Science & Industry

The blueprints will go back to where they originally came from, but new jobs will require the blueprints to be installed inside the POS.

So the way I read this is that all of the BPO's my corp owns must be placed in the POS for copy/research and will be at risk for attack?

This is an excessive risk in BPO isk that has taken my corp many years to assemble over the years for easy taking. CCP is forcing high sec corps to expose billions if not trillions of isk in BPO's without any way to protect the investment but a simple POS.

The argument is defend the POS but most high sec industrial corps are well..........industrialists.

Just my two cents and we will not expose our BPO's in open space.

I am assuming that those BPO's you invested your isk in are already researched. So they don't need to stay in the POS as long as no research is conducted. Copying is somewhat different, but tbh, with the changes to copytime, not many BPO's require insanely long copytimes. There is also the option to actually cancel a copyjob in progress if you are really concerned about the BPO's once you are wardecced.
Don't forget that (eventhough it can be expensive) there will be no more waiting times for ME research in stations anymore.

Don't get me wrong, I have mixed feelings about the changes as well, but no pain no gain, or no risk no reward.

All it means is you'll run copies from the BPO and use them at your POS. Yes, it means dedicating slots to the copy jobs where previously you didn't need to. Note: Copy times are changing to be similar to the time it takes to build the item I think. Whether that's good or bad really depends on how many runs you want to copy I guess.

Man. Just, wow. Never go into Wormhole space.

If you run a Hisec POS and don't use it efficiently, sure, you may be at risk. Otherwise, you are logging in daily, managing jobs daily, and can see war notifications daily. You know you get 24-hour notification before a wardec goes into effect, right? No one can just spring it on you and catch you overnight while you sleep and dream of mountains of ISK. And not even Goons are dumb enough or bored enough to suicide a POS in hisec. Instant docking and undocking bookmarks get you from station to POS and back with zero risk.

Storage of your blueprints is actually safer in the POS than in your corporate hangars in your Hisec station as far as theft. While someone with access to Hangar 1 will indeed get Hangar 1 access in all corp storage modules, you can completely lock down a module and prevent access from anyone who does not have Config Starbase, regardless of hangar tab permissions. So you can have corp-access lab modules for cheaper stuff and also have restricted lab modules for the expensive blueprints.


The only meaningful change in Crius will be physically placing the blueprint in the research facility, and they already have declared their intent that research and manufacture be performed primarily with copies as opposed to originals, carefully crafting the times required for each to meet that goal. So, really, you're out nothing except maybe a little bit of convenience. You still won't need to put BPOs in the POS.

Yes


No, you have to do them one at a time. I recommend tylenol before and after, then at least 3 days bed rest for your clicking hand.

I suggest we just all petition CCP to unlock all of our blueprints en masse and save some of us the hassle of trying to unlock them ourselves. Or you could just unlock the ones you really need, and leave the rest of them locked.

Would love the answer to this as well :)

Slightly different version of the question, will research jobs continue as installed, post launch?

What I mean is this:

-I buy a new clean Stabber BPO the night before Crius, and start research to ME10 with an expected time of ~20 days.

-Crius launches

-After the 20 days has elapsed, the job has completed and I have my ME10 Stabber BPO wherever I installed it.

Is this correct as described, or will Crius affect either the time to completion or the final product, adjusting for the new timescales?