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Scrapyard Bob
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Posted - 2011.11.06 04:07:00 -
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Emma Royd wrote:Not quite sure how it's going to work, since not all POS fuel requirements are fixed, some (Heavy Water and Liquid Ozone) consumption rates vary depending on the cpu & power grid load on the tower). I assume that they'll probably just make it easy and just have it as if the tower was at max load all the time. It's high time they've done this, and as long as the pellets are the same size (if not preferably a bit smaller) than the combined fuels, then happy days  , time to re-write the spreadsheet.
There's a few ways they could go:
- A base level per-hour pellet consumption + additional pellets based on CPU/PG usage.
- Pellet consumption is based solely on CPU/PG usage.
- CPU/PG usage is not taken into account at all and all towers consume as if they are running at full utilization.
I would imagine that the 1st or 2nd option would be the way they do it, but they might also go for the simplicity of the 3rd method.
And I expect that there will be (4) sets of fuel pellet blueprints, one for reach race (Oxygen-based Fuel Pellet, for instance, would be used in Gallente towers).
This will also mean that instead of the PI-sourced fuels being a fairly static amount across all tower sizes, the amount of PI-sourced fuel would also change based on the tower size / consumption rate. Which could mean that small towers get slightly cheaper to run. |
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Posted - 2011.11.07 15:50:00 -
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pussnheels wrote:well the devblog about fuel pellets is out , looks fine to me no more calculator and a spreadsheet
Linky:
http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=3029
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=30913&find=unread
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Scrapyard Bob
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Posted - 2011.11.07 18:59:00 -
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The Heavy Water change is a wash - most hi-sec towers tended to use all of their CPU anyway - and the HW costs per 30 days for a large tower was only about 2.2M.
The Liquid Ozone, OTOH, is more like 34.6M/mo and most existing towers probably only spent 17.3M/mo on Liquid Ozone. So there's a small increase in consumption costs.
Overall, unless LOz prices go nuts (past 600-800 ISK/u), the costs for running a large tower will go down slightly. Small towers will gain the most from this change as they will get about 20-25% cheaper to run. |
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Posted - 2011.11.08 20:02:00 -
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Dinsdale Pirannha wrote:So what happens to all the fuel I have stored in my POS now?
It's call the half-n-half approach.
1) Buy the BPO (or a T1 BPC) or just buy some fuel pellets.
2) Take 7-days worth of fuel pellets out to the tower, stuff them in, then fill the rest of the bay with traditional fuel.
3) Continue POS'ing it up like normal.
4) Keep refilling with the old fuel types until the day of changeover (roughly a month after the BPOs get seeded)
5) Change-over day happens - POS tower starts using new fuel pellets
6) You now have 7 days of buffer using the new fuel pellets
7) Remove old-style fuel, bring out more fuel pellets to top off the tower
8) Convert all old-style fuel to pellets (if you so desire)
So just put 3 or 7 or 10 days worth of pellets in, then do a full swap after the change-over date. You'll have to haul fuel a little more frequently during the migration window, but you'll be ready for zero-hour when the change-over occurs.
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