Science & Industry

Currently setting up a PI production chain is very much anti-fun, i think its hard to get around it being boring but we can atleast try minimize the amount of frustration caused by the current ingame mechanics when doing this. To do this i propose that industry facilites (Basic Industry Facility, Advanced Industry Facility and High-Tech Production Planet) to be upgradable in a similar way to command centers. This would make setting up PI a less enervating process.


Math Example:

I run 13 alts doing PI, 5 planets on each character totaling up to 65 planets.

On each character i run 4 "resource planets" and 1 "factory planet". Total 52 Resource Planets and 13 Factory Planets.

To setup a production planet i must create 9 basic industry facility (BIF) and 9 links to go with that, a BIF uses up 2 clicks (mouse licks), a link is 4 clicks. then i must select what i want to make in the facility and route that to the launch pad 6 clicks last i have to route the p0 into the factory 5 clicks. So one factory requires 2+4+6+5=17 clicks. Make that 9 factories and 52 planets and i need to do 7956 clicks to setup my PI resource planets.

Factory planets are worse, i have 20 Advanced factories on each planet. Each factory takes 2 clicks and then 4 for the link, chosing what to make is again 6 and now i have to route two materials into the factory for a total of 10 clicks. Putting each factory at 2+4+6+10=22 clicks. 22 clicks, 20 factories, 13 planets equals 5720 clicks for the factory planets.

Total: 13676 Mindnumbing mouse clicks to setup my PI chain.



If factories were scalable i think this number could be 1/10 of what it is now, resulting in much less enervating gameplay. I realize that i am in the extreme end of PI setup but i think the change would be appreciated by anyone who engages in PI.


Sorry in advance for gramatical errors english is not my first language.

I will do it again in 2 months. But that is beside the point. It's anti-fun gameplay

Once its done, its done. Think of it as your time investment.
Also, probably due to the way its setup and configurable it has to be this way to give flexibility. Sure it could be optimised but is it worth ccps time to rewrite a system that's already in place and does the job.

Alot of people do PI, so this change would affect a large part of the playerbase and i don't think it would be that hard for CCP to implement it.

Regarding the flexibility, im not saying you shouldn't be able to use multiple factories if you wish to do so, simply that you should be able to upgrade factories so that you wouldnt have to do routing for every single factory if you use them all for the same task.

Yeah this is also a perfectly viable option

All this negativity.. I'm just putting forward a soloution to elimiate a tedious element of the game, a simple fix to decrease the frustration that setting up PI can generate. Try giving some constructive critisicm instead.

How large a portion of the playerbase engage in PI? Probably 10-25%. With a playerbase of 500k, we are talking about 50k-125k players. If your argument is "well it's already setup so why bother", then you don't think very far. The current system of PI is in general good, There probably wont be an overhaul for many years. How many PI chains will be setup during the next 5 years with 50k players doing it?

Post constructively.

Also routing resources is super dull. PI¨would be much streamlined by some sort of autoroute function.

Then all the people who have crazy multi launch pad setup complaining that they are broken :)

PI does need some love. Mainly the UI needs to be fixed in some places(Link upgrade?).

I would like a Snap to grid option when moving structures.