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^^ This pretty sums up the reason I am against your proposed change. It is SUPPOSED to be a hassle to move your equipment around... especially if you have added the extra "edge" to your ships (which rigs pretty much are... an "edge" that is relatively cheap and more widely available compared to other options).

It's already too easy to move around and project power to different locations within a relatively short period of time. The only saving grace is that it is a tedious chore to perform said "power projection" due to "little things" like rigs and ammunition.

Well, at first due to installed production and stocks the price will go down, but if the activity goes low volume low price for long, it might become less attractive to builders and the offer will also decrease, wich could either balance it out or put the prices even higher, or lead even to unavailability of some less demanded mods.

Rigs are cheap compared to everything else you put on this ships. Consider them disposable and trash a few for your convenience.

Destruction drives the EvE economy. If rigs aren't getting destroyed, there will be less demand. Less demand means less production and higher prices. You seem to already have this principle down.

However you missed something important. Higher rig prices means less players are able to afford to use/lose them. Remember when there was only one rig size? Yeah, It was very common to see rigs costing more than the fitted ship itself. CCP changed it into various sizes to make rigs available and affordable for EVERYONE, not just the rich with disposable income.

Non destructible rigs is a bad idea all around.

(plus I have a substantial market investment in rigs so I'm biased)

POS modules taking forever to online were also by design initially. Just because it was introduced in a gimped form doesn't mean that it has to stay that way.

POS modules were changed to their current state because the long anchor/online process didn't really do anything but make it a headache for people to set up POSes. Now that POS anchor times no longer have any real impact beyond being a headache, there is no need for them to take a long time to set up. However, in the past, POS timings used to matter more because they were how sov was controlled and how long it took to set up a POS in a hostile system had an impact in sov warfare.

However, your proposal would have a significant impact on market dynamics and ship fitting, turning rigs from a unique type of ship modification that you have to put some thought into and live with into just another module slot on your ship.

See how different the two situations are?

The POS example was the first to come to mind and I agree that sovereignty changes softened the necessity for those timers, though I still don't consider my rig change proposal to be as significant as people say.

In its current form, I don't think many rigs are destroyed aside from the ship actually blowing up and I really don't think the market will change much from it. The exorbitant examples given in previous posts do not seem plausible as rig manufacturing costs remain the same.

Sure, prices will inflate somewhat due to slightly lesser rig wasting on the consumer end, less demand, less production and thus less market competition (I don't even think there will be much delay between making the change and the market stabilising afterwards.

I propose to make them the same as modules because currently, they are stored in the game as such, act as such and for that reason, are easy to fix as such.

Perhaps I'm completely missing something, but I don't see these doom scenarios people are talking about already. Look at your ship fittings and how often you switch these up. I don't know about you guys, but once fitted I hardly ever change even a single module throughout its lifespan.

Heck, if what you're saying is true and people do destroy rigs so often, indicating a need to change things up, wouldn't we see an increase in demand as to have spare fitting sets for a given ship?

There is one argument that I can understand, and that is power projection. I find this hard to predict and I can theorycraft a long way, both ways. In one, bigger alliance capable of throwing isk around can already run capital transport trains and already do so. In the other, this would enable smaller alliances to do the same and make PvP more accessible to all.

no, salvage prices for many rigs are already dirt cheap.

It can be argued that everything CCP has done to make logistics easier in this game has had the effect of making the game worse.

Bloody well wish they would implement it, really. With the current fuel costs, I can save myself time by just insuring every ship and blowing them up. The cost of insurance is the same as the cost of the more popular rigs when destroyed, as is the cost of fuel.