Muon Farstrider
Partial Safety
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Posted - 2017.03.22 15:53:21 -
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I like a lot of this; changing moon mining into an active activity is, IMO, a positive. I do have a bit of a dislike for parts of the ledger feature, though.
Quote:Each Refinery structure with an active moon drill will keep track of all the mining done in its associated belt, logging the character, corporation, ore type and amount mined. This will allow ...corps and alliances to see who has been ninja-mining their fields without permission.
...we are also investigating opening up the option of tracking entire solar systems worth of mining...
I don't think I like these ideas, at least as presented. IMO you shouldn't be able to gather that sort of information in an automated fashion, at least not for hostiles. If you leave your valuable moon mining operation (that you know exactly when is going to spawn) so unattended that literally nobody is there to see someone swooping in to ninja-mine your goo, then you don't deserve to automagically know exactly who it was. This is the same sort of thing that made siphons worthless.
IMO, it should work something like this. The ledger records character/corp/type/amount on a short delay for alliance members only. When the field is fully mined out and/or despawns, the ledger then reports "this field should have contained X amount of material A, but only Y amount was mined by alliance members, someone ninja-mined X-Y of this material" but does not tell you who or when.
This way you do still know that someone was ninja-mining you, but you don't get automated warning of it until it's already happened and you don't know who. It gives you enough information to warn you that someone is stealing and to guesstimate the scale of the ninja-mining, but if you want to know who to retaliate against you'll actually have to pay attention and follow up with human observation.
This all goes double for full-fledged system-wide mining tracking. Getting full details on enemy activity in an automated fashion over a whole system is silly. Again, some sort of warning isn't inappropriate, but getting full details should require human attention.
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