Tairon Usaro
The X-Trading Company
Mostly Harmless
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Posted - 2008.01.08 12:52:00 -
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moonmin-prices are not the primary measure for shortage, since they only reflect the short term ratio between supply and demand. The only true parameter is total percentage of exploited moons. So we do not have a problem if prices sky rocket with the introduction of new items/ships if only 70% of the available moons for a specific min are exploited ... but we do have a problem for min where the exploitation goes to >95%, since there is no chance to increase supply any further.
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I like the increase of extraction as a tool for evening out the differences and shortages, BUT it should definately be, what i call effort-triggered and asympotically capped, therefore selfadapting
=> Say hello to Extraction Booster's for Moon-mining Harvesters II
- Moon-mining Harvester II has CPU and PG requirements making the POS vulnerable and more or less unusable for anything else.
- Moon-mining Harvester II setting has a module called "Capacitor" that determines the efficacy of the Harvester. 100% Capacitor = 400 units/h, 88% = 200 units/h, 75% = 100 units/h, 50% = 50 units/h, 0% = 25 units/h (base rate)
- The capacitor needs to be recharged with cap charges. maybe it's really cap boosters, maybe its a new cap charge, but in any case it's loot !
- total Capacitor is lets say 100.000. Cap-depleation of the Moon-Mining Harvester II is linear degressing starting with 5000/h for 100% cap, 4000/h for 75%, 3000/h for 50% ... 1000/h base rate close to 0. The asymptotic effiency is making POS maintaining for this specifc module a daily obligation. if you do not maintain it its much worse than the conventional one.
don't nail me on the numbers, but you get the idea of the concept
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This module is not changing the territorial aspects of moon-mining, because the module is high risk to deploy in low sec due to limitation in POS defense and only reasonable in well secured 0.0 systems
It links POS-logistics with PvE by introducing two effort-proportional mechanisms (i.e. supply with cap charges by PvEers, effort proportional efficacy by frequent POS maintenance). The two effort correlators (time of maintenance per day, supply with cap charges from PvEers) make it extremly difficult to yield the maximal extraction rate thus it self-adapts to temporal market supply shortages.
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