no, we're saying the game simply shouldn't be fair. you have both purchased the same access with your $15. if you do not like that which you have purchased access to, perhaps you should stop purchasing access to it.

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.

And if they are mining out the belts while he is at work?

The belts spawn at 7:30AM USA Eastern time zone. 4:30AM USA Pacific TZ.

A lot of people have to get up , go to school, work, etc. They return 8 hours later, and the belts are gone.

How is declaring war on the Asians/Eurpoeans that are getting respawn in their prime time, when he's not even online, going to stop them from mining the rocks while he's at work?


While I agree with the OP, I also understand why it is what it is. The rocks spawn/grow via a DB stored procedure that runs way SUPER faster when it has exclusive lock on the table because the server is down for 30 minutes.



I think the resolution is what many have suggested... rolling downtimes. Instead of every 24 hours, make it every 23... or every 25. A week it is when I'm at work, then a week while I'm asleep, then a week in my prime play time..

I doubt CCP would do this though, because if anything goes wrong, they don't have the full staff in the office like they do now with downtime being mid-day their time zone.

I've underlined your error, downtime is not European primetime, unless it's the weekend. Downtime is 11am GMT, that's between 2 and 4 hours into the working day for Europeans, most of us are at work when the belts respawn. Yet we still find belts to mine when we finish work 5 or 6 hours later. Find someone else to blame.

Damn aussies clearing out all the belts. Also this is an issue with sigs as well, though with the nature of exploration, its not as bad.

Have faith people.
The null sec zealot propaganda machine was in full gear in a 110 page threadnaught, crying about how poor industry is in null sec, and how high sec industry must be devastated to "balance" the game.

They have gone very quiet since then.
The only logical reason for that is that they are satisfied with the upcoming changes to high sec industry in June.

You people miss the point of this post

I want to be where I am in the system I am in right now
I could find any system where there is no one and mine it that is not the point of this
I do not know when the respawn happens but the people who can come online at that time should not be the only ones to get the rewards

Yes I can find a system to mine does not mean I wish to be in that system

And I've seen many a complaint from an Aussie that as soon as they get their PVP fleet formed up, it is downtime, and they have to try to drag everyone back online again. Really sucks for them for POS bash and such.

So, all of Europe is on GMT?

When I look at a timezone map, I see Germany +1, Ukraine +2, Western Russia +3 or 4.

And even if it is 5-6 hours later, that is still better than 14-15 hours later, which is when I sit down to play EVE.

You should try that some time... like oh.. a third of the time....

This is in the Forge.

Having read what OP said I can see some merit in his suggestion, he simply says the belts should respawn once a day but to stagger each belt's respawn so the belts don't all respawn at once.

Sadly I suspect this would be impractical due to pressure on the server having to constantly calculate and respawn belts.

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

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

Trust me I know. Even though I'm a yank, my "playtime" hits right before DT.

Its long past time to do away with static belts that refill at a set time.

New Roids should be there for a reason. ie exploding moons, previously undiscovered sites, wormholes to new systems, etc.

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

move all ore to grav sites, like 0.0

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.

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

no, it wouldn't.