Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Edit: based on CCP announcement of highsec pocos. Comment on your thoughts of how/should CCP should implement.

The idea
Allow population capped corporations to own POCOs in highsec

Purpose
Encourage highsec PVP away from station games and introduce players into structure bashing before taking on lowsec/nullsec/wormhole. Enable a good platform for small gang warfare. Expect marauders with recent patch changes will be utilized more.

Limitations
• Population of corporation able to install/maintain a poco is limited.
• Allocate planets to various corporation sizes to enable competition and promote PVP.
Corp Population Range
• 0-10 members – Planet will little PI value, no factory planets for P4 material
• 11-30 members – Planet with medium value, no factory planets for P4 material
• 31-50 members – Planets with high value including factory planets to produce P4 material
• 50+ members – Get out of highsec
Other Mechanics
• To aggress a POCO, Wardec must be initiated as a poco wardec, standard 24 hour time period applies
• POCO wardec only allows two corporations to be at a POCO war over with one another
• POCO wardec will not enable immunity from a standard wardec
• POCO wardec allows aggression of owning corporation members, POS(s), and the owning POCO(s)
• POCO Taxes can be set by owning corporation but cannot selectively tax based on standing and will be limited changing tax rate to only every two weeks (may consider a corporation tax setting and a everyone else tax rate)
• Players will have ability to see POCO taxes in their region/constellation/system based on an interactive interface
• All players will have access to PI in POCOs

PI Cons
Will probably bring a lot of the factory planets utilized for P3 & P4 production in low sec to high sec. May need to consider a minimum tax rate (including owning corporation)


Thoughts?

I think you need to add POCO war dec mechanic to stop a 1 man alt corp from taking up that slot full time if this was to happen. Maybe same corp can do again for 2 weeks or something.

You would also want a min-max tax range so it doesn't screw up other PI current values. 10%-50% or something in that ball park. Having 0% and 100% value options could really screw stuff up.

No P4 on Factory planets just because it's in High Sec ? And dependent on number of Corp members ? When they can just use an unbashed POCO planet to do this anyway ? Over 50 members leads to "get out of high sec "?

OP needs to go play a game he finds more enjoyable or something.

And I've done all my PI in Low Sec since day 1 over 3 years ago, so don't start in on me as wanting things to 'be easy'.

But this is just a bunch of knucklheaded knucleheaded-ness.


edit: Also, there is no planet in High Sec that is worth the trouble of War Dec and POCO bashing for PI volume purposes.

Easier to just jump to Low Sec and do it all there, as one already can, for twice as much product right off the bat.

Not a horrible idea, but you'd need to include the skillpoints and API-verified kills of each corp member to make that work accurately.

Which in turn creates the situation (which some people might describe as more of a "problem") of people just buying PVP characters to "pad" their corp's ability to "climb the ladder" as you say.

Lol maybe 1% of the wars are because someone couldn't shut up. The rest is done by highsec-toughguys on unsuspecting prey such as industry or mission running corps.

Very good points.

To add on to the first point, I think shortening the Dec time to 3 or 4 days and adding an option to outbid another person's Dec would prevent some of the Dec shielding.

to the second point, for highsec you'd probably want to maintain the max 10% tax rate and maybe consider a minimum of 3 to 4% tax rate.

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