EVE Search - Siphon Units getting buffed or just more unfinished content?

Xavier Higdon wrote:

mynnna wrote:

Brewlar Kuvakei wrote:

mynnna if you could act like a representative for a better eve and not just a better goons for 1 second that would be great.

Siphons are broken they are currently useless due to the exploit I explained. We need a dedicated raw material siphon to target moon goo to put pressure on the big doughnut.

. Either fix them or take them out the game as in their current form due to the trash reaction exploit they are pointless and simply eve form of bloat ware. More anaconda mines for my station container

Hopefully some other less self serving CSM members could act on this ;)

"Ignore links explaining how they're working as intended and how you can counter this so-called exploit, continue whining instead" is the name of the game, then. Typical I suppose.

He's not ignoring them at all, he's just choosing to disregard them.

He does kind of have a point, though, since as things stand the siphons just don't pass the common sense test. They appear to have an amazing ability to interface with their target POS. The siphon knows exactly what production is occurring within the POS, it knows exactly what materials are needed for production, and then it chooses to ignore all of those raw materials and patiently waits for the POS to finish its production run. With that level of interfacing, the siphon should be able to steal from the beginning of a production chain by simply redirecting some of the raw materials. Instead, it politely asks the production facilities to let it know which materials are needed, and then earmarks all of the same kind of material as untouchable and only takes what is produced from those materials.

Now, maybe I'm wrong with this, but from what I have read it appears that siphon units will not steal moon materials so long as the harvester is linked to a simple reactor. Even though there will be an excess of raw harvested materials, the siphon treats all of them as part of a production chain and so treats those excess materials like they don't exist. That's a rather strange thing for a structure designed to steal materials to do. Perhaps it should be called the Small Mobile 'Emily Post' Siphon Unit? After all, it is following rather strict etiquette regarding how and what it steals.

Brewlar Kuvakei wrote:

Please just shhh now. No one even understands your far fetched notion that siphons are working and your plain to see derailment of siphons is obvious to everyone. The only thing no one understands is why they even hit Tranquillity in this state? WTF was the dev thinking? and who is taking his place for the fix? They are broken and they could be great a tool for making moons mean something again other than a stream of income in one direction to the big blue boring doughnut.

Is the game and CCP's affairs in such a tragic fragile state that they dare not jeopardize the moon income of pet alliances? Will alliances be that buthurt over actually having to fight and do something that they'll cry to CCP and oh no huff puff un sub or yeah uhm DDOS tantrum? or was it plain developer incompetence? I'm asking expecting an answer.