Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Ok, before I get started I will just say that I don't think manufacturing is broken and needs to be fixed. This idea is just to add a touch of realism (Yeah, I know. Realism in EVE...) This idea may also bring about a new niche industry.

Generally a RL manufacturer of items for the consumer market will not purchase ingots of a certain mineral type and manufacture them into the final product. The resources go through a process generally like this: -

Mined Ore > Refined Minerals > Processed Materiel > Final Product.

Currently in EVE we have: -

Mined Ore > Refined Minerals > Final Product.

There is room for a new industry to make the items we can call Processed Materiel. Consider instead of needing X,Y and Z of Refined Minerals to make one ship we can create them in a similar way to how Capital ships are made with components. This can be extended to modules put onto the constructed ships too, even the ammunition we fire and the drones we use.

A few of the new items we would be using would be: -

Ship construction components
Module construction components
Shield emitters
Tunable sensor arrays
Armour plating
Small/medium and large engines
Manoeuvring thrusters
Power plants
Capacitor batteries
Glass

And the list goes on and on for the array of different components that could be put into this particular area of industry. Obviously it would have to balanced so that the same number of minerals are used up in constructing a certain item. At the same time prices of items may go up as there is more processing of minerals to do but then the mineral requirements of the items themselves could be tweaked if really necessary.

With that I will end my warbling and see if anyone likes the idea.

Going to have to disagree here.

Your assumption is based on the idea that ISK is finite and cannot be created. EVE is filled with faucets. For the most part prices are set by demand, and competition. Yes prices do fluctuate, but I think that the addition of a step to add realism will not tank the economy.

+1 it will give the bitter vet manufacturers something to do

I like it. +1

Click fest.

While CCP is likely planning on revamping industry this winter, as it stands, this would just add work. Note that only T1 sub-capitols are not component base. T2, capitol, and (I think) T3 are all based on parts forming a whole. Adding components (and their blueprints) to T1 would also add to the cost, which has already gone up a lot.

As for why T1 does not have components, T1 is supposed to be all around simpler to get into and to build. The higher level ships require more in terms of skill and manufacturing. That is why T1 is more simple to build than T2.

CCP talked about how they want to stream line manufacturing in the CSM Minutes. Managing all of the parts has become a job in itself, and that complexity creates a barrier of entry. CCP want to get more people into industry and make life easier for current industrialists.