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You clearly have no idea of how w-space works, mate. The "larger corporation" won't tolerate him for anything because he is in their turf. Its like saying "why won't goons allow people to ninja PI in goonspace"? Because they have worked hard to get and keep the space and they see entrepreneurs like this guy as thieving ratbastards and will try to kill him. If they don't they are crap at security (which would appear to be the case).

Do corps in w-space like people raiding their anoms? No. They will respond and kill the intruder not sit back and say "ok, luls, you can pay a 9% tarriff so its marginally cheaper than hisec".

If you live in w-space or sov space you'd be an idiot not to set access = +10 or at least +5, to just choke off the ability of anyone not on your budski list to utilise the resource.

You really seem to have no idea about the motivations behind why people get sov/w-space and how they go about their business.

So, I have a few (a lot?) of concerns about this.

1.) As other people have said, the PI market will reach absurd prices, at least in comparison to what they are now, meaning all items that use "planet poop" will also increase, such as towers, SBU's, TCU's, and other anchored structures, as well as T2 items. I know you are working on decreasing the cost of T2 items by balancing moon products, but this will off set that by a decent amount, making the moon balancing effect negligible.

2.) I know for a fact that a majority of PI products harvested by small time high-sec players comes from low-sec planets that are close to high sec borders. Removing the Customs Office from ALL low-sec systems will increase cost. One way to offset this is to increase the amount of resources that high-sec planets have to the same amount as the low-sec planets, or at the very least, similar (only slightly less). The income from owned Customs offices should balance out the pros/cons of low-sec PI, as people who live in deep low-sec, at least in my experience, will find it troublesome to fly 15+ jumps just to get to 3 or 4 planets. You could also make it so that faction warfare systems use the player owned offices, while empire owned low-sec should retain the customs offices, ownership being switched from CONCORD to the corresponding empire who owns the space.

3.) Decrease the tax increase from 50% to 20-30% for high sec Customs offices. This will be from the shift in the majority of the PI resources from high/low sec to 0.0 space. High sec PI output WILL decrease, perhaps dramatically, once the changes take effect. No one wants to pay more for their PI products than what they are worth on the market.

4.) Also concerning the low-sec player owned offices, small time operators in low-sec, such as myself, will find it impossible to replace or anchor multiple customs offices without the fear of them being taken down within 24 hours. One way to get around this is to perhaps increase the hp of the customs offices to that of a large tower and perhaps adding a repair function to the office, making it easier for alliances with less than 100 active members to get to it in time for defense.

Over-all, this is an excellent idea for 0.0 space an W-space, but the mechanics need to be more thoroughly thought out. Making it a hassle for people to make PI products in both high and low sec will have a substantial effect on the market, as well as the items that use the PI resources as their main building/fuel cost.

After looking at the cost of the new CO's, Please refund my 1.6 million in skillpoints from Planet Mangement.
Do I need to submit a petiton for this?

Thanks

Raise your hand if you control a wormhole and would rather have extra isk, or a shiny new killmail....
Not to mention the trust factor of allowing a neutral to toy around in your space. The trust factor is a big one, what happens if he has friends that decide they want to setup shop? He can show them the way in. Nevermind that he's been there for a year or however long, paranoia dictates that this is completely beside the point.

I think you're completely overestimating the number of people that tolerate neutrals in any space where you can setup an office (0.0/lowsec). It's -possible- he can make some kind of arrangement where they take a large percentage of his isk and in turn set him blue, but I doubt it. Besides if they did it would no longer be "ninja" it'd just be a fellow wormhole resident.

Edit: or to put it another way...




Edit #2: or see this as well https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=206809#post206809

I think customs offices should be very similar to towers in terms of defense. Shields, stront, guns, fuel etc. Would make it very interesting lol

This owns bones

I love it!

More power to the players.

I'm not going to comment on the specific HP numbers, but I would like to echo the request to make these things basically invulnerable to fighter bombers and doomsdays. I have no issues with dreads and carriers being used to RF these, great opportunites for small cap fights, but make it so that Titans and Supercaps cannot themselves damage them within 2 minutes would make these a lot more fun.

The overwhelming feeling I'm getting from this thread is: "Have you thought this through all the way?"

Please don't take this the wrong way. We do like the spirit of the feature. We the players simply feel this new feature could be abused severely. There are many cons and not many pros. Could the design team please take another conscious look at this feature taking all of the feedback into account before release?

I can see this turning into a threadnaught quite easily, because of the upcoming Dust release, among many other current, practical reasons. People care about PI, because it's something everyone can do. At least, it is in it's current state. We don't want that to change.

The new CO's could also be used for industrial griefing in the following manner: say you find a good planet with a CO open to the public for 9% tax. You install PI on the planet and come back the following day only to find either the tax raised to 100% or, the CO standings were changed to blue only. Your PI installation becomes unexpectedly isolated (no CO) or way too expensive to use. I mean, who is gonna _trust_ that neutral CO's settings will remain stable....I won't.