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Dr Grant
Building Inspectors
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Posted - 2014.04.29 13:13:00 -
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It appears CCP is dumbing down Research. Instead of ME/PE we get Level 1-10 in each in category and that is it. Blueprint Copies will be be made so fast, that they can be used just as well as BPOs.
The reasoning?
"The major reason for changing this system is that the current relationship between ME/TE level and actual savings is difficult to understand without wrapping your head around some reasonably non-trivial math, which adds fairly substantially to the mental barrier of entry for industry and generally makes the system more opaque than it really needs to be."
Who, exactly, the ****, are they talking about? I am feeling insulted here. Since when is a simple division "non-trivial math"? Where exactly is this "mental barrier"? Apparently they want to attract drooling morons to the economy sandbox, because, you know, simple math is just too much of a entry-barrier to pass. On top of that, apparently we can't have normal people (notice i don't use "intelligent" here) have an advantage over retards, so everybody is equalized to the same level of idiocy. The probably should call this expansion "Eve Idiocracy", "now with free character transfer from Wow and teletubbies online".
Say goodbye to your Excel sheets, your carefull examination of market niches, your exploitation and manipulation schemes, because it is fairly obvious everybody is going to be brought down to the same level of badness. Apparently the notion of complexity and the requirement to think for a modest time is considered a bad "entry barrier" nowadays. Funny thing though, i joined this game because of its complexity and not its "accessibility" (which is just an euphemism for "we made it easy enough for really really stupid people). Apparently there are just so so many really stupid people who desperately want to play Eve but can't. Yeah right.
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TigerXtrm
Black Thorne Corporation Black Thorne Alliance
625
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Posted - 2014.04.29 13:17:00 -
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You know what's stupid? How researching the first level is equal to researching all levels after that.
That, and your post. My YouTube Channel - EVE Tutorials & other game related things! |
Dr Grant
Building Inspectors
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Posted - 2014.04.29 13:19:00 -
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TigerXtrm wrote:You know what's stupid? How researching the first level is equal to researching all levels after that.
Instead, it is not. The difference is between long-term efficiency and short-term effectiveness. It is a system of choice, with level 1-10 we will end up with level 10 BPCs only and that is it. |
Kaivar Lancer
Biological Mechanical Unlimited
496
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Posted - 2014.04.29 13:35:00 -
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Not all players are Excel-proficient aspies. |
Dr Grant
Building Inspectors
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Posted - 2014.04.29 13:39:00 -
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Kaivar Lancer wrote:Not all players are Excel-proficient aspies.
Actually Excel is used more by business-type people who by definition are more attracted to that part of gameplay. You will find the aspies in the Technology section of the forum. I don't think people interested in an economoy sandbox will like "one click mithril-armor in space" though. And it seems we are getting there. |
Victoria Sin
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
593
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Posted - 2014.04.29 14:02:00 -
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Actually I'm not too fussed about the changes. I even like them in general. The only thing that concerns me is the relative advantage a highly specialised character will retain over a relatively unspecialised one. If CCP are lowering the difference then that will be pretty poor to be honest. I haven't sunk 25 million SP into science to then lose the competitive advantage it's given me because of dumbing down.
And you know, if you really want to be "pro" at it, doing your own spreadsheet and so on, that's effort on your part that should be rewarded. And if you don't want to do it because you're a lazy fat-arsed slob who wants all of the benefits of simply clicking a button and then staring blankly into space until it's "completed" fine. If that's what CCP wants to do they can have it. And I'll need fewer characters subbed to manage it. |
Kun'ii Zenya
The Executives Executive Outcomes
7
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Posted - 2014.04.29 14:23:00 -
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Dr Grant wrote:It appears CCP is dumbing down Research. Instead of ME/PE we get Level 1-10 in each in category and that is it. Blueprint Copies will be be made so fast, that they can be used just as well as BPOs.
The reasoning?
"The major reason for changing this system is that the current relationship between ME/TE level and actual savings is difficult to understand without wrapping your head around some reasonably non-trivial math, which adds fairly substantially to the mental barrier of entry for industry and generally makes the system more opaque than it really needs to be."
Who, exactly, the ****, are they talking about? I am feeling insulted here. Since when is a simple division "non-trivial math"? Where exactly is this "mental barrier"? Apparently they want to attract drooling morons to the economy sandbox, because, you know, simple math is just too much of a entry-barrier to pass. On top of that, apparently we can't have normal people (notice i don't use "intelligent" here) have an advantage over retards, so everybody is equalized to the same level of idiocy. The probably should call this expansion "Eve Idiocracy", "now with free character transfer from Wow and teletubbies online".
Say goodbye to your Excel sheets, your carefull examination of market niches, your exploitation and manipulation schemes, because it is fairly obvious everybody is going to be brought down to the same level of badness. Apparently the notion of complexity and the requirement to think for a modest time is considered a bad "entry barrier" nowadays. Funny thing though, i joined this game because of its complexity and not its "accessibility" (which is just an euphemism for "we made it easy enough for really really stupid people). Apparently there are just so so many really stupid people who desperately want to play Eve but can't. Yeah right.
Loved you in the First and third Jurassic Park movies....although, velociraptors weren't quite that big. They were about the size of a large breed dog...the movie ones were more like Deinonychus antirrhopus.
But back on topic, these changes wont cause spreadsheets to go away, IMO. You'll still need to figure out costs, and you'll still need to calculate expected profits/benefits.
Margins will likely come down as CCP seems intent on increasing the level of competition in various markets though. |
stoicfaux
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Posted - 2014.04.29 14:43:00 -
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Intelligent people tend to make complicated processes easier and more efficient in the search for profit. Simply put, CCP is doing the intelligent thing by making certain aspects of the game more attractive in an attempt to expand and/or retain a certain demographic in order to make/preserve profit.
That fact that it reduces the economic advantage of your superior brain simply means that CCP considers larger groups of lesser people to be more valuable than you. If you fire up Excel and run the numbers, you'll see that a lot of lesser people paying 14.99 a month is better than a few ubermensch paying 14.99 a month.
However, since you posted, it means you're concerned, so I will try to help a fellow human being in distress. Have you perhaps considered filing a reverse discrimination lawsuit against CCP? WASABI: Warp Acceleration System Ancillary Boost Injected(Gäó)
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Weaselior
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
7140
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Posted - 2014.04.29 14:52:00 -
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TigerXtrm wrote:You know what's stupid? How researching the first level is equal to researching all levels after that.
That, and your post.
Head of the Goonswarm Economic Warfare Cabal Pubbie Management and Exploitation Division. |
Dr Grant
Building Inspectors
22
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Posted - 2014.04.29 15:32:00 -
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stoicfaux wrote: That fact that it reduces the economic advantage of your superior brain simply means that CCP considers larger groups of lesser people to be more valuable than you. If you fire up Excel and run the numbers, you'll see that a lot of lesser people paying 14.99 a month is better than a few ubermensch paying 14.99 a month.
The whole "many stupid people are better than the people we currently have" argument was made before for the planned "ken and barbie in stations" expansion. You are right it worked really well for them.
Oh wait.
It didn't. Because it is not as if there isn't plenty of stupid people who already play games that are specifically catered to them. People who want sandbox economy want choice and complexity. Otherwise you might as well play one of those games that give easy rewards to stupid people. The immediate result will be that people interested in the sandbox will quit some of the multiple accounts, because they are probably not needed anymore. That will be the only immediate effect.
In the long term if other aspect get the "stupid treatment", people who play the spreadsheet game will just quit the game altogether. And that is where we are headed.
Make no mistake, CCP didn't just make the process of research more efficient and streamlined. That is something i could get behind. They removed choice.
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Ginger Barbarella
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
1913
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Posted - 2014.04.29 16:06:00 -
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Dr Grant wrote:It appears CCP is dumbing down Research.
Pretty sure they're working on the assumption that Easy Button = more subscriptions. "Blow it all on Quafe and strippers." --- Sorlac |
Ginger Barbarella
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
1913
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Posted - 2014.04.29 16:09:00 -
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TigerXtrm wrote:You know what's stupid? How researching the first level is equal to researching all levels after that.
That, and your post.
When logic (and knowing what you're talking about) fails, always resort to ad hominem. You're a goonie, aren't you? Go on, admit it... "Blow it all on Quafe and strippers." --- Sorlac |
Nicola Arman
Mining and Explorations Nuevo Imperio Galactico
36
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Posted - 2014.04.29 16:15:00 -
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How did they remove choice? It seems to be just a streamlined process. Why do people like the endless clicking process? You still have to play the meta. You still have to choose and run the processes. You still have to find ways to beat competition. You just ddon't have to bore the **** out of yourself with redundancies that add nothing to gameplay. |
Dr Grant
Building Inspectors
22
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Posted - 2014.04.29 16:20:00 -
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Nicola Arman wrote:How did they remove choice? It seems to be just a streamlined process. Why do people like the endless clicking process? You still have to play the meta. You still have to choose and run the processes. You still have to find ways to beat competition. You just ddon't have to bore the **** out of yourself with redundancies that add nothing to gameplay.
Right now you have to make the choice:
Invest time or isk into high efficient BPO, and if so how much, considering how much the diminishing return is worthwhile for YOUR business scenario (for example quick production run vs. long term investment)
After the change:
Everyone will just research and have Level 10 BPOs (no choice) and if you are too lazy for even that just crank out basically instant and free BPCs.
Right now:
You can't get perfect results for most BPOs, you must decide what is "good enough" for YOUR scenario
After the change:
Get Level 10 and be done with it.
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Nicola Arman
Mining and Explorations Nuevo Imperio Galactico
36
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Posted - 2014.04.29 16:29:00 -
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It's the same ****... we research them now until they hit a good number for us. Too much research turns out to be dumb or just plain masochistic. How does that equate to choice? Negligible differences Vs other neglible differences? |
Kun'ii Zenya
The Executives Executive Outcomes
8
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Posted - 2014.04.29 16:32:00 -
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Dr Grant wrote:
Make no mistake, CCP didn't just make the process of research more efficient and streamlined. That is something i could get behind. They removed choice.
What choices are being removed?
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Owen Levanth
Federated Deep Space Explorations
123
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Posted - 2014.04.29 17:26:00 -
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Kun'ii Zenya wrote:Dr Grant wrote:
Make no mistake, CCP didn't just make the process of research more efficient and streamlined. That is something i could get behind. They removed choice.
What choices are being removed?
The choice of being an idiot, obviously. |
Volar Kang
Kang Industrial
152
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Posted - 2014.04.29 17:30:00 -
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On the bright side, start researching a bunch of BPO's to ME10 now and you will get maxed researched BPO's when the change hits! |
Otin Bison
Bison Industrial Inc Thundering Herd
6
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Posted - 2014.04.29 20:13:00 -
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Yeah, this will be so easy now every goon can do it!
Sorry, couldn't resist but seriously, I obviously need to re-read the Dev Blog as I took away that it will be easier to understand but not necessarily easier to do. Maybe I missed something. |
Barton Breau
University of Caille Gallente Federation
20
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Posted - 2014.04.29 21:38:00 -
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stoicfaux wrote:Intelligent people tend to make complicated processes easier and more efficient in the search for profit. Simply put, CCP is doing the intelligent thing by making certain aspects of the game more attractive in an attempt to expand and/or retain a certain demographic in order to make/preserve profit.
That fact that it reduces the economic advantage of your superior brain simply means that CCP considers larger groups of lesser people to be more valuable than you. If you fire up Excel and run the numbers, you'll see that a lot of lesser people paying 14.99 a month is better than a few ubermensch paying 14.99 a month.
I guess we could give the the benefit of doubt, they have/had a mmo with steadily growing subs when noone had, maybe they will succeed where everyone has failed so far, streamlining and simplifying the game in search for new subs.
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Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat Working Stiffs
3537
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Posted - 2014.04.29 21:44:00 -
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Volar Kang wrote:On the bright side, start researching a bunch of BPO's to ME10 now and you will get maxed researched BPO's when the change hits! This is the one thing I really hate about it.
I have ME 200 battleship BPOs, and perfect capital BPOs, like dreadnoughts at ME 6. |
Thur Barbek
Republic University Minmatar Republic
285
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Posted - 2014.04.30 07:38:00 -
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They really should have done 1-100 instead of 1-10. 10 levels is just so small a number.
Only reason behind this i can think of is they want to stack bpc's in the future and 11 ME * 11 PE is only 121 combinations possible. That is the small hope i am clinging to. |
Apelacja
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
67
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Posted - 2014.04.30 08:44:00 -
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THIS IS STUPIDITY Any owner of capital ships BPO`s will say u this.
We can only thx CCP to reroll our BPO`s.......
For everything else it is not so important but if u have wasted one year on 9 accounts doing only reasearch and now it will be doable in 2 month u have wasted 9 months - multiplay it with fuel and plex cost and your afford and u see a misery.
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Busje Komt Zo
Hollenboer
1
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Posted - 2014.04.30 10:15:00 -
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Tau Cabalander wrote:Volar Kang wrote:On the bright side, start researching a bunch of BPO's to ME10 now and you will get maxed researched BPO's when the change hits! This is the one thing I really hate about it. I have ME 200 battleship BPOs, and perfect capital BPOs, like dreadnoughts at ME 6. While I do understand why you hate this to a certain extend, you have to realize that anyone thinking of doing a lot of ME10 research now will be limited by both available research slots on his characters and available research slots in stations/POS.
You will still have the advantage with capital BPOs because it will be practically impossible to get these to perfect levels before the summer expansion if you start now. After the expansion it will be easier to get these BPOs to a workable level for newbs, but your BPOs will still give you the maximum profit margin and it will probably take even more effort than it was for you to get the same level capital BPOs as you currently have.
The only issue is with over-researched BPOs where the "perfect ME" is essentially infinite (an impractical high number). I personally don't think anyone should receive any reimbursement for such stupidity (even if it was the BPC market that was stupid about it). |
Dearthair
Goibhniu Industries The Gentlemen's Society
8
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Posted - 2014.04.30 13:08:00 -
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They have also already said that anything that is perfect now will be perfect after the patch. So if a BPO was perfect at ME 6, it will remain so, and will probably take a LOT longer to get to ME 6 than it does now. Now, instead of each level of ME/TE being worst than the last, they are all the same, but take much longer to research than the previous level. NBLID (Not Blue Let It Die), the new motto for miners, manufacturers, and retailers everywhere. |
Velicitia
Emergent Avionics
2148
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Posted - 2014.04.30 14:01:00 -
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Tau Cabalander wrote:Volar Kang wrote:On the bright side, start researching a bunch of BPO's to ME10 now and you will get maxed researched BPO's when the change hits! This is the one thing I really hate about it. I have ME 200 battleship BPOs, and perfect capital BPOs, like dreadnoughts at ME 6.
Agreed ... hopefully the'll take that into account and make things continue to be somewhat "difficult" to train ME/PE. One of the bitter points of a good bittervet is the realisation that all those SP don't really do much, and that the newbie is having much more fun with what little he has. - Tippia |
Moonlit Raid
State War Academy Caldari State
177
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Posted - 2014.04.30 14:23:00 -
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Dr Grant wrote:It appears CCP is dumbing down Research. Instead of ME/PE we get Level 1-10 in each in category and that is it. Blueprint Copies will be be made so fast, that they can be used just as well as BPOs.
The reasoning?
"The major reason for changing this system is that the current relationship between ME/TE level and actual savings is difficult to understand without wrapping your head around some reasonably non-trivial math, which adds fairly substantially to the mental barrier of entry for industry and generally makes the system more opaque than it really needs to be."
Who, exactly, the ****, are they talking about? I am feeling insulted here. Since when is a simple division "non-trivial math"? Where exactly is this "mental barrier"? Apparently they want to attract drooling morons to the economy sandbox, because, you know, simple math is just too much of a entry-barrier to pass. On top of that, apparently we can't have normal people (notice i don't use "intelligent" here) have an advantage over retards, so everybody is equalized to the same level of idiocy. The probably should call this expansion "Eve Idiocracy", "now with free character transfer from Wow and teletubbies online".
Say goodbye to your Excel sheets, your carefull examination of market niches, your exploitation and manipulation schemes, because it is fairly obvious everybody is going to be brought down to the same level of badness. Apparently the notion of complexity and the requirement to think for a modest time is considered a bad "entry barrier" nowadays. Funny thing though, i joined this game because of its complexity and not its "accessibility" (which is just an euphemism for "we made it easy enough for really really stupid people). Apparently there are just so so many really stupid people who desperately want to play Eve but can't. Yeah right.
So you didn't think to link the document you're talking about?
If brute force isn't working, you're just not using enough. |
Loraine Gess
Confedeferate Union of Tax Legalists
244
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Posted - 2014.04.30 14:48:00 -
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Apelacja wrote:THIS IS STUPIDITY Any owner of capital ships BPO`s will say u this.
We can only thx CCP to reroll our BPO`s.......
For everything else it is not so important but if u have wasted one year on 9 accounts doing only reasearch and now it will be doable in 2 month u have wasted 9 months - multiplay it with fuel and plex cost and your afford and u see a misery.
Lol the research time for capitals is going UP. Good luck with that. |
Busje Komt Zo
Hollenboer
1
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Posted - 2014.04.30 15:05:00 -
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Velicitia wrote:Tau Cabalander wrote:I have ME 200 battleship BPOs, and perfect capital BPOs, like dreadnoughts at ME 6. Agreed ... hopefully the'll take that into account and make things continue to be somewhat "difficult" to train ME/PE. Er, training a battleship BPO to "perfect" using the new rules (assuming they don't change) will still take something like 6 months (and capital BPOs obviously will take even longer). I think that is more than difficult enough.
That somebody spend 468 days (~1.5 years) researching their battleship BPO to insane levels is not something CCP should reward in any way in my opinion, other than of course guaranteeing that they'll get a "perfect" BPO post-patch - just like the guy that spend a year less researching on the same BPO.
Edit: An idea for maybe rewarding those people who did put a lot of time in researching a ship BPO is maybe granting them access to a special skin for that ship [unlimited builds, simply select default or special skin during manufacturing]. That would be something I could live with :) |
Velicitia
Emergent Avionics
2148
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Posted - 2014.04.30 15:47:00 -
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I was specifically talking about the capships in that they're "done" for all intents and purposes at 6.
As for ME 200 BS -- I might have one or two hulls up around there, because I was building them extensively. It's not so much for cost cutting as not wanting to haul as much minerals -- shaving off a million or million and a half trit per run (at me 150/200) of a BS is nice ... One of the bitter points of a good bittervet is the realisation that all those SP don't really do much, and that the newbie is having much more fun with what little he has. - Tippia |
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