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Scrapyard Bob
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Posted - 2012.01.04 09:02:00 -
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Until CCP figures out a way that moon mining is not static (like it is now) and the must-have moon elements slowly wax/wane over the course of a year or migrate around from region to region - things are going to stay stuffed.
Maybe you have to re-survey after existing deposits run dry. Maybe you run out of element X after a month or two (if you harvest it quickly), then you don't get lucky at finding a new source of element X until the RNG decides to put a new deposit where you can find it. Or you have to consider doing ninja-surveying of another corporation's moons, find a sweet deposit that they're not exploiting, and take their space.
(Ease of power projection is a whole 'nother issue. And I'd rather see them add a 2nd ring of null-sec around the existing null over opening up 0.4; which would make the map larger and more spread out and might nullify some of the ease with which you can control half the map. Or allow moon-mining in w-space.) |
Scrapyard Bob
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Posted - 2012.01.04 19:53:00 -
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RubyPorto wrote:
God god no. I've only had to survey a few systems, and each one is the work of 2-3 hours. There are some 3300 Nullsec Systems and 800 Lowsec systems (Call it 4000 systems with mineable moons). Given a guess at an average 30 moons per system (I think that's conservative, but whatever).
Yes, the current moon surveying system is rather horrid and painful. At a minimum, they would have to change it so that you can plant the probe and get results on everything within a 1AU or 5AU range (skill-based? +3AU per level?). Which would cut the time drastically as you could do a single 10-second scan anywhere within a few AU of the planet and get results for every moon within range. (Similar to how a survey scanner module works.)
Obviously, some null-sec should be better then other null-sec, or there's no reason to fight for a particular area. The design question is whether that attractiveness should be fixed in stone for all time, or whether it should change with heavy usage.
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Scrapyard Bob
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Posted - 2012.01.12 19:48:00 -
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Jack Dant wrote:
Opening up the 0.4 moons wouldn't really change much. It would inject some extra supply to a few valuable moon minerals, maybe bring some prices down a bit. But they would be owned by the same people as current 0.0-0.3 moons.
Increased supply would be a good reason to do it. Even if the money lines the same pockets as now, there lies the potential of the cartel developing fracture lines - or someone managing to pull off their own unnoticed tech moon.
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