Severice
Crushed Ambitions
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Posted - 2009.08.12 04:18:00 -
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Anyone who has been on Sisi lately has notice a change in capital ships. Most note able, the fuel bay. This, like the MB/s change have been touted as "We are going to limit you in X fashion, so we can give you more." Ie bigger drone bays so we could have backup flights on drones on ships like the thorax and the vexor and the myrmidon. What did the MB/s change do? It limited ships in a very specific way. What did it give us? A 25m3 increase to the myrmidon drone bay, and a 25m3 increase to the vexor. (pretty sure that was it.) That's pretty much it.
Now CCP has announced FUEL BAYS (WHOORA WHOOO Fanfare of the incompetent) With the concept of We will limit your cargo bay in X fasion so you can carry more fuel. Good right? yes i love the idea. Results: Thanny (old) 3,500 m3 cargo bay, modules to increase this 1 Cargo expander Rigs to increase this 1 Expanded cargoholds. Thanny NEW!!!! 875m3 cargo bay, Fuel bay 3,000. Rigs to increase fuel bay... none i can see, mods to increase fuel bay... non i can see.
So total fuel you can/could hold is down 500m3. So far i feel the cold sting of "limit in X to give you... nothing"
How do i use stront? i can't keep it in the cargo bay, do i put it in the fuel bay? How do i keep enough fuel in the cargobay to do a long jump and run triage? Do i have to move it there from the corp hanger? What does adding yet ANOTHER bay to the carrier ADD to the game? The simple answer is it cuts the utility of storage (Stront+fuel mix ect.) and it doesn't give us anything back. It gives 375m3 of "total" storage but it doesn't actually do anything you want. You can't store stront or fuel in it. You dont' need cap boosters, you dont' need ammo your a thanny. What do you put there? Nothing usefull unless you try to jam more stront and fuel in there and transfer it over to the fuel bay by hand. Which will only be a hinderance because you used to have 1 bay that did all that it was called the "cargo bay"
i find a disturbing trend in CCP's ship alteration philosphy and that is "Hey, we own these thips. You will fit them the way we want and expect you too. if you don't we'll just force you to." That is what fuel bays do. They force pilots to use a ship in a specific manner. I liked the idea when it was on par with 6k fuel bay 500m3 cargo bay, for if you can think of something. Gives you lots of fuel options.
Untill you increase the size of fuel bays, they DO NOT add anything to the game except for yet another CCP extravagance to eve that isn't necessary.
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Severice
Crushed Ambitions
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Posted - 2009.08.12 07:48:00 -
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Originally by: Oarta
Originally by: Severice How do i use stront? i can't keep it in the cargo bay, do i put it in the fuel bay? How do i keep enough fuel in the cargobay to do a long jump and run triage? Do i have to move it there from the corp hanger? What does adding yet ANOTHER bay to the carrier ADD to the game? The simple answer is it cuts the utility of storage (Stront+fuel mix ect.) and it doesn't give us anything back. It gives 375m3 of "total" storage but it doesn't actually do anything you want. You can't store stront or fuel in it. You dont' need cap boosters, you dont' need ammo your a thanny. What do you put there? Nothing usefull unless you try to jam more stront and fuel in there and transfer it over to the fuel bay by hand. Which will only be a hinderance because you used to have 1 bay that did all that it was called the "cargo bay"
As it was stated previously in the thread, fuel can be pulled from the Fuel Bay and the Cargo Bay. So you do not have to move it back and forth from Cargo to Fuel.
Fun. Lemme know when that makes it into the manual. And then tell me when the manual is going to arrive.
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