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Eva Ronuken
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2016.06.21 21:44:16 -
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So, unfortunately the proposed mining/barge rework was moved from summer to fall.
We know that the rorqual is getting flights of mining "fighters" and some other things that will give it a fresh new role. But CCP is also planning on tweaking the barges to "to improve their functionality and efficiency in the field."
I'm trying to think of ways that would bring mining more inline with the income that the rest of the other professions put out, but I can't think of anything, seeing how ores and mineral prices are tied to the market, and increasing barge efficiency just devalues minerals and keeps income the same.
considering that mining is pretty much the butt of jokes in this game and new players are warned against "falling for the mining meme" I'm curious to what they have planned, or if it at all touches on the risk vs reward of mining. |
Gunrunner1775
Empire Hooligans
67
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Posted - 2016.06.21 23:46:39 -
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in my observation.. CCP hates it when one particular ship dominates in an area for too long... almost everyone is useing SKIFFS that i see.. everywere i go..i see skiffs. and a smattering of makinaws (or the T1 versions of those ships)... almost no hulks
simple question, what do you do to bring it more evenly ballanced
its all in the Tank for me.... i dont care if the hulk could mine 10x more then the skiff, i dont care if the makinaw could hold 10x more then the skiff... its all about tank tank tank and more tank... for me that is
i wont even consider a mak or hulk unless its got a lot more tank |
Black Pedro
Yammerschooner
2569
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Posted - 2016.06.22 10:25:28 -
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Yeah, at least in highsec there are too many Procurers/Skiffs.
I guess that the Skiff will have its yield cut, or the other two ships will have their yield raised (or both). Alternatively they might drop the tank of the Skiff, but I see that as less likely.
I was hoping there might be whole new types of mining being added with the Drilling Platforms that might result in new sub-specializations for barges/exhumers. Given how little we have heard though, I am now just betting on a slight rebalance of numbers to make the less-tanky ships more attractive.
Perhaps we will know more after the o7 show on Sunday.
Why Do They Gank?
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Knitram Relik
Running With Railguns
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Posted - 2016.06.22 11:10:43 -
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All the Skiffs in hi-sec is a result of the miner ganking that's been in vogue the past few years. My thoughts are as follows for buffs/nerfs:
Hulks: A little more tank and a reduction in the ORE mined bonus Macks: Bigger hold, less tank. Skiffs: Smaller hold. Like 25 % reduction.
Just my 1/50th of a dollar.
I await people telling me I'm wrong and/or an idiot. |
Gunrunner1775
Empire Hooligans
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Posted - 2016.06.22 11:51:17 -
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we know the gankers will scream at any buffing of the tank on any of the ships
i am guessing -Skiff / Proc - change 5% shield hp bonus per level to 4% shield bonus hp per level ( goes from 25% to 20% at max skill) change drone damage bonus from 50% to 33% , possibly remove one of the low power slots from the skiff as well
-Hulk/Covetor/Retriver/Mak - possibly reballance CPU/PG to fit a bit more tank
dont think they will tweek with any of the yield bonus's.. as the entire economy would get screwed with up or down
as it stands... a MAX YIELD skiff.. mines more and has more tank then any of the others that are fit for MAX TANK (or the numbers of the yield are so close as to not even be worth looking at any other ship besides the skiff) |
Sunwell
Jaeger Biotech
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Posted - 2016.06.22 12:04:22 -
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Knitram Relik wrote:All the Skiffs in hi-sec is a result of the miner ganking that's been in vogue the past few years. My thoughts are as follows for buffs/nerfs:
Hulks: A little more tank and a reduction in the ORE mined bonus Macks: Bigger hold, less tank. Skiffs: Smaller hold. Like 25 % reduction.
Just my 1/50th of a dollar.
I await people telling me I'm wrong and/or an idiot.
I'll have to agree here. A lot of the HS mining is done AFK - reduce the hold on the skiff and people will be forced to pay more attention.
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Gunrunner1775
Empire Hooligans
67
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Posted - 2016.06.22 12:13:53 -
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nah, have to disagree on the afk mining
rocks going poof too fast with a well skilled skiff... i cant even get up to refresh my coffee in the morning during a bit of roid mining befor off to do IRL stuff
i dont see as much AFK mining as used to be back in the day.. perhaps ice miners in maks maybe, but the changes to cycle times and size of ice ect.. yea, you gotta be at keyboard for the most part for any ship except the makinaw doing ice mining
for me, it will always come down to tank.. dont care what ship it is
if they nurf the skiff tank to hell and back again...
i will mine roids with a Rokh or some other battleship instead (its been done in the past) |
Arianne Kass
Garoun Long-Term Capital Management
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Posted - 2016.06.22 13:33:33 -
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From recent efforts at mining ore in nullsec (Providence):
- The Hulk is in a good spot as king of yield, but at the risk of having to leave a can behind when reds show up. The ore hold could use a little increase so it reliably holds two cycles with implants and/or mining drones.
- Mackinaw is good when there is more red traffic in the neighborhood. Yield is the same as a skiff and no need to mine into cans.
- Although I see many people mining in Skiffs, for me it doesn't work. In theory a couple of skiffs could deal very well with a lone confessor or interceptor. In practice there are more hotdroppers in cloaky nullified T3s than solo small ships, making the Mackinaw the logical choice. The Skiff rules for Mercoxit mining as it fits 3 mining upgrades plus the Mercoxit rig.
Thanks to processor rigs it is possible to fly a max yield, decent tank fit on a Hulk or Mack even with CPU Management IV. In the ideal case there would be an option to have 3 flights of drones: mining drones, light drones for PvP and medium drones vs belt rats. The Skiff already has a 100 m3 dronebay while the Hulk and Mack have 50 m3. Perhaps increase the dronebay of the Mack to 75 m3 while keeping the Hulk at 50 m3 so max yield comes at a cost.
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Do Little
Virgin Plc Evictus.
300
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Posted - 2016.06.22 15:46:27 -
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Skiff/Procurer are the rational choice in highsec - the substantial tank means they are the least likely to be chosen as a gank target and they are fast enough that you are giving up relatively little yield compared to a Mackinaw/Retriever if there is a station/POS/Citadel nearby where you can unload.
In nullsec, the extra tank is little help against a hot drop fleet - fly a T1 barge and insure it.
Eve updates talks about "tweaks to improve their functionality and efficiency in the field". No mention of nerfs. With the new structures and capital rebalance demand for minerals seems to be increasing, I would expect CCP might want to attract more players to the profession |
Gunrunner1775
Empire Hooligans
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Posted - 2016.06.22 17:38:58 -
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Do Little wrote:
Eve updates talks about "tweaks to improve their functionality and efficiency in the field". No mention of nerfs. With the new structures and capital rebalance demand for minerals seems to be increasing, I would expect CCP might want to attract more players to the profession
that does seem logical
has been a massive increase in the demand with not much increase in the supply need to bleed off the excess stock piles of minerals befor we see those numbers affect the market |
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Jasmine Cheryu
Perkone Caldari State
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Posted - 2016.06.24 00:57:46 -
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"tweaks to improve their functionality and efficiency in the field"
I do hope that the changes to efficiency reduce the yield and cycle time appropriately, in order to improve efficiency. I hate mining an asteroid that has.. i duno.. 10 units of ore.. when a full cycle will give me 4000 units. It's just wasting time, and decreasing the yield and decreasing the cycle time (but keeping the yield/cycle time as a constant) will actually improve efficiency
THAT ORE... (see what I did there? ) I would like to see.. that when you activate your mining lasers, they dont have a cycle, but just activate like a cloak module does, and it just deposits ore quickly in your ore hold.. and you can just watch the number go up, until the asteroid pops
Thats my opinion (and hopes) for the efficiency improvements |
Eva Ronuken
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2016.06.24 02:08:49 -
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Jasmine Cheryu wrote:I would like to see.. that when you activate your mining lasers, they dont have a cycle, but just activate like a cloak module does, and it just deposits ore quickly in your ore hold.. and you can just watch the number go up, until the asteroid pops this is something that I've always wanted. Not because it fixes any issues that exist, it just feels much more satisfying to me to, like you said, just smoothly see the numbers go up. |
Lugues Slive
Diamond Light Industries
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Posted - 2016.06.24 05:23:51 -
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Jasmine Cheryu wrote: I do hope that the changes to efficiency reduce the yield and cycle time appropriately, in order to improve efficiency. I hate mining an asteroid that has.. i duno.. 10 units of ore.. when a full cycle will give me 4000 units. It's just wasting time, and decreasing the yield and decreasing the cycle time (but keeping the yield/cycle time as a constant) will actually improve efficiency
I have been saying this for a while, diversify the mining ship line with barge/exhumers yields with mining lasers and drones (2 lines). The mining laser version would have very fast small yield cycles, the drone one would just be because I love drones. |
Gunrunner1775
Empire Hooligans
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Posted - 2016.06.24 16:24:11 -
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THE BIGGER PICTURE
ok, was haveing a discussion with friend this morning and resulted in interesting line of thought reguarding the mining barges
As stated in a dev post some were (dont recall exact word for word) the big wars.. the one that resultedin B-R big massive fight... the "world war bee" thats been going on since january.. these types of things bring in the paying customers. the players... even players that have stopped playing come back
what promotes these wars... i do belive there was a comment that stated that after these wars.. things got quiet.. stagnated.. very quiet as forces sliped back into their corners to lick their wounds and rebuild forces...
these big wars are fought with ships, lots and lots of ships... miners mine ore.. industrialists make ships... big wars are fought, ships blow up
how do we promote more of these conflicts and such.... get more ships into game
beef up miners... increase the supply.. make ships cheaper.. easier to make... get more ships into the field.. promote big wars.. bring in the players and more subscirptions..
along this line of thought however.. other things were discussed ..
now gotta get into the economics.. amount of cash in circulation... supply demand profit margins ect... that adds an entirely new set of mathamatical equations.
miners wont mine unless they are makeing a profit.. and wont make ships unless its profitable...
Alot more to look at for me it seems then just how much a ship can tank or how much M3 it mines per cycle or how much M3 it mines in an hour
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Scotsman Howard
S0utherN Comfort Test Alliance Please Ignore
137
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Posted - 2016.06.24 18:02:03 -
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Gunrunner1775 wrote:THE BIGGER PICTURE
ok, was haveing a discussion with friend this morning and resulted in interesting line of thought reguarding the mining barges
As stated in a dev post some were (dont recall exact word for word) the big wars.. the one that resultedin B-R big massive fight... the "world war bee" thats been going on since january.. these types of things bring in the paying customers. the players... even players that have stopped playing come back
what promotes these wars... i do belive there was a comment that stated that after these wars.. things got quiet.. stagnated.. very quiet as forces sliped back into their corners to lick their wounds and rebuild forces...
these big wars are fought with ships, lots and lots of ships... miners mine ore.. industrialists make ships... big wars are fought, ships blow up
how do we promote more of these conflicts and such.... get more ships into game
beef up miners... increase the supply.. make ships cheaper.. easier to make... get more ships into the field.. promote big wars.. bring in the players and more subscirptions..
along this line of thought however.. other things were discussed ..
now gotta get into the economics.. amount of cash in circulation... supply demand profit margins ect... that adds an entirely new set of mathamatical equations.
miners wont mine unless they are makeing a profit.. and wont make ships unless its profitable...
Alot more to look at for me it seems then just how much a ship can tank or how much M3 it mines per cycle or how much M3 it mines in an hour
Sorry, cheaper ships will not promote the big wars like you think. If you increase the amount of ore, you decrease the price, decrease the price decrease the number of miners will to mine, decrease the number of miners, increase the cost of ore, etc.
People will only mine for X amount of profit. Anything you do will change that but the main point is the system balances itself.
Anyways, assuming the T1 market tumbled and ships got cheaper, it would not promote the big null wars you are after. The main question has not been answered and that is "Why should I go take someone elses SOV?" WWB had a sort of herd mentality for everyone going to fight the goons. It was not about SOV as much as taking things from Goons. Aside from location, there is really no reason one SOV area is better than another.
There needs to be a reason to fight and people will fight. Cheaper ships will not cause wars.
As for the thread, my guess is CCP is going to mess with the tank of the skiffs making them far easier to gank because "reasons" or make them so bad at mining it is not worth it to mine at all when you consider gank costs vs additional yield.
Maybe they will go the other way and make a "Mordus Legion" like balance pass of the exhumers lol. |
Do Little
Virgin Plc Evictus.
301
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Posted - 2016.06.26 08:50:03 -
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The players who want to fight will find a way regardless of whether there is a war. A look at the production/destruction chart in CCP Quant's economic update https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/monthly-economic-report-may-2016/ shows that destruction is remarkably consistent - minor bumps at B-R5RB and WWB. The worrisome line on that chart is production - we are consistently producing 3 times as much as we are consuming and that will eventually lead to problems in the economy. CCP needs to bring this into balance - industry should be more difficult, not easier! |
Maldiro Selkurk
CHEMO IMMUNO RESISTANT VIRUS X
557
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Posted - 2016.06.27 05:27:54 -
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Predicting it will be bad for highsec miners......i know that isnt even a bold prediction but rather a given but i put it out their first !
Yawn,-á I'm right as usual. The predictability kinda gets boring really.
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Lugues Slive
Diamond Light Industries
37
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Posted - 2016.06.27 19:30:18 -
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I think the skiff is in the right spot so...
Pessimistic me says skiff gets nerf to EHP, yield, and hold. Placing the ore hold around 8.5k so it's not good for solo mining. Mack will lose 1k ore hold for ice miners. Hulk will get a tank nerf and a yield buff, try to bait more people into glass cannon miners so ganking is easier.
Optimistic me says skiff stays as is, mack get boost to cpu and 1k more ore hold for ice miners, hulk will get more cpu and slightly more yield. |
Gwenaelle de Ardevon
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
3229
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Posted - 2016.06.27 19:50:46 -
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Do Little wrote:The players who want to fight will find a way regardless of whether there is a war. A look at the production/destruction chart in CCP Quant's economic update https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/monthly-economic-report-may-2016/ shows that destruction is remarkably consistent - minor bumps at B-R5RB and WWB. The worrisome line on that chart is production - we are consistently producing 3 times as much as we are consuming and that will eventually lead to problems in the economy. CCP needs to bring this into balance - industry should be more difficult, not easier!
probably the flood of citadels
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Sheeth Athonille
Rabid Dogz Mining The Bastion
110
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Posted - 2016.06.27 20:17:46 -
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Gwenaelle de Ardevon wrote:Do Little wrote:The players who want to fight will find a way regardless of whether there is a war. A look at the production/destruction chart in CCP Quant's economic update https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/monthly-economic-report-may-2016/ shows that destruction is remarkably consistent - minor bumps at B-R5RB and WWB. The worrisome line on that chart is production - we are consistently producing 3 times as much as we are consuming and that will eventually lead to problems in the economy. CCP needs to bring this into balance - industry should be more difficult, not easier! probably the flood of citadels
That probably explains the peak at the end, but it doesn't explain why it's consistently been about 3 times the amount since at least July 2013. |
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Captain Tardbar
Deep Core Mining Inc. Caldari State
1152
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Posted - 2016.06.29 03:38:32 -
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Black Pedro wrote:Yeah, at least in highsec there are too many Procurers/Skiffs.
I guess that the Skiff will have its yield cut, or the other two ships will have their yield raised (or both). Alternatively they might drop the tank of the Skiff, but I see that as less likely.
I was hoping there might be whole new types of mining being added with the Drilling Platforms that might result in new sub-specializations for barges/exhumers. Given how little we have heard though, I am now just betting on a slight rebalance of numbers to make the less-tanky ships more attractive.
Perhaps we will know more after the o7 show on Sunday.
People will still mine in a Skiff and Proc is they have better tank even if they only made 100,000 isk per hour.
"Entitlement" is a euphemism for "I hate the way you play and it makes me cry like a baby".
If you fantasize about being immoral it means you enjoy being immoral deep down.
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Raiz Nhell
Tactically Gifted Tactical Supremacy
517
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Posted - 2016.06.29 03:42:41 -
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Maldiro Selkurk wrote:Predicting it will be bad for highsec miners......i know that isnt even a bold prediction but rather a given but i put it out their first !
Everything is bad for HS miners, even if they doubled the yield and trebled the tank across the board... There would still be cries of "Why didn't they quadruple the yield, and make the trip back to station for me!!!!!"
There is no such thing as a fair fight...
If your fighting fair you have automatically put yourself at a disadvantage.
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Gunrunner1775
Empire Hooligans
69
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Posted - 2016.06.29 04:02:19 -
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im just gonna go back to mining in a dominix.. bring it on you ganker bitches hahahahahaha |
Ix Method
Tribal Liberation Force Minmatar Republic
510
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Posted - 2016.06.29 08:40:27 -
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Sunwell wrote:I'll have to agree here. A lot of the HS mining is done AFK - reduce the hold on the skiff and people will be forced to pay more attention. Annoying people rather than fixing the problem is terrible game design.
Travelling at the speed of love.
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Crinnfika
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
6
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Posted - 2016.06.29 13:40:16 -
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Do Little wrote:The players who want to fight will find a way regardless of whether there is a war. A look at the production/destruction chart in CCP Quant's economic update https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/monthly-economic-report-may-2016/ shows that destruction is remarkably consistent - minor bumps at B-R5RB and WWB. The worrisome line on that chart is production - we are consistently producing 3 times as much as we are consuming and that will eventually lead to problems in the economy. CCP needs to bring this into balance - industry should be more difficult, not easier!
There are other ways for items to get taken off the market without the item being outright destroyed.
1 - quitters, when a player quits the game everything they own is for all intents and purpose destroyed. 2 - packrats - stuff that gets left unused in storage on some station is also for all intents and purposes off the market. |
Dracvlad
Taishi Combine Second-Dawn
1869
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Posted - 2016.06.29 14:24:22 -
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First of all you tend to see only Skiffs and Procurers in systems where gankers are always active, after that you only see players who like to mine in a tanking ship, because they don't want to be an easy kill. Currently CODE. are running around various systems to kill people in the other mining ships so they can say look CCP everyone is in Skiffs and Procurers, isn't this boring, nerf them to create content please. sigh
I started mining again when I had the opportunity to use a ship that did not have the tank of a wet paper bag, but also with enough yield to not completely waste my time, nerfing the Skiff and Procurer will be a shame in terms of game balance. There are enough people using the other ships that are easy to kill and go for yield over tank, I see these people quite often and the killboards show it too.
Like always I will wait and see, if the tank is not enough for me then I just will not bother mining, which I only do when I cannot be bothered to do anything else. For reference CCP I stopped doing any mining at all from the point in time that Catalysts had their DPS buffed up until the time the Skiff and Procurer were given a tank and I will do the same again. So CCP needs to think very carefully about destroying the tank of ships that more discerning players use.
As far as I can see there are plenty of ganks going on, the balance is fine.
I hope that this is to fit in with the new structures and new mining gameplay only, one can only hope..., but expect to be disappointed...
COHE, the Coalition of Hisec Entities is now in operation, time to make hisec work for people who operate there.
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KenFlorian
Jednota Inc
39
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Posted - 2016.06.29 18:12:31 -
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Why do good data always win?
It's unfair ;-) |
Arianne Kass
Garoun Long-Term Capital Management
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Posted - 2016.06.29 19:47:57 -
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As far as I can see there is currently nothing particularly broken on the roles and balance between the mining barges/exhumers, or on the additional mining yield in nullsec over highsec.
Of course CCP wants to bring mining boosts on-grid. IMO an easy and good solution would be the introduction of a new ORE Command Ship (i.e. like the Damnation and at a similar price point). The ship would provide boosts similar to the Rorqual in nullsec and lesser boosts in highsec (enviromental regulations on spacedust etc etc). With some DPS this ship could also assist in getting rid of belt rats or perhaps counter (or at least deter) the occasional gank destroyer if used in HighSec.
The Orca would keep its current role combining boosts and ore/ship storage and would still hold court as the king of highsec AFK mining, surrounded by the usual following of procurers and skiffs.
The Rorqual would be looking for a new role (what else is new), but from the hints that CCP have given it could very well be "carrier mining". Ensure the increase in yield is comparable to to the current step between AFK ishtar and carrier ratting and people will no doubt be eager to give it a try. Some balance issues would need to be solved: 1> i.e. reduce the ore bay on the Rorqual so it will need to warp to a POS/Citadel to dump ore, which generates "moments of increased risk" similar to a carrier warping to a new anomaly, 2> require active control of the mining drones (similar to fighters) so multiboxing does not have a disproportionate impact on the mining economy. No need for a dumb invulnerability mechanism either. |
Crinnfika
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
6
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Posted - 2016.06.29 21:01:42 -
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Dracvlad wrote:First of all you tend to see only Skiffs and Procurers in systems where gankers are always active, after that you only see players who like to mine in a tanking ship, because they don't want to be an easy kill.
This. Procurers are everywhere because the ever present catalyst gangs make flying anything else nonviable in highsec.
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Kaivarian Coste
Beyond Imports and Exports
27
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Posted - 2016.06.29 21:44:46 -
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Knowing CCP, any changes to barges will be BAD for the mining profession.
They'll probably force the camera to pan around your ship every time you mine an asteroid. |
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