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u afraid of player interaction?

I doubt anybody will be looking at building a customs office for each of their planets unless they are in w-space. It'll take some time for the new planetary infrastructure to be build by players but once it is then we'll have to see how many just want the taxes and leave them as free ports.

This is probably the first time industrial corporations can actually engage in warfare that affects production. Or even really provides them a reason to.

I don't like the 24 hour reinforcment. In w-space at least you don't have that much time before the wormholes closes.

Then PI in wormholes just got a bit safer, or at least destroying PI will take a bit more investment.

We will try and figure out how to avoid the blob incentive without making the experience of owning one, EVEN WORSE. It's a very delicate problem. The relative low value of most CO might be enough not to warrant assembling a blob.

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I'm a bit worried this may end up being yet another reason for individual players or small corps to stay put in high-sec. It's a pretty big nerf to ninja-PI.

On the bright side it's an interesting small-scale conflict driver and allows for some passive income for the owning corporation.


One idea:
How about letting the owner control the tax rate within reasonable limits, but force access to be public regardless of standing. Non-owners would be able to use the planet, at an increased fee and risk of getting ganked. Owners would get secondary income at the cost of not having complete control of who uses it.


My biggest concern with the implementation described would be that the majority of planets would be simply be closed down to anyone but blues, and become yet another toy only available to big corps or alliances. Thats very different from the original idea that PI is for everyone.



In terms of HP, they seem in line with small control towers. Those can be killed by a small fleet with some effort. Sounds like a reasonable size.

So a harassment attack could reinforce, but if you want to kill their stuff you need to invade. Does that not seem fair?

Yay, another reason not to visit low sec. With sov-held 0.0 firmly in the hands of blue fests and renters, PI was one of the few reasons anyone had to visit low sec, and now that's removed. Customs offices will simply be blown up by blobs and low sec pirates with that low of HP. Same with NPC 0.0. Can't wait for all the bluebear sov 0.0 entities to go wipe out low sec and NPC 0.0 PI and to set standings so you have to join the boring state of sov-0.0 to make any isk.

Low sec gets turned into even more of a ghost-town with this change and large entities get another way to push small entities out into the cold. Lamest change to EVE in quite a while.

It should have been done so that you could set taxes by level...

One tax rate for corp members, a 2nd tax rate for alliance, then tax rates for the 5 different standings levels. Which would let you do something silly like (or whatever floats your boat):

Corp = 5%
Alliance = 10%
+10 = 10%
+5 = 20%
neutral = 30%
-5 = no access
-10 = 100%

30mil for the first stage module, another 30 in parts to upgrade it to functionality. BPC cost 6k LP and 20mil from CONCORD LP store (incursion) or 3k LP and 10mil from factional warfare LP stores.

So, we’ll probably see 200mil for the first mods. After a month, it’s possible prices will drop to 100mil. We probably won’t see bottom dollar (~75mil) for at least 3-6 months. This doesn’t even begin to address the HUGE spike in PI material prices that we’ll see. The early speculation alone will spike prices to minimum 200% up to a month before release and final details are set in place. Towers are going to also see an incredible increase in price due to simple demand for the parts for the customs offices. Although they probably are not produced or consumed in high enough volumes for the price increase to be very noticeable at first. Simply fueling towers will also become more burdensome, especially in the early days of the release of the feature.

All mechanics aside, I don't see this as a positive change. There are just not enough benefits coming from the change for players as a whole. I will say that the small operator out in low-sec is faced with a decision of putting the mods out and risking large sums of isk or simply packing up and going back to mission running. I'm curious as to how much these 'small operators' are contributing to the supply of PI materials.

Inflation is also a concern. You're removing a consistent isk sink and introducing a 'one-time' sink in the cost of the BPCs. WIth the prices posted, I think you're overestimating how often these structures will be destroyed. The structure shooting game will be fun at first, but over time, I see this as a concern.

Essentially, for awhile, towers will see a rapid decline in usage or simply a higher cost of operation. Invasion of space will see a similar effect. I see those two things as a very good reason to consider further development of the feature. More benefits should be added to the process of PI, such as (mentioned several times in this thread alone) simplified PI management, tools that help ease the click-fest, and possibly an increase in PI yeild from all planets to help deal with the supply shock.