Test Server Feedback

Basically the indicators that show level of research on a blueprint. But specifically the way they are displayed in the industry window.

http://imgur.com/DzOvJyP

The two research indicators to the right of the blueprint. The first one indicates a reduction in production time. But this reduction is shown to be +20%. How does +20% become something positive?

Same thing for the material efficiency. The way anyone random player would read this is that it ADDS to the production time and materials instead of reduces. It's very confusing.

From the related dev blog:



So a blueprint researched to level 10 has a 10% reduction in material. Why is this reduction not simply shown as a blue -10% in the industry window, and a red +4% in the case of T2 BPC's?

Also I agree with a comment made a few posts back, switch around the TE and ME indicators so that ME is on top. It's the most important value out of the two.

Greyscale, some suggestions for the future of decryptors.

Note that I am heavily invested in decryptors currently (mostly Parity and Symmetry) due to my perceptions of the presently planned changes and their impact. I'll try to make the feedback unbiased, but you are hearing from someone who has 5% of their NAV invested in Symmetry decryptors now.


Decryptors currently have two throughput stats (+max runs, most important on ships/rigs, and +% invention chance, equally valuable everywhere). Consolidate these to one in future.
There is the %materials stat. This is the dominant factor in pre-Crius production (it's much more important than anything else) but loses about 85% of its value with Crius. Increase the importance of this in future, at least to the point that Process decryptors are the best choice for Marauders again.
Then there is the % production time stat. Relevant but not important now, trivial value after Crius. This should be increased numerically by a significant factor.
Finally, I think your planned rebalance should add a multiplier for invention job time, and at least one decryptor that prevents you consuming a BPC at all for the job.

I'm not sure I agree about your assessment of value for material and production stats (primarily out of concern for both replacing and stacking with teams), nor rolling +runs and +% success into a single stat, but I do find your suggestion for new stats interesting and I passed the whole post on.

Hmm, you know how you had Reference.SYSTEM showing the modification from the output value, which effectively meant that you could see the calculation of the job cost? Well I know that was a placeholder, but could you please put that back? Showing the silly system cost index bar tells you nothing. In fact please scrap that bar and replace it with a number and put the full job cost calculation in the tooltip.

Copying teams have material efficiency bonuses, surely a bug. Also the automatic filtering by selected blueprint seems not to be working for anything but manufacturing jobs.

Generally really liking the changes though, good job.

I keep getting this facility error when attempting to do an invention job at a Design Laboratory

Facility Error

Interesting that the Outcome/put icon is the BPO icon, not the BPC icon.

Incorrect? Misleading? 'inventory location'

I am researching a blueprint that starts it's life off in Div 2, but on the jobs screen it shows up with an inventory location of the name of div 1.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/drrpahctlp0g98v/IncorrectInventoryLocation.png


Very fast job incorrectly claims it has no time.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6yqheilkm2f85d5/NoTimeJob.png
The antimatter Charge S blueprints show 00:00:00:00 time for it's duration, even though the job run 3 job takes several minutes they to research.

An issue i have with the research window is the output section - all this space for just E.G. 7% ? Why not give the actual numbers of resources that are altered in the process? I mean, the data is available in the game, why not show it?

I think he has a good point. The Teams have negative sign modifiers to show reductions in materials and time required. At the very least, they should match each other. And I think a negative sign to show a reduction is more intuitive.

I can't invent Hobgoblin Blueprints in a Design Lab (FACILITY_ACTIVITY error)

When i invent Antimatter Charge S -> Null S, I get out a single run T2 BPC, I was expecting a 10 run copy.