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Deneb Ore

Aug 23, 2009 ShankTank link
If there are now turrets in asteroid sectors of Deneb belonging to the winner of the last fight, then why not stick a valuable ore in said asteroids? Deneb Xithricite or Denebian Ore or somesuch. It would give some value to the dynamic warfare, would it not?
Aug 23, 2009 Surbius link
Deni... oh I give up.
Aug 23, 2009 MythOpus link
Haha. Don't be so easily deterred Surbius!

ShankTank: Deneb is the system that, to my knowledge, has the most Denic ore in it (large rocks too). Denic is more valuable than Xithricite and I don't think Deneb has the "environmental" conditions to have Xithricite develop anyways.
Aug 23, 2009 ShankTank link
Deneb Xithricite or Denebian Ore or somesuch.

Oh how I feel silly. x_x

But I was thinking something a little more specific to non-station sectors only in Deneb. Perhaps it should wait for the faction redux seeing that if some new ore specific only to such sectors was introduced, nothing would really prevent multi-goddamn-PoS UIT to come in and mine in the middle of all that crossfire.
Aug 23, 2009 PaKettle link
More then just denic.....never mind
Aug 23, 2009 Lord~spidey link
Denic sells for 1.8k/cu its pretty damn decent.
Aug 23, 2009 ShankTank link
Well I don't normally mine because mining is never really linked to combat. Aside from the occasional Xithricite from the sector of a destroyed leviathan, mining or valuable ore deposits are never gained through any interesting conflict, you can find them in just about any uncharted asteroid sector or right outside a station. I know enough of mining as of now to know that Xithricite comes from a few station sectors, Heliocene comes from some uncharted but well-known asteroid sectors in Helios, and you can grab Denic from any system that has blue ice roids (including several sectors in Latos that are uninhabited by bots because it is a Hive Skirmish system).

This is why I think that a lot of the more valuable ore should be more rare to find naturally occurring in the "safe" sectors of the universe, but instead splitting up all valuable ore into several combat-gained locations (bot-inhabited sectors, Deneb combat sectors, and Hive skirmish sectors*).

Also, I never mentioned making a new ore more valuable than Denic. Just that Denic can easily be found in areas other than non-station sectors of Deneb. By all means, I don't want to make mining easier (I despise it as it currently stands), I want to make it more interesting is all.

*Hive skirmish sectors currently under hive control should have deployed collectors/guards with them like normal Hive sectors as opposed to the current emptiness of all HS sectors that happens now.