Candente
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Posted - 2011.01.25 20:50:00 -
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 Originally by: Cristine comings
Originally by: Darod Zyree
Most people just wanted a restart all extractors button.
but noooooooo, we got the ECU and resource spots that make us have to rebuild structures all the time 
well, the clicking feast is fixed ... only 1 or 2 clicks now ...
the excessive power grid usage in the control heads, make it impractical to refine the materials pass P1, when before, people could refine up to at least P2 from 1 planet, this means that people have to spend all day hauling materials P1 to refine in P2 or P3.
now ... here's a concept that might have not reached the grasp of ccp PI developers ... "PI" ... is "NOT FUN" don't make it even worst by limiting the power grid on the extractor heads.
as it is, most people are not interested in PI, and do it as it's direly needed to fuel the pos's or T2 manufacture.
those products are no longer seeded in NPC's and the offer is already scattered ... so, please, see if you can tweak it properly, so that the current needed extractor heads don't prevent us from extracting more than 1 or 2 diferent materials.
a possible solution could pass by the "extractor heads" have 1 pwg and 1 cpu, and the extractors themselves have the powergrid and cpu required.
technical stuff and numbers aside, I would say it's a good move to further specialize planetary colonies into "production" and "processing" categories. Players either can find high-yield planets to pump out of low level materials or import low level materials to refine them. Or if you put more thoughts into how to lay out your network of colonies, you can do pretty much both.
And this hardly has correlations to being "fun" or not. Obviously this is a game and ideally every part of it should be fun in some sense. Clickfest was not fun; and now it's better. And I can bet more people who manage colonies are more interested into passive income, rather than fueling their PoS. Both re-surveying with Extractor Heads and hauling stuff between planets are the minimal works needed to maintain this passive income... and it looks rather balanced.
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