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Just wanted to pop in and support some of the recommendations here.

* Fuel Colors - These should match the Racial colors to make it easy to distinguish
* Faction/SOV Fuel Bonuses - These are essential and using a factor of 100 on everything would work perfectly (i.e. produce 400 blocks at 1/100'th the size of current and Towers consume 100 times more cubes than currently proposed) This also brings back fuel as a cargo filler for when you have a little extra space on that jump and nothing to fit in it.
* Rate of Production - These should produce fast. really really fast. We've had 0 time in fuel manufacture previously and now w're adding fuel manufacture (and cost due to production line costs although this is small) the time should be small. Make the time faster or the batch size larger. Possibly bring it up to a full day's worth of fuel for a small tower per batch. The max runs should also be incredibly high. high enough to produce the entire monthly supply for fuel for a standard large tower.

100 is a rather large number where four would suffice; four blocks for a small, eight blocks for a medium, sixteen blocks for a large tower per hour.

With faction towers and or a sovereign alliance's fuel consumption reduction, that would be three for a small tower, six for a medium tower, and 12 for a large tower per hour.

On the subject of faction towers, why haven't those been put back into the loot tables yet?

I have to sign on this.
For those who suggest a longer cycle time would be rather counterproductive (literally) (without a huge rewrite of how pos's work)
from what I gather from the various data dumps\api feeds etc etc the timer for fuel is also the timer for the pos in general if they would just simply increase the cycle time then they also increase the cycle time for moon miners,reactors etc etc as well.

I also hope the fuel bpo actually will be without ME\PE bonuses (with as low numbers as here you wont see any real benefits for them anyways)

And yet again w-space corps are getting left for an afterthought. (when there realy isn't a type of corp more dependent on starbases) Now we hate hauling as much as the next guy and to minimize hauling we produce as much PI fuel as we possibly can in system, with pellets we are then still going to have to haul the same stuff as before and bake the pellets, or start hauling PI fuel out of system

CCP: keep in mind, excell (and in my case, MySQL is not afraid of large numbers)

For those new to the thread who are repeatedly posting the same suggestions, I summarized a lot of them a fair bit earlier here.

In order to benefit from faction POS fuel consumption bonus one has to run it for ages, it has already been discussed for thousand times on different forums. I think that the fuel bay bonus is OK.

1 day of manuf time to create 30 days of fuel for a large tower, would probably be about right. That would be reduced in an AAA. So if you had say (5) large towers, you could generate enough fuel for all of your towers for a month with only 5 days of time using a single slot in a station (or about 3-4 days in an AAA). The current 5 days to make 30 days of fuel is too long for sure.

(If the ratio of days of manuf vs days of consumption is 1:30 or 1:40, I don't think manuf time is going to be a big factor. You just run a few hours of "make fuel pellets" and you have your fuel for the week/month.)

The pellets probably need to be dropped in size about 10% smaller then first proposed rather then make the POS tower fuel bays larger. A 20% compression from source material -> fuel pellet size would work well and would reduce the logistics needed (probably enough to offset the extra moving stuff around to make the pellets). So instead of 50 m3 (or 0.5 m3 if you go the 100x route), go with 40 or 45 m3 (or 0.40-0.45 m3).

20-odd pages (Why?!?!) late to the discussion, but as a fairly experienced POS operator running several POS I have a few comments to make regarding your planned changes:

• I like the new fuel blocks in principle, the icons are quite pretty looking like jelly cubes.
• The transition seems fair enough to me, but ongoing this is yet another manufacturing stage and you're actually complicating the fuel process chain from raw P0 planet material and reprocessed ice cube to a final manufactured item by another production step.
• I hope you will take great care to ensure blueprints for Fuel blocks can't be researched
• Please ensure fuel blocks can be reprocessed as usual into 100% of the constituent components

• Anchoring time changes are great but as was pointed out it makes disabling POS guns rather pointless in POS fight

• I'd suggest increasing the fuel block usage / production by a factor of 10 so that you can actually reduce usage and scale the faction POS to use 10 blocks for a normal Small tower, and 9 for a faction tower for example. The maths is still much easier.

Some other general comments I'd like to make:

• POS functionality really needs splitting up when you do the re-write. Right now the POS is a Swiss army knife of functionality from moon mining, to manufacturing, to refining, to drug production , reacting and strategic defense starbase. Until you divide up the functionality in terms of differing fuel costs, anchor times and critically (hitpoints).... POS will remain a major annoyance for many, many players by being a nuisance to remove, horrible look at and an interface nightmare confusing new players and frustrating old ones.

• Please do something about the nuisance of annoying patch speculators. Already all the Heavy Water has been bought up and is being resold at 5 times the pre-announcement price. I know these things generally take care of themselves, but have you ever considered putting a limit on the amount of 1 product a player can purchase in one day to stop this kind of metagame?

• I am looking forward to seeing plans for the next POS changes. I was a great supporter of the Dead Horse thread, but now believe some Lego modular starbase may not be as elegant imagine all the new art!) or interesting as a range of different structures for the different POS functions. I think diversifying POS functionality could be a good way of promoting/providing smaller targets to attack aswell if done correctly rather than some mammoth tower only Seiged dreads can dent in a reasonable timeframe.

• All in all a good blog. Looking forward to the patch. Cheers.

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Know what else is not okay? Defining the production cost of a very thin market like Fullerides by something that doesn't drop in the game anymore.

It's T2 BPOs again.

I'm not sure if you're aware, but they removed the POS requirements for sov in a little patch a few years ago.