One question and one immediate observation:

How much ice will actually be in the new belts? On of the main problem with the current design is that they simply are too large GÇö even at a decent depletion rate, they'd stick around forever.

is this correct? cause it looks like a typo to me.

2. I saw the 80% ICE from HS figure in the blog and only two posts here thought to ask "HOW MUCH DOES HS PRODUCE NOW" an answer from a dev to this one question would quiet/confirm most of our speculation (as well as the markets)

4. Just slightly concerned over the mechanics of re-spawns, if its done poorly and one toon sits at the belt cloaked or not, will it despawn and start the timer? or will that be a new griefing mechanic?

5. will systems that have more than 1 ice belt get more than 1 anom?

Some systems, mostly those that currently contain two or three ice belts, will contain multiple instances of the Ice Anomalies.

To be ungrateful and demanding, is there any way that you'd consider boosting the offices in conquerable stations as well? I don't really have a problem with those being inferior to outposts now slot-wise but more offices is always helpful and is more just an adjustment to the fact 0.0 has a lot more corps than it did when they were seeded.

I really, really, really would like to have a little less arbitration over our vfk offices between membercorps :argh:

Welcome back Fozzie and keep taking the Tylanols :D

A couple of questions you sort of addressed but didn't..

1) Can we at least have an estimated number of mining hours needed to pop the new ice anoms please?

2) Are you willing to commit to revisiting the proportion of high sec/low sec/null sec distribution IF the market prices get out of control (and by that I mean if POS ownership becomes unviable). Alternatively would you be willing to commit to looking at reducing the respawn timer on the new anoms?

3) Will you be rebalancing the POS fuel requirements/fuel block material requirements in the near future?

4) Are you happy that after dealing with one bottleneck in the economy you are now, by omission or commision, creating a new set of bottlenecks that are already having a large impact on the economy?

editted for my own reading fail :D

Do 0.0 ice anomalies all include the three non-racial ices (the ones with a lot of LO, a lot of stront, and a lot of heavy water lawl), or do the distribution of those ices in anomalies match the current distributions?

yes but it's like a dinner party the people slightly farther away at the less desirable table feel left out :argh:

oh well, the new offices everywhere nearby should help enough, thanks!

Welcome back Fozzie.

There are a number of people asking that you keep the grav sites as signatures (probable), as opposed to converting them to anomalies. I would like to give you two more reasons to avoid making the conversion. First the work to do this can be avoided, leaving happier players. Second, changing this now and then discovering the problems will only cause more difficulties in the future. Of course, the numerous reasons already listed are also important such as the problems that this causes for wormhole miners, a miner considering low sec, and some null sec miners.

I would also like to see the new ice sites as signatures, but keeping the grav sites is more important.

So Fozzie.
Have you and CCP Rise completely stopped taking feedback on the ship and module balance changes?
Are you just going to release things as they are currently presented?
We're just over a month from release and the last time you or he posted in any of the Amarr T1 BS or the LET threads was just a handful of posts by Rise completely discarding most of the feedback in the thread from the past 90 pages before his post. And those handful of posts were over a week after anything previously.

What's the point of making such threads then? You haven't really given us much indication that you're doing anything about them, that you're reading them anymore, or even that you care.

Well that's comforting. At what point before an expansion would you say changes are locked in? A week before? Two weeks?

CCP Foozie, could you answer the question I posed to you on page 31, post #614?

No interest in frogs...but point taken. Could you then speak to the following?

How does the upcoming expansion relate to -
1. Removing barriers to entry,
2. Set a path to the next few years of EVE development as a product,
3. Not catering to long time veteran players /alliances /corporations in 0.0 (largest share of the vocal minority),
4. Increasing new player accounts,
5. Reducing the "Drowning in Minutia" syndrome (Spreadsheets for everything and an excel based UI),
6. Making the game "a game for everyone"

no post from CCP Fozzie in like 5000 pages and edited down to 40 ish pages. lots of posts removed by isd im guessing this is a dead horse

i just have a few questions at the very least one i would like answered.
1) risk verses reward in WH space in regard to graves being removed as a sig into a unknown.


i have no problem with the risk reward thing i just honestly dont see the increase of reward verses increased danger that this adds

actually now you mention it. we were told there would be a Dev blog explaining the new system shortly after fanfest. Can I send you over a Charon full of Flu medication if it means seeing that Dev blog? :P

According to the CSM minutes the Odyssey expansion was primarily about fixing null sec industry and encouraging more industrial players to move from high sec out to null.

got a few questions about these changes:

Ice anomolies have to be found through scanning I presume?

Why are the ice belts going to replaced with anomolies except for Amarr space? Why not all empires? Do you want all the iceminers to be moving to Amarr space?

Ok I think I have read every post in dozens and dozens of pages in several threads, I have yet to see a CCP comment or reason on making the grav sites into anoms. There are plenty of ores in belts to mine in all but wormholes, so its not a lack of mining areas. Wanting to make wormhole mining easier ? Worm hole life is supposed to be hard. Wanting to make more parts of game easy to acess? Well if that is the reason, wow. How about putting on a probing module and go look. Exploring is supposed to be a bigger deal ? Now the grav sites will be on your screen and one click away ? That is not exploring.

What is the purpose of the change of grav sites to anoms ?

Thanks

So, since Plasmonic Metamaterials and Nonlinear Metamaterials already have all of their components ingame, ready to build on patch day, how about you release the Thulium Hafnite and Promethium Mercurite reactions (and alchemy reactions) now so that we can get them building and ready to equalize things a bit???

Would it be possible to know why so many will not be replaced and why Derelik will have only 2 on the same side of the map

For instance, right now, Plasmonic catches a huge break, requiring a R64, 2x R16 and a R8...everything else has 1 of each rarity.

But, upon closer examination, there is a disparity already built into the racial materials...(e.g. Rolled Tungsten Alloy requires R8 + R32, whereas the rest require R8 + R16)

Thank you for your response Captain Obvious

I was merely referring to the usages inside defined reactions, not the actual usages of those reactions, something that only the devs themselves could, maybe, determine by mining the data from the database, and not something us mere mortals could dig into.

But, since you seem to be a dev yourself, why not enlighten us with how often each of the reactions are actually created (via normal reactions and via alchemy) and then tell us how much is actually used (vs how many are merely sold)

In order to encourage competition for the best mining systems and to bring adequate rewards to fully upgrading the Ore Prospecting Array, we will also be adding new variations of the Extra Large and Giant Asteroid Clusters that will only be found in locations with excellent system quality (truesec). These belts will contain improved (+5% and +10%) variations of the ore that can be found in their standard versions.