Science & Industry

I agree. It's a good idea. Whether it would work as imagined would be my worry. Tax would be a main issue, maybe. I definately think it would give variety to courier contracts. I have moaned so much to my corpies about not being able to get at their PI. It would be a good thing to at least have a shared Corp tab on the CO maybe, as a start..

Far to many issues and ways to screw other players over. Players could "contract" items to a player and once they buy them you block their access to the poco (if anywhere but hs). Or if its in a wh good luck ever getting at them. Or if they pay tax they buy the items and find out there is a 100% tax on item exports.

You would also need to go to the system anyways and move items from planet to the poco, so if you're all ready in the system just move the items to the station in the system and contract them that way.

And again even if there was a shared / corp hangar / whatever you still need to move items to the poco which at this point you're just looking at a convince of not having to spend 1 minute warping and docking to station and setting up a contract there, or placing them in a corp hangar in station.

Thats a good thing there isn't any other way to scam people in this game.... come on really? Like EVERY facet of this game there is great potential for players to get scammed or screwed over. But educating yourself on how the mechanics of this game works to help defend yourself from such acts is part of every day life.

Sure people will scam, but also people will take advantage of this and explore more parts of EvE online and not feel stuck just PvPing.

Supported. By making PI easier, more people would start using it which then means more haulers, hauling PI stuff around which might hopefully translate into more people in lowsec, making lowsec a bit more active

What about downsides to this, does anyone have some CONS.

Sure. Beyond the obvious "PI will be worth less" there's a pretty major one: if someone accepts a contract that overfills a CO what will happen to the excess?

planetary installations should need someting like upkeep. pretty much the same as POS´s do.
without upkeep , installations decay and stop working.

those same installations should be usable by all members of a corp. that of course does not increase the output of
those installations.

and with the potential risk of dust mercs attacking and conqering your PI-installations, there would be no more need for taxes anyways.

while we are at it: skip pocos altogether and make the launchpad some kind of spaceport-module with the ability to act as station
where ships up to destroyer class are able to dock (of course only from the same corp).

only exception would be special PI-hauling ships. they would server as middlemen between planets and bigger haulers.
and dont have the ability to jump / warp.

in highsec, those PI-shuttles have to be paid to bring your stuff to your hauler. in low / null, they have to be installed / bought and kept in working shape. and they can be shot down by ships and PI-guns (which surely will come with dust).

I don't think player owned is a real option here. I do like your idea of having full control of it like a corp hanger. I think that would be the easiest solution.

Also yes Happy Holidays, glad the world didn't end =p

Thanks!