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Chepe Nolon
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Posted - 2004.04.08 08:23:00 -
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I've used mining agents too. I've allways mined so my supplies of the ore the agent demands are plentiful. I'm born a miner, so those missions are my favourites. I admit I could have a streak of maybe 4-5 missions sometimes, where I just clicked "allready done". But suddenly I had to do those 20 jumps "deliver this ore". This would make the average time to complete the missions a bit longer. Some minerals I did have to buy at the market and some ore had to be hauled a few jumps. So the average time for missions would go up if we count the time used for mining.
One way to stop the exploit, is to make just one mission "deliver the ore to me" and the rest of the missions "mine some ore/minerals and deliver it to station x in the y system". I know that would kill those 5-in a row missions, but I'd accept anything to keep my mining agent. But then the reward must be higher or the ammount of ore/minerals must be lower.
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Chepe Nolon
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Posted - 2004.04.19 08:55:00 -
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If you accepted all missions given from an agent obviously you are not an ebil exploiter out to wreak havoc.
However, even without such willful and ebil exploitation, mining agents were bugged so far beyond reason that simply using them at all is really an exploit unless you're extremely daft and don't have the imagination to stockpile ore + minerals.
Any person who benefits from such a bug is indeed "exploiting" in some fashion.
Ok, I see what's next: Stocking tradegoods for R&D is considered an exploit ;)
But what do you expect when getting the same missions over and over again? I've got a storage of polytextiles and ectoplasm at my most used agents. It enables me getting at least one instacomplete mission every now and then.
I wish CCP's policy about exploit woulds have been used in the real world. Then we could have gotten all the billionaires around the world that knows how to exploit the system regarding taxes etc.
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Chepe Nolon
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Posted - 2004.04.19 09:53:00 -
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I rather see them include a timer if you reject a mission, lets say a half hour or so before you can get a new one mission. Then its not so easy to reject what you dont feel like and get instant a new mission to do.
Great idea!
But I don't understand why timers are so negative. Before castor, there was a 15 minute timer and I saw no problem with that. I either used other agents or did something else in the breaks, like mining some ore for the missions to come.
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Chepe Nolon
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Posted - 2004.04.19 12:24:00 -
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but then if you mine ore for future missions while waiting for your agent to give you a new mission are you then exploiting?? LoL.
I've got a feeling that planning ahead, hard work and dedication is equal to exploit.
We have to accept that the fish bites better in some parts of the pond, since the ones that have made the pond didn't think of every factor about fishing. But then they have to realize that the fisher would try every spot in the pond until he has found the place where he gets a fish for every throw. Arresting every person who finds the spot before filling the spot is not a good solution. You should reward them for finding those spots instead.
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