Evelgrivion wrote:Vaerah Vahrokha wrote:@Seleene
Please make the CSM and CCP aware of these considerations and the suggestion at the end.
Before the drone regions nerf, nullsec had more minerals available (including low ends) in a efficient pre-compressed format.
After the nerf, nullsec are even more low ends starved.
Before the drone regions nerf, there was a sizable ISK faucet less.
After the nerf, the whole drone regions are an ISK faucet and the much often spawned hi sec drone missions (up to 20-30% of many agent's mission baskets) just worsen this faucet.
This leads to the next inflation maker and this will ultimately lead to nerfs affecting areas that have now been nerfed to quite reasonable rewards and don't need to become worse.
Conclusion:
The drone region nerfs were not as well thought as it appeared to be.
Suggestion:
- Revert drones to dropping minerals, possibly tweaking the drops to yield less high ends. ISK faucet gone both in hi sec and low sec.
- Execute an SQL update on all the BPOs to require 15% more minerals. This will counter the reversal of the drone regions dropping minerals.
- Alter the coefficient of the insurance formula to give 15% less payout for the default "zero" insurance.
This does not fix the existing problem of compressed materials being fundamentally bad for making it easy to transport bulk material from point A to point B, which directly enabled supercap proliferation.
Super caps were going to proliferate one way or the other, and I'm pretty certain reprocessing alloys on site is probably one of the least effective ways of getting one built.
That said, miners will never move to nullsec. At least not in numbers, no matter how hard the csm tries to scam them into it. If the nullbears want miners to move to nullsec the only way to accomplish it is by relinquishing their own power. Which will never ever ever happen. Not by the nullbear csm nor the nullbear devs who may be work on it.
It's probably more prudent to ignore nullsec development altogether than waste resources on features that won't make nullsec any less stagnant.
(My use of the term 'nullbear' in this instance refers to those who create the least dangerous environment in the game and then complain it doesn't pay enough. Those who will work for the so-called good of the game, as long as it doesn't diminish their own sense of power. Yes nullsec is broken, but only in that it keeps the same small handful of people on power.)