Science & Industry

I think that I am the sole PI'er in my system.
I've looked but the people that were there a while ago all seem to have left.

Now I find that a micro-corp ( 2 man outfit) has taken over one of the CO's and may well take over the rest.

What to do?

I'm in a very small corps myself and we don't have the resources or training to war-dec the incumbents,we are industrialists /explorers, we could hire a mercenary corps to kill the POCO, but then what? Run it ourselves or stick with what we have got and train Custom Code Expertise to reduce the tax rate? Which is what we are doing anyway.

What's really sticking in my craw is giving ISK that I earned to a rentier who has done nothing for me in the past and will not do so in the future, how can they being just a micro-corp?

So do I swallow my independence and pay rent or do I somehow shift this corps out of my system. Because at the moment it IS my system.

Any thoughts would be welcome.

Thanks.

Sounds like this is your problem. If they own the POCOs and you're unwilling/unable to own POCOs, then you're pretty much stuck with using someone else's POCOs, either in the system you're in now, or in some other system with other planets, which will also have POCOs owned by other people who will happily take your isk.

Also, I don't where you get this notion that they haven't done anything for you. You can't really do PI without a POCO, thus by owning the POCO they permit you to do PI. Its your choice to stop doing PI or to continue doing PI.

Please read what I wrote. "...rentier who has done nothing for me in the past and will not do so in the future"

As I was happily doing PI before this corps parachuted into the system I do not see that raising the tax rate is beneficial to me in any way.

As far as I can see they are acting to get rent from me and doing nothing in return.


Just to let you know, we have discussed this and decided to speak to the POCO owners. If they are reasonable and give us a tax rate which makes economic sense than we have agreed to stay with the current situation. If not then we will either try and remove the POCO ourselves or hire someone to do it for us. We are not really interested in running a systems worth of POCOs but we will if it is in our best interest. It does mean that it will be a distraction to our main activities though.

They're not obliged to do anything for you.
However, they've put in the effort to establish their own POCO (after removing the NPC one, I take it?) and they are fully entitled to reap the rewards from it (ie, your ISK).

If you want the PI monopoly here, you're going to have to fight for it... conflict-driver working as intended!

While IRL my politics also make me detest rentier capitalism i don't really find that carrying over that sort of attitude into a game is very helpful. I also have an IRL hatred of violence on any scale and yet happily play games where i shoot at people.
EvE is a dystopian game largely because of the unbridled capitalism coupled with authoritarian violence (from corps, alliances, individuals and CONCORD).
Most of eve becomes easier with friends and as an MMO it should penalise people that play as a single player game. Politics , alliances and batphones become vital tools. I am glad some of this has now spread to high sec.
Your choices are:
Knuckle under and pay the lowest rent you can.
Find enough friends to drive them out and find the isk to replace the POCO's with your own.
Find somewhere else to do PI. (lowsec is much lower tax and very safe if you research how first)
Stop doing PI.
adapt and survive.
fail to adapt and decline.
the choices are yours.
Making contacts with other groups for mutual benefit is always a good plan in eve though and a source of new ways to play , new friends and greater depth/enjoyment.
i wish you luck with whatever choice you make.

Ego is a pain.

People pay trillions of ISK to make market transactions, they pay taxes to NPCs, and that is fine.

The moment you have to still pay the same taxes but to a player, then it is "detrimental".

People cheer about the "sandbox", "player driven this", "player driven that" until they realise that this has consequences.

It isn't "I was here first, it's mine", it's "I'm more powerful than you are, everything is mine". ffs.

In EVE, If you can't protect it, someone will take it.

Go shoot the poco every day until it's dead. Be relentless, never let up.
95% of the ships in EVE have guns. this is NOT a mining game, it's a PvP game.
It's time you learned to shoot stuff. A 2 man corp,(probly 1 man and his alt) is your perfect learning opportunity.

Get yourself a C2 wormhole. Drop your own POCOs. 0% tax rate. Makes life really nice for the Planetary Baron in us all.

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