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...Actually that gives me an idea.


We've already put "cards" into the game to commemorate the AT teams. Given the proclivity to give the teams some lore background and appropriate names, we could introduce "cards" for them. No monetary value, but a collectable?


But then again after some number of months the supply of such things becomes bloated at an alarming rate.

A bidder's bonus on efficiency maybe. So you may get 10% bonus instead of 7.5% or something. It'd give players a motivation to actually invest in bidding instead of leeching off of the bids of others.

Yes and no. To figure out the RIGHT way to maximize profit of say a Damage Control II, you figure out the datacore cost. You then factor in meta item costs (for chance bonus), and THEN the decryptor costs (and the associated ME and PE bonuses).

That gives a you a pretty large matrix of possible choices, just to figure out how many blueprints you can make, how many runs you can potentially make (based on chance), and how long the produced items will make. However, you need to do this for roughly 32 different meta/decryptor combinations PER MODULE, and because there's a PE bonus (err, TE now) factor, you need to also figure out how much TIME it will take. So, assuming you have a handy tool or spreadsheet (I wrote one for myself), you could then factor all these together, and you can figure out how much profit per day you can make off a set of BPC's (this is basically what IPH does, albeit poorly) with the various combinations.

The math isn't hard, it's just a lot, because of all the combinations. Tools help (like IPH), but now you've got a whole new mechanic to figure out, with all of its combinations.

This profession is already complex enough as it is, before adding this whole team nonsense on top of it.

The team can give a bonus similar to what you get from the facility you're using or the research level of your blueprint, so yes, less materials needed and/or faster manufacturing time.

As team members cannot share a specialty, the maximum ME bonus is 7.5% and maximum TE bonus is 15% (but never both at the same time).

Are there any plans to allow DUST players to invade eve stations and kill the manufacturing teams?

simplesssssss.......Because you can.

If there are, I'm not aware of them. Though we did discuss housing the teams in a structure in space that can be shot at.

^^ this, so much. i too was hoping we would get improvements in the way groups conduct industry activities. most industry currently takes place with individuals and their alts. would have been great to see changes that encourage teams of players working together to improve efficiency, reduce cost and/or make novel products.

edit: while i appreciate the time and effort spent on these changes, i get the feeling they are more directed at removing isk in circulation than actually improving industry or making it more cooperative.

You what also is not boring?
Being in a firefight in Somalia.
Being stuck in traffic 10 minutes from the airport and missing a plane flight.
Sitting tied to a chair having your finger nails pulled out.

And what you have created , while certainly not boring, is flat out painful, and NOT fun.
You seem to have lost sight of that last part, so I will make it clear: You are tasked with making the game FUN.

Let's just see how the casual player base, the ones that don't even read the forums, and have no clue this is coming, react, shall we? But of course, you have already written them off as part of the subscription base that you want to keep.

You fail to realize this is a sandpit where another person's aim may not fit your preconceived ideas. I'm manufacturing specific items for a group of players and time saving is irrelevant. Production is ahead of consumption so that faster production would just accumulates more items in a hangar. This Alt doesn't have to fund Plex purchases so currently operates on a low volume, small profit margin basically to fund skill book purchases.

Initially I'm unlikely to bid for any teams seeded to save time as this is irrelevant and delivers no benefit to a short production run industrialist. The 7 day auction period doesn't suit my short production runs (typically ~17 hours) and I only have a production run every other day. There doesn't appear to be any incentive for a small scale industrialist to bid for teams.

A one month team lifetime is too restrictive, plus I'm not going to contribute to solar system bids if I'm not guaranteed some return on the investment. My preference would be a player's bid guarantees receipt of a team benefit on a sliding scale in proportion to their contribution to the solar system's final bid. The higher the bid paid for a team the better medical care they can afford and their lifetime should be extended on the basis of diminishing returns on the final bid price. Cap the team lifetime at two months. If the final bid is too low then the team can't afford good medical care and the team life time can be less than one month, again a sliding scale with a minimum of two weeks for the life time. Cost of medical care could be varied across the universe and/or over time.

The fixed price for each solar system jump is too linear and there should be higher payments for crossing constellation and region boundaries.

I expect the major alliances will corner the market for the good teams and some may inflict short term market disruptions by bidding for all teams.