wow just read the devblog, blah blah blah, your faction tower is garbage, thanks! i hate you ccp.

Cost savings (approximate) by tower size each 30 days, assuming that you were previously maxed out on HW/LOz:

Small towers: 40M/30d (-35%)
Med towers: 40M/30d (-19%)
Large towers: 24M/30d (-6.4%)

Since small towers only paid a maximum of 16M ISK for their HW/LOz needs, a bare small tower with zero of each still ends up about 24M ISK/30d cheaper under the new system. Medium towers HW/LOz usage is about 31M, so they'll still end up at least 9M/30d cheaper. Large towers had less overall savings, so they might actually go up in price slightly due to increased HW/LOz usage.

First, my apologies, I'm new at this blogging game so bear with me.

Second, I've tried to read thru all 56 pages of comments but I still don't know where I'm going to be buying the fuel bpo's and how I'm going to be paying for them. Are they going to be from the LP store?

And if you can tell me where I can find the original blog on this and how to keep up with this stuff, I won't have to bother you all that much anymore....

Thanks! in advance.

Thanks much. I saw that bit about Thukker Mix but I don't recognize that and I thought it might be some sort of inside joke. I'll look that up and find it. I did see the original blog and the update but as I said, I'm new to this blog stuff.

alot of us would like a clear reason as to why you maxed out liquid ozone and heavy water consumption. because to alot of us it seems you just made your own lives easier and not ours by doing this.

Would it be possible for each class of faction starbase to have it's own faction fuel block? It could have a reduced cost and (potentially) a benefit for running the tower on that class of fuel.

With this change, you don't need to worry about having thousands of fuel blocks in a starbase to allow for partial consumption, but the faction towers don't lose their consumption bonuses.

The easiest bonus would be for the same ingredients, the faction block print produces 5 blocks.

Here is an OBVIOUS idea, Instead of destroying the bonus of having fuel reduction, make fuel reduction bonuses ADD cycle time. ie. Racial towers cycle at 1:15 instead of 1:00. This still gives the towers longer times between refueling and doesnt remove the bonuses already in place, allowing for this ******** fuel block idea to work.

Or here is an idea... scrap this, DONT FIX THINGS THAT ARENT BROKEN!
Just a thought.

According to the inital post, "The way we're going to roll this out is that the blocks, their blueprints and the changes to tower capacities will be introduced in the main patch." So I went to a Thukker Mix station and no Blue Prints. Any idea when they will be available?

fuel block blueprints will not be seeded on tranquility today
reported by CCP Spitfire | 2011.11.29 15:50:01 | NEW

The new blueprints for fuel blocks, as featured in the blog Starbase happy fun time blog by CCP Greyscale, will not be seeded immediately after the release of Crucible. We are expecting that these blueprints will be seeded on the market in the next couple of days. We will not be switching over to fuel blocks immediately so players will still have plenty of time to get the new blueprints once they are seeded on the market.

Front page news on the EVE site:
http://www.eveonline.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=4808&tid=1

. We will not be switching over to fuel blocks immediately so players will still have plenty of time to get the new blueprints once they are seeded on the market.

The way we're strongly advising players to approach this handover is to fill your fuel bays with "half and half" - enough of the old fuel to last you to the changeover downtime and then some (I'd suggest 2-3 days extra just in case something horrible happens), and enough of the new fuel blocks to run the tower until you can fill it with 100% blocks. The server should then come back up after the update, see the new fuel and start consuming that like nothing had happened.

CCP:

Umm, just tried to put some fresh cooked Gall blocks in a Shadow Tower... it won't let me. This plan is currently flawed

I haven't read all 57 pages but do we have a date for changeover yet?

no, and damnit - we should, or at least a clue - throw us a bone, CCP!

Dig back through the last 5-10 pages (at most). Perfect ME for 400 units of isotopes is about ME 80, but once you get to ME 14, you only waste 3 isotopes per block (0.75% waste on the isotopes). At ME 40, you reduce that to 1 waste unit.

Getting to ME 14 is not going to take you very long, at which point you can throw it in a manufacturing line for about 1.5 days in order to produce about 30.5 days of large fuel.

Base production time 5 minutes per 40 blocks, minus 20% for Industry V, minus another 17% if you go for PE 8, minus another 25% if you use a POS comp/ammo array, minus another 6% if you have the implant. Which drives the time down to about 2.5 minutes to create a single hour worth of large non-faction tower fuel pellets.

So in 2-3 days, you can easily create 4 weeks of fuel using a slightly inefficient BPO (ME 14), after which you toss it back in the research lab for another week or two to get to ME 80 (if saving that single unit of isotopes really matters, otherwise stop at ME 40).