Pirate Mining Crystals
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- Raised By: Bunyip
- Submission Date: 2009/04/22
- Issue ID: To be indexed
Summary
Currently, low-security space is not profitable enough to encourage mining or industry unless the corporation already has a stranglehold on the system in question. This concept seeks to draw miners to low-sec by creating a new type of contraband mining crystal. The crystal would be illegal in high-sec due to the amount of damage it causes to the asteroid belt and the debris it creates from the mining operation, and wouldn't be available in the higher-quality ores (maybe up to gneiss only). It would yield a large amount of ore (maybe double the capacity), but would burn out quickly.
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Pros
- Creates a reason for industrialists to venture to low-security space
- Introduces a higher-profit mechanic without modifying crystals as they are
Cons
- Coding the new crystals and their loot dispersion mechanics
- Designing the durability of the crystals so that they're a profitable but not unbalancing income source
