(01-20-2018, 01:27 AM)Karlotta Wrote: An activity hub needs more than a single source of activity, and a Freeport needs and IRP justification for its existance, so both the iridium and azurite mining should definitely put in delta.
Having more than one field makes both pirates and miners too predictable. You see a pirate log in your system, and you'll know he'll be in your one field soon, so you can take precautions before he even appears on your radar. If there are 2 or more fields, chances are the enemy will be busy elsewhere. What really kills warring ideologies is if one faction has a better bonus/profit than another on the same field. That will make every miner choose the more profitable one, and that's what kills the rivalry game aspect.
Having both fields in Delta would make the system way too crowded. It needs a single hotspot activity can be funneled into. Too many hotspots spreads activity. Miners and Pirates need to be made predictable so that players can quickly dive into activity and interactions without having to spend too much time investigating.
As it stands currently when it comes to picking factions to mine Azurite/Iridium in the Omicrons there are two factions best at mining those commodities who have the same bonuses (Core and Order) so it's balanced and one faction isn't more favorable than the other. Zoners actually don't have a bonus on Azurite iirc. If they do, it's not as good as Core and Order.
(01-20-2018, 01:27 AM)Karlotta Wrote: You mean freelancers? What freelancer-playable ship can farm nomad battleships? The carrier? And can the carrier enter house space? It seems to me that there is always the need to transfer the cargo between ships or faction.
Zoners are quasi-lawfuls and have access to the Neph (personally I think using a Neph to farm is really ooRP but even my suggestion can't stop that so w/e it at least gives Core/Order IDs something to intercept akin to smugglers). People tend to exchange remains from their battleship to a transport, and then make the delivery to a POB. Or if not that, they exchange them with the buyer in the Omicrons before parting ways. For example, Core| farms a bunch of remains in Makos and then shifts them over to a Core|APM freighter for delivery. Transporting them in battleships is clunky and dangerous.
(01-20-2018, 01:27 AM)Karlotta Wrote: I did some investigation into that and it seems that the zoner mobile colony ship is actually the best ship to do that.
And that's just...
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Doh yeah, what am I saying. Heavy Battleships are the best when it comes to farming. So it's an irony that Core and Order are at a disadvantage (hence why I'm been investigating the Megalodon).