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Please call the "Teams" from Amarrspace Slaves. I will find them better ;)

Yes, I think I am understanding how this will work now. Sounds very interesting.

I just think that spawn rate should be reduced by a factor of 3 and teams should last 3 months instead of 1. Or at a minimum, 2 months and teams spawn rate reduced by a factor of 2. 1 month is just to short a time to make any meaningful decision.

So everyone can use the teams, even my competitors? Thats not right, ill never pay a good team that will stimulate competition to come to "my" system.

If somenone wins a auction he/she should have more beneficts.

and wheres the Cooperative Players jobs?

Will the team seeds be absolutely random, potentially having nearly no value some of the time?

What will happen to the effects from teams if their tenure is up part way through the completion of a job?

Are there any plans to bring standings, both faction and corporation based into the system? Tax reduction? Faction Teams? Carthum Inventors? Anything like that? Is there anything at all planned for standings or are they made more and more obsolete?

Alright, so all the dev blogs are out now. Issues that have yet to be addressed:

POS Arrays. As it stands, they are subject to the same installation cost and installation cost modifiers as a station in the same system.
The drawbacks include fuel costs, risk, the need to manually move outputs/inputs between arrays (e.g invention BPCs from Labs into Assembly Arrays), and relative immobility compared to station-based operations.
The benefits so far are the pre-existing time bonuses, ~10% lower installation compared to stations due to a lack of NPC tax, and a 2% reduction in material cost.
As the 2% reduction has literally no effect on items that use fewer than 50 pricey components (rigs, T3, Damage Control IIs, etcetera), I'm personally of the opinion that this bonus is the wrong way to try to balance POS arrays. I'm of course biased because 100% of my production consists of items that would not get affected by the 2% reduction.


Multiple POS Arrays. As it currently stands, there is no benefit whatsoever from having more than one array of a kind. I'm not ok with this. I'm of course biased because I'm running off 8 POSes' worth of S&I arrays right now, and was planning to expand that even.


Accessibility of information (API endpoints). Large-scale manufacturers in Eve have had near-perfect information since they first began. Variable installation cost, as it currently stands, is on the same order of magnitude as current net profit for most items, and at least one order of magnitude higher than current net profit for many items. Lack of automated access to this information, be it via API endpoints or just simple deterministic formulas, would be the end of large-scale manufacturing. And I doubt small-scale manufacturers could ever pick up the slack.
For Teams, this might be a smaller issue, since from what I gather Teams are supposed to be a purely optional, opportunistic bonus that is only sometimes available. For the cost scaling system however, this is critical. While some of the factors (system station density, station facilities) can be quickly scraped from the data dumped and thrown into formulas, there is no way to determine fraction of global job hours.
Nevermind. If the fraction of global job hours is as non-swingy as you promise, this isn't enough of an issue for me to worry over.


On the actual of subject of teams I'd like to comment on the obvious security issue present ["Oh hey, some backwater system with 20 jumps/day outbidded all of Jita for this one really valuable team. I wonder what kind of POSes I might find there?"], but I don't actually disagree with introducing that risk.

This really adds nothing but another column in my spreadsheet. It's like decryptors for other goods. Once I know my cost savings for materials, I'll know my maximum bid. Time saving is pretty much irrelevant for most items so only ME teams might be used.

Probably won't even be worth the effort for small items.

I'm puzzled it wasn't covered in the Dev Blog - it is the obvious question

Two major concerns:

1) How is this not simply going to go to whomever has the most coordinated effort to attract them and who already has the most money (major null-sec alliances).

2) When a team arrives people will likely shift production to their specialties for that system? How is that not likely to produce an oversupply for all involved meaning that using a team actually means less profit and not more? One of my first instincts is going to be seeing if using teams actually hurts a local system.

Teams are always public, available to anyone able to do a job in the system. Access can only be controlled on facility level.