Science & Industry

We need more NPC copy slots (and a hard limit on the use of them) or something...

There is something wrong when you have no copy slots avaliable in a whole region for NPC stations, and no PE and ME but every invention slot is empty and most manufacturing open...

1. how are you supposed to use the invention slots when it takes weeks to get an open slot if you are lucky enough to hit one the second someone delivers a job.... sheesh.

2. this is a real bottle-neck to starting industrial players that they can't copy - I can live with the limited PE and ME... but COPY??? 10 slots per station???? how about 100...and a hard limit on the use at per station or something to make sure they are avaliable... and no POS doesn't help with start-up players.... so don't say...Dude setup a POS...most of the moons in HS are already taken anyway.

Get a POS setup, buy them, use low sec copy slots, or move to a region with less activity, move to null and use alliance slots, or train up you 2 extra characters on your accounts for research and have 18 more copy slots.

Yeah it sucks having to wait 8 days for a 1 day copy job but thats the way it is. Adding more slots just means they will get filled just as fast and will yield no extra results. CCP would literally have to add 100X more slots which would just be an awful idea.

There is no reason for CCP to change game mechanics when so many other options are available to you. Everyone else is able to deal with the long wait times, so you can to.

Low sec research stations are the way to go if you don't have access to POS labs. In a shuttle, you are REALLY difficult to catch.

yes I know you can queue them - I did - it seems a bit of a wait of 8 days just to get 10 copies of mining crystals to use in invention... *sigh*

It would be nice if they simply added even 10 more say 20 per station - a little easing of the time for BPCs would help... since BPOs are for sale - we should be able to use them...

I am in a very desolate part of HS, and three stations here with S&I, so it's not like it's an issue, the rest of the slots are pretty easy to accesss or free all the time... but copy seems to be under-represented.

Pretty sure this stuff is covered in the starter tutorials..

Really? Well haha that's good for new players then :D Back when I started I don't think there was even a tutorial for industry

YEA... NPC stations being 1/2 as efficient as POS slots should def be removed from game that 50% as effective is just crapping up industry... sorry, not everyone wants to setup a corp just to setup a POS just to make a few copies of T1 BPOs.... no more than you want to setup a corp in real life, build a nuclear power plant and run the lines just to run your computer for a word document.

OK, so hang on a second. You first complain that there aren't enough NPC slots, so they should be increased. Then you are complaining that they're inefficient compared to a POS. In the same breath you say you don't want to set up a POS. I'm confused here... Do you want a metric crap ton of NPC slots that have the same bonus/efficiency as labs that people have gone to extensive expense and effort to install and maintain?

So, basically, you want an EASY BUTTON?

Ignoring the fact that this is a whine thread where OP has no intention to do what it takes to make HIS operation more effective, there are only a couple solutions to what is being complained about: 1) get to low to use empty copy slots so you don't have to wait, or b) put up your own POS. If neither of those are an option for you then you clearly need to find something else to do in Eve.

I do all my copying in lowsec, and when I find an empty slot or 2 I go copy crazy.

I just wish they'd change the volume on the data sheets from 1 m3 to 0.01 m3, it is only a sheet of paper afterall.

Fly safe. o7

its been awhile since i did a full canvass of all low sec stations, but every region i've been in recently has had full slots in their low sec systems.