Bussan
Kabukicho
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Posted - 2017.03.23 07:16:12 -
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The new moon mining system sounds interesting and fun, but there will be some quite big problems about it...
The main one is that you move something from a completely automatic and unattended system to a very active one. It means that nearly all the moons that are haversted now, will become unused. Why? Because most of the moongoo is made from big alliances, whith hundreds of POSes around null. After the changes, they will only keep the most valuable ones, as much as they can actually keep mining every week (or whatever the settings will be). All the other moons will be freed. This will lead to a very big rebalance of T2 prices, as the available moongoo in the hubs will be a LOT less than now.
Moreover the basic system will remain the same... few big alliances will own 80% of the moongoo market (talking about value, not quantity).
In order to make things more interesting and open to as many players as possible, few changes would imho be important:
1. Every moon should have way more kinds of moongoo.
Maybe not all the kinds of moongoo, but something like the PI materials distribution on planets.... maybe keeping max 1 r64 per moon, 1-2 r32, and so on... and a total of 5-8 different types on every moon, The materials should be random, included the quantity, but could be tied to "moon type" and true sec. A little bit like the ore belts.
2. Open the moon mining to HS and WH.
In LS it's actually quite hard to mine... in Null the mined moons will be a lot less than now... and the alliances will focus on the best ones... So we will need a way to have enough low-end moongoo, not to completely crash the market. Following my suggestion #1, in HS it would be possible to mine mostly low-med end materials, with small quantities of higher ones. In WH it should be possible to get the same ones as in null... but most of the people living in WH won't mine them anyway. At least, having the chance of doing it would be an improvement to the gameplay, wouldn't ruin anything. And at least it would give some value for these structures in HS... the way they are now, they can only be used to refine ores. |