Many times I have seen in your promo videos you claim “Mining and Industry are the backbone of Eve”.
This whole thing, from “scarcity” until now is breaking that “backbone”.
Truth, think about it. If the mining is the beginning of the chain, what would happen if you made similar changes to the end of the chain ?
The following are just points and questions from this upcoming changes you are planing.
In your /news/view/ article you state :
"It is becoming less feasible to solo mine in them since the drone mining yield for both the Orca and Rorqual is being reduced. " Don’t you mean REMOVED from Porpoise, Orca, and Rorqual ? because that’s what you did.
This now makes it so that no ORE ships have any drone mining yield bonuses.
Doubling the ore,gas,ice in belts and anomalies and introducing your new “waste” mechanic means only those with T2 miners/strips that use T2 crystals or the very expensive and hard to find ORE versions will see any net increase in the ore,gas,ice. ALL others will only see less available amounts in the ore,gas,ice fields. So basically this is an overall NERF.
Now you take away slots that are used for tank on the Procurer and Skiff and give only the Exhumers +5% to resists which don’t even equal the benefits of the modules they had in the slots you took away without giving the Barges anything meaningful.
Type C crystals, if used correctly can empty resource fields without getting anything in the hold.
Brilliant way of not getting anything to the markets. Just fantastic. How will you build anything to achieve the “more destruction” you crave ?
Yes, I do like the idea of compressing in the fields. However, that is more than offset with 'waste", NOT good. Definitely not prosperity.
I like the refunding of SP for the removed skills and the ISK spent on the respective skill books.
What about the BPOs for the crystals ? Are they going to be changed to the new (respective tier) crystal BPOs with the same ME and TE as the old crystal BPOs had ? If not, how are they being reimbursed, or will that be yet another loss ?
Are there any plans on bringing back Medium size mining drones ? You could have the BPCs drop from the NPC Ore Haulers like the Large size mining drone BPCs do. Being that the Rorqual is the only ship that can use the Large size it makes sense that the other Industrial Command Ships would get the Mediums.
All said and done, it looks like this grand reworking of the resource supply chain has only made mining ships squishier and mining more difficult and time intensive to get the same mineral amount per unit of time. With the help of the new type C crystals this will have a trickle down effect causing all the items made from minerals to be fewer in number and higher in price. This WILL cause the new players to quit in greater numbers and faster than ever before, and from what i have heard, many of your subscribers will unsub and go elsewhere, further lowering your player base.
You wanted more destruction, remember ? Well this will do it, except it will be the game that gets destroyed. So much for keeping it alive. RIP
Why are you trying to play this off as something positive ? when what you are actually doing will result in CCP going out of business due to lack of player base. Can’t make more to blow up if you can’t get the minerals to make things in quantity to do so in the first place.
I give you an E for effort.
