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Well, Crius.....
My anticipation was as big as my disappointment is now.

Crius brought us some good changes (new UI, standardization of ME / TE levels) but one part of it, is just shockingly bad game design. The system cost index.

I understand the concept and need of an isk-sink in the game. I also can see CCPs intention behind it, to force players to spread out over the universe. But the way this was approached is just wrong. The system cost index is an unnecessary, obscure and ill-conceived game mechanic.

"Adapt to the game" is nice and all, but forcing people to relocate their base of operations/manufacturing every time the system cost index changes and eats up all the profit margin, ads no value to the gameplay and is just unnecessary and obstructive.

Relocating your POS and all the modules every month sound like a lot of fun, right?

I don't mind paying installation costs, i don't care about increased material need on blueprints (because it was increased for all of us). And yes, the market will adapt and prices will settle down.

But forcing this unpredictable and arbitrary variable upon the core element of your entire game, will do you more harm than good, CCP.



Regards, Damjan....

Is it possible to increase the experimental lab capacity? Make it match the other labs and I'll be a happy panda. Right now I have to juggle a lot with the mats and on top of the fact that RE jobs can reintroduce mats from failed jobs, it's really annoying to deal with.

Few bugs here and there, interface has some room for improvement when dealing with big number of prints and jobs.

Crius is great, much better then I expected. I like opening of 0.8+ sec systems to POS deployment, infinite slots and dynamic of industry index and teams. And I'm not saying that because I'm drunk on vacation, quite opposite, I'm drunk because Crius is here. For last 2 months I was getting shload of prints to ME or TE 10, sometimes waking up in middle of the night and now my better half is so happy I' dont have to do that anymore that I+m drunk.

I just said that you should read game's lore, if you haven't did it yet. It's by vision of game world's setting writer that ships have crews in Eve, not just me speculating about this. It is how this world of future imagined by its creator.

Maine Problem I see there is, not the time but the Cost and that BPOs got worse.

Example Archon ME 2 BPO only had one Cappart as loss. Now with 7% i need 10 Parts more.

And for one part you didn't neet to invest 30 Week of research....

the point is this imvho.

with these tax drain of every single industry job ccp lower the total isk amount in new eden to balance the isk generated by mission\bounty.

mission and bounty generate isk from nothing and without a lever to take isk out of eve we have the inflection at insane level like now.

with the drain of isk from new eden to ccp they can balance the inflection and lower the total isk in new eden.

balance of inflection and deflection is crius.

BUT

we had problem than pos are stronger than outpost and a single pos is better than 3 outpost of 4 available and cost x1000 time the pos ;D

Have to agree with you on the Outpost side of things. Though they could easily fix that by adding manufacturing and what. An outpost is WAY different than a POS though. It offers corporate offices, and personal hangers for ALL pilots allowed it's use. I would have to agree that they need some balancing in terms of industry though.

This is for another thread though.

Just to clarify

Referring to the new feature

http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/coming-in-crius-introducing-whats-in-eves-big-industry-release
“Fit modules without having the required skills
With this change, those preparing ships for others can do so without having the skills required to fit the modules. Skills are still needed to online modules.”

Example
I've trained and enjoy flying one Factions Bomber. I have no interest in flying, un-docking or skilling the other three Empire factions Stealth bombers just so I can fit and contract to my Alliance.

I also get a kick out of knowing that if a Stealth Bomber fleet is called, Alliance member's should be able to grab a bomber of choice off contract - if I’ve done my job right.

At the moment I can purchase, contract and fit the faction bomber I'm skilled in - all good, but unfortunately need to ask corpies with the appropriate skill to fit the other three Factions for me just so I can contract them up for others

The new feature is a good feature, but in the example above doesn’t help.

After further investigation about the BPO transition to Crius i would like to hear from a Dev, how the picture i have linked is consistant with "no blueprint gets functionally worse".

I have made a chart with the needed cap parts for building one run of Archon with the pre Crius BPOs and the post Crius BPOs.
My own was transitionen from ME 6 to ME -9. As you can see in the graph my BPO went from allmost perfect to pretty useless and now needs 8 capital parts more to build an archon than before.

Archon capital parts comparison

The comparison also shows that every single archon BPO no matter what ME level got worse. But basicly the closer you had researched it to 10, the more you got shafted because only the former ME 10+ BPOs are of any use now.

So my BPOs got functionally worse, and not only a small bit... Any comments CCP?

The reason for this mess is pretty obvious. Its the new calculation formula that rounds up in combination with low part numbers of small capital ships.

The system index in one of the dead, low-sec systems I use to manufacture finally dropped by about half. However the cost to manufacture has gone up. lol.

Yesterday system index of 10 and an install cost on a freighter was 41.2 Mil.

Today the system index is down to what looks like 3 and the same BP, with same character, no teams, same facility and it's 43.9 Mil.

???

lol