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Vincent Athena
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Posted - 2013.06.04 21:58:00 -
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The miners could set up a mailing list and send out the times ice belts despawn. It would increase the amount of ice any given miner get because then he will then know what system to go to for ice. Thus it would be in everyone's interest to support it.
Sitting for four hours ice mining is not very engaging game play, but sitting for four hours doing nothing but waiting for ice to spawn is even less.
The scanner does keep running automatically if you keep the scan window open. Im not sure if its closed as to what happens.
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Vincent Athena
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Posted - 2013.06.05 20:47:00 -
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UKBigWolf wrote:Felicity Love wrote:3) Put a serious crimp in botting. Check. I'd say hold off a while before declaring victory against botters, at least lets see how long until they update their programs 
CCP said many times this change had nothing to do with bots. The security team does bot work, not the content designers.
Besides who do you think can best sit and do nothing for 4 hours while waiting for a spawn, a human or a bot? Or warp from system to system, keeping track of the respawn timer? Human or bot?
Now what this really puts a crimp in is isboxer users. With the old system an isboxer user could issue could issue these commands to one client:
Undock
warp to top bookmark
target nearest roid
mine
(wait awhile)
dock
unload ore
(go to top)
And have every other client follow them, even when they are mining different belts in different solar systems. But now...there is no command "warp to the ice anomaly, but only if it exists" for isboxer to duplicate to the other clients. The entire isboxer method of mass ice mining is gone.
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Vincent Athena
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Posted - 2013.06.05 20:57:00 -
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silens vesica wrote:Victoria Sin wrote:silens vesica wrote: It takes a large fleet of dedicated miners hours to strip-mine an ore belt to oblivion Err, no. Two max skills Hulks and a skilled Orca can do it in a couple of hours. Technically possible - I've personally never seen it happen.
Ive done it. But that's just one belt. The average is like 8 per system, so that's 16 hours for a 3 pilot fleet to clear a solar system.
(Actually 2 hours is a bit of a stretch. Normally if you clear a belt in 2 hours its because someone else has mined some of it before you got there, or its just a one day old belt, having been completely cleared the previous day).
Now those same three pilots mining an ice belt will clear it in around 12 hours. So it sounds close to the same. Except there are far fewer systems with ice than ore. As has been said, the current amount of ice in high sec can only support about 40% of the ice miners that were mining it pre-expansion.
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Vincent Athena
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Posted - 2013.06.06 18:31:00 -
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handige harrie wrote:March rabbit wrote:baltec1 wrote:But nobody has taken away ice mining. if you have like 1-2 hours to play and all ICE gravs are already depleted in this period of time then you can say "it was removed" Thats only a valid excuse for 2 or 3 year olds. Im sorry to tell you, but when you put your hands in front of your eyes, the world does not disappear.
A difference that makes no difference is no difference. For me if there is no ice when I can mine, then the fact it really is there at other times makes no difference to my mining.
Now it sure does make a difference if I'm a buyer of ice, as my buy order will get filled. But for a dedicated ice miner with short play times? There is little difference between the current mechanic and "All ice has been removed".
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