Who do you talk to in this game if you want to see changes

The corp I run does a lot of mining and it is getting to be a problem when you go out and try to mine and there is nothing
The problem is the belts respawn on one time zone

What I would like to see is the belts respawn on different time zones

Ex if there is 12 belts in a system each belt in turn would respawn every two hours in this case belt 1 would respawn 12:00
then belt 2 would respawn at 2:00 belt 3 would respawn at 4:00 and so on
That way everyone in different time zones would get a chance at a respawned belt and not have the whole field missing
and if there are 6 belts in a system they would have a 4 hour respawn time belt 1 12:00 and then belt 2 at 4:00 and so on to belt 6


Mining should be fair to all not just the people who come online at the special time

Mmm, ore denial games.

The "another system" are also getting mined out too. It is getting very hard to find good belts in any system that has a station with a refinery, and is even getting hard to find next door to a system with a station with a refinery. orca jumps 2, 3 or more systems, when you could be filling it every half hour...

Are you saying that your $15 a month is worth more than mine?

Except that one person in one timezone gets repawns at 6PM, as he's finished dinner and is sitting down to play EVE for several hours, while someone in another timezone gets repawns at 6AM, as he is heading out the door to work, and won't be on EVE for another 12 hours.



How would it be bad to have the downtime shift an hour a day?

Just the usual forum trolls scaring the normal people away. You people are idiots. The OP's suggestion was pretty reasonable.

CCP has said they would like to remove downtime completely. If they did, what would they do about belts?

Moving from system to system to find belts is what we do
Haveing more then one corp station with duplicate ships and jump clones is what we do
Scanning down grav sites is also what we do
And we do a lot of things that does not involve mining belts


So all your suggestions on what we should do we have done already

This topic is about an idea I had for belts and changing the times

So can we discuss this and leave out all the things most people do in the game already

Thank You
Have a day

0.0 has static belts. Or do you mean w-space?

Removing static belts makes it hard for the starting player to mine. How is a one day old player going to scan out a grav site? Even having the basic ores at anomalies (which only requires the built in scanner) would be a big roadblock to a new player.

I can see reduced static belts with added ones at anomalies and signatures. But I think the static ones will need to stay in the game. They could for example have just Veld and Scord, with sizes rather small so a strip miner user would gag at them and look for better. But a new player will still be able to make use of them.

Which means that if and when CCP removes downtime they will need to respawn during up time. If thats going to happen, lets have it happen sooner.

I had a feeling that my suggestion would not fix the problem
I wanted to see what other people could come up with

Yes It would be hard on new players

Just wondering are you in favor of people having to scan down belts

Hidden Belts and the advantages they bring (unlimited mining in one system) aren't free. Who's going to be paying the Sov Fee, iHub fee, and cost of placing the Indy upgrades in HS?

There might be some valid claim for there being an issue when every normal belt in every system in HS gets mined out before DT on a daily basis. But not until.

That's not a cost. That's "we're replacing something with something better."

Hidden belts are better than normal ones in most ways. They're safer (because they have to be scanned down), have generally larger rocks, and they respawn immediately. The "cost" of having to scan down something once a day or so isn't really significant.

I didn't suggest removing them. Static belts that partially refill at DT are fine at the moment (I already described the situation where they could be considered not-fine).

If you want to be able to mine in a system which you call home at any hour of the day without worrying about other people wanting to mine there, you can keep it clear of interlopers yourself, pay someone to do that for you, or move somewhere where the mechanics allow you to invest in the system you live in.

In other words: Move to a less trafficked HS system, Get the other miners ganked, or go to Nullsec. There's no actual problem to solve here.

Then we've just been agreeing right past each other, huh?

HS has Grav sites. They just don't respawn in the same system repeatedly.

It also has mission mining, which does appear in (roughly) the same system repeatedly.

Both are fairly effective at keeping the gankers away.