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Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.12.09 14:51:00 -
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Thank you for finally announcing a date and a date that is now known well in advance. Should make the transition smooth.
Assuming of course the actual switchover goes without any hilarious bugs... well, I'll have my fuel blocks and bags of popcorn ready...
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Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
82
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Posted - 2011.12.09 14:54:00 -
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CCP Soundwave wrote:Jarnis McPieksu wrote:Thank you for finally announcing a date and a date that is now known well in advance. Should make the transition smooth.
Assuming of course the actual switchover goes without any hilarious bugs... well, I'll have my fuel blocks and bags of popcorn ready...
Yeah, having it late January means everyone is also back at the office, ready to remedy if needed. The programmers responsible for the change have promised to not make any bugs, so we should be in the clear!
Sounds legit. No bugs then. Whatcouldpossiblygowrong.jpg
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Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
83
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Posted - 2011.12.09 15:34:00 -
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While I would have preferred a switch before the holidays, if stuff isn't ready on CCP side (or they are not comfortable for hitting the big red butan without weeks of advance warning), this is okay. Would've been nice if this date would have been given already when fuelblock BPOs were seeded, but I guess we'll live.
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Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
83
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Posted - 2011.12.09 15:35:00 -
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spookydonut wrote:Two step wrote:The API works fine for blocks. I'm really truly genuinely surprised.
Well, all API-using applications that monitor towers will still need updates... |
Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.12.09 20:23:00 -
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CCP Greyscale wrote:Where the worst-case scenario is that every starbase in New Eden goes offline, though, we're erring on the side of extreme caution.
But that would be... hilarious! 
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...but it's better than the Great Starbase Pinata Bash 2011.
I'm not entirely convinced about this. Purely based on the comedy value!
...okay, seriously, it was always clear that serious advance warning for the drop dead date was absolutely required and as the announcement was not out when block BPOs were seeded, I kinda assumed this would happen ("no block usage until after the holidays"). You could've communicated it all earlier tho... |
Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
96
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Posted - 2011.12.13 14:53:00 -
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As I understand the news post, says overfueled bay post 24th just can't accept more fuel until it has been chomped down by the tower so it is under the cap. A logical way to do it and a good change.
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Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
96
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Posted - 2011.12.13 15:18:00 -
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Jack Dant wrote:Cygnet Lythanea wrote:The problem is that it doesn't address the real issue, the fact that this delay is brutalizing high sec POS operations with the staggering increase to cost until this patch come out. Highsec? If you are in highsec, just sell your fuel cubes on the market. They are going at 15-20% profit over material cost. Or reprocess them into normal fuel. You have all the options available to you, stop complaining.
No, can't you understand the highsec carebear logic?
"I own fuel cubes. I need fuel cubes to run my POS in the future. Since I own the cubes, they are free. I can't do anything with them, they must go to a POS. Oh, now I need another month of POS fuel but I'm low on iskies. Damn, I'm hosed".
(when the answer is, as you point out, "sell cubes, buy fuel (or reprocess cubes to get most of the materials out), keep running POS. Buy more fuel and manufacture it into cubes sometime in January") |
Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.12.15 11:13:00 -
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Minneret wrote:I'm sure this has been brought up but can someone explain to me why fuel blocks where created to make life easier but then you put a waist factor and prod efficiency affect on the bpos? I mean compressed ore is just squished rock and doesn't have this so why does consolidated fuel block?
You do know that...
- You can buy pre-researched BPOs on contracts fairly cheap. I think ME40 ("zero waste") prints are only about 20-30 mil ISK
- You can research BPOs yourself - ME0 to ME40 is like bit over 3 days in a POS. If you need fuel blocks, you have a POS right? Anchor a lab for a while, research, take it out if not needed.
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Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
290
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Posted - 2012.01.25 11:57:00 -
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Transport Sheep wrote:Could we get a number on the amount of towers, mods destroyed due to them not having blocks and thus turning offline?
https://twitter.com/#!/CCP_Diagoras
"4 days ago 69.07% of starbases were online, today at 16:20 that had dropped to 64.95%. That's a thousand less online towers."
...and few days earlier
"As of 10:30 this morning, there were 29,662 starbases deployed, of which 20,489 are online."
So I'd say at least several hundred silos and hangars met their doom...  |
Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
292
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Posted - 2012.01.26 12:03:00 -
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It was never on TQ, the misguided individual is sprouting crap.
I know because I logged on within 30 secs of server going up with the BPOs on sale and delivered one of the first cloaky hauler loads of BPOs to Jita that day (mmm, tasty profits) and on that day made first blocks - and the BPO made 40 blocks per run.
So unless he somehow hacked himself an unreleased BPO not yet sold by NPCs, he's full of it. In fact, scratch that, he's full of it.
The only thing that may have been "broken" by this change was some spreadsheet/calculator that was based on wrong data.
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