Soldarius
Deadman W0nderland
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Posted - 2013.10.18 15:14:00 -
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When the initial release was made about syphons I thought that they had the potential for a huge amount of abuse. But I waited patiently to see what would be cooked up. In the mean time, I imagined groups of players using blops and blockade runners to drop covertly into a system. They would anchor dozens of syphons on a single POS (doable but not easy) to briefly disrupt and steal everything they could get their hands on. At least that would require a concerted effort by multiple players.
But with the current stats 1 syphon will pull 60% of a moon's single resource output per hour. (Raws are 1m3 per unit.) Total take is reduced by 20% wastage. 60-12 = 48 units of raw goo per hour up to 1200 units. This syphon will be full in exactly 25 hours. 2 of them will completely shut down any single resource harvesting. 8 will shut down all harvesting on even a 4 resource moon.
20m3 in volume. That's it? A Mobile Small Warp Disruptor I is 65m3. 8 would require only 160m3 in cargo space. An Anathema covert ops frigate has a 190m3 cargohold. A single covert ops frigate could literally shut down all harvesting at a tower, log out at a safe, and then come back tomorrow at the same time to light the covert cyno for a single blockade runner to come get the goo when the syphons are full. (Yes, it can be done.)
One person with 3 accounts can do this.
Abuseable doesn't even begin to describe how bad these numbers are. If this goes live on TQ, every R64-holding alliance in the game is going to take down their moon-mining towers and quit because every R64 they own will be constantly and permanently syphoned.
The goo will not flow.
Besides parking a POS gunner at every moon mining/reaction tower in the game (more alts for the alt throne) this situation can be avoided easily at this stage. Any of these below changes would make things better. But primarily, the volume of syphons and amount syphoned have to be adjusted.
- Make smalls syphon 6 units per hour, not 60. Or a certain small percentage of whatever is coming out, like 5%. 60 is pants-on-head ********.
- Smalls can only syphon from raw extraction.
- Mediums: raw and simple reactors.
- Larges: raw, simple, and complex.
- Make them require to be anchored to work.
- Only 1 can be anchored at a time at any moon.
- Make syphons much larger in volume.
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