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So basically it will never be worth it to reprocess anything? Why have reprocessing at all then?

In high sec, at a pos, since it just magically assumes max refine, The best refiner ever will be a Trial user.
1. They are not paying for the game yet
2. They get max refine at a PoS since it magically assumes max refine, due to ccp's lack of ability to fix there PoS code.
3. They get to laugh REALLY HARD at the guy with 15 million skill points in reprocessing as there skill set is irreverent at a pos in high sec.
4. They are already in high sec anyway, and are playing for free! (The guy with 15 million sp in reprocessing can't, hes off trial!)
5. Profit just as much as someone who actually pays for the game for years to train all the reprocessing skills to max.

You can join a player corp though that has one.

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So are these caps changing or did I miss something. As I read it you are CAPPED at these figures in a POS, NOT base refines but capped as a max yeld with perfect skills, implants ect>

Name Max refining %
Intensive Refining Array 75%
Medium Intensive Refining Array 75%
Refining Array 35%

Ok thats in a Starbase Reprocessing Array, in a station , Im asking about POS modules in particular in say J-space where there are no npc/sov indy stations,eggs ect. Or did he lump POS arrays into that statement?

OK, thanks for clearing that up.

So I'm wondering if the volume of Compressed Mercoxit and it's variants are going to remain at 1000m/3 per unit. That's really high. High as in you would have to be high to ever compress Mercoxit ore.

Current compression requires 500 units of Mercoxit. At 40m3 per unit of ore, that's 20,000m3 compressed to 1,000m3. At first glance you're thinking 20:1. But that's irrelevant. Its the mineral content that we care about.

Post change Mercoxit will have 293 units of Morphite per batch of 100 units of ore. At 40m3 per unit that is a choice between 4000m3 of ore, or 2.93m3 of mineral. The choice is clear.

Compressed Mercoxit will have 1463 units of Morphite per 1000m3 block. That's only 14.63m3 of mineral, in a 1000m3 block. Is it better than raw ore? Sure. But you're still better off just hauling the Morphite.

In order for there to be any benefit from compressing Mercoxit ores, Compressed Mercoxit would have to be no more than 10m3 per unit, and the higher yield variants would have to be no more than 11m3 per unit. I would recommend 1m3 per unit so as to attain a ratio of refined minerals to ore of slightly better than 10:1.

Having an outpost with better refining capability than a POS is rather offensive.

First, this goes against the idea of "farms and fields" — the point of which is to allow aggressors to deny utility without having to wholesale invade the entire region. Reinforcing a POS is easier for small fleets than reinforcing an outpost.

Second, a POS can be destroyed, looted, and sold for parts & scrap value. Thus outposts violate the much-vaunted "risk versus reward" balance: the outpost has precisely 0 chance of loss since it cannot be destroyed. The only risk to a business running from an outpost is temporary interruption of production.

Outposts already have the advantage of more assembly lines, greater storage capacity and ability to be the pickup or delivery end of a courier contract. They don't need any more advantages.

I can't wait to see the changes CCP has in mind for manufacturing and other activity lines. I'll take this opportunity to remind CCP of the principles of game design espoused by CCP Soundwave:

1. No game should be more complex than it absolutely needs to be to meet its goals.
2. A good feature can be based on positive or negative player interaction.
3. Other players will always be more interesting, for longer, than designed experiences.
4. Every system should affect, and be affected by, the wider world of the game.
5. Here are the tools, do something cool with them.
6. The social experience is more important than practical system balance; the interaction between winners and losers is more interesting than mechanical equality.
7. Interactions should be about reaching and touching, more than reading numbers.
8. Things in the world need to make sense.
9. Players are not entitled to success. There should be an achievement mountain, with players able to find their level and strive to be better.

Having outposts being more efficient at refining than POSes violates the principles of interaction (you can't negatively interact with an outpost apart from reinforcing it: there's no risk of loss) and entitlement.

Running an outpost is only a matter of ISK. They don't consume fuel, there's no balancing of which modules to put online given the constraints of PG and CPU, and there's no risk of someone stealing all your stuff.

Running a POS is a much more interactive proposition. You have to scale that achievement mountain. You need to combine efforts with other players or go mad in the meantime. There is a real risk that your investment in time and ISK will be destroyed by other players. There is the risk that you could be betrayed by your corp mates who steal from the POS or even simply "forget" to fuel it.

The only smelting advantage should be based on a POS module that can only be anchored in 0.4 and below. There should not be an additional mechanical advantage given to an indestructible structure which requires no maintenance. If outposts were to become destructible and required fuel to maintain, I'd back down on this complaint a little: but I'd still want the efficiency advantage to be held by POSes simply because the poor suckers running POSes need some reward for their self-flagellation.

POSes make sense. Outposts do not.

You know I swear I heard the devs tell us awhile back that when they re worked the ice belts it would make things better too, and that it was so null sec corps would want to ice mine more and make it more reasonable for prices cause no they null sec alliance would be able to mine there own ice easier. I really start to wonder if they even play this game cause when they reworked the ice belts all it did was drive the prices of ice and ice products up, for things that need ice even fuel blocks and jump fuel. So now when the rework the refining this will drive the prices off all ores up cause the high sec miners will not get as good refine and in order to get perfect refine we need to buy a implant that means you have planned to break something that is working fine. Well ccp is driving itself to ruin cause instead of fixing things they are damaging them and with no real content for the basic player IE new mission, and storylines the game is losing its luster and they have had less subscriptions then normal and more players seem to be leaving then staying. maybe they need to leave the reprocessing they way it is and work on something that is really broken