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I think a lot of people are going to be happy with the patch but not those who fuel towers - they now have to build stuff and the amounts needed have just gone through a roof:

1 Large POS with individual fuels/with pellets for one hour

Enriched Uranium 4/16
Oxygen 25/80
Mechanical Parts 5/16
Coolant 8/32
Robotics 1/4
Isotopes 450/2000
Liquid Ozone 150/600
Heavy Water 150/600

It looks to me that someone has mucked up their figures - they seem to have used the 1 hour fuel consumption of a large tower to work out the cost of a fuel pellet and then said that fuel pellet will be used to fuel a small pos for 1 hour, net result four times the current amount of fuel is needed!

I think the numbers for the pellets need to be re-worked so that the fuel consumption for a _small_ pos is used as the basis for the build cost of a single pellet.

Kithran

Mea culpa, had missed the bit saying the pellets were built in sets of four at whcich point numbers are about the same, oxygen down slighly, mech parts down slighly, isotopes up slightly

Read the blog again. You get 4 blocks for 1 robotics. Therefore, medium towers use 1/2 a robotics per hour and smalls use 1/4 a robotics per hour.

All I can say is Energon Cubes anyone? Perhaps a shape change, or color. Perhaps a pellet shape, as many have perceived them as anyway.

Like the timer changes, not sure about the fuel change (seems a little on the dumbing down side of things).

Really really really do NOT like what you are proposing for faction towers! Don't know who you talked to, but they were smoking something or you mis-understood. The value is in cost savings!! Not in time. If you fuel dozens of pos, whats a couple more?

Well you still have to come out of a pos forcefield to put ammo in the weapons to make them useful, so doesn't give much advantage during a pos shoot.

As it stands currently, you'll get the bonus on large towers but nothing on medium/small due to :math:. Still thinking about that one though

3) is technically feasible but raises the technical risk sufficiently that it'd have pushed the whole thing back to a nebulous "later release" (again), so we skipped it.



Purely on aggro settings, yes. If the tower won't shoot you, you can use the bridge. The CSM was very clear that JB passwords are all public knowledge already so it's a pretty meaningless security check in practice.



1 robotics makes 4 fuel blocks, so large towers use 1/hour (4 blocks), mediums use 0.5 (2 blocks) and smalls use 0.25 (1 block).

Wrong. I thought the same but:

The base parts needed are to build a batch of FOUR BLOCKS. Ergo, it's actually a bit of a fuel cost REDUCTION.

However, I believe it's incredibly dumb to nerf faction POS fuel consumptions, as it's the only reason I use them. It would also be nice to find out about sov bonus.

The ideas in this thread - increase blocks/hour uses by a factor of 10, or increasing the time each block lasts on a faction tower/player sov tower, either method would work great.

You mean I won't have to spend 30m - 1 hour onlining my drug reactions every time I need to make Exile / Mindflood instead of Drop?

I'm liking this part.

This was my first thought but as NTT pointed out impossible to implement.



This was my second thought and I support this solution.

Any waste factor on the blueprints? PE still going to affect them?

edit: bah. quick post needs a receive notifications checkbox.

Not showing my work, but the inputs for a fuel block come out to 217.6 m3 volume. The output ( 4 blocks @ 50 ) is 200 m3, which would make it a compression ( but not much of one ).

Now, is that for a me0 bpo? With no skills? Cause I'm wondering if researching the bpo for ME, and having high PE, makes it so that you're expanding the inputs in terms of volume, rather than compressing.

It would be nice if it stayed a compression at all ME/PE skill levels.