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Disclaimer: This is guesswork, as I currently lack the ability to check if this actually is the case.

Boosters could/should only be manufactured in Drug Labs.
I'm currently manufacturing a Standard X-Instinct Booster using an NPC Station Factory.

This might be because of the Ascendancy Implants. They're of the same item category as boosters (namely "Implants"). Probably, as a side effect, Booster Manufacturing is possible in Stations and Equipment Assembly Arrays since that change.
This would render the Drug Lab POS Array pretty useless, especially due to its limitations and lack of any bonus.

This is a known issue.

Out of the 5-6 SERIOUS outstanding issues brought up int he last 4-5 pages, THIS is the one you respond too

This really leads me to believe CCP has no interest or no ability to fix the things that are actually wrong

While I can't speak for other people....
Not being able to remotely start or finish manufacturing jobs because of the limited capacity of some arrays is a pretty major issue.

Could I use more component arrays instead? No. Why?
1) It doesn't solve the tetris / remote manufacturing capacity issue. You still have to start all jobs in person and mess around with materials back and forth for ages.
2) The increased POS cpu/pwg need now that ship assembly arrays (which are great) are necessary for efficient/competitive production in a pos. This effectively disallows the same amount of component arrays used previously.

Some changes really were a big increase in QoL for industrialists (like removal of the region limitation on starting jobs). This effectively means we cannot benefit from that change. It has been negated for anyone who produces in any quantity.

Although I'd like a free capacity increase to some arrays (component being the biggest problem), I would be perfectly happy with one that has a cost too, such as allowing the component array to access a silo for component materials / deliveries (requiring you to anchor a silo for more capacity.

As it is, I can neither start nor deliver any jobs without freighters physically by the array playing tetris.

I posted about this here where I mentioned producing 132 ishtars. Since the post, I have increased this to 224. The materials are simply too large to fit in a component array.

I used a total of 11 component arrays (1m m3 each) pre-crius. I realise this is an outlier, but many, many people used more than one. The only reason capacity wasn't an issue previously was because they were limited to 10 slots each. 1.5m m3 is woefully inadequate once the slots are unlimited,

I would like to stress, 224 ishtars is a small build for me. Once i'm at full capacity, I will no doubt run into the issue again if you bumped it up to 2m m3 or so.

I hope that we can recover the capacity we have lost, or in some way add to the capacity a component array can access.

I am aware. Storing in, say, a large ship array or so wouldn't be an issue for me. (18.5m m3). (Edit: Unless I am also producing large ships, like blops)
My only issues are:
1) Having to mess around swapping t2 materials back and forth for quite some time to start component builds
2) Not being able to start / finish manufacturing jobs remotely.
Edit: Build characters all share accounts with others, as such I have to swap them in a way which allows them all to start builds.
This requires at least 2 characters, on different accounts to either move half way across the universe every build (index dictates I base in a less populated location, as i have) or I sit them by the POS all the time.

Edit:
I expect delivery of the hulls themselves to be an issue in the medium ship array, also. *sigh* The Vexor hulls alone do not fit in the array.

Edit 2: Basically, I don't mind having to use other anchored storage (eg silo), I just want my gameplay to remain possible. I want to be able to produce at the same scale as before without a lot of extra hassle. And I want to benefit from the region-less supply-chain-management.

If you need examples from other people, I know plenty of people with the same issues who would be willing to give them to you.

#1
The part where you need a Capitals ship assembly array blueprint to make a SCSAA

Especially bad if you thought you were going to make a Capital Ship Assembly array, but that needs an XLSAA blueprint

#2- Nullabor is working on, but never returned my emails and been close to 2 weeks now
Minnie station lab upgrade says reduces invention costs by 10%, but there is no invention - Let me be more clear, I installed the lab upgrade after the patch expecting invention because how else could it reduce invention costs but to have an invention lab and there is no documentation on attributes for these eggs and the only indication of what they contain now is in the description, pre crius was the same way, but it only listed ME/PE/Copy, for Crius Invention was added, so I thought invention was added, but it isn't an option for the station.

#3
Mineral Tetris is still as bad as ever, but now there is no way to use Supply Chain Management skill, as someone has to go to the POS and play tetris, even though the Blueprints are located there also

#4
The whole backtracking on install costs for outposts, seems someone backtracked the change, then never told anyone and when it has been brought up and proven to have been in the dev blogs and patch notes, everyone seems to forget its existance - https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4888288#post4888288 and then the reply proving where he was misguided - https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4889211#post4889211

#5
The whole shift deliver, ctrl deliver - some kind of deliver between one at a time and deliver all PLEASE
Some corps have 10-15 people putting on jobs, you may have 30 for yourself spaced all in between others jobs
I have not tried it myself, but one sorta kinda work around maybe to use the jobs tab and selects jobs put on by me and if you hit deliver all - but I don't know if it will deliver all in that window or all jobs, even if they aren't in that window....hold on, I'll try real quick. YES - that does work, if in the jobs tab, you select owned by cor and installed by me and hit deliver all, it only delivers your jobs, not all of the corp jobs ready for delivery - so it is a semi decent workaround - but still needs help


I have tried to be objective and not inflammatory, but I consider these decent issues we have in the game, maybe you don't, and i guess that is something I have to deal with, but here is your data, nonetheless

Or little issues like if I hit the Industry button on Station Services, I'm told that I don't have access. But if I use the Industry button on Neocom - I can do the full spectrum of jobs at the station. I currently have a Manufacturing job and two Research jobs running at the station. Yet the Station Services Industry button tells me I don't have access and won't let me start any jobs.

Or how when I first log in, Local may show a ton of neuts or reds - yet they're all blue by Alliance standings. Only after you force a refresh on Local will it stop lying to you and report standings properly.

Want to explain why these aren't serious bugs that needs to be examined? And yes, both were reported here in this thread and in Bug Reports.

Either nobody is tracking known problems and bugs, or you're simply ignoring the known problems/bugs. Which is it?

Because it's significantly easier to fix than any of the other issues.

Maybe this might be a use for multiple arrays?
What about if multiple arrays gave an increase in storage space?
I know there were plans to have some sort of bonus for multiple arrays but that got left on the cutting floor somewhere along the way. This seems like a natural fit?