Batolemaeus
Free-Space-Ranger
Nulli Secunda
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Posted - 2014.05.12 18:57:00 -
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CCP Fozzie wrote:Hey everyone. As mentioned in this dev blog, we are shifting the release of the industry changes back to the Cirius release on July 22nd in order to ensure that we have time to incorporate all of your feedback and have extended testing on SISI. Since this change is so closely tied with the industry updates, we are also going to hold off on it for the time being. We will not change the isotope consumption in Kronos, and we will continue to discuss and evaluate our plan with the next potential release window being Cirius on July 22nd.
I'd suggest you take a wait and see approach to isotope production and consumption post industry expansion release anyway.
You are essentially doing premature optimization. You are trying to counteract something based on a hypothesis that might turn out to be completely false, while several dozen variables change at the same time. If your hypothesis is right, you can react in a timely manner since you have the data to see through speculative price bubbles and the processes to react timely. If you are wrong, the worst case scenario is demand outstripping the hard capped production capabilities of empire space and creating a t2 industry crash and heavy decrease in QOL in all space that depends on the empire lifeline for supplies. Have a look at the stocks in jita. Nitrogen will sell out FAST. And there is no capability for local production for alliances beyond the racial fuel type while game balance for capitals heavily favors a few distinct doctrines.
Basically, if I am wrong and isotope consumption does decrease a lot, the worst that happens is a decrease in fuel costs spurring industry activity and lowering prices in 0.0 market hubs and for t2 items in empire, while some ice miners transition to mining ore.
If you are wrong, prices for fuel could spiral out of control due to limited supply ever since the ice belt change, which will ripple though and make deep 0.0 even more of a shithole than it is now and raising prices for t2 gear, the established standard for being competitive in pvp. |