DUST Search - Explain to me how manufacturing and the economy is supposed to work with point o...

Skihids wrote:

Byozuma Kegawa wrote:

Or you could look at Supply Depots and Clone Reanimation Units as 'media servers'. There's two as they handle two different kinds of 'media'. CRU's serve out the varied, complex 'media' of cloned mercenaries where SDs serve out the more numerous yet less complex 'media' of weapons and dropsuits. Sure, one could do the job of both but the technical requirements of doling out both 'media' would make the device substantially more expensive than the devices as separate entities. "But we drop with full fittings." Yes, one fitting, not our entire library of fittings. We assign a fitting before we drop in so that the CRU isn't overwhelmed by our suddenly over-bloated 'media'. The SD, though, has no problem loading out our libraries as guns and dropsuits don't have complex brains and vital systems that can get screwed up in the transmission process. This also supports the theory behind Drop Uplinks as... have you read their descriptions? I would not want to ride through that transmission line...

So you posit two different types of teleportation? One via wormholes for the uplinks and another that works without them?

I'm confused about your explanation though. Why would either the SD or CRU require a library when it's teleporting, not building the item or merc? You would only need a recipe if you are making something, and at that point you don't need to move anything physical. That's an argument for point of sale manufacturing, not against it.


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Byozuma Kegawa Shining Flame Amarr Empire 167	Posted - 2013.10.24 21:46:00 - [1] - Quote Skihids wrote: Fire of Prometheus wrote: Skihids wrote: Fire of Prometheus wrote: Skihids wrote: Interesting... So a SD is not a manufacturing unit, it's a two way teleportation device? That would allow us to pop over to any drop uplink without suiciding, simply teleport up via SD and back down to any available DU. Of course that makes CRUs totally redundant. Just drop a SD instead as it has more versatility and doesn't risk a physical inventory of clones on battlefield. And if teleportation is cheaper than point of sale manufacturing I can see it putting all those space truckers out of business. No worry about pirates and instant delivery too! Who could resist? Meh, I think the CRU is better as it can spawn multiple troops at the same time, where as the SD can only do 1-2 people (if my theory was correct) There is no reason to limit one and not the other. Agreed but if you look at the size of one versus the other, it definitely looks like the CRU could do some heavy duty teleporting My tiny DUs can spawn mercs back to back (not sure there is any waiting for others to spawn actually), and I can carry seven at a time on my person. Or you could look at Supply Depots and Clone Reanimation Units as 'media servers'. There's two as they handle two different kinds of 'media'. CRU's serve out the varied, complex 'media' of cloned mercenaries where SDs serve out the more numerous yet less complex 'media' of weapons and dropsuits. Sure, one could do the job of both but the technical requirements of doling out both 'media' would make the device substantially more expensive than the devices as separate entities. "But we drop with full fittings." Yes, one fitting, not our entire library of fittings. We assign a fitting before we drop in so that the CRU isn't overwhelmed by our suddenly over-bloated 'media'. The SD, though, has no problem loading out our libraries as guns and dropsuits don't have complex brains and vital systems that can get screwed up in the transmission process. This also supports the theory behind Drop Uplinks as... have you read their descriptions? I would not want to ride through that transmission line...
Byozuma Kegawa Shining Flame Amarr Empire 167	Posted - 2013.10.24 22:54:00 - [2] - Quote Skihids wrote: Byozuma Kegawa wrote: Or you could look at Supply Depots and Clone Reanimation Units as 'media servers'. There's two as they handle two different kinds of 'media'. CRU's serve out the varied, complex 'media' of cloned mercenaries where SDs serve out the more numerous yet less complex 'media' of weapons and dropsuits. Sure, one could do the job of both but the technical requirements of doling out both 'media' would make the device substantially more expensive than the devices as separate entities. "But we drop with full fittings." Yes, one fitting, not our entire library of fittings. We assign a fitting before we drop in so that the CRU isn't overwhelmed by our suddenly over-bloated 'media'. The SD, though, has no problem loading out our libraries as guns and dropsuits don't have complex brains and vital systems that can get screwed up in the transmission process. This also supports the theory behind Drop Uplinks as... have you read their descriptions? I would not want to ride through that transmission line... So you posit two different types of teleportation? One via wormholes for the uplinks and another that works without them? I'm confused about your explanation though. Why would either the SD or CRU require a library when it's teleporting, not building the item or merc? You would only need a recipe if you are making something, and at that point you don't need to move anything physical. That's an argument for point of sale manufacturing, not against it. Not really different, just different 'media'. Like comparing movies and music. Music doesn't need alot in the way of codecs to read and has a small data 'footprint'. Movies, though, need fancier codecs and if the data stream isn't handled properly you could get skipping, desync between audio and video, reduction in quality, so on, so forth. The SD and CRU might be built to different standards making one optimized at handling the 'music' of weapons and dropsuits and the other robust enough to safely deliver the 'movies' of clones in one of their dropsuit fits. They aren't different teleportation methods, just the data that's being managed. Just expanding on the delivery methodology, not really touching on the economics of it.