Posted - 2008.12.07 22:02:00 - [1]

 

Edited by: Sleyn Peade on 26/01/2009 05:19:03
Edited by: Sleyn Peade on 03/01/2009 00:08:34
Mentlegen...................

Many months ago me and a buddy, bored out of our highsec carebear minds, looked into moon mining. We found out, not too surprisingly, that bigger alliances have bigger portions of lowsec charted, or at least most, if not all of the good moon locations listed.

So we had the idea, what if we were to make the info public, would that change anything? We had no idea, but with CCP doing nada to improve lowsec, and missiongrinding in highsec still being profitable enough to support absolutely everything we need, it wouldn't really be that big of a difference which form of grind we did.

So we set out to map lowsec, or at least the metals of it, since the most common gasses are found everywhere and would only clutter the lists, so whenever we were bored with missionrunning, we'd go scan moons.

Today we finished scanning all of 0.1 - 0.3 lowsec. While we haven't made the maps yet (Can't call it a moon map if there aren't visual maps with it), the scan-results should at least prove interesting to some people, so if someone who's interested in these things haven't noticed these on eve-files, we might as well throw them out here.

The Moon Map Project

I know it's in goddamn textfiles that look primitive, nitpick all you want, it's just how it ended up.


A small guide to what is what would probably be an idea:


The most interesting file to the bigger and R64 hungry alliances will probably be The Fort Knox List.

The Regional Moonmineral Overview is a list of what moonminerals are in the assorted lowsec regions.

The Regional System Overview is a list of what systems in lowsec hold which moon minerals.

The files called "Moon Map Overview" are the checked surveys for each assorted region. <-- Use these when looking up the specific locations of minerals.

The files called "Moon Map Project" are the old, raw, often flawed files, from before we started checking all our info, which we did near the end, they're mostly there for nostaltic reasons.

....and no, we're not doing 0.0
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We one mad a character people could donate thankyou iskies to, we were planning on just trying PvP and dying alot, but for some reason, the extra ISK just makes us more lazy and carebear'ish.
Since we don't like taking peoples cash and doing nothing with it, we removed this.

The donated ISK (some 190M) has been donated to Eve University (Ivy League)(specificly, the person listed as the alliance diplomatic contact in their alliance-description), since they were the "best good cause" we could think of.
This also includes any isk sent after
Also apologies for taking so long making the actual maps. Rl, christmas, the flu and learning how to use a freewareprogram called GIMP for it is a timestealing combi.

Edit2: AAAAAAAARGHHHH I'm going insane.
For some strange reason, ever since the moon map project finished, I've had absolutely zero interest in anything related to moons. For some reason, moons make my mind go into some form of reject-based partial coma, conjuring me into doing anything else I can think of. So making maps of this, at least from my end, is on hold for now, and I'm the only person from the project who lacks a life enough to have enough time to spare for it.

It's public info, we don't have a patent on it or anything, so obviously anyone who wants to use the info to make any form of maps, database etc is free to do so. It'll probably be months before I get to look at it again.
Sorry