tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post8349249427021376718..comments2024-02-27T14:44:07.868+01:00Comments on Greedy goblin: Siphon unit: failureGevlonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07072766785893313616noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-51426946522390549092015-03-17T21:47:31.326+01:002015-03-17T21:47:31.326+01:00Yeah, goons do like misinformation where siphons a...Yeah, goons do like misinformation where siphons are concerned. I can think of a few goon towers where the siphons were routinely placed and lasted for days. I should know... since I stole from them as well as whoever dropped them originally. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12099303485336356465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-36687927268201389322015-03-17T17:03:17.606+01:002015-03-17T17:03:17.606+01:00RE: Siphons depends also on your play style- I can...RE: Siphons depends also on your play style- I can be online in Eve for 18 hours a day as have it open at work- but cant do anything much.. however emptying siphons every couple hours can be done by people like me, (AFKers) in the past few weeks I have deployed 4 siphons on a Dyspro moon for a total outlay of 36 million isk for a few clicks every couple hours ( in between writing some godforsaken report that no-one will read) my total income from those siphons alone is well in excess of 1 billion isk. It also deprives our foe of that income. !! so its not entirely worthless, just useful to those of us with a different play styleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-75326955937033075552015-03-17T12:54:15.496+01:002015-03-17T12:54:15.496+01:00In a perfect world every siphon killmail would sho...In a perfect world every siphon killmail would show 0 moon materials.<br />If I own the tower and I see a siphon: Loot it, shoot it would be way smarter then shoot it, loot 50%.<br />If I don't own the tower and I see a siphon: Loot it, leave it.<br /><br />Just because every single Retriever killmail in highsec has less ore in it then the price of a Retriever doesn't tell you if this Retriever was worth it's money.<br /><br />As siphon units can't be scooped to cargo bay once they are launched every single one will end as a killmail - but those killmails won't show you the value they collected over time.<br /><br />To be honest: I didn't expect to see >1000 siphons being used per month.<br /><br />Wouldn't call it a failure but an "insider"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-29531698144225867462015-03-17T11:08:04.838+01:002015-03-17T11:08:04.838+01:00I would say give it time. Sov is about to become m...I would say give it time. Sov is about to become much more complicated difficult and full of new alliances who aren't well organised.<br /><br />I siphoned a NC. dyspro moon last month. Siphons cost about 17m, I got 35m, then about 9m. It was killed by the tower which meant someone with tower roles.<br /><br />Tower roles are incredibly sensitive in an alliance like NC. which is righly paranoid about Goon spies so when they're busy, ie the start of a major war, it's hard for high level people to rush around putting out such fires.<br /><br />Also if I were more serious about it I'd watchlist the player shooting the siphon and learn his schedule so I could drop my siphons at his bed time.<br /><br />Now it scales badly. One siphon might run several hours but it's hard to imagine 10 running for hours or days without a call to check all moons.<br /><br />But it's not useless and I hope it continues to be part of the game. If sov splits into lots of tiny countries I'm definitely going to be testing their attention to their dyspro.Stabshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08716211705647213383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-71491592470062857282015-03-17T08:49:31.339+01:002015-03-17T08:49:31.339+01:00oy.
Next time, he should try something like '...oy.<br /><br />Next time, he should try something like 'BLUE JF CAUGHT IN YA0 OUT OF DOCK RANGE ON STATION' in the intel channels instead of not giving any actual information.Arrendisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-66377961054706634592015-03-17T04:45:20.928+01:002015-03-17T04:45:20.928+01:00Yes, CCP dropped the balls on the siphons for the ...Yes, CCP dropped the balls on the siphons for the entire profit or those that are pulling the strings behind and benefiting from having the API help them root out siphons. This was one of my item on my CSM X platform. Thanks for putting this in numbers!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15273751173628043890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-36777575944647726982015-03-17T04:28:09.254+01:002015-03-17T04:28:09.254+01:00If anyone is asking you to fund their siphon warfa...If anyone is asking you to fund their siphon warfare then that is silly in the extreme, siphons should be self supporting. <br /><br />I have heard over and over that siphons are useless from goons, reddit, and now here. <br /><br />That said why was I able to play with siphons for about half a year and walk away with a sizable fortune while only having done about 10 minutes of siphon work a day. <br /><br />It really makes me think that most people are approaching them the wrong way. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-25374375530345482592015-03-17T04:03:17.683+01:002015-03-17T04:03:17.683+01:00You are missing an important part of how siphons w...You are missing an important part of how siphons work. Anyone can take the contents of a siphon. Unless the owner of the moon is lazy, the siphon should always be empty when it is killed.<br /><br />So your theory that low value killmails mean the siphons are being killed right away, is wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com