vanBuskirk
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.01.09 16:35:00 -
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This is a very old subject, and the answer is always the same. Miners don't usually want to take risks, with their expensive equipment with the defenses of the average paper bag. So the moon-sized roids in low-sec and 0.0 are irrelevant - they are never going to make a difference.
Some ideas to get people mining veld and scord in 0.0, and therefore slowing the trit price inflation:
Make it possible to actually protect the mining ships; examples include anchorable shield bubbles and a way of locking down gates - if you have sovereignty of course, at least at some level. This might allow a particular system, deep in sovereign territory, to be relatively safe - at least until someone removes sovereignty in the systems surrounding the system you're mining in.
Yes, it is possible to lock down a system with a military force - but this means you have maybe 20-30 ships in the mining group, with hundreds of gate-camping ships (and a rat defence force near the miners) in system. Not very economical of manpower. A real star nation might do this sort of thing, if there was such a thing - but EVE is a game. It stays easier and more cost-effective to mine veld in Empire and ship minerals to 0.0, compressed in some way - or just make stuff in high-sec.
Low-sec is even worse in this respect, because most people won't just randomly shoot everything coming through. You don't get blown up, but you do still lose sec status.
Another way of helping might be to create a specialised module (or a skill in the industrial/refining tree) that makes a refining POS less like the useless, inefficient POS (different meaning for the TLA  ) that it currently is. The skill is already in the database (sort of): Mobile Refinery Operation. This makes high-sec systems without stations viable for mining ops. Incidentally, conceivably it might actually make that supercomputer that runs every industrial ship in EVE actually useful! The graphic effects for deploying a mobile refinery might be quite cool, too.
Another way of accomplishing the same thing might be to give the Orca a special module - working in the same way as cloaking devices, impossibly high CPU use except when fitted to an Orca - that gives the ship a single compressing factory slot a la Rorqual. Of course, this would mean that even more Orcas would be wanted than there is demand for now.
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