Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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As mentioned in this dev blog, we are shifting the release of the industry changes back to the Crius release on July 22nd in order to ensure that we have time to incorporate all of your feedback and have extended testing on SISI.

Since this change is so closely tied with the industry updates, we are also going to hold off on it for the time being. We will not change the isotope consumption in Kronos, and we will continue to discuss and evaluate our plan with the next potential release window being Crius on July 22nd.
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Hello everyone!

In the upcoming Summer release we are making a lot of changes that we expect will impact player behavior surrounding manufacturing, mining and starbase use. We see an opportunity here to make some adjustments to the way that Jump Drives consume their isotope fuel that will hit a few birds with one stone.

The goals of this change are:

• Stimulate the isotope (and therefore ice) market to help cushion any drop in demand from players using smaller starbases after the science and industry slot changes.
• Help encourage cost competitiveness for local resource gathering in nullsec.
• Although we don't expect this change to significantly impact behavior around jump drive power projection, it should at least provide a small incentive change through higher costs for moving huge capital fleets often.

The plan for this release is to start with a 50% increase in the fuel cost of all jump drives and jump portals, and adjust further if necessary once we see the results. This change applies both the the base consumption of ship based jump drives, as well as the isotope consumption per kg of mass on all jump bridges and portals.

To compensate for the extra isotopes that ships will need to carry, the volume of all four isotopes will be reduced by 1/3, to 0.1m3. Thanks to Resgo for some excellent feedback.

The storage volume of jump bridge starbase structures will be increased by 50% since Ozone volume won't be changing.

For reference, this will increase the cost of running a max skilled Rhea from Jita to RIT-A7 (jump drive transit the whole way) from ~50m isk to ~75m isk.

Are you doing anything for carriers, who often carry a large part of their fuel in their corporate hangar, or is it intended that they won't be able to go as far without refueling after this change?

Rip dreads.

Thanks for nerfing small alliances.

Apart from the increased price they benefit from this, they will just get more stront for equivalent jump distance.

Edit: With the isotope volume change this is no longer true.

Isnt that change harming smaller corps while big corps care as much much as they do now? Only for the sake of higher income for Ice producer/minier?

Just WTF?!

So you're not tackling the real issue involving jump drives which is power projection?

50% ?? Could you please review a possible blops bonus on fuel consupmtion? Someone mentioned a fuel bay increase or cargo increase, and I support the hell out of that. This will really change how I do a monthly long floating (in space) deployment.

reduce all frigate cargoholds by 200% to compensate