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Invention and Research Lab fuel usage
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Burn Monroe
La Explorers
#1 - 2016-10-28 22:50:55 UTC
Good day,

1. The calculations appear to be incorrect. It's showing 432 fuel usage per day, and each lab claims 12 per hour, which should be 576.

2. I can fit more than just invention and research arrays on a small tower, and be no more than 10 units per hour. At the very least, I would think, given that you have to buy an entire medium engineering complex just for invention/research, it would be nice if it were more reasonable, like 3-5 units per day. I would expect manufacturing to cost a lot more, not research facilities that aren't used nearly as much. Plus, the side affect of this expensive invention/research is that people that have focused on research/invention only, will have waaaay higher costs now.
Andreve en Distel
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2016-10-29 04:54:07 UTC
Burn Monroe wrote:
Good day,

1. The calculations appear to be incorrect. It's showing 432 fuel usage per day, and each lab claims 12 per hour, which should be 576.



I think you might have missed the fuel consumption bonus from the EC itself, reducing fuel consumption by 25%. So in reality, each lab is only using 9 per hour, which comes out to 432 per day for both combined.

I agree that it'd be nice to get that a bit lower though, as a comparison the reprocessing service module only uses 5 per day (or it did when I was looking earlier today). As it stands, I doubt I will run either Invention or Research out of an EC, I feel like I'd be better off just reprocessing and manufacturing there.
Burn Monroe
La Explorers
#3 - 2016-10-29 08:50:57 UTC
Andreve en Distel wrote:
Burn Monroe wrote:
Good day,

1. The calculations appear to be incorrect. It's showing 432 fuel usage per day, and each lab claims 12 per hour, which should be 576.



I think you might have missed the fuel consumption bonus from the EC itself, reducing fuel consumption by 25%. So in reality, each lab is only using 9 per hour, which comes out to 432 per day for both combined.

I agree that it'd be nice to get that a bit lower though, as a comparison the reprocessing service module only uses 5 per day (or it did when I was looking earlier today). As it stands, I doubt I will run either Invention or Research out of an EC, I feel like I'd be better off just reprocessing and manufacturing there.

That's a good point. The cost of fuel is quite high. It's almost better to just use an NPC station. Which is the whole point actually. It really should be reduced, because it's just not worth it.