Hello!
I was directed here to provide some feedback on my lived experience with bundles, and to demonstrate why I have downscaled my PACs and XBU production already (I was running three, now I just run one for myself).
I also provide some suggestions.
Several issues were intertwined for me:
- People want to buy bundles at a discount to their consumable components rather than at a premium for any convenience.
- Therefore you must produce most, if not all, of a bundles components, or the economics are not just sub-optimal, but poor. If you do not produce key items, such as RAT/FIM, COF/KOM, then it is likely you operate at low-moderate margins only.
- Even if you accepted the above, the PAC itself is a large building with mixed workforce requirements necessitating two types of HAB.
- On a Manufacturing base heavy with, say, BMPs and WPLs, this created odd HAB requirements so the PAC itself took up slightly more than the 35 area on the label.
- 35-40 area is a very large building for something that is unproductive, especially in the cut-throat world of manufacturing.
Some suggestions for consideration, noting that not all need be adopted, but some combination:
- Consider a mono-workforce of Settlers only, but increase it to 50; and
- Reduce the size to ~20-25 area, AND/OR
- Change it to a Food Processing building, so that it can reside more naturally alongside FPs in a food processing base where the size may matter less as it is a niche/specialty offering.
These slight adjustments would make it slightly easier or palatable to produce XBUs at the razor thin margins the open market seems to expect.
And, Admin, if I still have your eyes, this was just a trap for my real request - please, please, please implement a “Cancel All” button for production.
Thanks for reading my TED lament.