EVE Information Portal

I am actually somewhat unhappy with these changes.

1) Having virtually EVERYTHING anchor and online in seconds is WAY too fast. It would be better, IMO, to allow multiple items to anchor/online at once, or to be able to queue up anchoring/onlining actions around a tower so that you can simply tell the tower where you want everything to be, and it will anchor it for you - freeing you up to go do some other activity instead of having to sit there and baby-sit the thing.

2) How long does it take to anchor/online the control tower itself? I fear that if control towers have the same philosophy of anchoring/onlining in seconds, that POSes will be abused in PvP situations. You just spent billions of ISK in lost ships trying to take down a tech moon POS? Guess what, the enemy was able to anchor and online a new tower - IN THE MIDDLE OF COMBAT.

On the other hand, allowing towers to be erected quickly might allow POSes to be used tactically in PvP - bring a couple of haulers full of POS mods/fuel/towers and erect a couple of safe havens with which to terrorize your enemy in his home system. This could make for some interesting dynamics in 0.0.

3) Someone correct me if I am wrong, but don't these changes mean that large towers will consume 11% less isotopes (400 instead of 450), 20% less mechanical parts (4 instead of 5), 20% less oxygen (20 instead of 25)? I hope that this reduction in demand will be paired with the bannings of many, many bots.

Question: Do these estimates factor in sov costs?

And one more thing: Instead of the "half-and-half" baloney, why not just give all existing POS a month's free fuel and have done with it? None of this "HAY! LET'S INCLUDE A NEEDLESSLY STUPID TRANSITIONAL PERIOD THAT MAKES EVERY CORPS LOGISTICS TEAM RUN AROUND LIKE HAMSTERS ON SPEED FOR A WEEK!"

For ONCE, can you stop trying fancy crap and just swap over with a pile of free stuff to make the change easy?

Seriously, nothing was gained? wtf? It's a HUGE advantage to be able to just buy a couple of blocks and be done with it... No fiddling with numbers, how many of this, how many of that to fill the fuel bay... just get X blocks. MUCH better!

oh snap!

No, it assumes a max-CPU, max-PG, non-faction tower in hi-sec. Small towers gain the most from this change, medium towers gain some, and large towers get about 8% cheaper.

Just to throw my support behind the ideas, as I had them too (they're that obvious):

Large = 400 blocks / hour
Medium = 200 blocks / hour
Small = 100 blocks / hour

Faction towers get a larger fuel bay AND a consumption reduction. SOV holders also get a consumption reduction.

BPO produces 400 blocks per run, and takes 5 minutes per run like all ammo BPO.

Click-drag-drop. Done. Woo cares about small block numbers!

It isn't rocket surgery!

amen

About factions towers, why are you not just doing what seems to be the obvious thing, to retain their fuel efficiency edge:
increasing the time between block consumption.

So regular towers would then cycle every 60m as usual
Faction towers would cycle every 63m or 66m, essentially running 5% or 10% longer on each block.

On the manufacture/market side of things, what were your arguments for making 4 racial blocks instead of say 1 common block and keep the (racial) isotopes a separate thing. It would still leave us with a considerable fuelcompression (unless my spreadsheet is horribly out of date) and great simplification (get 2 types in the right ratios instead of 8), but without tying producers to make a racedependent block.
It seems to me that this would make a much more efficient fuel/blockmarket (efficient competition) and not tie up isotopes in posfuel-blocks.

Trading aside, I am in particularly worried about getting production of said blocks distributed sufficiently to meet demand. The resulting rampup in fuel costs is soso, things will adjust as people rethink what productionhour is worth to them and eventually let the "time and mined minerals are free" dweebs churn them out for them.

(fakeedit, George K'ntara beat me to the postbutton be about a minute)

if this picture has the 4 icons for the fuel blocks, may I suggest changing the colour of the blocks themselves to hues of the racial colours?

The blocks having a different colour will be much more recognisable than their little frames. It's a small thing, but you may as well get the icons right the first time. Usability goes a long way to getting happy customers :)

This is precisely right, this absolutely should get done. Its one of those UI things that's easy to get wrong and EVE has tended to get wrong. Please do this.