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moveable Extractor control unit
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Geronimo McVain
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2016-12-06 07:23:33 UTC
PI could do with some love.
The main problem I have is the clicking when I need to move an extractor control unit. You have to make a new link, set the runtime (without the chance to type in exact numbers), choose the mineral, set the heads, and put in a new routing (with no warning if you forget this).

Why not make the Extractor control unit dragable like the extractor heads? It keeps its runtime, mineral and the routing and removes a ton of clicking. When you drag the Extractor control unit it should terminate all Extractor heads and show the power need for the link so you know where you can place it without loosing an Extractor head.
Costs for moving should be the same as building a new one, they are minimal anyways.
Tabyll Altol
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2016-12-06 08:01:35 UTC
A better aproach would be remove the whole set up of pi and make it requrie some special sort of mining ship or automatically. Current way is just cancer.
Geronimo McVain
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2016-12-06 08:26:18 UTC
Tabyll Altol wrote:
A better aproach would be remove the whole set up of pi and make it requrie some special sort of mining ship or automatically. Current way is just cancer.


Don't think so:
It's a low but steady income with low time requirements. I Like it. It get's cancerouse when want to max it out becausenthen it need a lot of time and attention. On a 3 day cycle its okay.
Tabyll Altol
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#4 - 2016-12-06 09:58:29 UTC
Geronimo McVain wrote:
Tabyll Altol wrote:
A better aproach would be remove the whole set up of pi and make it requrie some special sort of mining ship or automatically. Current way is just cancer.


Don't think so:
It's a low but steady income with low time requirements. I Like it. It get's cancerouse when want to max it out becausenthen it need a lot of time and attention. On a 3 day cycle its okay.


Yeah the set up is easy as ****. Not a click festival without an end.
Geronimo McVain
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2016-12-06 10:13:11 UTC
Tabyll Altol wrote:
Yeah the set up is easy as ****. Not a click festival without an end.
Sure but how often do you need to do it?. How long do you work on a fitting? Setting up a whole new planet takes 30 min and you can leave it for ever. Just extract the products every 2 weeks (if you just launch it to the custom office it takes just seconds + traveltime) and reset the extractor heads, which takes 5 minutes max / char if you don't need to reposition the Control unit.
Iain Cariaba
#6 - 2016-12-06 21:26:23 UTC
Why can you not simply remove the extractor and put a new one down? It's not like that's a large expense there.
PopeUrban
El Expedicion
Flames of Exile
#7 - 2016-12-06 22:48:53 UTC
Eve stop to consider that having to occasionally destroy PI nodes and pay ISK for new ones is part of the intended cost of PI?
Rowells
Blackwater USA Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#8 - 2016-12-06 23:14:01 UTC
Iain Cariaba wrote:
Why can you not simply remove the extractor and put a new one down? It's not like that's a large expense there.

QoL so you don't have to redo all the extractor heads, runtimes, material types, material routes, etc.

The only thing moving the head could effect would be the routes (which would change in PG/CPU need), but so long as it can't be moved out of range of the heads everything else is the same. Should probably keep the cost associated with it, but the rest is somewhat needless redundancy of effort.
Lugh Crow-Slave
#9 - 2016-12-07 01:53:18 UTC
Geronimo McVain wrote:

It's a low but steady income with low time requirements.



lol if you have a low pi income you are doing it wrong. it's an extremely tedious mechanic (even after initial set up) that can make you well over 2b a week only being in eve for 20-30 minutes for that week

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Geronimo McVain
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2016-12-07 08:08:00 UTC
Lugh Crow-Slave wrote:
Geronimo McVain wrote:

It's a low but steady income with low time requirements.



lol if you have a low pi income you are doing it wrong. it's an extremely tedious mechanic (even after initial set up) that can make you well over 2b a week only being in eve for 20-30 minutes for that week

I'm making some Billions over time right but 2B in one week on one account?????? How?
Geronimo McVain
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2016-12-07 08:14:54 UTC
Iain Cariaba wrote:
Why can you not simply remove the extractor and put a new one down? It's not like that's a large expense there.

I really don't care for the costs. As I mentioned moving the Control unit should cost the same as rebuilding it. They are some 70k which is really nothing. That you have to reposition the extractor head is logical. But setting the run time again, routing and product is useless redundancy. On factories you even end in the routing menu when you choose a product but not with control units so forgetting to do the routing is an error that happens often.
Best way would be if the control unit pulls in the extractor heads in and spits them out when you are done with repositioning.