Science & Industry

Hello EVE Community!

To my fellow PI governors (our title?)!

I have been doing some research and searching of the forums and have seemed to confirm that the custom's office is a private extension of the launchpad, meaning it can be used for storage without fear of theft or loss of material due to downtime or whatever. Before I start leaving P4 product up in space though, I want to just double check as no one has definitively stated what the current rules are about this.

Thanks!
Shisen

Stuff you launch into the customs office is available only to the character who launched it into the customs office. Also, stuff you put in the customs office while in space is only available to the character who put it there. Useful when you're in your situation, means a bit more work when you're using an alt though.
Hope that helps,

Well F**K me. So now Customs offices will cost isk to buy (who knows how much, but with them being only LP BP's not cheap I bet). More expensive to setup. And another griefer's target.

So let me get this straight, they are going to be targetable and destroyable, but I don't see any mention of being able to setup defenses for it.

Double tax for high sec PI? Those planets are resource poor enough.

So if they move ice to null, implement this, I can only imagine how expensive a POS is going to become to fuel.

/rant off

Personally I don't have a huge problem with the general idea. Heck, now Pirates will have a new income stream. Wanna do PI in Pirate controlled space? You will be paying a tax to them if they setup offices.

The problem I have is that these will be destructible objects, but so far I see now option for defense. At least with my POS, I can put up defenses which may prolong the siege or at least deter someone from attacking my POS (important if someone decides to try while all corp members are offline).

But a Customs office will have no deterrent. Attack it at will. Unless you are a big enough corp with members from all timezones there will likely be a big chunk of time that your customs office will be extremely vulnerable to attack.

wanna make them player owned fine. Wanna make them not cheap to build fine. Wanna make them destructible fine. Just give me the ability to add defenses to them to protect my investment.

The current HP specifications for player-owned customs offices can be found here.

I am quite looking forward to this, although it might be wise to let the Pirate's glee die down abit before i venture out to put these up. Great idea though CCP.

You do realize what you have essentially done is introduce further need for blobs in wspace now right? Players are always moving in and out of holes, if one sets up an customs office for a corp that means new residents must shoot it. Meaning they need a blob to shoot something with the HP of a small tower.

You could at least allow us to online TCUs in wspace now. I mean the TCUs do have about the same amount of HP anyway as well.


Also PI in lowsec may as well be removed.
Because
1. Nobody is going to form up an fleet to shoot other corp customs offices if you want to do PI. Because you are an open target for pirates and other blobbers.
2. The customs offices will eventually go inactive after the owning corps do.

Lowsec should at least have the concord custom offices if anything, otherwise it's going to be just as dead as the rest of lowsec.

I do not understand the doubling of the Hi Sec tariffs. Raise? Sure, but double? wtf? The rest sounds good for the Low sec and null peeps, but why penalize the hi sec carebears. To each his/her own play style, right?

... they will not have to do it since the "governing" corp/alliance will most likely have put a tax on the customs instead of denying access altogether to the planetary industrialists.

Why? Because in low sec you don't have sov upgrades and all other benefits that null offers. You say it's already empty? Well, with a tax increase coming for high sec PI, guess where people might try to venture for higher profits. So a customs office with a healthy tax will benefit the holder corp with income out of other people's pockets and gank/grief opportunities if the owners are pirates. Sounds awesome

It might also lead to having to contact diplos to negotiate a rent for using customs offices in certain low sec system. And you'd also have another thing to fight over in low sec, where conventional fleets could blob it out between themselves. When more ships go boom, everybody wins. I can't wait to see this.

To bad i cant get my PI skill points back. Because its not worth doing after this unless you have a large blob.

Ah well another section of eve not worth doing unless you want to bow down to RMT allainces