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Your reading comprehension skills are only matched by the clarity of your writing.

Basically what I need to hear from the EVE PI team is this;

Why would an independent or smaller non- capital ship corp want to invest in PI in lowsec after the proposed changes?
Or infact want to use Customs Offices they don't control at all at tremendously increased risk to the present situation?

Let me put it simply as an industrialist my only concern is the bottom line. A black number telling me my profits.
Currently this makes Lowsec PI a good option because despite having to invest 100 million in an expensive hauler or two be able to effectively move stuff with a minimal risk of loosing said stuff the increase in yield over hi-sec is worth the extra risk. I expect to eventually loose a hauler but so far not being an idiot and good preparation means I've only ever lost as single Itty 4.

Under the new situation;

* I need to invest in an expensive structure that I can not defend, and if somebody shoots it I loose weeks if (more likely) not months in profit right there and then. And somebody eventually will shoot it even if I set the tax to 0%. If you really believe people 'will be reasonable' I'm not sure you are playing the same EVE I play. They won't be, never have been tears > everything esle, you run a MMO filled with hardcore griefers that's just the way it is.
* I can use a structure put up by somebody else, but by doing so I hand them valuable intel about the times I am active and access their structure, they can use this to destroy my 100 million ship (potentially it's cargo too) or hand this information to somebody else. MASSIVE increase in risk. Basically I just painted "PLEASE GANK ME" on my occator the moment I use somebody else's customs office.
* I run the risk of a previously open to me customs office getting closed and loosing my investment in the structures on the planet.
* There will be far less offices in space and thereby even without the time stamp issue it becomes easy for pirates to predict where they can catch juicy haulers.

What does this mean? My black number at the bottom line becomes a lot lower and potentially even turns into a red number (the latter option meaning i loose all my RL invested time).
Alternatively I train two extra PI alts on my account and move to hisec to compensate for the lower planetary yields and loose RL time in clicking an hauling on those accounts, but not as much invested time as I'd loose having to replace an expensive POCO or Cloaky/Stabby T2 Hauler.

I ask you which of these 2 options do you think an industrialist is more likely to pick? The risk free one with a guaranteed black number at the bottom line. Or the one with massively increased risks that he/she has no guarantee will make more and will potentially loose money?

Not exactly rocket science is it?

Just to be clear I currently run my PI in deep lowsec (5 jumps in) and live there, I'm not risk averse, I am also however not crazy.

q1: ok good. this gives non-industrial corpmates something to shoot in empire.
however i still doubt this leaves much room for small corps doing pi in lowsec. the structures will get shot one way or another, just "because they can".

q2: why? is there a specific reason behind this? we would like to share the inventory on a corp level. not gonna happen, ever?

The more I think about it, the more I think you should not be allowed to deny access to your POCO to other people. Charge different rates on different standings, sure. But not close it down completely.

Force people to fight over the tax income, not the planets themselves.

I think it has been mentioned elsewhere and I think should be included for consideration:

How does a player 'find' a suitable POCO to work under?

There are various options - perhaps through the corporate information interface (corp A runs the following POCOs and their tax rates are....), a map or system information panel or through remote scanning of a planet.

These considerations are important because players will want to know, potentially in advance, what PI availability is around them and what the competition might entail. Equally it has ramifications in terms of conflict - how easy would it be to 'find' a corps full POCO set up and raise it to the ground: is that a good, or a bad thing?

There's a balance to be achieved within providing that information and a challenge in how it is communicated through the UI.

C.

There should never be a system in place that prevents someone from being able to do their PI. If these go in as advertised, it's far too easy for a corporation to cut off it's own members, or members that leave, etc. from being able to do their PI. Even simply removing the customs offices dramatically damages someone's ability to perform PI... you can't import goods anymore to the planet, and odds are your network is no longer connected to the command center for those puny export launches anyhow.

PI is one thing that has truly remained in the control and grasp of the individual. It's a person's "me time" in an MMO that encourages cooperative play. Even in an MMO, a little "me time" is a good thing. It's a mental reset, a moment to focus on the "you".

If this is lost then something immeasurable is lost. A little bit of the spirit of the self gets lost. Yes, we're meant to be parts of a greater whole, but that's not all we're meant to be.

Command center launches will still be available. If CCP made the launch capacity larger or able to launch more often, not many people would complain and this specific complaint would be null and void. If you launch the P1 products produced on a planet into orbit, you can then transfer the resources to your high-sec factory planet. This is the way most serious PI people do their production, especially if they get their P1 products from low-sec. Of course, the only difference is that they use the MUCH more convenient customs offices already in place. Again, if CCP made the launch capacity of command centers larger (not rivaling that of launch pads obviously), not many people would have reason to complain. Of course, there's always the issue of the far away comm center...

CCP War Kitten - that has a cool ring to it :)

Sadly no, I just play the game quite thoroughly and am familiar with a lot of the mechanics of it. Many of the people raging in this thread don't seem to be as familiar.

IIRC, to even place a PI settlement in sov 0.0, your alliance has to hold sov already, or have nobody holding sov there. If you sneak a settlement in under those rules and the sov changes later, you still keep your settlement. (But are subject to the potential new CO owners if the new changes go in effect - this is good).

I do like the idea of conquerable CO though - regardless of who has sov in the space. Not all takeovers have to be destructive.

Once again... adding MORE logistics (to small corps) to the game than is needed. In my opinion this will:
- make all PI Material Costs Skyrocket
- make it much harder for small corporations to maintain a stockpile of PI Materials
- cause an endless amount of griefing by larger corps (with current EHP, these structures could be reinforced with 6 battleships in just a few minutes. The smaller corps will be endlessly remote repping these structures with logistics ships every few days.

As a 7 1/2 year EVE Veteran that likes industry... CCP is really ticking me off on their 'one step ahead and five steps back' approach to how they are running their game 'improvements'. I suggest the following changes to your proposal:

Empire CO - Double the Current Tax Rate and indestructible (Still Owned by CONCORD)
Low-Sec CO - Current Tax Rate and indestructible (Still Owned by CONCORD)
Null-Sec CO - Adjustable Tax Rate and Destructible (Player Built)
W-Space CO - Adjustable Tax Rate and Destructible (Player Built)

Do the above and the 'small guys' will still be able to have some fun in low-sec. Avoid my advice at the risk of loosing many subscriptions (yet again).

LISTEN to your Customers CCP!

Regarding wormholes you forgot to add that WH corporation will lock out any neutral non-corp player from the planets and wh in general just like 0.0 does, this is a very established fact.

The highlighted section. How do you go from low risk/low income to suddenly medium income for the same setup? I think there is an assumption here of price inflation that might not pan out as well as you think. However, in your claim of increased income you fail to take into consideration the POCO taxes tpaid + cost of the POCO to deploy + extremely high likelihood of destruction thus the cost of defense. Both play styles continue to be very boring since you are not changing PI interaction at all, only the PO. However instead of starting PI with the cost of the command centers and maybe supporting cover to bring them to low/null you now start PI extremely in the red. Cost of the command center, cost of the POCO, cost of the corporation creation if you are going to do it solo, cost of defense of said POCO when it comes under attack, potential cost of removing unfriendly POCO to access a planet, if friendly POCO the taxes paid. These are all factors for net income, you cannot say gross income will go up because product prices go up.

Also missing from the list is the individual capsuleer. They MUST become a member of a corporation or form one to launch a POCO. Therefore you are forcing players to move from their current play style by the corporation requirement.