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This is bad approach. Most people use decimal system. So its no difference for humans between 1 or 10 or 100 per hour. If someone want to fuel POS for 10 days it doesnt matter if you make 1 hour burn 100 units or 10 units. It will be even easier if you make it 100 per hour than 4 per hour. And most towers in EVE universe are large standard ones.

This uses the costs as they are now, not as they will be in 2 months. If we get a heavy water shortage the cost could go sky high.

What is needed to insure ice mining supplies sufficient heavy water for POS needs, either by boosting heavy water obtained from ice or by reducing the need in fuel cube production.

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CCP: If Im a POS user who mines his own ice, mining sufficient ice to get the isotopes should also get me sufficient heavy water and liquid ozone.

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If it all comes from ice in sort of set amounts that get used in set amounts, why have them? Maybe HW and LO have outlived their usefulness as game mechanics. Just get rid of them. Jump bridges run on fuel cubes.

Faction fuel pellet blueprints are a terrible idea.

Where would they come from? They wouldn't be BPO's, no faction blueprints are. So, there would end up being a per pellet blueprint cost associated with the pellet, which could end up negating the fuel savings benefit you get from the tower.

CCP Grayscale, I absolutely agree with all those who pointed out that faction tower (and sov) bonus must stay as it is, and that there are ways to make it work.

In general, the idea of making blocks doesn't seem any good to me in general, as it doesn't change the basics of POS fueling, while adding an industry step in the process.
The basics are having (buying, mining or producing) a plethora of items in different amounts, and getting them all in one place, and you added the need to have a production step before being able to use the fuels.
Some may like this (ppl who just buy the blocks off the market, and in general, those who have more ISK than manpower), while it is highly inconvenient to those who do the fuelling completely or partly by themselves, as they won't be able to haul stuff separately unless they can manufacture the blocks in the tower.
Of course, the production cost and time of blocks themselves is also an added disadvantage, the time being a particular PITA for those who are now able to just go to a station, buy the fuels they need, and go back to their tower and fuel it... now they'll have to get all the fuels together in one place, start the production, and wait one day or so do do the actual fueling.

It really looks like you only asked 0.0 alliances (or to ONE alliance) before rolling out this.

I might have not understood this correctly but this will occupy the manufacturing slots in a station? If so it s***s.

Beautiful idea. Even better if it doesn't use manufacturing slots, doesn't require blueprints, and engages itself automatically (even if it has a delay between input and output) and uses the fuel bay as input/output. That would make the change a buff to everybody, not a buff to CCP friends and a nerf to everyone else.

That, and removing HW/LO from the pellets (to not totally f*ck up the market with static supply/consumption ratios with no valves to otherwise release the pressure) should be minimum requirements for this to hit TQ.

Seriously, some parts of this are really really bad™ and those parts seem to not be getting as much player attention as they deserve.

Heavy water shortages only exist in the minds of clueless speculators. Ice mining in empire produces much more heavy water than liquid ozone. Even dark glitter, the best source of LO, still produces 1 unit of HW for each 2 units of LO.

Ozone gets used by towers, cynos, and most importantly, jump bridges.

Heavy water gets used by... towers.

I really don't see the demand catching up to the supply any time soon.

"it's impossible to give faction towers a fuel consumption bonus any more (you can't consume 2/3 of a block)."

you guys fell over the simpliest of things...



Give a faction towers an extra option that players may switch on at their whim. This option will make starbases use 2 blocks per 3 hours.

More clearly:

Mode A: 1 hour cycle time/1 block consumed

Mode B: 3 hours cycle time/2 blocks consumed

(this is just a general idea not real numbers)
I cant believe how simple is that...

To give faction tower bonuses in high-sec, if they match the racial type of the system's NPC faction no charters are needed. In fact actually I don't understand why you can't just get rid of the entire charter system to begin with while doing this fuel change and just require faction standing?

It's more or less a pointless inconvenience than anything as it doesn't come close to breaking the bank in terms of money. Why force people to now calculate that they lose a fuel block of space adding in a random amount of charters?

Unless you produce all the fuel yourself, why would you want to manufacture all the fuel blocks yourself? Just buy them off the market like you do with the fuel.

And hooray to CCP, I had POS ina WH and it was a horrible pain the ass, i would always forget some fuel type and had to look for another exit before the damn thing goes offline.