Mars Theran
EVE Rogues
EVE Rogues Alliance
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Posted - 2012.01.14 20:24:00 -
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@everyone posting nonsense about resources drying up overnight and EVE becoming a ghost town.
Nobody is saying that resources should be limited in such a fashion that one asteroid belt dies as soon as downtime hits the day after implementation. Fact is, there is more wealth in this universe than anyone can imagine.
I believe the OP said as much as a decade or two for a moon to dry up.
Currently in EVE, we have asteroids that get chewed up in a matter of minutes sure, and belts cleaned in an hour. These are all mostly small rocks with no resources in them.
Have you ever heard of the Kuipur Belt and Oort Cloud? http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=KBOs
On Earth alone, we have resources that have stretched out to encompass construction and manufacturing for millenia; and we yet have resources available for potentially another thousand years without considering recycling. The fact that these resources have suddenly been recognized as limited; has been the majority of the push to recycling and reusing decommissioned objects.
In EVE, take a look at planetary Interaction in its current condition. What we have here, is resources that are stripped extraordinarily fast and all but used up with limited production. This is rather odd as an example; because mines on Earth last for years or decades, and produce much greater quantites for production.
The production we get out of PI is probably a lot less than realistic, as is the PI process.
What I'm saying, is that there are plenty of resources available if some changes are made. Asteroid belts are unrealistic, and each consists of less than 1/1000 of a percent of what we would find orbiting a planet like Saturn. Planets hold far more resources than we could expect to pull from the ground in 2-3 Eons; and there is more Ice in one Solar system than 10* the population of the Earth could every hope to use in 10 Eons.
It doesn't have to be a situation where the resources get burned up overnight or within a few weeks; but more a situation where they are suddenly recognized as limited.
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