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This is a great point. The block's description on the test server says they are a new form of fuel. So, we can imagine all the previous components are being consumed in the process of making the new fuel.

29.11.2011

One of the most compelling aspects of Eve is its varied play structure. There are players who spend all their time missioning or engaging in PVP. There are players for whom fabrication and crafting is the thing. Some players work the market and never leave a station. For some players (like myself) slinging spreadsheets to properly plan and maintain POSs is the thing.

With all of its spreadsheety goodness, properly planning for fuel consumption, balancing resources as modules are on and offlined, and coordinating fueling hauls to keep stores up is all part of that activity, and for me an integral part of the game. Having to run spreadsheets to keep the POS going is part of the immersive experience for me and a large part of the fun.

The point is, not everyone is going to like every aspect of play in the game. What CCP is doing is diminishing the immersion and fun for me and possibly others (although I admit I am likely in a small and odd minority here). They are *adding* complexity to the process of fueling a POS from PI harvested fuel to make it "easier" for those who dont want to have to think to much to run POSs.

Its OK for you to not like the mechanics of setting up or fueling a POS. Go find a player who does and hire him into your corp to do so. Dont break the immersive sandbox nature of this game in the name of homogonized simplicity. Complexity is what EVE is all about.

The only thing that I find odd is that now there will be no benefit to not constantly running the POS at 100%, to it will cost more overall anyway.

Basically, while this is all very nice, even with the revised usages, this still gives the shaft to small high sec ops.

50something pages are proving how well everyone is reading the comment thread...

Example?
look for "why do you nerf faction towers" :)

I have to go along with this.
So far to me this is like adding in the PI change which turned into just mindless time spent on another drawn out process.
(anyone remember the dev quote for the 'mini-game' for moving extraction heads around.

I've let 3 accounts lapse over the last year and will probably let one more got at this point as well.

I think the thing we'll see is that big alliances will be in favor of it, because they can jump freighter a billion of them to wherever without having to use that oh so hard math (that I've been doing in my head for years now, on upwards of fifteen POS on occasion ) while it also squeezes out all the small corps trying to run research and assembly POS for t2.

Essentially, it's another attempt to reduce the number of POS in high sec and make POS a big corp/alliance only toy like cap ships are meant to be.






Probably when they roll out the update, or, twenty min after you will have had to start producing them to keep your POS up.

The BPOs will be released on Nov 29th - the fuel change-over won't happen until 3-5 weeks later. Which gives you plenty of time to buy a BPO, research it, produce a few weeks of fuel pellets, and stuff a week's worth of pellets into your POS towers prior to to the change-over.

When the change-over happens, you go out to the towers, remove the old style fuel, fill it back up with fuel pellets, then convert the rest of your stockpile over to fuel pellets.

Nice.

But the coloured ones might be an issue for colour-blind people.

Perhaps if you melded the two designs ... added colour to the CCP designs ... then you get the best of both worlds.

While I don't think it needs to be stated as emphatically as above, the advice itself is very appropriate.

It's one thing to leave the unedited dev blog stand and forece every new reader to be freshly upset by the problems (many read devblogs and not the comments, I used to all the time). This just fuels (pun intended) the spread of partially correct information, not good.

It is another thing entirely to have the original dev blog posted verbatum as a 'feature' write up on the Cruicble expansion site. The banner site for the new expansion, which I presiume you would like to use to attract both new and old players, is also presenting this inaccurate information as the next big thing. Any returning players who are just skimming the feature site to make a snap decision could easily be put out and just leave (the Crucible page isn't even linked to this comment thread directly)

I understand why this might not have been corrected in the first few days as things were changing rapidly, but it needs to be coorected in the main post, especially if you are going to use it so plainly in your advertising site.