Scrapyard Bob
EVE University
Ivy League
1222
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Posted - 2013.01.28 15:12:00 -
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Even the current system is somewhat salvageable if you'd go after the low-hanging fruit.
- Finish fixing CHAs so that containers, especially audit containers can be fully used (both deposit *and* withdraw) just like you can use them in a corporate hangar in a station.
- Add the ability to repackage items in a CHA.
- Remove the requirement of handing out the "Factory Manager" role in order for regular corp members to use the POS labs/arrays. Anyone without the role should be allowed to install jobs, but can only cancel their own jobs. This is one of the major impediments to doing null / w-space industry because you can't trust that someone won't cancel your jobs in larger corps.
- ME/PE jobs which get cancelled should get partial progress (should be reasonably easy, other then jobs that consume materials). This needs to be done anyway if there is ever a chance of opening up ME/PE research to the public. It mitigates the problem of "what if someone cancels my research job mid-stride".
- Corporate divisions in the SMA. Right now, corps have to abuse the "POS fuel-tech" role in order to setup SMAs which offer more security then the corporate-wide SMA, or you have to do fun things with shield passwords.
- Re-balance the currently useless refining arrays. Make them much faster, use slightly less CPU/PG, and remove the "you'll only ever get 75% back" restriction. Change them so that with skills + implants you can get close to 99%. This is another major roadblock to null-sec and w-space industry.
- Add the faction tower BPCs back into the game as drops.
- Fix the missile/torpedo launcher batteries to not consume CPU.
- Fix the gas refining silos to not require starbase config roles to function.
Higher-hanging fruit:
- Allow access to research/manuf slots based on "titles" (i.e. if you have title X out of the 14 corp titles).
- Add access logs (deposit/take) at the hangar level, not just the audit-container level.
- Add access logs for job cancellation at labs/arrays.
- Add new CHA sizes. Give us a 1M m3 version with same PG/CPU as existing CAA and call it a "small CHA". Add a 8M m3 "large" version which takes 2.5x the CPU/PG of the existing CHA.
- Add more SMA sizes. Specifically something in the 50M m3 range (that is 2x the anchor cost of the current SMA).
- Add new tower sizes. I think a XL (2x the size / cost / fuel of the current large) and a XXL (4x the size/cost/fuel) would be useful. If someone wants something bigger which eats more fuel, then this would be the choice for them.
- Create a "personal" storage array, with 100 slots, each with 100k m3 of storage that members can rent.
- Change hi-sec slot fees to float more. If a hi-sec station keeps <50% of their slots busy one day, then they should cut prices by 1%. Over 50% busy, bump prices up about 1%/day. Over 80% busy, bump prices up 2% per day. Change the base minimum fee to be around 2500 ISK/hr instead of 333 ISK/hr. Let the market decide just how much those slot fees are worth (at around 6-8k/hr POS manuf slots become competitive, and about 9-12k/hr for POS research). |