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I suspect the 1h tick is something hard coded and a real pain to change. It would be easier to add new fuel types or play with consumption quantity than to change the cycle time.

Nope. Since you can't get all the ice fuel from w-space anyways, and unlikely to get all componets from the planets, you'll be buying fuel blocks in k-space anyways. easier math, easier to haul, etc.

As for low sec / null sec, you are gonna need to refine that ice anyways, which requires a refining array or station already. This just requires more uses of production slots. So I hope CCP plans to boost those.

Ok so this might be a simplistic way of solving the faction POS fuel problem but here goes anyway. Faction based fuel for faction tower. All that would need to be done would be a suitable discount/ build requirement for the faction fuel that would appeal to the tower owners and away you go. you could make the fuel cube T2 to match the POS type as well... just an idea...

CCP!!!!!!!!!!

Faction towers are hella expensive and the solution is slappying you in the face

Fuel block BP makes 40 instead of 4 blocks of fuel (truely small pellets) ... each pellet takes up 5m3 of space instead of 50m3 ...

Fuel usage goes x10 for standard towers, and x8 for faction towers (or whatever) ... hell due to there cost maybe even still give a 10% buff to fuel bay size....

This solves the faction issue hands down....

On a good note...

I AM SO HAPPY NO MORE JB PASSES FOR PEOPLE IN ALLIANCE/BLUE TO POS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BEST EVER IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anchor / Unanchor delays finalyl won't be an utter chore! THANK GOD....



YES PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just change the hue to the isotopes colors to distinguish them, yes the stands can be different as well, but please change the hue from blue to the iso colors!

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and because it needs to be said.....

PLEASE KEEP THE WRECKABLE OUTPOSTS AND flogging MODULAR POS'S and NOMADIC POS'S high on the list of wanted items for the next expansion like VERY high

And instead of worrying over PERCENTAGES, just make the changes based on AMOUNTS.

i.e.

5 less blocks per hour per level of sov. (And yes, that's how much I think it should be.)

5 less blocks per hour for a faction tower.

That turns the whole thing into an algebra problem that someone in middle school should be able to solve.

You guys are unable to see the forest for the trees.

The more I think about it, the more I tend to agree with you.

Perhaps a new fuel producing module for pos? While your at it, take a look at refining arrays.

Seriously. Do you want to just kill the game? It is good intent to create "blocks" that people can use to fuel, but you are going about it all wrong and will harrass to stop people from using POSes all together.

First this is the "new" block for 1/hour for Small tower:

8x Coolant
4x Enriched Uranium
400x relevant racial Isotope
4x Mechanical Parts
20x Oxygen
1x Robotics
150x Heavy Water
150x Liquid Ozone

Well the current need for 1/hour for a Small tower is:

2x Coolant
1x Enriched Uranium
113x relevant racial Isotope
2x Mechanical Parts
7x Oxygen
1x Robotics
38x Heavy Water
38x Liquid Ozone

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT PICTURE?

What is wrong with that picture is ... you are actually having to spend more fuel on a Small tower up to a Large. These changes are going to increase the POS fueling FOURFOLD !! With the changes planned to PI and customs office, the price of fuel will go through the roof. Now, with the increased fuel needs small corporations will stop putting down POSes; thanks again for looking out for the solo or small pilot out there. Now Tech 2 prices will go through the roof because the small corporations won't be able to afford to do invention anymore trying to just maintain a Small POS. All your big-block organization will control all the moon goo AND the PI market because the small guys won't be able to compete, keep a custom office going, and afford the increased cost of fuel.

At a minimum make the Block Size of the fuel blocks the same as it is with a current small tower. And don't even get me started on the Racial tower. I got Racial towers for the pure fact that I don't have to spend so much ISK a month on fueling costs.

Thank you Greyscale for not getting out your calculator or LOOKING AT THE CURRENT GAME to see how things work. Thanks for again pushing the little corporations out of lo-sec/0.0, pushing out the solo players that enjoy this game, and catering to those large RMT alliance that could give a rats arse how much fuel costs because they have tons of PLEXes sinking into the game and macroers mining ice 24 hours a day. I've been fueling POS for 4+ years in the game, please ask the normal people what would be good improvements to the POS fueling system.

And it's not that hard to use a spreadsheet and calculator to do POS fueling. The ONLY nice thing in this dev blog is the decrease in anchoring/un-anchoring time and the Fuel Bay size so don't have to refuel so often.

(from Dierdra Vaal)

The blocks having a different colour will be much more recognisable than their little frames. It's a small thing, but you may as well get the icons right the first time. Usability goes a long way to getting happy customers

THIS ^^^ in a big way!

also for all those trying to kill this because their faction tower fuel bonus got killed also remember the cpu/pg usage is also gone so you can max out your towers and not use more fuel.

That said it would be nice to have one of the following:
PG/CPU on faction towers buffed by the % of fuel they used to save <<----this is prefered tradeoff
or
along with the 4 vanilla block prints, have 4 faction prints released that put out 5 blocks per batch which can only be used in faction towers .... saw this elsewhere, but the problem is will faction towers be able to use vanilla blocks?

I like this change a lot - makes it so much easier and you don't have to travel around the univers TWICE everytime you forget a component unless you build on site...

My only concern is the anchoring and unanchoring of towers... It should be much harder ninja-onlining towers in enemy space. If these are near instant up and running you can more or less keep spamming territory with the sov holders not given a chance to react. Also you need to pay super attention to steal towers getting taken down... Maybe it's a good thing, but still the hustling/stealing of towers was a charming part of Eve.

Pinky

costs are for 4 blocks. small POS uses 1 block an hour.