EVE General Discussion

Ok, I've started to see people set up customs offices in High sec with taxes a t 80-90%. Why in Gods name would they do this? This is not Low/Null sec, you WANT people to use your Planets. High Sec PI's profit is not in Planet Resources (P0s), they are too low for that, Dedicated PI players are going to go for P2-P4 Factory worlds. The Smart Owners will set low taxes at around 1-5%, to attract as many people to their systems as possible.
Lets do some simply Math.

Say you own a system with 8 planets. Each Player will have at Minimum 6 Factory worlds. Each of those Factory worlds can produce 1-2mil per Player in Taxes per day at even 1%, or 6-12`mil per Player per day. Say you attract only 10 players to the System. That's 60-120mil per day with no work, PLUS your own PI, PLUS your Corp/Alliance PI.

So to recap, why are people choosing just alliance control, when they can have Alliance control AND make 1.8bil-3.60bil a month in Taxes?

Maybe it's because there's more money to be made driving up the prices of PI goods. Or maybe it's because **** you. Or maybe it's both. More money for us. **** you.

It could be that high tax POCOs are there to attract wardecs.

Or for the early advantage of catching out the player who isn't concentrating, though as an unsustainable tax rate, it will either come down or they are doing it to drive other players away from the planet so it is all theirs.

And if the location of the RvB customs offices are not to your liking, there are plenty of customs offices run by Goonswarm Federation in cooperation with RvB as part of the RvBee Collective. You'll be able to identify them by looking for our ticker. Regardless of location, all RvBee Collective controlled POCOs have the same low 5% tax rate!

Band together with other PI warriors.

Find a few systems with low radius factory-ready planets. Make sure these planets are well off teh beaten path.

Kill a few POCOs. Set 0% taxes.

Use freighters/couriers to handle high volume transport.

Make a killing.

Just because Goons or RVB takes down some of the high-demand planets near Jita doesn't mean you can't have good PI. You only need 6 planets right?

that would actually be a pretty smart idea. Have base Tax set to 5% so taxes are at pre-Rubicon prices, then have a Program where people pay for a PI "license" to the Alliance that lets them have 1--2% taxes. I know I'd buy it.

Which is useless if it's equally cheap for my competitors.


Which community?
And what support?


Hardly, with low tax settings and no market gains it'll take forever just to recover the cost of the PoCo.



Which in most cases is calculated as part of the intended gain.

1: This would be true, if you where the Only people actually the Market. You may be "lowering" the competition, but in that case all you are doing is weeding out the Kittens and leaving the Lions.

2: As in protection, If a I've low taxes on a Planet, you better believe I'm protecting it. I've just as much invested there as you.

3: Again, look at the numbers. even at Low taxes, It only take about 2-3 days to reimburse a Office, after that, it's PURE PROFIT with no work.

4: Again, look above. If one system have low taxes, making more from Taxes than the High tax system, who do you think is going to be a bigger target? More so when there are more willing to defend the System?

lol, true, my rational is that that still sets it to Pre-rubicion levels (unless I am misunderstanding the Skill). Not many people liked high sec PI because it was harder to make a profit. by making a program like that, you could possibly draw in people that might otherwise stay in Low/Null Sec.