Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I really love the idea of a skill which effectively nullifies the effect that you have on the system index. Setting up in a deserted system is counter-productive because you're going to be increasing your own costs just by being there, a way to reduce this impact would be a big boost.

This person read my mind.

Didn't read whole thread yet but how about a skill to reduce team salary percentage? Something along 2-5% per level. Unions Connections or something.

I'd also like to see something similar towards specilization maybe:
(I'd prefer material reduction for these, but get the impression CCP isnt in favor of that. - Really I dont do huge runs, so TE offers the low quantity or part time indy no benefit)

Advanced Shipwright - 2% time reduction (or 2% install cost) for hulls only

Advanced Modules- 2% time reduction (or 2% install cost) for module production only

Advanced Rig Assmebly - 2% time reduction (or 2% install cost) for Rig only (Also requires Rigging V)

Advanced Space Construction - 2% time reduction in station/outpost/etc production



Other ones to affect the over all indy environment:

Advanced Labor Negotiations - Reduces the locatilty scaling tax by .5 per level. Requires Negotiation 5 and Adv Indy 5.

Your in a 10% start system? train skill to 5 Bam 7.5 % tax... your now more competative than yur corp mates or other indys in your area.


Industrial Accounting - Adv Indy 5 + Accounting 3 or 4 = Reduction in station or POS cost increase (base don number usage)

20 people running jobs? Indy account just reduce your cost increase to the equivlent of 10 people running jobs at that location.

Production Line Management - Queue up to 4 jobs per level to be started when existing jobs become deliverable. To clarify, this does not affect your throughput, it just lets you keep production going with less clicks and less being logged in at the right time. Despite starting in a paused state, stopping one of these jobs will not return the materials, just like an active job. Installation cost is set when the job is queued and team availability is determined by the calculated start time for the job assuming all jobs run to delivery. Obviously if I'm missing anything that would allow you to get use out of a team beyond their normal life, that needs to be addressed, I think this is fine even if we allow pausing jobs though.

Something that would allow queuing jobs to depend on the input of existing jobs would be nice for players but probably hell to specify and develop.

This seems to be bound to those advanced skills only benefitting your produced volume, any fiddling around with the per-job efficiency would rather be a step back.

Pls make industry more mobile, so to say a reprocessing plant with its own warp drive, a production array available on the same fashion.

Creating corps should be easy. Finding good corps should be easy. Running corps should be easy (*within reason). Like I said, these skills should be put into the corp revamp.

You're missing the point. These skills creates a barrier in the game's social progression, where you're better off either as a solo player in your own corp or an established member of another corp than you are as a new member. That's not a good thing.

lv 3 was a short train and gave 15 jumps I believe. let me not worry about where I was in the region while haul crap around.

This is in addition to post #50

It might be madness, but in his last sentence, he mentioned something:
Add skills to allow for superior products

This is, don't add ME/TE, something that benefits the producer, but the consumer.
Add skills, that add HP, dmg, whatever to the BPs. This will have to be a wide array of skills, so you don't have to have an "entrance requirement" to make these, but a benefit when you specialize. There would be a need for this to be seen on the final product though, or else scamming :P

But yeah, so:
Gallente Battleship Efficiency Specialization: 1% more armor HP/SL
ORE Industrial Ship Efficieny Specialization: 1% to mining yield/SL
Cpaital Ship Efficiency Specialization: 1% more structure HP/SL
Caldari Cruiser Efficiency Specialization: 1% more shield HP/ SL
Gallente Destroyer Efficiency Specialization: 1% more drone damage/SL
and so on and so forth, lots of stuff to do.

This would ensure, that newbies whcich get into this will have a long way to skill, but once there, they are at least on par with the vets in this special field of operation. Your skills actually get you more money, because you can sell better products for more money

On the other hand - Market would get messy... or you get the option if you want to build with that skill or not, but can sell the better products only per contract

Or just move this system to BPs and do it all by invention, with an increased cost, more materials needed, more time needed...
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