Graah
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Posted - 2003.07.21 20:12:00 -
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Those of you stating that when you put ore into a jettisoned container next to you, that you are actively using, that you give up right to said property really need to rethink your logic.
And before you start ranting about how you are right let me give you a nice tidy little example: If someone drives to a gas station to fill up a gas can to bring home (for their lawnmower or whatever else) it is, as far as I know, required that you remove the container from your vehicle and fill it on the ground. Now that requirement is moot, but the scenario is not. If you put that container on the ground, and you start filling it up and someone comes along and takes it then guess what, that's theft ladies and gentlemen. Now, the scenario can be taken further. If you pull out a gun and shoot someone taking your gas can then we all should know that the proper authorities will consider YOU the bad guy when they show up. So far Eve is in line with reality. Where it ISN'T in line, is that there is no way to report a theft to the proper authorities. Guess what, if that were the case in real life you would have a great many people upset, and in EVE that is exactly the situation that you have.
That being said, if someone is mining and putting the ore into an external container then we can only assume they plan on mining more than their ship can carry, meaning they probably plan on bringing out an Indy later to transport it. For the brilliance of this we need only go to the above scenario and change it so that you bring your nice shiny sports car to get the gas, realize you don't want to taint your car by carrying it home and decide to nip back and get your SUV and come back and pick up the can. Well, in reality (depending on locale) logic would tell you that, illegal or not, there's a good chance that can won't be there when you get back unless you have some other person assume the responsibility of watching it.
So, while it tends to be two different issues they all come back to the same resolution. You either mine in an Indy, with less power but more security, or you take a gamble by mining faster and risking loosing it before you can transport it.
The only valid scenario I can think of is group mining, where it is perfectly understandable that you would have a mining group jettisoning for their transport, under those situations the rumored and 'as of yet' uber-large secure containers would be a great solution. As far as those would-be griefers who would blow up the cans, then make them the property of the owner much like a drone. You attack it and Concord gets vindictive.
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