Zifrian
Licentia Ex Vereor
Black Core Alliance
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Posted - 2013.05.10 23:02:00 -
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Still trying to figure out what is going to happen with industry upgrade ore sites. I couldn't find any systems with an industry upgrade to test out how that would work. I did however find a wh and the grav belt showed up as a combat anomaly, which I just warped to without probes.
I'm assuming that you go into a system and the system scanner will find the grav sites including industry upgrade belts. This isn't going to be really a great idea imo. Sure, more conflict, yadi yada...but combat pilots are not always present to defend a system. Furthermore, hotdroppers will have a field day with this. It'll effectively stunt mining in a noticable way. Maybe this is intended, maybe not. In wormholes, that will kill mining there in a big way. Is that intended?
In any case, I would be ok with this change if standard static belts were changed to anomolies that require scanning down as well. That way anyone that comes into a system will have to sort through several belts (or randomly checking one) to find someone. This still basically forces people to mine in macks (no more jetcanning) but it would at least provide a bit more protection to what seems to be right now a very one sided system coming. Either that or expect more gates to be bubbled up the wazzu all over the place. Is that intended?
Finally, someone did mention that exploration should be about finding riches, etc. Sure maybe a industry upgrade belt is so common now that it's not really special. But what about ark and bistot deposits? While I know that in highsec people complain about this but isn't that what exploration is supposed to be about? If I find an ark and bistot deposit in null and we are in a crappy mining system, it's something we stop what we are doing and go mine it out. At a minimum, can't we get that to be something we have to scan down?
All of these changes seem to be really a blanket change and I feel like it could be a lot more dynamic and interesting than it's turning out so far.
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