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With regards to the remote comparison of station's installation costs for industry jobs, will we be able to have sort of favorites (ie. stations we always want to compare to the current location) or will it be region/constellation/system-based only?

If they are ******* removing the standing requirements for anchoring POS I demand removing the need to buy stupid charters of faction I don't and they don't give **** about my standing toward them....if CCP have the balls and analogy since they are screwing everything around like this, they should remove this.

Or better.. fuk hi sec and turn everything into null. I already have the feeling that I'm playing a prison sim where everything is based on scams, gank &sh1t. Soon as you undock/exit your cell.. expect that you will be raped and fukt up. We need more lube, not science.

You're not even getting science. Invention changes aren't until autumn or winter.

Working towards raising faction standing was a gameplay and they simply removed it, it's not just because it was gameplay with NPCs means to remove it and leave bumping and ganking alone.

I do hope they are looking at a full mission overhaul now for maybe the winter release since standings grind is no longer as necessary (though it still gives access to higher mission levels, better refining etc)

I agree with.... both of you.

The current standing mechanic was a bit crappy. For a larger corp it's pretty hard to get the right standings and for Industry char's who maybe did one mission and messed up corps standings it was a nightmare. Still, I believe they were an important factor in owning a POS and provided an interesting dynamic. For example, your POS being attacked during a war was a big deal if you didn't have the standings to simply take it down and put it up again. It required you to work towards that goal and plan carefully. It used to be an intelligent strategic decision.

I think it should have been reworked to something more sensible... something that encourages INTERACTION and GROUP activity. Maybe allow faction standings to be shared more easily, maybe add tags like with sec status, maybe lower the requirement or allow more ways to raise faction standings that the corp could do as a group. Maybe all of the above but complete removal of those requirements is absurd.

The sand is being drained away from the sandbox. That's all I'm saying. Eve is slowly starting to look like a theme park with no barriers of entry, no cooperation or interaction required to achieve serious results or goals.

Refining is getting a major nerf. Mineral compression is going away completely. instead there will only be 2 viable ways to move huge amounts of trit around in any sensible fashion. Rorqual->JF in Low/Null -or- Compression Array ->Freighter ->Station in High. Post patch no one is going to be shipping trit in an industrial that does any kind of capital production. Its going to have to stay in compressed rock form till it hits it final destination and then refined there with a specialized toon. Since Compression Arrays will be able to be anchored anywhere in High it only stands to reason that CCP needs to have the veld miners be able to use those arrays by also being able to compress their ore for logistics purposes. If all the veld miners had to suddenly start grinding standing to Anchor a stick what do you think would happen to the trit market and then New Eden industry as a whole? If the refining and mineral compression changes were happening at different times they might not have to do away with standings. My guess is that all this is leading to POS code changes down the road but they cant rewrite everything at once so some sacrifices have to be made to have the game at least be functional.

Changes seem interesting. Mixing things up now and again keeps things fresh.

The only real concern I have is around lack of offices in Research Stations.

Currently you have lots of research pos's in systems with stations lacking any research facilities. But their BPOs can still be locked down in station and researched via a POS. Essentially the POS's have expanded the number of useful research stations for corps to lock down BPOs.

Ok so we need to move those BPO's now. No problem. Unlock vote, move BPOs.
DOH! no offices free :(

Timeline

1) Prior to upgrade, all offices in stations with research facilities rented. Office rental prices sky rocket.

2) Those that miss out, can no longer keep BPO's in corp, and have to move BPO's to personal hangars due to no Lock down vote without corp office.

3) Person with BPOs in their personal hanger goes AWOL due to some RL issue etc. Corp loses access to BPOs.
Starting to sound a bit risky with station researching.

It would be interesting to see just how many corps are researching in/from NPC stations currently and whether the Research stations will be able to handle that move. I'm predicting they will not.

to consolidate the usage and need of datacores too ?
i think it would be worth having a look again at them.




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to redefine the usage of them ?