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I somewhat agree with you. The homogenous nature of it all seems bad. Not sure I like the all fuel takes same amount of ingredients. Seems one step away from one fuel type period.

Oh, and btw,

I'm stealing your last line!

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Large Pos = 4 Block /H = (4*24=) 96 Blocks a day * 2,5 min each = 240 min (/60=) = 4 H for 1 POS. I have to maintain 10 Poses, so I have to produce 40 h every day for a day of Fuel ;-)
That will change my Workload from 1 day a Week running Jita buy Orders + Transport + fuelling to producing Fuel every day + Transport + Fueling. That makes my eve live easier, because I dont have to think about "What should I do with all my spare time in Eve?"


I think:

100 pc/h small
200 pc/h med
300 pc/h large

with 0.5 m^3 would be nicer. And please for the sake of exploding spaceships, change the BPO to 1.000 - 2.000 units per 10 min. So I don't have to use every production Slot I have for POS-fueling...

This is an excellent first step in fixing all of the many things wrong with starbases. I really can't find anything about this proposal that I don't like. I do have a request for the summer. Can we next tackle the way they look and act?

It was proposed and sketched out for you years ago to make the control tower be a core that other modules physically attach to and that is dockable by a single ship (or perhaps a small number of multiple ships for medium and large towers). The current configuration of having modules floating in space next to this gigantic tower never made a lot of sense to me compared to physically joining them together for power and computing connections. With Incarna now a reality, a starbase could even be a small location you and your friends can walk around inside of, meet up in, etc.

That is because for large-scale operations the cost isn't the issue, but logistics are.
For all the people operating just one or two towers (be it for research, invention, reverse engineering, ......) will care about the cost and barely about going 3-5 jumps to the nearest hub every 45 days instead of 30. For Industrial applications you already have to haul quite a lot of stuff around, that bit of fuel hauling doesn't really make a difference. Reducing the tower operation cost does make a difference though.

I personally don't operate any faction towers at the moment (but have in the past). It would be worth quite a bit of extra ISK though as an investment, after all you can get that back by re-selling it once you're done with it as long as nobody blows the thing up.

Have you considered increasing the fuel cycle time (75 minutes instead of 60 or something) as the bonus instead of requiring less fuel units? Or would that be too hard to implement?

Read that again... Large towers still use 1/hr, medium towers effectively consume 0.5 robotics/hr and small towers consume 0.25 robotics/hr.

Couple of thoughts-

Please please seed the BPOs for the fuel blocks well in advance of the change, to get stocks in the market. Having a couple days of every tower offline would be amusing, but a bit of a pain for most.

The day of the switchover to fuel blocks, what happens to the fuel already in the tower, where does it go? And would it be possible to prestock towers with say, 1 day of fuel blocks at DT - many of the smaller corps do not have players that can login right after downtime, and the thought of 8 offline large towers in some of the wormholes.....could be potentially a mess(although great fun for people looking to loot and pillage random towers)

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I think it's safe to assume these will be wastage 0 BPOs, just like control towers and other PI-built structures. That, of course, won't keep people from wasting time in ME research.

"We stuck with small numbers of blocks and no fuel use bonus on faction towers because dealing with small numbers of blocks makes starbases in general easier to use"

You're replacing eight fuel types with one, this new system is inherently simpler. I don't think using smaller numbers is worth the cost of fuel granularity. EVE players deal with numbers bigger than two digits all the time, it is a little patronising to implement changes for this reason.

Change the BPO to yield 50 or 100 fuel blocks, then adjust block volume and fuel use accordingly. This will allow for faction towers to get their usage bonuses. It would also accomodate the soverignty fuel bonus you seem to have forgotten about / glossed over.

ME/PE could be an interesting dynamic, especially if the batch size is changed to 100 pellets per batch.

Definitely decrease the pellet size by 10x and increase the consumption by 10x. The math stays easy, but it allows the faction towers to get a 10% reduction in pellet consumption. Or just go 100x smaller and boost consumption by 100x - which would allow for better granularity.

any thoughts in adding a way to "stack" or queue anchoring and onlining of pos modules? This would be a big time saver for the pilots involved on the same lines as changing pos fuel over to blocks.