Science & Industry

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone.
I can see all obstacles in my way.
Gone are the dark clouds that held me back.
It's gonna be a bright, bright, bright sunshiny day!

Don't listen to my mean-spirited brethren; buy a vouch into Bat Country today for 500m, and never have to worry about being taken for all of your hard earned isk by the goons.

According to the stream the solution is to rocket launch.

Which has a much smaller amount that can be launched at a time and a higher tax than current HS customs offices.

I'm not sure what CCP is going for with this (I guess more conflict), but basically HS PI will just stop completely, assuming HS POCOs will only be attackable when you're at war with the owner. (if they're attackable outside of war then that's even worse and will just kill HS PI faster, but again I'm assuming you have to be at war)

Initially people will be going around shooting down Interbus Customs Offices to set up their own POCOs. Cool, going according to plan.

Larger corps will start taking over entire systems, constellations, and eventually regions, booting out the customs offices set up by smaller corps. Again, cool. It's conflict.

Some smaller corps will hang on to their POCOs for a little while, but eventually having a HS POCO with a small corp will just be a war magnet and not at all worth it. (Cheap war and you'll either get a fight from the defenders, or you'll get some POCOs on your killboard + tears.)

The larger corps/alliances however will still be costly to wardec. They will be wardecc'd undoubtedly, but probably not anymore than they currently are. Even worse, a lot of these larger corps/alliances will be nullsec based, and won't actually care about their HS POCOs except as free tax income. (they don't have to do anything for upkeep and if anyone wants to do PI "safely" they either have to rocket launch, which is useless as a longterm solution, or they pay taxes to... well basically goons since they'll setup some PI interdiction campaign.

So eventually most HS planets will either have a POCO for a nullsec alliance that isn't actually running PI, just collecting taxes, or the planet will have no customs office at all and there will be no point in setting one up since it will be wardecc'd and taken down long before you recover the investment.


So yeah, basically no more hisec PI. I have no idea what CCP wants to do with this, but whatever it is I really doubt it's going to work. There won't be more conflict, just less PI and a new Nullsec passive income source.

Wormhole PI on the other hand will probably become even more lucrative, so it's not all bad.

The bulk of PI goods comes from WHs not hi-sec or 0.0.If you want to shutdown pi you need to get into whs.Most pocos there are not even owned by corps.

**** Hisec. Burn it all.

I don't know what all the panic is about. It's not like Goons have ever done anything to disrupt the peaceful lives of hisec carebears...

This is fantastic news. If we make enough from our highsec POCOs hopefully we can initiate a pogrom on our renters.

How high of a price can you put on tears ? We will see soon.

Makes me wonder if there might be a way to get the renters to front the cost for all those HS POCOs for a lowered/waived rental fee for a period of time.

I have no idea if said renters could setup the POCOs in the alliance's name or if they'd just have to pay the cost for them upfront though.

Also not sure it'd be necessary. I imagine you guys are pretty ok on ISK. But something to consider I guess.

Or wait, can you set POCO taxes based on standings? If so you could probably have HS renters. (pay a fee per week/month for 0% taxes on PI. Fees paid per system) Like mining permits, but for PI. Everyone else is just locked out from doing PI with those POCOs. (I think you can do that, right?)

Well high sec players are gonna try and siphon null moons. And null will be siphoning POCOs. Lets see who wins!

Though im pretty sure that EC- gate campers are gonna come on top in this transaction either way.