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Garan Nardieu
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Posted - 2013.04.27 10:31:00 -
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Reaver Glitterstim wrote:I like the ore yield changes, it'll definitely make nullsec mining profitable and make nullsec production much easier. But lowsec mining will still be pretty worthless, and it's all because Pyroxeres yields too much Nocxium. As long as you're fixing mineral yields, you might as well fix Pyroxeres. It currently yields around half as much Nocxium as Jaspet, Hemorphite, or Hedbergite (Nocxium is pretty much their entire value), but Pyroxeres is available in highsec. It should yield much less Nocxium.
Well, lowsec mining was pretty much worthless before and its getting worse with these patches which is a major let-down of low-sec community from CCP in my eyes. Lowsec is, due to lack of any mechanism allowing for area control (station lockouts in sov null and bubbles in general) and combined with a decent amount of active population living in it (in terms of people per system) absolutely the riskiest place to try and do any mining. Fact that there are no changes to lowsec ores and that finding grav belts is getting easier will mean only that even those who thought of trying to mine in lower security space will be going straight out to nullsec. This really is a shame. Also - moon goo is passive, however people try to spin it.
I'd say - return grav sites into probing domain and sprinkle low with some better ores, ccp please. |
Garan Nardieu
Moira.
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Posted - 2013.04.27 14:17:00 -
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With all these changes providing more 'balance' to null, and less reasons to rely on highsec, I'd say give wh's ice anomalies too.
Can't see a reason why not v0v |
Garan Nardieu
Moira.
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Posted - 2013.04.29 10:31:00 -
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OkaskiKali wrote:Quote:We will also be making a significant change to the way hidden asteroid belts will be found by players. We are phasing out the Gravimetric signature category, and instead pilots will be able to find all Ore Sites using their shipGÇÖs built-in anomaly scanning equipment. This change will make finding hidden belts much less difficult for both miners and for those who would prey on them, so pilots are always advised to practice vigilance. This I love. I said it about a year ago that hidden mining belts created a massive disadvantage to hunters.
Lol @ massive disadvantage. There is a difference between hunting and shooting clay pidgeons, y'know.
At least before you had to put some (minimal) effort into hunting what is basically defenseless prey (unless its a bait ship) and now they've dumbed that down to a simple scanner sweep and warp-to action (and I'm saying this from a hunter's perspective).
This is wrong as it increases risks for miners extremely while not providing any means of handling it (venture isn't really worth the effort for anything but gas). Yes, you can put wcs in lows of your barge but that just cuts into your mining yield which will very likely be crap to start with due to every frigate jumping into system wanting to get an easy killmail by warping to anomaly and killing you. This change basically turns all grav sites into 'regular' belts, and we all know how well belts have worked for mining in lowsec. |
Garan Nardieu
Moira.
Villore Accords
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Posted - 2013.04.29 13:22:00 -
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Nalha Saldana wrote:Now just fix those POS refining arrays and this will be awesome.
+1 for this one. There is absolutely no reason for pos refining arrays to be so atrociously ineffective considering they require an active pos and can't be anchored in hi-sec.
Also, I think that they should allow moon mining in 0.4 systems. Like, seriously, why was that restriction introduced anyway? |
Garan Nardieu
Moira.
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Posted - 2013.05.01 13:30:00 -
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Holderof Corp wrote:Malcanis wrote:Remember that time CCP bled hi-sec by tripling the rate at which belts spawned?
Or that time when they utterly shafted hisec by making all agents Q20?
Or.., ah sod it you get the idea. Stop whining because your incredibly priviliged lifestyle isn't at the front of the queue for once. Hey Init cap pilots look what this goon is doing, thats right where does your topes come from? You have you "playstyle" we have ours, if you think its privileged stop being a space hobo and stop making 25 mil ticks from anom ratting and come to 6 mil tick missioning, or 12 mil per hour mining in highsec. Alternately dont get off that short bus you're on and keep licking the windows.
Don't worry, they've bought *****ton of ice products well before prices spiked "betting" on ice changes being the one to actually be introduced. Also they've prepped for moon nerf ahead of time by implementing renting programmes. Betting on the changes that just by pure chance actually get introduced, not that must one hell of a lucky strike. Heh, this tinfoil ain't half as comfortable as they told me it would be... |
Garan Nardieu
Moira.
Villore Accords
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Posted - 2013.05.02 11:33:00 -
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Onslaughtor wrote:I would just like to ask. The dev blog didn't cover any of the lowsec ores, are there any plans to give them a buff too?
You get Spodumain, Crokite, Dark Ochre and Gneiss in lowsec grav sites atm, so ye lowsec (grav) ores got a buff.
However lowsec belt ores got no love, there is no word of potential spawns of other high ends (AB and, why not, Morph) and all of this combined with the fact that finding miners will be a trivial task means that even folks who used to venture into lowsec mining now and then will be dissuaded from it in future.
I would really like CCP to answer to following questions:
- how in world they think that anyone will mine in lowsec now considering absolutely no area control mechanisms (sov/bubbles), new incentives to roaming (belt rats for tags) and general high activity of residents in terms of pvp combined with trivial scanning mechanism that's being implemented. Except for some very special cases (map geography which makes volume of traffic through certain systems very low) mining in lowsec is gonna become an Russian roulette exercise with very questionable profitability.
- are there plans to change pos array refinement rates any time soon? |
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