Assembly Hall

1st off I'd like to say that the work you've done in putting this together and thinking it thru is - brilliant, detailed and well thought out.

However, I believe you've got one very flawed assumption on which you efforts are based. That assumption is that CCP has the skills and management drive to implement it -- in short they do not. The development history of EVE is layered with so many half baked designs and implmentations and so there is no chance that CCP can do this within the code design size limits of 4GB that they have set. That limitation in their thinking and code architecture will ensure that this can not be implemented. The concept of a development architecture that encompesses DLC is not what they are setup for and skilled up to do.

I am truly sorry to point out these flaws that CCP has self imposed.

My suggestion is you should save you time and effort for now.

Terrific, as always.

Will read this fully once Christmas dinner is over and done with (Have a great one everybody BTW).

+1.

SM.

Ye Gods, it must have take you months to do this. Great suggestions, I hope that CCP is listening; if they are not, then I'm up for some serious whipping!
+1

so, +1 then?

Hmm... and, considering Dust will not take effect in wormhole space, how would things work there? Cities and all that don't really make sense in frontier space.

I fully endorse this proposal +100000

I find myself intrigued. :-)

One last thought (for now...)

The transition to getting something like this set up from current would be expected to take how long and at what expense? People that rely on PI for their own pos fuel... would there be a significant period of fime of clenched bowels trying to get things running again before the pos goes belly up?

If the answer is to stock up prior, you're creating an artificial spike in prices as people take advantage of the transition.

(Note: not being critical at all, just trying to think of side-effects that may not be thought of initially.)

A single network, from 500 settlers to 1000 should take you about a week or two, at an average growth rate of 21%. It should reach it's capacity limit (the amount of vacancies from all your buildings) within 1 - 2 months, then it starts generating homeless and you need to put them to use, or get rid of them, which costs you isk.

So if that single network was part of a city with ice mines, you wouldn't have to export homeless, feed them into buildings that consume them and save you the isk cost automatically. Depending on the amount of civilian networks providing settlers to the city mechanism, you'r looking at about 2-4 months before a city would hit its capacity. That or you can train ship crews.

Setting up single networksof the civilian, industrial or military network types should set you back around less than 8 mil, with a 1-3 mil operation expense per month.

Social /Establishment networks will set you back many hundreds of millions, more expensive operational costs per month.

A City I was thinking should be in the 1 bil isk to register area, with monthly maintenance costs/bills payable or else. 12 blocks of fuel per day, plus any costs to sustain the population and building services outside of that.

Will there be a stockpiling of POS fuels? Maybe.

Will the prices spike? Maybe.

There will always be people looking to exploit the market made by new ships.technologies/game play styles.

Give that man a Bells!

+1 Internets