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[Rebalance] Ice Compression is too slow
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Jita Bloodtear
Bloodtear Labs
#1 - 2012-01-25 09:25:02 UTC
Issue: Ice compression is too slow

Background:
A rorqual full of ore compresses in around 5 minutes. Meanwhile a rorqual full of ice takes 80 minutes. This creates a very large imbalance in the number of rorquals required to support an ice mining fleet.

Right now a fully researched ice BPO can compress an ice block in a rorqual in 38 seconds. The rorqual has 4 lines, allowing it to compress an ice block every 9.5 seconds. This lets it compress 379 ice/hr. A perfect mackinaw pulls in 90 ice/hr. This means a rorqual can only support 4.2 ice miners full time without being backlogged. The same rorqual can support around 25 ore miners.

A Possible Rebalance:
We've been steadily increasing the mining rates over the past few years, but never the compression rates to compensate. It'd be nice if ice BPOs compressed faster, (and/or smaller), or more industrial lines were added to the rorqual (which would then allow for more parallel compression).
Temmu Guerra
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2012-01-25 18:00:26 UTC
I would be open to allowing ice to compress quicker compared to the ore.
Dunno how i feel about the extra assembly lines however. I would prefer to have the ability to compress from the ore hold!