I loved the industry changes.

Until this change. The last thing I wanted was an overly complicated whole new game mechanic on top of an existing crappy game mechanic (yes, invention in the new UI still is awful).

This is literally the worst game design feature I've ever seen. Industry is already complex enough as it is, and you didn't give us job batches to compensate for the new UI that will actually take longer to do repetitive tasks (like inventing).

It is an interesting concept!
I really like the idea of independant entities coming together because of location to improve their area of operations. I think that this really brings to life interaction in high sec space, where a lot of systems are shared with many small independant entities.

How are the ME/TE bonuses planned to stack at this point? 10% ME + 7.5% ME (team) + 2% ME (PoS) = 19.5% material savings from the new base?

Also the popularity of my system having a team? There's a lot of those. 4000 teams. I think my system will not be the only one with one, or more.

No, I want uncertainies in the system, so that I can make more money by being smarter than everybody else.

that's why we're going to make so much money: because we're not risk-averse pansies and can charge high margins as you flee the market

7.5% cost savings on an entire month's production, with as many characters as I can shove into it

You are a fool, a goddamned fool, if you cannot see how amazing that would be.

for this game you pay $5 to enter, and get $10 if the random number we pick between 1 and 10 is lower than eight and nothing if it's eight, nine or ten

"we don't know what the number will be, we can't decide if we should play!!!!!" - the average highsec industrialist

Holy cow. This almost (*almost*) makes up for the complete shafting POS owners seem to be getting in the S&I blogs.

MDD

Taking your analysis of how it works now - you can't be sure that your expected sale price is still profitable after the production run has ended, so what difference does the additional uncertainty of the manufacturing costs make?

And your British Leyland anecdote is very interesting, but you will know exactly what the build cost is - in advance - it's going to be there on screen when you click the button that says submit job.

Erm last time I checked, physics meaurements come with a degree of confidence over the measurement.

-Without going anywhere near my absolute margin/liquid limit I can afford to throw a few billion isk at a single team.

What I don't understand is that you've just said you can do this with the market sell price - so why can't you do this with the other variables?

Can I have your blueprints?

I am just glad we have you here to defend these new systems that promote the "player interaction" of bidding against a nameless faceless opponent on the other side of the universe. Or are you just applying more Goon lips to the devs' asses? Hard to tell.

And like when I play chess, I like to be able to think, analyse, and consider what my best move is to win at the game.

I mean, Eve is a grown-up, thinking-man's game right? If I wanted to play (and lose) at something where it's all about speed-of-reaction, then I'd be playing CoD with all the teenagers.