Nice, been wanting this as well.

Guess a found a method where "everyone" won't want to stone me to death over.
I admit it, my previous idea on the follow command was a bad one, you can stop sending me hatemail now.

Ok an idea fewer people will freak out about. (Rightfully so, removing follow would annoy everyone including me.) How about no modules being active while in follow and for a short time after using follow? This won't affect haulers, won't affect miners, but will have a drastic effect in pvp.

It doesn't prevent people from multi-boxing, but it will sure reduce the mass volumes of follow alts per player as long as the module delay is long enough after stopping follow..

Ok I'll work my way down from the start, first off as I covered in the previous post, I said it would have negative issues associated with it, such as mining and hauling, these are things "I do not want to change" as both you, me and everyone else in the game can agree that you need a bare minimum of 2 accounts to do "most" activities at any kind of "sensible" rate. Especially mining, where it's actually a requirement rather than a choice.

Next, interference does help. but doesn't solve the issue, then you have third party programs, yes this would also be an issue, but short of actual hacks (Injection and such) all they would do is slightly simplify it, and would not be able to match a follow command.

Now as to your "solution" of a ECM'ing the follow bot, you do realize just how pointless that solution was right? Your either doing one of two things, first your using your bot to ECM the follow bot while the guys main bot kills your bot. Or second, you yourself are using a follow bot to counter his follow bot. (Circular logic ftw.) You may want to think of this a bit more, and do we really want to compare which of us has more pvp experience/knowledge? You know better than that Obi.

It's not that I "want" to remove the follow command, it's that I want a solution to rampant multi-boxing "IN PVP" and I honestly could not come up with a better solution, feel free to offer up one if you have it. I don't want to be forced to multi-box even more to be competitive down the road. And it seems the multi-boxing pvp only increases over time. (It will be even easier with the new expansion as the game will be more GPU based than CPU.)

I thought Grem was around for some of that, may be mistaken. But yeah, the real reason alpha became totally safe was because of just how much suicide ganking we did along with an endless list of police tower exploits we constantly found over and over again. I know a fair few players quit due to our ganks as well.

As to where I stand on this, well as you can imagine I "LOVE" to suicide gank, but I also see the issues behind it. I do think "something" needs to be done about 100% safe mining en'mass on alpha especially to curb afk/bot mining. (I think a deployable bomb on alpha with a 60sec charge up to warn non-bots/afkers would remove bots real fast.

Anyway, TLDR: I both want suicide ganks on alpha but without removing "real non-bot" players there. Let me know if someone figues out a way to do this.

Much appreciated Gargaj.

But does that mean... its over 9000?

Ancient memes aside, I agree with this, buildings need the more important information listed.

*Throws a freaking celebration."

For anyone that's had to move 100m units of this stuff, and god forbid had to do it "before" scarabs existed... You know your partying too.

As one of the highest ep miners in the game, I actually like the change to more active participation in mining. I moved over to harvesting for a long while as it actually required me paying attention rather than sticking a straw in the ground and watching a movie/tv.

Not sure what effect this may have in the long term as I don't really mine on the test server, hence can't say if it becomes annoying or not after extended periods.

Most of this is hard to take in context as there are just so many factors changing from the weight of the minerals, to the yields, to the definitive amounts per tile, to the refining changes to the manufacturing costs to the freaking point system implementation.

You misunderstand what I was trying to convey. The basic starts at 23.8% then jumps to godmode (By comparison) at 97.5% then increases again to a miniscule 98.89%. Is it better? Yup. But the difference between 1 and 2 or 3 in COLOSSAL, and the difference between the other two is much MUCH smaller.

Anyway, doesn't matter now, it's all been changed. New system is far more in-line with the tech levels. However ironically the advanced/high-tech got nerfed hp wise. (Basic obviously improved a great deal.) But perhaps with resist boosters that will be a moot point.