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0stego
Fleet Admiral
United Armed Corps
Joined: October 04, 2008
Posts: 153
From: Sol System, Earth, Canada, AB.
|  Posted: 2010-04-13 23:23
So I’m sitting here mining a planet and its fairly boring but I’m helping my faction out so I continue....and that got me thinking what if for every 1000 units of resources a player unloads onto a friendly planet or platform they gain .1 prestige (that’s 0.1 NOT 1.0).
Makes sense dose it not? And it would be fairly hard to abuse cause although you are getting prestige it would take quite a long time to gain any substantial amount and if you’re in an extractor or engineer you are an easy target for AI's and enemy ships alike.
Just an idea I had while being bored mining, suggestion and criticism are welcome.
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Nightsabre
Marshal
Joined: February 21, 2005
Posts: 66
| Posted: 2010-04-13 23:54
Would work only if you lost .1 pres for buying it from a Port then. I could see that being possible tho, why not sounds like a good idea to me.
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James 296
Fleet Admiral
Joined: March 19, 2009
Posts: 141
| Posted: 2010-04-14 00:45
Would bring more use out of the extractors, I give thumps up
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G.Adm. Kirk
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Joined: May 13, 2005
Posts: 91
From: Baton Rouge, LA
| Posted: 2010-04-14 01:59
As long as the Port issue is covered, that sounds great.
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0stego
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United Armed Corps
Joined: October 04, 2008
Posts: 153
From: Sol System, Earth, Canada, AB.
| Posted: 2010-04-14 09:41
As Nightsabre said there could be a 'fee' for taking resources from a port (0.1 or higher?) So that if one were to take resources from the port then distribute them to the planet or platforms they would not gain any prestige from it and this would encourage more people to use extractors/engineers to help out re supplying platforms and planets.
If that did not make any sense its cause I just woke up, but it made sense to me! 
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Bardiche
Chief Marshal
Joined: November 16, 2006
Posts: 1247
| Posted: 2010-04-14 15:18
Or you gain prestige for x amount of resources mined, if possible.
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Pakhos[+R]
Chief Marshal
Pitch Black
Joined: May 31, 2002
Posts: 1352
From: Clean room lab
| Posted: 2010-04-14 15:39
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On 2010-04-13 23:23, 0stego wrote:
So I’m sitting here mining a planet and its fairly boring but I’m helping my faction out so I continue....and that got me thinking what if for every 1000 units of resources a player unloads onto a friendly planet or platform they gain .1 prestige (that’s 0.1 NOT 1.0).
Makes sense dose it not? And it would be fairly hard to abuse cause although you are getting prestige it would take quite a long time to gain any substantial amount and if you’re in an extractor or engineer you are an easy target for AI's and enemy ships alike.
Just an idea I had while being bored mining, suggestion and criticism are welcome.
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and make it this way. when planet is at max resources, u cant drop anymore to gain prestige..
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0stego
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United Armed Corps
Joined: October 04, 2008
Posts: 153
From: Sol System, Earth, Canada, AB.
| Posted: 2010-04-15 10:40
This got swept off the 'Recent Topics' pretty fast.
Would any Admin or Mod like to make a comment on this idea, I feel it would be quite beneficial and give extractors/engineers mining beams more of an active role as I often see people say 'X planet needs resources someone want to mine?' and then there will be silence because no one wants to sit there and mine while not gaining prestige when they could be doing something that actually gains prestige.
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Nuds
Fleet Admiral
Joined: July 30, 2004
Posts: 19
From: NOM
| Posted: 2010-04-15 10:48
The pres gain can be abused by afk mining/using the cargo bug. I've done this myself to get like 200k resources so I can spawn a dread lol. It would probably be more feasible once the cargo bug has been fixed.
Also, getting badges/pres for mining would be awesome
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Starcommander
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Joined: December 14, 2005
Posts: 579
From: In your base, stealing your cookies
| Posted: 2010-04-15 11:35
This wouldn't get abused at all by afk mining even with the cargo bug. So you mine 200k res, you just made 20 pres.....compared to the rest of the game thats just chump change. Its not different then hunting MI.
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Nightsabre
Marshal
Joined: February 21, 2005
Posts: 66
| Posted: 2010-04-15 12:06
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On 2010-04-15 10:48, Nuds wrote:
The pres gain can be abused by afk mining/using the cargo bug. I've done this myself to get like 200k resources so I can spawn a dread lol. It would probably be more feasible once the cargo bug has been fixed.
Also, getting badges/pres for mining would be awesome
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On 2010-04-13 23:23, 0stego wrote:
...for every 1000 units of resources a player unloads onto a friendly planet or platform...
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The cargo bug does not unload anything on to the planet so if this is the way you wont gain anything afk mining anyway.
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xplosiv
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Joined: October 10, 2007
Posts: 43
| Posted: 2010-04-15 13:12
this should be used to counteract resources lost, you mine in an extractor(you only get pres from mining with your own mining beams) and deposit the resources onto a planet that isnt at resource cap, my cuttent resources lost is 836,000 which is a bit more than -4,000 pres, so when resources lost hit 0 thats it, it doesnt go into minus figures and would stop people from abusing this system. Taking resources from ports would not have any effect on this number.
[ This Message was edited by: xplosiv on 2010-04-15 13:17 ]
[ This Message was edited by: xplosiv on 2010-04-18 12:14 ]
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Nightsabre
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Posts: 66
| Posted: 2010-04-15 15:46
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On 2010-04-15 13:12, xplosiv wrote:
this should be used to counteract resources lost, you mine in an extractor(you only get pres from mining with your own mining beams) and deposit the resources onto a planet that isnt at resource cap, my cuttent resources lost is 836,000 which is a bit more than -4,000 pres, so when resources lost hit 0 thats it, it doesnt go into minus figures and would stop people from abusing this system. Taking resources from ports would have any effect on this number.
[ This Message was edited by: xplosiv on 2010-04-15 13:17 ]
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Actually I like this idea. As long as they can do something where i makes sure that your the only one that mined the resources you put on. But I"m sure right now they can't as im guessing its not built in. So I think that maybe something similar but different:
When you place resources on a friendly planet or platform your resources lost goes down by that much. When you draw resources out of a Port your resources lost goes up by that ammount. That way you cannont gain pres back for using a port and you get something from mining becaue, lets face it, everyone has gotten blown up.
Altho I would like to see some Dev input if this is even possible.
Edit: I would also like to make sure that people who do this wont gain back prestige too fast.
[ This Message was edited by: Nightsabre on 2010-04-15 15:47 ]
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Meko
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Joined: March 03, 2004
Posts: 1956
From: Vancouver
| Posted: 2010-04-15 17:35
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On 2010-04-15 15:46, Nightsabre wrote:
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On 2010-04-15 13:12, xplosiv wrote:
this should be used to counteract resources lost, you mine in an extractor(you only get pres from mining with your own mining beams) and deposit the resources onto a planet that isnt at resource cap, my cuttent resources lost is 836,000 which is a bit more than -4,000 pres, so when resources lost hit 0 thats it, it doesnt go into minus figures and would stop people from abusing this system. Taking resources from ports would have any effect on this number.
[ This Message was edited by: xplosiv on 2010-04-15 13:17 ]
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Actually I like this idea. As long as they can do something where i makes sure that your the only one that mined the resources you put on. But I"m sure right now they can't as im guessing its not built in. So I think that maybe something similar but different:
When you place resources on a friendly planet or platform your resources lost goes down by that much. When you draw resources out of a Port your resources lost goes up by that ammount. That way you cannont gain pres back for using a port and you get something from mining becaue, lets face it, everyone has gotten blown up.
Altho I would like to see some Dev input if this is even possible.
Edit: I would also like to make sure that people who do this wont gain back prestige too fast.
[ This Message was edited by: Nightsabre on 2010-04-15 15:47 ]
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sounds good to me
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Draxcyn
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Joined: April 26, 2008
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From: Here.
| Posted: 2010-04-15 22:39
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On 2010-04-13 23:54, Nightsabre wrote:
Would work only if you lost .1 pres for buying it from a Port then. I could see that being possible tho, why not sounds like a good idea to me.
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there goes mining planets 
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