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Cheradenine Harper
Brave Newbies Inc.
Brave Collective
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Posted - 2014.04.01 07:58:00 -
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Well. Now I feel slightly guilty.
It's an interesting discussion and I've been won over to the side advocating protection for players who just miss the refuel timer window. There might be a lot of dead sticks around the summer holidays...
I'm interested in the comment about the economy
Quote:I'd be willing to bet that the number of offline and (under the proposed schemes) hackable/scoopable towers in eve would rather satisfy the tower market for a while
I hadn't thought of that, but then again the market isn't that big, it's the size of the available moons, demand might take care of it. Also hopefully we'll be getting new space soon and there might be a sudden demand for POS (though I'm also thinking they might not be usable in the new space)
My main concern is selling any solution to CCP that involves touching the POS code. Any solution that remotely touches an existing mechanic is going to stop the idea dead in the water. So we may be in the situation of "interesting mechanic" vs "simplicity". At it's most simple
1. Fuel/charters runs out. invisible 7 day timer starts. Tower is unanchored normally after this (15 minute timer)
2. Fuel goes in at any point, Timer vanishes and POS is normal
Not as fun but gets the job done with less scary implications for the code. One new timer called from the fuel exhaustion point (for which the hook already exists). Timer does one thing.
Here's some other things to think about:
Taking towers down is annoying. It leaves you vulnerable for 15 minutes while the tower unanchors. I presume the unachoring timer is visible across the system? Not sure about that but I guess that timer should be preserved somehow lest it be gamed for "stealth" unanchoring.
There isn't a way to warp to a tower you own in a system. Ok. There may be but I couldn't find it. You can find the system of the tower in Corp assets but you can't warp to it from there. If you lose, or don't have, a bookmark there is the potentially large job of flying to half the moons in the system before you find yours. You are disincentivised from cleaning up those old small towers. Hey, its only 60 million.
Nice thread. Thanks Rhavas.
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Cheradenine Harper
Brave Newbies Inc.
Brave Collective
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Posted - 2014.04.01 17:50:00 -
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Two last thoughts.
1. OMG. Rhavas spelt my name wrong in the original post. As befits a egotistical, avaricious vagabond I have now dedicated my life to trawling wormholes looking for the blighter in order to send him on his merry way to Bob. Actually I will be doing this after I stop being scared of wormholes.
2. If you really want to understand how I felt when I found all those dead sticks then watch the scene at the end of The Good The Bad and The Ugly where Eli Wallach runs around the graveyard to the tune of Ennio Morricones "The Ecstasy of Gold". The dead sticks are the graves. If someone had named their stick "Arch Stanton" I'd of been CONCORDed just after flying to the next moon. Yes I am ugly and yes, I lust for ISK.
Now go and read my blog or play some EVE.
;)
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Cheradenine Harper
Ankh-Morpork Holiday Homes
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Posted - 2014.04.15 16:53:00 -
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http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/building-better-worlds/
Quote:Allow Starbases to be anchored anywhere in high-security space and without standing requirements (minus some protected solar systems, like Jita or new player starting systems of course)
Opens up a lot of new moons for space but with the lowered barriers to entry and general improvements to industry it should increase competition for POS space in the end and result in people taking down dead sticks.
I'm guessing. I'm reserving actual judgement until I've seen the rest of the industry dev blogs, and probably player movement in the month after release!
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