Misigigo
Arms Of The Black
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Posted - 2014.05.16 18:36:00 -
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The main thing I am concerned about with these changes is the increase in time required to create well-researched BPO's. For example, it currently takes about 40 days for a no-skill character to research a battleship BPO to ME10, which is being regarded as "perfect", and anyone who has a battleship BPO at ME10 before the change will be granted a perfect BPO after the change. After the change it will take the same character over 10 months to research a battleship BPO to the same level - 7.36 times longer. In other words, new players and players new to research will be at a severe disadvantage.
Another example: it currently takes a no-skill character just under a year to research a dreadnought BPO to ME6, which is perfect. After the change it will take the same character over 12 years to get a perfect BPO. This means players who researched their BPO's before the change get to hold onto elite BPO's which can no longer be matched, putting new scientists at a massive disadvantage.
Is anything going to be done to address this problem? I see three possible solutions. One way is to reduce the new times for each level of research by a factor of at least 7.36. This doesn't account for cases like dreadnoughts which are currently perfect at research levels lower than ME10, but still pretty much sorts the problem out. Another way is to change the way you plan to convert old BP's to new ones. Instead of converting them to their nearest equivalent by percentage waste, convert them by the time taken to research them to their old ME levels. This way is the fairest because it means new and old players have been working on the same system all along, but will upset established players who may now have more waste on their BPO's than they had previously. The best method would probably be a carefully balanced combination of those two, i.e. reduce the time needed to research each level under the new system AND convert old BP's to new BP's by time instead of by waste. Using the right numbers it would be possible to have the waste on the majority of new BPO's the same before and after the change without putting new players at a such a huge disadvantage.
I also have a question. Will each level of research under the new system have to be done in a single go, or can research be "paused" on a BPO, to move it or do some copying, and continued later on? The latter would be MUCH better and more in-line with how skills work. |