Qolde
An Eye For An Eye
AN EYE F0R AN EYE
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Posted - 2012.12.29 20:39:00 -
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My Ultimate balance post:
First of all:
Change ore layouts so that mining in lowsec and nullsec become a requirement to the game.
1.0-0.8 = ONLY veldspar. 1.0 vanilla veld, 0.9 +5% veld, 0.8 +10% veld
0.7-0.5 = +10%veld and 0.7 regular scord, 0.6 +5% scord, 0.5 +10% scord.
make the roids deplete faster like they did before that mining bot buff. (now people wont sit in 1.0's anyway because it has only regular veld.
lowsec should have all the midgrade ores, laid out similarly to how the veld and scord are.
every null system should have some form of ore that drops zyd and mega, but which type depends on truesec of course. maybe introduce a baby mercoxit too, so 0.0 is simply better mining than low and high. period. possibly even increase the material requirements of mids and lows a bit since theres so much more null than high and low.
This would entice all but the lamest carebears to at least become better at the game somehow. They'd ***** and moan, but they'd still be able to mine in hisec undisturbed and we wouldnt have 8 isk trit anymore.
Secondly, make more lowsec gates, and break more hisec gates so that travelling through hisec sucks even more, and lowsec travel becomes more attractive, with shorter routes, and less chance of running into a gate camp. Possibly make gate radii in lowsec only even bigger, so that even if a gatecamp is there, there's a better chance theyre out of range.
Thirdly, a sliding tax rate should be put in place on every NPC station. The higher the volume of the station, the higher the NPC tax rate becomes, just like any sane city or store would do. They have the bargaining power and they will take their cut. anywhere from 0.5% to 20%.
Allow corporations to "tax" any player refined ore, and put it in deliveries hangar. NPC corps take 11% by default like they do for missions. Allow coporations to do the same with LP's 11%. Suddenly miners become a meaningful contribution to a lowsec/nullsec corp. Instead of just requiring babysitting, They are actively putting in assets just like ratters, mission runners and pvpers. Allow corporations to tax market trades as well like before. Make the default 5%. Goodbye NPC corp trading alts.
Make freighters in NPC corps go at half speed. Aligning AND warping. 
Double factory slots in lowsec/nullsec and POSes. Give them a bonus to speed and cost, tied to truesec. All these suggestions are only slight nudges that make sense in terms of risk an reward. CCP could implement them one at a time each month and make the game tremendously better within a year.
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