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Industrial ship CPU?
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Ryelek d'Entari
Horizon Glare
#1 - 2012-05-31 21:45:10 UTC
All races' basic industrial ships have tremendous amounts of CPU. Much more than any other ship class - more than battleships, command ships, EAFs, recons - even tech II variants of indies have half the CPU or less.

Indies literally have supercap-levels of CPU. For example, the Badger Mk II has 1000 base CPU. Compare to a Rorqual, with 920. Or an Erebus, with 950.Shocked

Is there some reason for this? Some high-CPU indy-only module that I'm missing? Perhaps it's a relic and there's some historical reason - e.g. cargo expander modules used to require lots of CPU or something?

It's not like you can actually make use of all that CPU - there's literally nothing you can plug in that will even begin to make a dent in it. You can't fit oversize modules or anything - indies have tiny powergrids to prevent that sort of thing.

So what gives?
Alara IonStorm
#2 - 2012-05-31 21:50:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Alara IonStorm
They were supposed to have some kind of Refinery and the idea came out before ship type module restrictions so they gave Industrials ridiculous CPU so they could be the only ship to fit them.

They went back on that idea but never removed the extra CPU.
Ryelek d'Entari
Horizon Glare
#3 - 2012-05-31 21:52:03 UTC
Aha, historical reason it is, I had a suspicion something like that was the case. Thanks for the quick reply!
Exploited Engineer
Creatively Applied Violence Inc.
#4 - 2012-06-01 06:06:32 UTC
Ryelek d'Entari wrote:
Is there some reason for this?


Yes. It's free CPU for running special ... err .. simulations at the pilots discretion so he doesn't get bored to death on 30-odd jumps long hauls.
Alara IonStorm
#5 - 2012-06-01 06:12:28 UTC
Exploited Engineer wrote:
Ryelek d'Entari wrote:
Is there some reason for this?


Yes. It's free CPU for running special ... err .. simulations at the pilots discretion so he doesn't get bored to death on 30-odd jumps long hauls.

That is why everyone puts billions of ISK into untanked T1 Industrials and Autopilots to Jita. Transport Ships just don't have the CPU to entertain us.

Anything less then 40 terabytes of porn is a disgrace.