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No problem and yes with a name like 'Thukker' I can in retrospect see why it might look like a bad joke lol.

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Does anyone else think the fuel blocks look suspiciously like 'Energon Cubes" from Transformers. It's been a few decades since I've seen it... so maybe my memory is just going.

...just sayin'

After reading second post, I still see large tower fuel cost increasing, fuel blocks being larger, and still requiring more logistics to fuel instead of less. Sure its easier to calculate, but if that was the problem from the begining, why have so many components? Towers were made to be complicated, there was meant to be math invovled. Anyone doing the math on these changes realises this just costs players more for your convience. The logistics of moving larger blocks instead of smaller components - both in unit size, AND in total size per hour - Into low and null is more of a headache then just typing in numbers everyone has already calculated. The point is, if your going to make the system less complicated, dont steal from us in the proccess. Dont require us to spend more to do the same thing we have done for years. Fuel blocks are a negative change until they are the same size or smaller then their components total, and they are as cost effecient. (And not at 100% usage, which almost no tower is using) Otherwise it costs more to move them and to use them. (Larger size means more jumps costing more time and fuel for low/null)

In addition I did not see any address to the sov fuel bonus questions....

DONT FIX THINGS THAT ARENT BROKEN!
Just a thought.

According to the inital post, "The way we're going to roll this out is that the blocks, their blueprints and the changes to tower capacities will be introduced in the main patch." So I went to a Thukker Mix station and no Blue Prints. Any idea when they will be available?

Front page news on the EVE site:
http://www.eveonline.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=4808&tid=1

Quote:
fuel block blueprints will not be seeded on tranquility today
reported by CCP Spitfire | 2011.11.29 15:50:01 | NEW

Perhaps CCP could update this. When do they expect to seed the BPO's? I need to start researching them ASAP.

As a small casual vertically intergrated T2 manufacturer residing in high sec, I just want to throw some figures out there on how disproportionate the Liquid Ozone quantity is to the rest of the requirements for the fuel blocks.

Currently it takes me just under 300 standard ice blocks to fuel my POS each month and as I mine the stuff myself this is about 6 hours of time per month, out of an approximately 60 hours that I play, which is reasonable as there are usually times that are best spent semi-afk.

With the proposed Ozone quantities I would need about 1100 standard ice blocks, or about 22 hours per month, basically a third of my time.

OK, so the simple response is “pay for them you carebear”, but the question then arises who is actually going to mine the ice? If the bot war is successful then there won’t be ships glued to the ice fields 23.5 hours per day, and even if the price soars, there is a human toleration limit to ice mining.

Please please CCP Greyscale, reconsider the HW and Ozone quantities, they are totally out of kilter with the other requirements.

CCP:

Umm, just tried to put some fresh cooked Gall blocks in a Shadow Tower... it won't let me. This plan is currently flawed

I haven't read all 57 pages but do we have a date for changeover yet?

at least another week.

Best guess they are looking hard at the amount of blocks in game. When the amount of blocks reachs the point where there are enough to fuel all pos for a week they will switch over.