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Jezebel Ethbaal
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Posted - 2005.07.11 02:17:00 -
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I'm amazed that after years of this game being online, it's still this awkward and time consuming to loot dropped containers. In every other game, looting after a big fight is a pleasure. In this game, after a fight with rats, it's a big struggle whether the annoyance and boredom of flying around and looting is worth the money earned.
Right now, I just did an agent mission where I had to loot a specific package. I killed about 15 rats, so there were 15 containers scattered over a huge radius that I had to loot. Took me 10+ minutes since my cruiser moves as fast as a snail. It took me far longer to loot all the containers than it did for me to kill the rats.
Why is the loot range only 1500m? Why aren't there automated drones that can loot for us? Why isn't there a nice tractor beam? Why hasn't the EVE community complained? How can I be the only person who thinks that this is an utterly stupid way for me to waste time rather than playing and having fun?
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Dilandil Ma'al
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Posted - 2005.07.11 02:47:00 -
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Edited by: Dilandil Ma''al on 11/07/2005 02:47:24
Yes it's annoying. All I can say is that you need a lot of patience to play this game 
I just play this game in a window and browse the web half of the time.
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Corison Azura
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Posted - 2005.07.11 03:03:00 -
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There are a lot of people that have complained, but there are some areas of EVE that have a higher priority.
Myself I would like to see the following changes:
Salvage Contaienrs can only be accessed by a Gang that destroyed the target for 30 minutes.
Salvage range should be raised a great deal, or add a Drone/Tractor beam that can pull Salvage cans to you. :)
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F'nog
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Posted - 2005.07.11 03:42:00 -
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Try it in a BS doing 130m/s sometime. After that, a cruiser will be easy.
 Originally by: Morela
"hey! I'm gonna go attack the north! Afk till tuesday!"
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Ishtari
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Posted - 2005.07.11 05:21:00 -
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My solution.
Bookmark 1 can.
Return to station complete mission
Grab loot ship in my case probe with mwdII
Go to bookmark
Loot quite fast my probe goes over 2k a sec
If cans are really far away bookmark a few of them and use warp to.
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Ombey
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Posted - 2005.07.11 06:32:00 -
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....which is great unless it's deadspace.... :(
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Aadarm
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Posted - 2005.07.11 07:02:00 -
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This is a problem in my raven, But there are more important thing to fix, andn ot just cover up with nerfs and laziness to worry about.
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Mel'h N'gih
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Posted - 2005.07.11 07:23:00 -
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Solution :
Sigil (Lvl 1 Amarr Industrial)
10MN Afterburner, 2 Small Capacitor Batteries
5 Nanofiber Internals
It will zip between cans at 700m/s (900m/s with a named Afterburner, named Nanofibers, Acceleration Control and Amarr Industrial III or IV) and will hold at least 3000m3 of loot.
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Bryanna Rivellan
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Posted - 2005.07.11 10:16:00 -
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Edited by: Bryanna Rivellan on 11/07/2005 10:16:02
Originally by: Ombey
....which is great unless it's deadspace.... :(
Negative on that, I do the exact same thing as the person above you described.
You finish the mission first and then go grab the cons. The deadspace is gone but the containers are still floating there, makes it at least a bit faster to loot them.
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Tomi Rosten
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Posted - 2005.07.11 11:10:00 -
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It still is slow to loot all of them. Ur all thinking about the problem, not solution. Ur going around the problem and not inventing true solutions. It IS SLOW and that's it.
I'd really like to see something done to this like those Tractor beams or bigger radius. They are only REAL suggestions so far.
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Fto Cruise
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Posted - 2005.07.11 11:35:00 -
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Of course, not all loot is as a result of doing missions. The current range might have something to do with jetcan mining and wanting to know who takes the ore. Loot cans need categorising separately, to allow the use of tractor beams. Then again, maybe the time sink is intentional. Bad form if it is.
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Deja Thoris
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Posted - 2005.07.11 11:44:00 -
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/me points to the features and ideas section
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2005.07.11 12:35:00 -
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Sigil + 5 nanofibers + AB II = all loot collected in 3 minutes 
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Grimwalius d'Antan
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Posted - 2005.07.11 14:37:00 -
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If doing stuff alone takes too much time = Hire a newbie. It is not like looting after a fight takes more than 5 minutes anyhow...
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Neue Regel
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Posted - 2005.07.11 22:27:00 -
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And I bet that newbie is going to give you that named expander he finds that is worth several million isk, or maybe he just may conveniently forget to give you that item......
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2005.07.11 22:30:00 -
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Originally by: Neue Regel
And I bet that newbie is going to give you that named expander he finds that is worth several million isk, or maybe he just may conveniently forget to give you that item......
He won't know what its worth, and most likely will be honest if he does. I believe you have confused "newbie" with "alt."
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Gryffyn Civire
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Posted - 2005.07.11 22:42:00 -
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Maybe there should be "tractor beam" technology available to capture distant containers and pull them into the cargo hold.
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Pride NL
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Posted - 2005.07.11 23:47:00 -
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Edited by: Pride NL on 11/07/2005 23:51:13
Edited by: Pride NL on 11/07/2005 23:50:12
1 word, speedingsigil. Buy a sigil, put on a 10mn AB II and 5 nanofibers in the low. With gang bonus it goes almost 1km/s.
edit: Hmm this was already said.. though use 2 cap rechargers and you can maintain the 10mn AB II with ease (surely 75% cap left all the time).
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DrRamulack
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Posted - 2005.07.12 01:54:00 -
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Transporter beams.
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Skecher
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Posted - 2005.07.12 03:20:00 -
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Rastilin
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Posted - 2005.07.12 03:23:00 -
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I use a Dominix and fire at rat let them close range and let me drones do the work, maybe fit some blasters too. Then all the cans are right by my ship 
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Kerby Lane
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Posted - 2005.07.12 06:07:00 -
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Originally by: Dark Shikari
Sigil + 5 nanofibers + AB II = all loot collected in 3 minutes
It is not the solution.
You are going around the problem.
We need tractor beams T2 and Intellegent Loot Sellers T3 in order to survive.
/end sarcasm
I dont see any problems with loot.
After the battle there are lots of frigs who compete for the nice T2 loot so nothing is left 
When NPCing Sigil works just fine.
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Sirkill
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Posted - 2005.07.12 10:36:00 -
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Originally by: Tomi Rosten
It still is slow to loot all of them. Ur all thinking about the problem, not solution. Ur going around the problem and not inventing true solutions. It IS SLOW and that's it.
I'd really like to see something done to this like those Tractor beams or bigger radius. They are only REAL suggestions so far.
This is not the ideas forum
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