Jiao Zelig
Coffee Lovers Brewing Club
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Posted - 2010.09.12 22:56:00 -
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I was a bit bored while watching the Eagles and just wanted to write out a few suggestions I had for Planetary Interaction:
1) Make a Planetary Interaction window like Science & Technology. The primary use would be to have a window with the list of all your extractors/processors/storage and what they're currently doing, and allow you to right-click on the list to activate them rather than find them in View Planet. In addition, there should be filters for: (a) Non-surveyed Extractors, (b) Processors without resources, (c) Storage that is more than 90% full and (d) non-routed resources not already at a storage facility.
2) NPCs should only sell the basic Command Center, and the Command Center should have an Upgrade feature (like planetary links) which would, with the proper skill and paying the proper amount of money, upgrade to the next higher CC (without losing your current planetary network).
3) Extractors should also be capable of being upgraded (only as high as your CC). So, for example, if you normally do 500 resources per cycle and you have a lvl 2 CC, you can upgrade your extractor to extract 1000 resources per cycle. This would significantly cut down on unnecessary clicking. It would have some balance built into it (better resource planets will still produce more per extractor level, and planetary links might need to be upgraded because of more resources going across the link). In addition, it might be a good isk sink to require some payment per cycle, which increases geometrically with extractor level (i.e., maybe 10*2^x isk per cycle, so 20 isk/cycle for a level 1 extractor, 40 isk/cycle for level 2, 80 isk/cycle for level 3, 160 isk/cycle for level 4 and 320 isk/cycle for lvl 5).
4) Change the survey times. 30m is very short, and there is a big gap between 5hr and the 23hr time. I'd suggest 1 hr (5m cycles), 8hrs (15m cycles) and 23hrs (30m cycles), where the 1hr and 8hrs surveys are slightly less productive per cycle than currently on Tranq. However, instead of a 96hrs survey, extractors should mine at the 96hrs rate whenever they're not otherwise engaged in a shorter survey.
5) It is a little bit glaring that a ship specifically designed for only PI duties (Primae) cannot access its holds while in View Planet mode. It's not a big deal, but there seems to be no good reason why you need to close PI interface to access the Planetary Commodity hold.
And I cannot help but end this post by saying that NH needs more PG and maybe another mid.
-Jiao
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Alexander Third
Gallente
Crystal Industries
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Posted - 2010.09.13 01:42:00 -
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1) yes, except that you can change the amount needed for the storage to show up. (say from 90% to another number that the player can change)
2) YES this is really needed
3) only if it changes the amount per cycle not the amount per survey, because the amount you take out is max.
4) No leave them as they are
5) no need not to so, Yes
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