Plaude Pollard
Crimson Cartel
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Posted - 2012.10.09 16:15:00 -
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Darth Gustav wrote:
- Allow smartbombs to be activated in the vicinity of anchored containers, both secure and unsecure. These containers' purpose was to hold additional ores and ices, allowing miners to increase their efficiency by remaining in the belts for a considerably longer time, given the size of cargo holds on the old barges and exhumers. Their volume is no longer conducive to anything approaching efficiency, and their ancillary presence is clearly laid out in the form of a giant smartbomb shield around high-security ice fields. That is broken.
- Increase the yield of the Hulk by adding additional grid and cpu and an extra hardpoint to make it a more attractive option for "ninja miners." This may encourage miners to try ninja mining in a way that makes sense, thus presenting themselves as potential targets, something needed drastically to combat botting and deflation.
- Introduce the chance for much more difficult NPC spawns to appear anywhere materials can be harvested, and with greater frequency. The current "threats" to mining successfully are grossly inadequate to the task, given the EHP of the new exhumers and barges.
- Make ice depletable in the same way that ores are. This will force adaptation where none has ever occurred, potentially even driving conflicts and increasing demand.
- Develop a system that legitimizes miner vs. miner conflicts over resources, such as the Ally system.
I agree with pretty much all of these points. Anchored cans are completely useless now, due to the Mining Barge-buff, and since they're friggin' ugly, they should be legal targets to anyone. It would also solve the problem with people littering stargates and stations with those ugly things (seriously. Occasionally, my computer takes up to 10 seconds to load a system because of the stupid cans, and that's with a very high-speed internet connection). Let players destroy the cans without being CONCORDed.
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