EVE General Discussion

Did someone at CCP have a brain aneurysm to think up this way to fix the reprocessing problem?

I can think of multiple ways to fix it that are far less stupid. Sometimes I wonder if some of the developers at CCP ever take the time to think how this affects the players. Whoever came up with this one certainly did not.

LEARN the KISS principle, this is a still a game, adding more complexity is just flat out ridiculous.

Tell us your solutions.

nah i reckon he's on about how when minerals were added to build costs as part of tiericide

it was done so that ships constructed before the build cost increase do not reprocess to more minerals than they were contructed for to prevent players making minerals for free

ENGLISH MOTAFUKA...DO..YOU..SPEAK....ITTTT!!!!!!!

A better way to display the solution CCP used could have been:

1. Added the "Extra" to the main list as "Minerals Required"
2. Second list labeled "Recoverable by Reprocessing" or similar which would be the current non-Extra list

That way, all minerals required would be in one total list, and you'd see that there are things you won't get back. Such a setup would also be easier for newbies to read. Same info and stats and all that, just more clear and intuitive in organization.

Extra materials aren't affected by ME levels however. They are 0 waste by default. Adding them to one list would make calculating waste reduction a LOT harder.

Ahem, we're still waiting for your perfect solution to the non-existent problem.

And posting in a Waah I can't make money on the ships I build because people are selling them for less than they cost to build thread.

And CCP's solution is probably the least complicated. They wanted to increase production costs for certain ships, but didn't want people building thousands before the patch and reprocessing them after the patch to get free minerals, so they created Extra Minerals.

It's not a new thing, it's been in for quite a while now, so why are people still crying about it. The savvy industrialists knew about the changes, had plenty of isk to spend so built lots of ships at pre-patch prices to sell post-patch to make more isk, that's what being savvy is all about (no I didn't do it)

It will eventually sort itself out, but it will take a long time. Then people will be building ships that cost the same as everybody else to build, until that time, then you're fighting a losing battle, there will be thousands of ships on the markets at pre-patch build prices, plus countless more ready to be sold.

What do you suggest CCP do about it? interrogate the databases to find out which ships were built before the patch and tell the owner "I'm sorry, but because of some whiny forum user this ship is now clamped. To release the clamp, contract X minerals to CCP" and the same for all the ones on the market, the same for all the ones in space, a pop-up message saying "Yes we know the ship was fine before, but erm, something big has fallen off the back end, and it kinda looks important, so to fix this you'll need some minerals"

They could have added a new field for reprocessing. That new field would have the old values for reprocessing, then adding new materials wouldn't matter as it would no longer be tied into the materials themselves. Might have taken a coder an afternoon or two though, so can't really have that, plus they were probably on vacation anyway.

You need to have your eyes checked, as the front fell off, not the back. I blame the Matari... they're known to use cellotape while repairing stuff.

It might have something to do with the troll down ratio in EVE-O being around 100%?