Mauvian
The Black Legionnares
Fidelas Constans
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Posted - 2011.11.07 20:54:00 -
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Wow... I am actually posting on the EVE-o forums!
Dear CCP,
Awesome purposed changes!
Positive feedback-
- JB passwords have for a long time been a pain in the ass.
- Changes to Anchor/unanchor times are very appreciated. I found that setting up a pos was a 3-4 hour endeavor for me. That is a long time to sit and watch timers! Thank you for this change as well.
- Full Cells are an amazing concept as well! I have three different spreadsheets for poses + a DB or two that keeps track of fuel consumption and timers. Having all of this simplified is a HUGE relief to me! Drop in 672 Fuel Cells a week per tower. (yes that is 134k M3) Move on to the next tower and repeat. For the record I am alright with having a full use of PG/CPU to get the pleasure of not having to worry about those details!
Suggestions for improvement before release-
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Perhaps adding access to the PoS Shields by standing should be an option as well? We already Have the box for allow corp/alliance use. Why not one for use by standing? I know this would make a lot of NullSec people happy as safe poses would be that much safer.
Fuel Cell production is going to take a vast amount of timers in its current iteration. I realize that you want to make the batches in a small denomination so folks don't feel forced to buy a larger quantity of fuel then they feel they need. However basic math lets us know for each large tower you are running you will be using 1/6th of that time on timers producing the fuel.
30 days of fuel for 1 large tower takes 5 days to produce with one Manu slot. There fore a single char5acter can at max produce fuel for 11 towers every 5 days. Meaning 66 towers over the course of a month. (of course you wont have much lee time in doing this)
Now building in an ammo array the numbers look slightly better 3.75 days per batch. So in theory using 3 ammo arrays you can run timers for 88 towers a month with a single character. That said this is a huge sink of time for industrial characters and their timers.
Increasing the batch size is one option for making things go faster but then you run into forcing players to buy larger amounts
of fuel to make a single batch. The other option is to decrease the build time to something that feels significant, but also doesn't prevent them from using their timers for other production. Halving the current proposed time to 5 minutes would mean making fuel for one tower would take about 2 an a half days. Dropping it to 2minutes per batch would mean it would take 1 day to build 30days of fuel.
That number feels right to me personally, I don't know about you at CCP. but 2Minutes a batch meaning 1 day of production per tower per manu slot. When you get to alliance level you are still talking a huge investment of time from someone, but at the same time it is manageable. At the individual level you are more than capable of devoting 1 day per tower as well.
Compression! Alright, so at every stage of production in EVE compression is a big issue.
In PI-
T0 PI items are huge. T1 are smaller, but not small. T2/T3 pos fuel are small respectively.
In Minerals-
Ore is huge! Minerals are 1/0th the size on average. T1 Modules increase the compression even more so.
I ran the math and these blocks also get the benefits of a compression as well. 217.6 m3 in Items = 200m3 in block. Okay so thats not really a compression, you get 1.088 compression :D
My suggestion is that these fuel blocks are going through a manufacturing process as well. In a game continuity sense they should also be capable of compression. Looking at the more commonly used items for compression you get a range of compression from 12-40.
So lets start at a nice average number... 20. gives us about 11m3 per batch. I hate awkward Numbers, so lets make that a 10 instead. So now instead of hauling 134k m3 Per week for fuel for a large tower you are looking at moving 6740m3 a week.
That is a bit low, checking through other numbers I found I personally like the number 5 for a compression value.
This goes from hauling 134k a week to a mere 27k Per week per large tower. This gives a reason and assigns VALUE to the manufacturing time. I am sure many folks out there know how much of a pain it is to haul fuel around. Compressing it is something they would indeed have no qualms about paying a markup for!
In addition to this it will help the WH corps in moving fuel in as they will make far fewer trips. (No it doesn't help with the PI they were making in the WH... but it is something to help them cope.)
In regards to Sov bonuses and Faction tower bonuses all I have to say is I think it was already hit perfectly on the head previously in this thread. Change the batch size from 4 to 400 and you get granularity in 1% increments.
All in all I love how much more focused yall at CCP are at FiS aspects. Just wanted to give some feedback. |