EVE General Discussion

I'm a new player, but I think CCP's intention with player owned custom offices is to encourage combat and working as groups in high-sec. I'm not sure the current mechanics are going to make that happen.

1) What about making a special wardec rule to make it easier to attack the POCO? It seems the cost to wardec one of the huge alliances will preclude any combat once they have established a POCO, even if the alliance is unlikely to defend the POCO's. This gives high-sec players a reason to band together in achievable numbers & will lead to a lot more content.

2) What about creating a time delay for changing tax rates? Perhaps a week's notice. While it's encouraging to see tax rates being set at good rates by GSF and RvB, past actions like Ice Interdictions and Burn Jita make it reasonable to think there might be times when the rate is jacked up to 100% to make a point, gain a market advantage, or force CCP's hand.


It seems the above issues will get larger if CCP continues with the player owned direction in high-sec. If you really want to see carebear tears - make all the refineries player owned.

1. Reasonable point. Hisec POCOs mean there's much more reason than before to want to wardec a goonswarm. I haven't examined the wardec cost formula for awhile, and it would be unfortunate if large entities were able to discourage people from attacking their POCOs simply by being large entities, when instead owning more POCOs should make it harder to defend. I think special exceptions for POCO warfare is not good. Maybe there just needs to be a cap on the cost to declare war.

2. Sounds like this is an intended feature. It would be good if you got notifications regarding tax rate changes on planets with CCs on them. The potential for rapid volatility in tax prices increases risk overall, and without some in-game mechanism to track poco ownership at a planet or previous rates, you're kind of relying on the brand-name of the owning corp to trust they won't suddenly raise rates. Doesn't seem like a bad thing, at least not yet.

Increase cargo of command centers and add a skill to reduce launch cooldown? Then you will have the option to export without POCOs at the expense of tediousness and lack of imports.

Bear in mind that if you make it easier for younger, poorer groups to declare war then you also make it INFINITELY easier for older, more wealthy groups to declare war as well.

Quite basically... lowering the bar to delare war would make it easier for randoms to declare war against other randoms for "funsies."

I guess this will have to do for this weeks Highsec Braveheart / Herding Cats thread.




2/10.

Needs more CAPS and tears.



They can take our POCOs, but they will never take our freeeeeeeeedooooommmmmmmm!

If they wanted to implement this properly to encourage hisec pvp they should have given hisec pocos 1/10th of the HP that the nullsec versions have

Why would you think this? High sec players don't like working together as groups.

You've been beaten to it.

The fun part of this is that wardec restrictions were increased just as requested by HS players.

Sidenote: weren't the POCO attackable and only giving suspect flag? I thought was so.

That's the interbus offices.
The highsec POCOs that get put up after those are gone will require a wardec or concordokken.