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When will this be on Sisi for testing?

When do you plan on it being on TQ?

If there is no customs office can we still launch cans from the command center? Will we be able to launch cans from the spaceport?

Yeah.
All that this game was needed is a lots-of-HP-structure-with-a-reinforce to shoot at for 5 hours every day.

Wow, that was a good idea but it's not the case. If the time fairy smiles, then maybe...but don't count on it.
The Customs Office can be anchored a certain distance from a planet, it doesn't perform any more checks than that. So I guess you can have it close by an Outpost but not by a POS, since they are around moons.

To continue to emphasize this Blob factor with a tangible example :


Little tiny alliance of 100 people puts up Customs Offices in one low sec system. Goonswarm with 500 people goes and reinforces all the planetary timers in System X. Who is the tiny little alliance going to hire that is going to stop goonswarm? PL? Ya, ok. No way taxes are going to make up for hiring a major merc alliance to stop Goons.


I also thought you were going to move away form the "Shooting Structures" bit? How long does it take to take a Customs Office down? Why not bring 500 people and 100 supercaps to do this? Because faster is better. How can anyone stop a mega-blob if they're not already mega-blob capable? Noone wants to shoot structures, so they just develop ways of shooting structures FASTER. So more supercaps and more death on the field. Low Sec is already screwed up with a boring Null Sec, that PL is living in Amamake and other null sec alliances have been trolling through low sec with super caps on stand by.

Shooting structures is bad, do you have plans to change this as we go forward, just as has been mentioned for Null Sec sov changes?


So, it becomes a population issue, the more populated areas will be more valuable, for more throughput for more taxes. But who can and will contest with the major alliances in low sec, if the major alliances want to take that all over?

These sound like great changes, bringing some much needed player involvement to PI.

That being said though, I'd like to see this continue to be iterated on, as per some of the suggestions in the thread already, such as being able to anchor guns outside a PI hangar, although you hinted that there's plans of some sort in the works for this.

Having these be restricted to subcapital combat ships and freighters, JFs, and Orcas would be great, although it might be a little awkward to do so. Perhaps to restrict them getting blobbed, put diminishing returns on the amount of damage they take from each additional pilot over X pilots? The idea of being able to set multiple tax rates based on standings is good, but there's still the important question of how much HP these will have.

And any timeline on when we can see these things on SiSi?

Okay..... I get it - a lot of people are going 'wooooo - PI changes' - but isn't this gonna utterly screw over the 'little guy' trying to scratch a living in nullsec ?

PI materials are gonna go through the roof, price wise. These BPCs / gantries will be auctioned off to the highest bidder - after all, it's a FW / Incursion runner's wet dream to be given exclusive access to something that anyone who wants to run a lowsec/nullsec POS *needs* - and then you have to get the damn thing to wherever you are already doing PI in order to plant a structure that most people will just use as a 'oh - it's there' kinda deal.

IMHO - you have just added an isk sum of about 150 mil (after the inflationary greed exhibited by most players) and another cloaky hauler run to the hassle of trying to get out into nullsec.

To hell with it - let's all just head off back to Empire - it's getting to the point where I am wondering "Is nullsec worth it anymore?"

Knowing your leaders, I'd say it's the other way.


I'd take over all the planets that I could in low sec and adjacent NPC null sec and wait for the fight to come to us. Then trounce the hell out of anyone who wanted your planets. The major way I could see this working is if we attacked 15 planets that belonged to, let's say, goonz, and then hoped they spread their forces thin enough to not be able to defend them all and hope to take one down.


But then the next day it would be the same thing again. They'd just take it back. Woot?

Appreciate the feedback. It's a tough nut, we have some ideas for the future, so hopefully, while there are no protection, those fights will be relatively isolated to particular systems in space. The value dynamic is very interesting, if alliances terrorize customs offices, there will be fewer around and the prices go up so bigger incentives to set one up again and protect it.

so if you can change the location a bit of your custom office, will it have to be scanned down? because whats the point otherwise of having an area to deploy it

and if the location can be chosen, how will it be found and used? will it be done with combat scanner probes? still on overview for people with good standings? will you be able to set standings like +10 can see it on overview?

This change is full of possibilities, especially for lowsec/npc 0.0 entities.

The deciding factor will be the EHP of the offices. If at all possible, I would encourage CCP not to go with raw HP for this. Rather, give it low base HP but very high resists (for example 10k raw hp with 99% resists for 1 mil EHP).

That way, it's not practical for the attacker to try and kill the CO while there are defenders remote repping it, but once the fight is won, killing it doesn't take long.