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3,599,916,600
875,563,290
299,882,520
52,772,370
14,745,675
2,629,725
1,308,615

In descending mineral order (trit -> mega)

As someone who trained up a scrapmetal processing V/ Cyber V alt for the purpose of compression, this change REALLY bites.

Since let's face it. With only a bit over 50% potential refine from modules and ships even with max skills, nearly nothing is going to be refined. Some modules could be reprocessed to mineral levels higher than market value with excellent skills, plus the uses of mineral compression via module. And now both uses are gone.

If I had not just transferred a new char onto that account, I'd be removing the recurring subscriptions from it, as he's now basically worthless.

Any plans to make scrapmetal processing not worthless?

So let me get this straight.
Joe high sec mission runner, who is currently getting 100% refine on modules, will now have to have a hugely expensive implant, plus weeks of skills, to achieve a 27.6% nerf in his mission loot income.

*Snip* Please refrain from personal attacks. ISD Ezwal.

i don't think you grasped how scrapmetal works in the current system, implants don't affect it and you're getting 55% of what you get now at most (only scrapmetal processing, which is now 2% affects scrapmetal, nothing else, so 50% *1.10=55%)

Regarding the rorqual: I understand that you guys are punting on rorqs for the summer expansion, which is fine. However, perhaps I could convince you to do some quick, easy changes to improve the Quality of Life for the rorqual? I have two proposals in mind, both of which require a single row of database fixtures to be changed in the dogma attributes table. Or in the YML files; whatever you use internally for that stuff.

PROPOSITION ONE: Reduce heavy water usage for Industrial Cores
Right now, rorquals use 563 heavy water per siege cycle at all fives (and nearly double that, worst case.) This works out to 64,857.6 m^3 of heavy water per day of operation. This is a nontrivial amount of materiel to have to move around just to provide bonuses. Having a max leadership, max rorqual skilled character amongst my corp, I had recently toyed with the idea of providing "public" bonuses to new members of my alliance, but the amount of hauling and logistics I'd have to do in order to keep myself in heavy water for providing bonuses made the idea infeasible. (The cost wasn't really a factor; it ended up being about 30m/day, a trivial amount.)

PROPOSITION TWO: Eliminate siege requirement for rorquals to provide maximum bonuses. The benefits would be similar to proposition one.

I feel either of these suggestions would provide a minor quality of life boost for rorqual boosters and would ease the transitional period between the summer expansion and when the actual balance pass could occur.

Then on that table Mercoxit remains unchanged as well?

And: Are there any changes to the time needed to compress? The BPs hat run times, which made compressing Ice kinda obsolete (you could mine it faster than you could compress it ;))

compression is instant now

That makes a lot more sense now. Although I still don't understand why someone with no skill can suddenly achieve almost the maximum reprocessing rates compared to someone who has spent literally years (as all will need to be level 5 now) maxing the refining skills.

And you'll be making considerably less ISK as null sec will be working more efficiently without having to use a POS and saving 100-300m per capital compared to your build costs.

At least I won't need all my slots on my second account, to the BPO ISK retirement fund!

Which is why that particular change is ridiculous in that aspect. And even with those perfect skills, you will stil need perfect standings on top of the necessity to use a reprocessing implant to net the same yield you can in empire space right now.

This is not an example of good design, as it places another tremendous barrier of entry to a young player who would like to get involved with mining and industry in the empire space.

If anything, this part of the proposed change is a buff to CCP's revenue that will be attained through the burden of 200 days of extra skill training every industrialist will need to take to remain competitive and profitable.

Sure, this might net CCP extra revenue, but then again, we are increasingly getting pushed towards a New Eden populated by armies of alts. Is CCP really want to delve down into that path as opposed to making the game accessible to new players?

Note that this ridiculous change will also drive producible module and ship prices up through the shifting/increasing mineral prices.

CCP needed to fix null industry for some time now. They could have done this through a direct and a sensible approach. But rather, this announcement indicates that CCP again ignores the principle of Occam's Razor, and tries to fix a broken aspect of the game by breaking down another aspect and profiting from it.

This will not really hurt null-sec industrialists (Translation: Capital ship producers) in any way or shape, as they can easily afford resources to mitigate and accommodate the ore refining nerf that has been proposed. This will rather, heavily burden the new guy, create more revenue for CCP, alienate new players from getting involed with mining and industry and effect the whole economy of New Eden.

Yes my friends, the axiom 'If it isn't broken, do not fix it' remains very much valid.

If the dev team's objective was creating a boosted revenue stream for CCP, then this is a splendid proposal that will greatly benefit CCP's gametime/PLEX income. New alts will have to be rapidly created and trained up for reprocessing by dedicated big-time industrialists, or existing training plans will have to be accommodated, increasing the pressure for any player to create more alts.

However, if the dev team's objective was fixing the null industry or balancing out empire industry and null industry, the changes I mentioned are terrible and they are not going to benefit players, seasoned or young, or game balance. Barring new players from profitable mining and industry and punishing the existing industrialists is a terrible decision.

So yes, please do not 'fix' empire reprocessing, but rather, focus your energies on fixing the problems that null industrialists are facing and rightly stopping the usage of mineral compression modules.

At this point, I'm asking myself "Why must I carry the burden of increasing PLEX/game timecode revenue stream for CCP as a player who has to maintain several accounts and alts already?"