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Industry plays a central role in EVE Online and thus the developers have put their focus on improving the whole industry landscape in New Eden - the user interface, game mechanics, features, accessibility ... just everything gets examined, polished and reworked.

CCP Ytterbium comes with news of massive changes in EVE Online's Industry in Summer 2014 and beyond.

Read all about these suggestions and ideas in CCP Ytterbium's latest dev blog Building better Worlds.

Please all reply with your constructive feedback, thank you!

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An overview of dev answers to common questions

• New blueprint browser will show all blueprints regardless if they are in stations, assembly arrays or elsewhere.


• The new industry UI is going to reduce the number of clicks to install a job. Installation of batch and single blueprint jobs should be as painless as possible. More about this in an upcoming blog.


• Jobs can be started remotely from containers as well.


• Existing R.A.M. and R.db (stock, stored in market orders etc.) will be updated with the coming changes, not only the blueprint requirements.


• Volumes of R.A.M. and R.db will get adjusted.


• Station (POS) owners will be charged parts of the running costs (taxes), other parts are outside the owners control. Total costs will never be zero. More information in an upcoming blog.


• Bonuses of upgrades on player owned outposts will be altered. More about that in an upcoming blog.


• Starbase towers can be anchored in any system in high security space with the exception of a few restricted systems like rookie systems and trade hubs like Jita - same restriction as with player owned customs offices.


• POS still need to be anchored at moons, just the standing restrictions will be lifted.


• Blueprints can still be locked down at stations, that is not going to change.


• At least the changes in blueprints (no extra materials etc.) will beavailable in the Static Data Export. Access via CREST will be worked on as well.


• Success and fun of industry game play should not be about mastering an imperfect user interface.


• Improvements to Assembly Arrays and Mobile Labs

First :DDamn!

I started reading and I really like the whole "splitting in six", it helps give each change its spotlight while splitting discussions, and integration of what these change means, for the average player.

Edit :

1- I don't like the icons on the show info of bill of materials. They are very 2003. The whole gratient background and stuff. Their shape in itself is also quite.. meh :D. You should make these icons in line visually with the little skillbook on the ship show info.

2 - The line "After summer, R.A.M. and R.db will instead behave like any other material in the game. However, to keep loss ratios similar l we will:" contains a typo. There is a "I we" that snuck inside the final devblog :p

3 - Kuddos for the removal of Extra Materials!!!

4 - Cost scaling system for industry jobs, hahaha so evil . Sounds awesome! (Also stealth isk sink) IMHO, limiting it to 14% of the base item is way too low as a hard cap, but thats my opinion.

5 - "The Blueprints in question can be researched remotely, by installing them at a station while using a Starbase Mobile Laboratory in the same solar system. With the removal of slots this use case is no longer that important, as we expect research slots to be widely more available." o_O I didn't know that! Seems broken, happy that it goes away.

6 - POSes in high-sec without standing requirements? Cool! But we still need a way to easily remove offline POSes !!

7 - And this last teaser of the new industry UI... Aaawww so sweeeeeeet!!

I approve of this product and service.

How will this affect Outposts in null-sec? Will they retain slot cap or gain some other feature?

Should have not read that article while hungry

THE BEST DAY EVER

Question: Will existing stacks of R.A.M. and R.Db be multiplied by 100 to compensate for the changes?

MDD

Yes indeed.

Dat firefly / alien reference.

I love the UI mockup

I will be there.

Removal of blueprints in stations suddenly became a major game changer!

/c