EVE General Discussion

oh please, without bridges they'd get lost inwarp to the next highlighted gate

I'd be extremely impressed if a single Alliance was able to gain dominance over every single highsec POCO. But the true challenge would be to be able to hold onto them. I'm not convinced that a nullsec alliance would be able to achieve this, considering their responsibilities back in their own space, it would be far too much work. Maybe a dedicated highsec alliance could achieve it, but preventing people from simply destroying them would be a logistical nightmare.

That being said, anyone that does manage it could potentially make an insane isk income!

A trillion thrills triggered through trashing of this thread.

a nullsec zealot double-agent acting as the embodiment of the 'insane goonhating highseccer' strawman to discredit the surviving members of the anti-nullsec resistance movement?

Why don't *we* try to control as many as possible ?

I fully expect Goons to to put up as many PoCOs as possible in high-sec and set the tax rate to 100% on all of them, just for the tears it will produce.

Please forgive poor grammar and formatting, I am dyslexic.

TL;DR: CCP are bringing the game into a new level of player experience for the better.

The end game of EVE for CCP is a game that has little to no NPC manufacturing as possible, or if there is, the NPC manufacturing is related internally to the NPCs themselves (basically NPCs just do what they do now if they want stuff, MAGIC).

This change is not meant to cripple EVE, it is meant to encourage as previously stated player activity, to get more people into trying a different style of game play, you want low taxes, fine you fight for those low taxes, you join friends to defend your assets. CCP is trying to make EVE into a game where players are the story, players are the reason everything players fly gets built by the players themselves, with these POCO changes, it invites more players to defend the POCOs they own, an it introduces them to PVP, potentially even fleet tactics that may help them move into null, or even WH space with more skills to survive and challenge the other player dangers. Imagine the amount of new players to EVE that will now learn small gang and sub cap combat skills from having to defend/take POCOs, that is more players who are able to challenge the status quo in nullsec by new entities coming into the fore and trying to claim their own little bit of null.

While in the short run, these changes may discourage the player who just wants to fight against NPCs and play in their own little bubbles, in the long run this will turn EVE into a game where players are in control of who, what, where and how the universe of EVE evolves. All they merely want to do is to give us a world, where we the player can actually gain control of more then just their own lives, even in a small way.

I encourage the gentle readers of this thread to Google OP's username, to find his comments on various blogs / etc.

He's an individual who spends many (many) hours a week ranting literally everywhere about how CCP are under the control of Goons, so that we can RMT 10's of trillions of ISK into RMT each month because Mittens needs a third Porsche or something.

I mean forget that even minimum wage would be an amount of ISK (when sold illegally) that would be patently absurd to "skim" - we apparently "skim" enough to be paying off everyone who can see the GSF wallet (dozens of people, if not 100+, i dunno) but we have enough spare, to pay off most of CCP as an operational cost.

The guy is a bit of a fruit loop, and the only reason he's not saying all that here is because he keeps getting banned for it.

So......What you're saying is that, POCOs will be worth ALOT more VERY soon?

Excuse me while I go to Jita for a lil bit...

Actually, I confess, the OP is correct, we are going to take all the Higsec POCOs and run them at 85% tax, Half for mittens half for me to fund my Somer Blink addiction.