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Bots take an amount of materials to make, being self sufficient you mine the raw materials to make the bots you need to go out and pvp, where with us the PVP is considered the fun part. If you add overhead to the mining through more scanning, then you have less time to go out and have that fun.

The scanning down of fields takes time, it creates overhead on the mining and thereby increases the amount of time before you have the equipment built. Reducing the amount of time you have for fun. Now I would like scanning more than sitting on a spot and mining.

My suggestion would then be to keep the overall time spent on the industrial part the same. Increase the mining yield(or decrease the material cost of equipment) to compensate the time it takes to now scan down the fields. The time to scan down fields can be found out on the test server. For an average mining session you could take an hour(or two).

The problem for Lupus isn't the scanning down of fields, its reducing the amount of time you have for the fun stuff. Even if it reduces it for everyone, that's still reducing it.

I would very much like some way of knowing the relative amount of lots to OMGitssomuch, my suggestion for this would be to use the size of the square, as it is currently not being used, where you could make a maxed out field where the glaring red tiles are so big they link up. Right now the size of the tile increases with how much is in it, but you could use this and the height to express that difference in how red it is.

Going to need to start putting guns on the Ictus like Lucian.

It would be great if either of you could give examples of these other games and provide some figures to prove your point.

If anyone would get scammed it should be pretty obvious when they complained who got scammed by who and that shouldn't take much time to sort out.

How exactly would someone have rigged this?
Anyone got to enter, the rating system is public, based on public information.
The only cheats possible(that I can think of, short of hacking the killboard) were RR or support nexuses, and anyone could have seen it if remote reps were used.

I require additional Ictus.
About 28 hours with one, this will be fun.

Blue pilots aren't cannon fodder, they're really bad at that.
In the current metagame kains suck.

Aww, would have been fun to do this.

I'd bring a waspish
also my industrial toons don't have weapon extensions

I don't think it would be a good idea for money.
The problem with that is that it would become semi-mandatory, like navigation 10 is now.
I also don't think that the initial 20K of EP you get is a bad amount, although I may be wrong on this.
I kind of like the progression you get.

I do think that would drive isolationism, making the markets on those gamma islands even more removed from alpha markets.