CCP Fozzie
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Posted - 2017.05.17 16:44:30 -
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Good afternoon everyone.
In our recent dev blog we mentioned faction starbase industry structures in the following paragraph:
Quote:There are two faction Starbase industry structures that will be receiving special attention during this time: the Thukker Component Assembly Array and the Hyasyoda Research Laboratory. These structures will eventually be replaced by new Upwell items with a transition process beginning over the summer. More details about these replacement items will be announced as we get closer to their deployment date.
Well today is more details day!
This thread will cover discussion on the new faction service module that will replace the Hyasyoda Research Laboratory structures.
For anyone not familiar with them, the Hyasyoda Research Laboratories are special starbase lab structures that provide extra speed bonuses for ME and TE blueprint research. They are obtained from one possible ending of the Caldari epic arc mission chain.
In the upcoming June release we will be adding a new version of the Research Lab service module to replace this structure. This service module will provide exactly the same services as a normal Standup Research Lab I, but uses 16.7% less PWG and 8.3% less fuel.
Single run BPCs for these new service modules will be provided from the same mission that provided the old Hyasyoda lab structure. Build requirements for this new service module will be one T1 Lab service module plus 10 Science Graduates.
For owners of the existing Hyasyoda Research Laboratories that wish to switch to the new service module we will also adjust the reprocessing output of the old structures to provide more materials back and provide a special "Hyasyoda Research Lab Technical Data Chip" that can be accessed to gain BPCs for the new service module.
The existing Hyasyoda Research Laboratories will continue to operate normally in June. Under the current plan the research speed bonuses of the existing Hyasyoda Research Laboratories will be phased out in August so we advise existing users to make plans to switch over the next few months.
These new service modules will be available on SISI soon when we deploy the 119.6 release for testing and we encourage interested players to experiment with them there.
This thread will be the place to ask questions and provide feedback on these new rigs. Thanks!
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CCP Fozzie
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Posted - 2017.05.23 20:42:36 -
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Thanks for the comments and feedback so far everyone.
The reasoning for switching the bonuses over to a PWG and fuel reduction is that a speed increase on a service module like this that can be used in any area of space and with any blueprint type would simply be too powerful. We already provide extremely strong research bonuses through ECs and rigs and adding a bonus from the service module (which would quickly become something people would feel they need in order to compete) would be too much.
After reading through the feedback so far we do agree that the bonuses could use a bit more strength, so we are now planning on doubling the Hyasyoda lab fuel reduction bonus to -16.7%.
Elizabeth Norn wrote:Hyasyoda Labs currently aren't built and are not reprocessable, what do you mean by more materials? The phrasing here was a copy paste error from the other thread, good catch. We are adding reprocessing outputs to the existing Hyasyoda Labs so that in addition to the data chips they will provide most of the base materials of a standard Research Lab. This is intended as another light incentive for players to start phasing down their use of these structures and moving their operations over to Upwell structure.
HandelsPharmi wrote:Is there a specific reason, why it will become a module and not a rig like the "Thukker Capital Component Array rig"? The more focused nature of the Thukker Component Array bonuses (only working on capital parts) lended itself well to being converted to rigs in the new system. The more general use of the Hyasyoda Lab would have been a problem with trying to turn it into rigs.
klana depp wrote:one question:
on an astrahus, if you rip out (unfit) the standup cloning center service module, you DESTROY all installed clones.
does the same happen with industrial (research) jobs when i rip out the (current) research service module?
if yes; can i install the new hyasyoda in parallel to the existing one, so as to not lose jobs?
whats the proper procedure here? my azbel has hundreds of jobs running... The current plan is for this system to support hot-swapping. If you install the second service module (so that you temporarily have both the old Standup Research Lab I and the new Standup Hyasyoda Research Lab running at the same time) and then remove the old service module, the jobs will continue as normal. This hot-swap functionality should be working now but since there are so many potential use cases we'd appreciate testing of this on SISI on your own structures once we seed the new service module (should be in the coming days).
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