Why is this thread missing the blue dev-tag,
altough a dev posted in it ?

I think it's because the dev post was informing us of a thread clean-up, rather than actually containing useful information/jokes.

Why is this thread missing the blue dev-tag,
altough a dev posted in it ?

Thats a caldari station/outpost. Labratory type if i recall right

I was about to make a more detailed one but you beat me to it, well at least this is more expandable until launch day.

I think corp and alliance chat bulletins are a go...

You know there is something called like "Patch Notes" that comes out ... right?

http://www.eveonline.com/updates/patchnotes.asp

On SISI the autolinked text is nolonger yellow --- its white and does not stand out near as much

Please fix this -- I hope this is not a feature

From http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=3029

The four racial fuel blocks will be built in batches of four in all stations, plus starbase ammo assembly arrays (blueprints coming to a Thukker Mix station near you; build time approximately ten minutes). Each batch of four will need the following components:
GÇó 8x Coolant
GÇó 4x Enriched Uranium
GÇó 400x relevant racial Isotope
GÇó 4x Mechanical Parts
GÇó 20x Oxygen
GÇó 1x Robotics
GÇó 150x Heavy Water
GÇó 150x Liquid Ozone

Towers will use 1 block/hour for small, 2 blocks/hour for medium and 4 blocks/hour for large. The CPU and Power load will no longer have any impact on your fuel needs - all towers now need the same amount of fuel, regardless of configuration.

Blocks will be 50m3 each. To make fuel bay sizes line up more nicely, we've boosted the bays on normal towers to 35/70/140k, so you get a nice round 700 cycles in each, which works out at a hair over 29 days. (Does not affect strontium bays!)

The one downside of this big-blocks approach is that it's impossible to give faction towers a fuel consumption bonus any more (you can't consume 2/3 of a block). We talked to some large-scale starbase operators about this, and they told us that the main bonus of faction towers for them is actually that they last longer between fuel cycles. To try and compensate for the increased running costs, we've taken the above bay size increases and added +25% bay size on top of that for the "tier 1" faction towers, and +50% bay size for the "tier 2" ones. We're hoping people will find that a satisfactory tradeoff, but we're listening for further feedback on this change.

one possibility is to change it to producing 40 blocks at 5m3 apiece
then having small towers need 10
tier 1 factions need 9
tier 2 factions need 8

Here is the latest update on these ships:

NAGA

• Missile role removed, now focuses as a hybrid platform
• 10% Torpedo velocity per level swapped for 5% to Large Hybrid Turret damage per level

As pointed out, even with the velocity bonus, torpedoes have a too short of a range to be useful in practical situation with the Naga since it has the lowest mobility of all tier 3 battlecruisers and quite poor defensive options. Aligning this ship into a missile platform would have required a long range option as well, meaning the use of cruise missiles, which created a certain number of issues.

Specializing for a hybrid long range platform made more sense with the Naga role, which is why the damage bonus was appealing, especially when combined with CCP Tallest changes; it also makes more sense regarding Caldari tier philosophy, where highest tech 1 tiers usually are hybrid platforms (Merlin, Moa, Rokh).


TALOS

• 25m3 dronebay and bandwidth added

Even if quite in opposition with the tier 3 battlecruiser role design, it adds an edge this ship needs over the other variants, especially since the Naga now it does the same damage with Hybrids. So, while we are looking at the blaster situation, we agreed giving the Talos a bit more survability against smaller threats was a good compromise for the time being.


TORNADO

• Large Projectile Turret Falloff reduced from 10 to 5% per level

The reason for this reduction was mainly due to the range falloff reaches on autocannons when combined with the proper rigs, Barrage and Tracking Enchancers, dwarfing blasters in the close range department; we will see how the situation evolves and possibly make further changes to compensate.


Also, please note some small powergrid/CPU changes may happen to the tier 3 battlecruisers in the next build.

Thanks for your time.

Also I have been told that the starmap is now overlayed into the sky box proper and that all the star gates are now aligned with the stars they are going to.