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I'm sorry, but you are dead wrong here. There are 3 things that prevent boosters from being widely used (in order of importance).

1) The convoluted nature of the drawbacks scares people off.

Solution: Simplify drawbacks, remove drawbacks that affect the same attribute, add an addiction mechanic

2) They are illegal, which (for the most part) prevents their use/transport through high sec.

Solution: buff synth (like you had planned), and/or make standard legal in high sec. Make smuggling a valid profession.

3) Boosters are expensive (personally I think booster prices are about what they should be, but if they were dirt cheap more people would use them). If you want them to be cheaper make gas harvesting more efficient. Gas is the #1 cost of producing boosters, lower it's price and booster prices fall in lock step.

Solution: Make gas smaller (1m3 per unit), make gas harvesting lasers more efficient, make gas compressible

The truth is: THERE IS NO BOTTLENECK, there is just NO DEMAND because of 1,2,3 above

sure the manufacturing process is tedious (why is this a bad thing?), but it is clearly NOT the reason people don't use boosters.

First, If you have not read my suggestion for the booster fix, Located here and here.

First supply, As most people here have pointed out, gass clouds and the process of harvesting is broken if you take into account the volumes to which CCP Ytterbium would like to see them used at.

I am in agreement with most in here that gass needs to have its volume reduced. This would open up the prospect and incentive for individuals to actively seek out ladar sites. Now, if this change needs to balance out, I would suggest increasing the cycle times for harvesters and increasing the cycle time bonus to the gas harvesting skill book. From a rational point of view, gas by its nature does not have a lot of volume and I would think that harvesting gas in space would be a time consuming project by its nature. This would increase the profit to volume ratio for gas which will make it profitable from a logistical stand point.

With that addressed, the issue then becomes the ladar sites and bpc’s found within. Personally I do not think that BPC’s should be directly droped, ever! Some will argue with me about this, but I’m under the idea that one should research or reverse engineer to produce bpc’s. I would like to see this idea applied to the boosters as well. This will have an added bonus of giving a buff to the science sub-career and research POS owners while giving CCP another point where they can adjust the profitability of boosters. Nothing too complicated, I would just like to see that reverse engineering skill used somewhere else other than just T3 development.

Ladar sites, in general are tied to the same issue as all other anomalies that are currently being discussed over on CCP Greyscale’s thread. My suggestion for the Anomalies rebalance is located here. In a nut shell, my suggestion is that players should be able to infuince the True sec of a system through player’s action and from there; Anomalies spawn rates (ladar sites included) can be dictated by how much work a group of players put into a system. This system can be balanced on CCP’s end by adjusting the spawn values for each anomaly and the spawn rate depending on the level of true sec . Further, this system could be augmented with the current Ihub system for 0.0 residents thus making the system extendable.

This would address the risk reward problem low-sec currently has while maintaining 0.0 as the dominate place to make money, while giving a tool to CCP to adjust the risk/reward curve through iteration and analysis.

As for the production process. I like the idea of having a fairly complicated and risky production process for boosters. POS manufacturing, as it is now, Sets an investment bar for individual/organization so that only dedicated and capable people/organization are forced to make a decision to invest in a POS to stick it in space 23/7 to make money from. As I see it, I think booster production should be low-sec moon mining w/ out the moons.

As for demand, I think this will be addressed once the new custom/contraband system is implemented. I hinted at this in the above suggestion for booster changes for high sec.

Good decision CCP. However, as many are stating, please don't change the manufacturing process. It's perfectly fine the way it is.






It is not very difficult to obtain base elements or produce the pure booster material. No need to change the actual manufacturing process, just the availability of BPC's and gas.

Just nitpicking here In an opposite, gas have most volume, just by its' nature.


Also, applauds for CCP by taking this step back. Proposed changes were not good.

haha! yep your right! I was thinking of more along the line of compressed gas

Other than that.. anything else you see wrong? besides my spelling and grammar

wat

In turn gases can be easily compressed to occupy a smaller volume then they do in their "natural state".

Nothing to see, we're at drugs section here he just took too much

I take it that no one like my idea..... I got no likes