As a newbro (been playing 5 months on main and 3 months on miner), I have primarily spent my time exploring, mining, doing missions up to level 3 now, faction war on my main and some T0 abysmals. I have enjoyed the challenge of the game and found most folks to be nowhere near as toxic as some of the other MMOs I have played for years.
Of all the things I have done so far, gas huffing has been the most profitable in terms of ISK per hour. And I thought the risk/reward of huffing in WHs was pretty balanced. Yes, I make a lot in those 15 minute ninja momentsā¦ yields of from 6 to 15 million before the rats appear. But I face NPC ships (e.g. Ordinary Perimiter gas sites where turrets blow me out of space instantly upon approach from 72km) , roaming PVP pirates, and rats on timers. Plus I deal with the fact that not all WHs have gas sites after spending alot of time to scan them down. But overall, I found that gas huffing was worth the time if I could get one load out of every 4th WH I scanned down. So $15million/4 is 3.75 ISK on average in a hour of playing from huffingā¦and the most I have made is $80 million isk or so when my corp mate cleared out the rats and I got 3 full loads out before having to log off.
More than once, the +2 to warp stability has saved me in a wormhole from death. It was pretty cool the first time it happened near a gate. And with the proceeds, I have been able to start adding other ships and I am finally approaching the needed skills to step up to a Prospect and pretty soon a Jaguar to kill the WH rats and free myself from the timer.
It is my understanding from watching a couple of vids on the subject that the Venture is to receive a massive nerf bat by losing ALL bonuses. It will take much longer and be much riskier if possible at all on a practical level. I just donāt understand how doing so will improve the game for new players. If the issue is experienced multi boxes can make too much in Venturesā¦limit multi boxers. Other game developers have done so.
My concern, perhaps misplaced, is that new players without deep pockets wonāt have a potential source of income with which to build on in the first six months or so. The game is already hard for new brosā¦fine. And new players are throttled by skill points as is. I just donāt get it. And, no, I am not leaving the game in a tantrum cuz my āhoney holeā of Venture gas huffing is being closed.
Iām actually against the venture nerf. I think overall the venture as it stands is good. It gives newbros the confidence to try out new things, and doesnāt hurt as much when they get blapped.
But yea, your earning potential isnāt super crazy but helps as a newbro.
The only reasoning I can think is they want you go Omega to use the T2 versions faster.
Thanks for the replies and input. I canāt help but thinkā¦was it six weeks agoā¦it was all about the bringing newbros into the game and as one I was excited that I might have started playing at just the right time. Now less than two months later, they nerf one of the big sources of income for newbros. I guess it was all just āfeel goodā marketingā¦lesson learned about future game pronouncements.
Wowā¦I am impressed. The community responded and CCP must have actually been listening. Iād like to think I was a small part of thatā¦very cool!!! Believe me when I say that in alot of games I have played that the developers couldnāt give a ratās ass (pardon the pun) about player inputā¦they roll out the changesā¦you suffer through themā¦and then, grudgingly, they respond. For all of this to happen BEFORE the implementation is a refreshing change.
I donāt understand it why would it move to the T2 version faster.
The Venture is by far the best newbro ship to make mining missions
possible, once it was the Osprey, which was amazing at that.
Newbro will still need a ship to do their missions; T2 are specialized ships,
with little in common with the Venture itself, which is an anti-gank perfect ship
for newbros and solo players, perfect for early exploration in deep space without
breaking bad, it allowed Ninja-mining for many, me included; itās the only ship I got docked in a couple of Null-sec stations that I dared to Venture intoā¦
What nerfs are about???
I could get no clues about itā¦
btw without gas sites, itās pretty hard to make any isks
with itā¦ so I donāt really get why it would have to be nerfed in the first placeā¦
a 10Mil run would take you an hour with luckā¦
If gas spawn rates are going to be reverted to a somewhat
higher degree, it would still be pretty small chunk,
from 10Mil to ?? 20M/30Mil /h if lucky?
And itās not the T2 can do a lot betterā¦
If the T2 were seriously buffed, then maybe nerfing it
would actually produce an increase in sell volumesā¦
not with such lousy baysā¦ not going to happenā¦
