Selaria Unbertable
POS Mortem
Renegades Of Silence
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Posted - 2014.06.18 13:36:00 -
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CCP Phantom wrote:With Crius, the next EVE Online release to be published on July 22nd, major changes will come to Industry and with that you will also see tweaks and changes related to player-owned starbases (POS). A brief overview of the most important changes: - Reprocessing POS Arrays will change and be more efficient
- Compression Arrays will be introduced
- Other industry related Arrays (eg. for research, invention and manufacturing) will receive a bonus for each additionally similar structure anchored at the same POS
- Faction standing requirements to anchor POS are removed
- Starbase Defense Management skill requires only Anchoring 4 instead of Anchoring 5
Much more information and all the details are available in CCP Ytterbium's latest dev blog Starbase changes for Crius.
While I do like most of these changes, and really can't wait until July 22nd, I agree with the general criticism on the "Structure cost scaling". Anchoring and onlining/offlining 50 (FIFTY!) Equipment assembly arrays is not only extremely time consuming, it's also counteracting CCPs efforts to negate the current overcomplexity of submitting jobs at POSes.
I don't see myself buying and anchoring about a hundred of additional arrays, onlining and offlining them when needed, just to get a discount. That is just too much hassle.
Furthermore, as we cannot precisely calculate the exact costs of jobs in the systems we build in, there is currently no way to determine the break even point on the investment of otherwise useless arrays.
I think the suggestion with making arrays upgradeable seems so much better.
Another way of encouraging people to use a larger number of different arrays would be to increase the individual bonus of a single array, and make it stack with other bonuses of the same category. E.g. give ship assemblies a flat, not stacking 4% bonus, which adds up to a total of 24% if a player has all six of them, and only stack for different types of arrays in that category (meaning that a medium and a small ship assembly array provide an 8% bonus together, two small array only a 4% bonus).
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