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FloppieTheBanjoClown
The Skunkworks
Petition Blizzard
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Posted - 2011.12.08 21:31:00 -
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When I was a carebear, we tried lowsec mining for a while. It wasn't any more profitable than highsec mining, carried a lot more risk, and logistics were a nightmare. Still, we went at it for about two months, and here are some thoughts based on that:
1) Lowsec needs more rare ore. It's currently just not profitable enough to mine lowsec versus highsec. Move all the "medium" ores (everything but ABC and the three most common) to lowsec belts exclusively--grav sites can stay the way they are--to push more mining there. And of course, lots of people have suggested ice be moved entirely from high to low.
2) Get rid of the inefficient refineries in lowsec stations. We lost a LOT of minerals when we finally gave up trying to import ore into highsec for refining and did it out there. There's no point in those penalties and they're just a hindrance to industrial efforts.
3) Make it easier to set up and maintain a POS in lowsec. The empires can't be bothered to patrol out there, yet they can magically prevent you from setting up a POS without the proper standings and licenses? |
FloppieTheBanjoClown
The Skunkworks
Petition Blizzard
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Posted - 2011.12.09 15:08:00 -
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Zircon Dasher wrote:FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote: 3) yet they can magically prevent you from setting up a POS without the proper standings and licenses? lolWut?
Last I heard, lowsec still required starbase charters and empire standings to anchor a POS, the same as 0.5 - 0.7. I've always wondered...who enforces that, since there are no patrols by the empire? |
FloppieTheBanjoClown
The Skunkworks
Petition Blizzard
387
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Posted - 2011.12.09 16:47:00 -
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Jack Dant wrote:FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:Last I heard, lowsec still required starbase charters and empire standings to anchor a POS, the same as 0.5 - 0.7. I've always wondered...who enforces that, since there are no patrols by the empire? This was only in 0.4, not in deeper lowsec, and it was removed 2-3 expansions ago.
Figures. It was a 0.4 I was trying to set up in, and it probably got patched away shortly after and I missed it in the patch notes.
Still, some documentation I read somewhere gave me the idea it was all lowsec that needed charters.
Another case of Eve utterly lacking good, clear documentation and relying on fan sites to provide users with information. |
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