Ming The Merciless
Orbital Reclamation Services
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Posted - 2014.04.29 01:18:00 -
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MailDeadDrop wrote:
Please have a look at the number of stations with laboratory facilities versus the number of stations with manufacturing facilities. They are severely imbalanced in some regions (perhaps all).
And dismissing the problem as "oh, you'll just have to fly around some more" doesn't give me confidence that you've thought the changes through. For example, copying corporate blueprints means you'll need to have an office in the station with the laboratory facilities. Possibly several new offices if you have to use a variety of laboratory services to react to congestion pricing. And corporate blueprints are frequently locked down. Do you begin to see how this is perhaps a problem?
The demand for copy facilities is going to increase, and that is intended. But if you don't look at increasing the number of copy facilities, the demand for offices in stations which have copy facilities is *also* going to increase. And you haven't said you're going to remove office slots, like you're removing copy slots. So I don't have confidence that this aspect has been noticed and examined by CCP. Please look at it.
MDD
Quoting to get a Dev response to MDD(Greyscale is likely sleeping, he sleeps right?). 24 Offices per station, somewhere between 2 and 32 NPC stations with lab type(copy/me/te) facilities in a region(low, high, NPC null). The ability to research as a corporation(regardless of what Querns/Weaselior say) is important to industrial corps. We need to have corp offices to share/lock down blueprints. These limited stations, even with unlimited slots, will very likely fill their office slots before corps that were previously researching remotely(spread out over all over New Eden with their POS's) are forced to relocate to these specific stations to protect their corp assets(BPO's) and time investments in research.
Separate from the above:
So besides the brief flare-up of gankers along routes looking for people moving BPO's to one of these stations until they are moved and the brief but ultimately fruitless increase in highsec wardec's from people who are not very swift who think Indy corps will be keeping BPO's at their POS's I'm not sure how this is creating content. You'll be making solo indy folks, and a few of the corps that can get offices pay a new highsec penalty(congestion) tax(more info in next blog) but you've made their remote research/copy POS's pointless so it is a wash cost-wise because why fuel a POS and risk that now if slots are going to be unlimited? Unless some crazy bonuses are applied to corp owned slots(who knows, maybe!). I don't see the point of running a 500m Isk/month tower(s).
So maybe new folks will start making things until they realize the profit margin sucks, but corps that put a lot of time and effort into BPO's and remote research/copy/production POS's(and don't live in an owned station in the blue donut) are being annoyed out of a playstyle. |