Anshio Tamark
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Posted - 2012.02.10 14:44:00 -
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Before I read this, I actually thought "Oh great, another moron who wants to make stupid changes to mining. It already works better than what they can suggest." And now, you've managed to (in one well-written post, no less) turn my opinions completely in the other direction.
And it would also make sense, if CCP wants EVE to be a space-simulator, rather than just a dull MMO. Things that have a higher density will usually spin a bit faster due to the thing called "momentum", and thus, the valuable roids will be spinning faster than the worthless ones.
Another note is this: In real life, all the resources in the world are not spread equally over a given area. So why should the ore in asteroid belts in a simulator-game? Easy, they shouldn't. The ores should be placed in clusters where some of the ore is more dense than other places. There should still be a bit of ore in the low-density rocks, but only trace amounts would be needed to make sure the roids would be there.
The only thing I don't really like about your suggestion would be the "ultra-high-density Tritanium". Maybe it's just me, but 100mil Tritanium in 10m3 may be a bit excessive (unless it's only found in 0.0 or W-Space, thus adding incentive to go mine there). But having several variants of it with varying densities and amounts of Tritanium (the lowest high-density type) being the equivalent of a Metal Scrap or two) could work, with their densities increasing as security level decreases... And just as a suggestion: Maybe adding similar types for the other minerals could work? Finding a chunk of high-density Megacyte would only be possible in null-sec, but it would still be a boost of income, even if it's only 10 Megacyte in 0.01m3 (that's still a compression-rate of 10:1).
All in all, I'm up for this idea. I don't really see the point in bot-mining either. It's like sitting in the station all day, only griefing other industrialists at the same time by ruining the market for high-sec minerals. Whenever I see a bot-miner, I honestly pray that someone will come along and blow up their ship and pod. They don't notice what happens to them anyway. |