Maximillian German
Spectres Syndicate
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Posted - 2013.05.20 21:19:00 -
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+1 to this idea as a whole. Definitely make sure that there are some lower quality belts that don't have to be claimed so that A)Newbies and solo miners can still have a place to and B)Ore prices don't skyrocket astronomically. Maybe you could leave the normal complement of asteroid types in these open belts but have significantly smaller roid sizes compared to the claimable belts? For the claimable belts, I would do it like this: First, a belt must be scanned down like ice will be in the next expansion. In these claimable belts would be some kind of NPC claim unit. While the NPC claim unit is there, anyone can mine in the belt without incurring a suspect or combat timer, BUT belt rats will spawn(maybe even belt rats that are slightly stronger than current ones in order to provide incentive to claim the belt). In order to claim a belt, you must destroy the NPC claim unit and anchor your own. Then if someone tries to mine in a claimed belt, he/she will become suspect ONLY to the corp/alliance? which currently holds the belt. This will make it possible to mining corps to form treaties with other corps for mining rights and keep high sec pirates from legally killing miners who are 'blue' with the owners of the belt. If a belt runs out of ore or downtime hits, then it will respawn somewhere else(maybe in system?) and another NPC claim unit will spawn in it as well. On the other hand, an enterprising corp could destroy another corp's claim unit and anchor their own. There would probably have to be a timer between getting your claim unit destroyed and anchoring a new one to keep one corp from claim spamming. In this way, there is a greater opportunity for not only combat, but for diplomacy and teamwork as well. The respawning of belts would also make it significantly tougher for even large corporations to own all of the belts in an area. While this may raise ore prices a little bit, it would also create a bigger incentive for both combat and teamwork in high sec. Mining might actually be, *gasp* kinda fun.
tl;dr Anchor claim units to control belts. Not a 'true' suspect flag. Belts respawn eventually to give smaller corps a fighting chance. Moar pvp. Moar teamwork. |