EVE General Discussion

than the new code wont match with the old code which they consider hell and refuse to work with but they will rebalance ships and add some new gimmicks they think keep pilots happy, instead of having a team of DEVs working on a new code and a way to implement it with out it becoming an eve online 2 and start over.

This is my number one thing I wish would change, It would really be cool if after a particular amount of time of being unfueled, the tower (and ALL the modules still connected to it becomes 'Abandoned'. At which point, anyone can come in, fuel it up...and take over shop. As well as just unanchor the tower (and ALL the modules connected to it) and scoop it into your cargo. This would allow for some interesting 'squatting' situations to develop.

My very close second wish is-- and this will go against many on this board, and may seem like 'tears', but I would like to see better defenses for POSs. One part of this would be to add some ability for POS owners to establish some control as to how the weapons fire when unmanned as opposed to the 'random cycle of weapons and ships.' Maybe be able to create a hierarchy of plans that the POS will follow - 'Focus turrets on all Battlecruiser class ships' if non exist then 'Focus turrets on all Battleship class ships'.

A few things, i'll agree with scrapping the entire thing and starting over from scratch. Now to add fixes...

1) and this used to really annoy the **** out of me but has gotten better, have the pos ***** mails give you a time left on fuel. Its fine if you have one pos crying for fuel, you can count the mails and go 'doh 10 hours left' its a totally separate issue if you have 30 pos' crying at once (yes I had this happen, it was a damn nightmare under the old fuel system as I could not tell what each pos needed, so I would waste time going to each one and checking levels, much easyer now with fuel blocks) but come on, how hard is it to say "Large pos in XXXXX has 24 hours of fuel" next one "Large POS in XXXX has 23 hours of fuel" Then you can look at the last mail sent and go 'crap an hour left!"

2) Can we not have a single ship assembly array that does all the ships? Or hell, have the next level up do the ones below. If I deploy an x-l array I should be bale to make all the ships below it. Not have to keep switching arrays to make different sizes.

3) Or how about scrap all the manufatucring arrays and give us a single array that makes everything...

4) Why the hell do I need to be 3k from a ship array to store it?

5) Role... omg roles.. But I would say this needs to go with a corp revamp, the roles suck. Suck so bad. make it simpler.

6) remove moon mining from pos. Make people work for moon goo.

7) I oddly have no issue with the reactor interface, bu the anchoring one is a pita, I hate having to keep zooming out to place guns.

8) make some improvements to the refining array. I;m not saying make it as good as a station, but either allow me to refine multiple ores, or cut the damn time in 1/2 at least.

9) Make dead sticks hackable after 30 days so they can be removed. without shooting them.

That's good I think, some of these ideas my not be 'awesome' but that's the biggest complaints I have

FYI, you can just look at the calendar after getting a warning notification.

Though I don't disagree with your suggestion; is sounds trivial to implement.

Yea that's one of my older grips from before the calendar and the fuel blocks change. Its way easier now, but its one of the things that I will always grumble about.

Kinda like how I still want comet mining that was promised In kali

Simply put - fix the management tools.

I'd like to see the full modular systems come out but without good, solid management tools...

After those are fixed, the entire thing can be revamped but until you can properly manage and control the containers and assets attached to a POS, the rest will simply be fluff.

Well, a good start would be knowing in advance that separate hangars for each POS module is a pain in the rear. In any future POS development, I'd like to see one central storage from and to which all the materials are delivered: something like your personal & corporate hangar system in stations, or at worst something like the Command Centre / Silo plurality in PI.

Then having roles assigned per activity line rather than per type of activity would be nice. I'd prefer a system of ACLs rather than fixed "this person can do this thing to any POS": add a user to a group, then associate that group with a particular activity on a specific activity line. Thus I could reserve some research labs for the corp running the POS and have the rest available for hire by anyone.

A revamp of roles is just as important as a revamp of POS graphics, mechanics and components.

Passive Moongoo collection.

I'm just going to say this, it can and will happen, if enough players do a huge hoop-la over it, and demand that we want it fixed and fixed now. If the voice of players is actually not the minority then it will change CCP's directions. Also, if its holding back the game, they will fix it as well.

However, if this thread fizzles and dies like the WiS' threads do, then it means there is not enough players that care about this issue for them to fix it.

Yes we as customers have no say in how CCP utilizes their resources, however, you get enough angry people demanding a company fixes stuff, then company will tend to listen. When players rally together for a common goal of fixing something that is and has been broken, and if enough people are vocal, they will fix it.

Well, ingredient-specific structures could have an advantage in terms of storage-per-CPU/PG for example. The same way ship balancing works: you get either 6000m3 of cargo (adjustable with cargo mods), or 60km3 of specialised bay. So in a modular POS setup, I could imagine "hangar modules" providing say 600k m3 of personal hangar space, while the same CPU or PG budget would buy a "volatile materials module" which provides 3M m3 of storage for moon goo, reactants and gasses.

Thus you can tune your POS to a specific activity by providing heaps of reactant storage, a large number of reactors, and a "docking bay" allowing you to issue courier contracts to/from that POS. Someone else could do a similar setup with heaps of manufacturing material storage, a high time-efficiency refinery and a large number of high time-efficiency manufacturing lines as a specialist front-line ammunition manufacturing bunker.

Someone else might opt for huge amounts of material storage and a few high material-efficiency ship assembly lines as a means of maintaining a steady but profitable supply of ship hulls for a particular market.

Then your POS power plants and computing facilities would simply produce a certain amount of PG or CPU for a fixed budget of fuel blocks per hour (or minutes per block). There would be multiple sized PG and CPU "boxes" to choose from (e.g: units of 1, 10, 100, or some mathematically 'better' scale such as primes, Fibonacci, whatever) and you just plonk them all together to get the PG and CPU you require. Need more invention labs? Stick on a Hyasyoda Mobile Laboratory (5 invention, 1 copy) and add a new 500CPU computing facility. Now your fuel budget just went up by another five fuel blocks a day. Update your contracts to have the new fuel delivered.