I think that the real intent for this change are the Tech moons, which I don't believe is an issue but rather a strategic monopoly. For Resource Redistribution of moon mining, I think the worst change (for players) is to add a max quantity available in each moon. Each DT, all moon goo types that were depleted the previous day are redistributed amongst all mine-able moons. This would require corporations to scout out new supplies of moon goo every time they deplete a moon. This could make the most valuable moons worthless overnight, and worthless moons valuable.

What is 75,000 ISK/unit times 100 Units?

Is it:
a) 7.5 million ISK
or
b) some other number?

Would rather have an interceptor like mining vessel that can ninja mine and swifty (mining yield at 100% with a 5000m3 hold deal). This can shake up those nullbears armed to the teeth, thinking they're immuned to invaders at their door -- and redistribute the resources among anyone willing to take the risks. And boy is it fun mining like that, and giving those guys the finger in the process.

CCP has already said they do not like passive incomes, so sorry but don't expect the tech moon gravy train to be going on forever.

I can't believe you are actually excited about sneaking into someones space and mining. It would be like breaking into a house and stealing a bic pen out of their desk then giving yourself a hug about it.

That mechanic would, in case you're wondering, be "moon mineral depletion", regardless of the timeframe of said depletion.

How exactly would that cause you to commit suicide? You seem to take moon mining far too seriously.

I dont see how moon minerals depleting over a month, or even a few months, would be a bad thing at all. And you have failed to explain why in your previous posts too.

Scan a region. Now scan a region again. And again. And again. Then move POSes and/or setup reactions again. And again. And again.

Then wonder if it wouldn't be easier to just biomass your character and play a game which sucks less.

Also notice what happened to the largest Tech holding Bloc in the game in your "historical link".

Goonswarm and Goonswarm affiliates (Goonswarm awarding Tech moons to alliances as an incentive for performance). Under the fiscal control of these new, more market savvy owners, Technetium drove higher prices than ever.

After the combined forces of OTEC (CFC, Pandemic Legion and NCDOT) collectively repelled a strike into PL Tech holdings by Against ALL Authorities and assorted southern forces with relative ease, it was decided that Hulkageddon (an event centered around the suicide ganking of Hulks) would go from a prize-based annual event organized by an assortment of suicide gank-loving volunteers to a permanent state of affairs with salaried rewards sorted by programs parsing through automatically generated killmail data. The motives for this were twofold: 1) the heavy amount of Technetium needed to build Hulks meant increased Hulk 'turnover' would send Tech prices through the roof and 2) the sheer infamy from doing such a thing.

By making the act of sucide ganking mining ships directly profitable with no coordination needed, Highsec space became an open hunting ground as hundreds of unaffiliated highsec pirates roamed the belts and jumpgates in disposable, high-damage ships looking for any mining vessel to put in their crosshairs. 'Hulkageddon Infinity', funded by Technetium profits, was by far the largest and most devastating event of its kind in New Eden history, as galactic mineral output as a whole took a massive drop as miners were simply too scared to mine.

In YC 113, in response to-increasing demand for Technetium-based products, manufacturers began mass producing starbase nuclear fusion reactors capable of synthesizing Technetium out of large amounts of Cobalt and Platinum. Normally ORE listened to loud demands of miners and answered by heavily revamping their line of mining ships, including the Procurer, Retriever, Skiff and Mackinaw to the effect of greatly increasing their durability. Just some of countless changes made to New Eden as a result of a once cheap and valueless element.

Who said it would?

And even if they don't remove moonmining, replacing it with a ****-poor excuse for a mechanic which causes people to commit in-game suicide due to burnout isn't the answer. That mechanic would, in case you're wondering, be "moon mineral depletion", regardless of the timeframe of said depletion.

You would have a few months gap in between so it wouldn't constant. Maybe even go for a year gap. The whole idea would be that the same null sec alliances wouldn't constantly have the monopoly on the tech moons. They would actually have to work to find the moons now and again, making it possible for small alliances to capture them too.

Perhaps you could have different variations of moons also. So you could have pretty static ones which will hold their resources for a year plus before they are depleted. Obviously these would be held by the big null sec alliances and would be fought over hard. Then you could have moons which begin to deplete over a month or two and then respawn somewhere else more suitable for the smaller alliances and those larger ones which choose to actively seek them out.

That would even create a new profession ^ Moon scanning. I'm sure players would pay handsomely for the location of a valuable moon.

The Goons deserve every suspicion of causing more trouble, and a break up just as thorough as BoB suffered.

And because after all, a hi-sec agent can produce vastly more wealth than a tech moon, I suggest that the mission cap be set proportionately low. Does 6 sound about right? Maybe 10, although i'm worried that allowing so much wealth to be produced from an invulnerable resource is too generous.

There is a big difference between mission running and moon mining. For one moon mining is a passive income once set up which runs 24 hours a day...

Oh, right, resource scarcity. I'm sure that'll make things so much better!

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We already have that. It still sucks, it still doesn't take care of the people who are doing reactions, and it still doesn't solve anything except maybe the problem of "how can we make moongoo even harder to get for my production line".

Nope, because the resource distribution would gradual as I said, ie a planet would not suddenly go from having no resources to being a tech moon in one downtime.

Oh, so we would have to scan the same moon multiple times during its current goo-cycle, to see what was going up and what was going down? Excellent, that'll make things so much better.

How many moons are there in <0.4 again?

You still have to set up a POS, manage it and collect your moongoo. it's not quite as passive as R&D agents for instance.

R&D agents can't be reinforced by hostiles either. Reffed moonpos produce nothing.

Still, you make a valid point. Let's raise the cap to 12.

The way I envisage it would be that moons would have a feature similar to that of wormhole. Ie once you have scanned them down then you can get an update by simply clicking show info. But these are really minor details that CCP could easily iron out.

They don't have to change moon mineral location, but simply add alternative reactions/bpo for certain components that will do the same thing.
For example to all things that require technetium to make - create alternative reaction that will require something as common as vandanium.

Oh, so we would have to scan the same moon multiple times during its current goo-cycle, to see what was going up and what was going down? Excellent, that'll make things so much better.

How many moons are there in <0.4 again?

I'm not against a cap on missions. I think moving level 4s down into low sec would solve most of the issues with mission running though.

So we're going to scan a few hundred thousand moons every x months to a year, and everyone doing reaction has to move their POS around as the mineral moves around, and no matter how much you handwave it away, it will cause a higher resource scarcity than we're seeing already, with the ensuing high prices. Only it won't just be for things like tech, it'll be for everything down to and including the least valuable moongoo there is.

Of course we'll also have to remove the agent finder, because forcing people to check every NPC station in empire to find where the agent they have standings with has gone to is just good gameplay.

It's only a shame that there aren't even more empire stations, because only having a few thousand to work through is pretty small beer compared to the 160k+ moons that moon miners would get to check, but I suppose there ought to be some advantages to being in 0.0.

VFK is => thaddaway. Bring your hisec pubbies and do what needs to be done.

Again, your narrow mindedly focusing on a individual point which can easily be fixed. You know if one high value moon makes 2x the resource as the currently highest value moon there is right now, then one high value moon = two current moon and resources are the same. :)

So these things can obviousluy be easily be balanced out

Again, your narrow mindedly focusing on a individual point which can easily be fixed. You know if one high value moon makes 2x the resource as the currently highest value moon there is right now, then one high value moon = two current moon and resources are the same. :)

my idea is that all moon minerals are removed and replaced with a single mineral, slurrytium, which balances moons perfectly

For example to all things that require technetium to make - create alternative reaction that will require something as common as vandanium.