for certain rocks, that's why it would require all the high end ores to be moved to exploration, preventing anyone just afk-harvesting abc ores.
EDIT: The way I see it, there must be fairly low-effort way to get low end ores in 0.0. No one will bother mining veldspar if there is any other possible ways of making isk, making imports of ore a necessity to run any large scale industry in 0.0. (And if you are importing ore, you might as well import modules from Jita, making null sec industry redundant)
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