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Adding more stuff for Spaceships to fight for is very much FiS.

I haven't seen this possible solution put forward in previous pages, apologies if it has been raised, there is a lot to read.

Keep COs in Low Sec but make them conquerable to player corps. And only allow owners to charge a certain percentage up to 100% and prevent them from blocking use to other players on the planets by standings. That way the owners get isk revenue with low initial cost, PI in low sec is a bit more expensive but possible and people can still fight over the COs for the profit. (Possibly look into having this for High Sec later on but have a maximum of 50% tax collectible.

Make COs cheaper but deployable in 0.0 there is no administration out there they should be built but allow alliances to block others from using it and maybe make them shut down when put into reinforced so small gangs can raid enemies for fights and to annoy their foes and cut supply lines, as well as being destructible.

Seems like the most balanced plan for this new feature.

Thoughts?

A smaller signature radius on the POCO itself might help with that, instead of giving it the signature radius of a capital ship, give it a signature radius about the size of a cruiser / battlecruiser / battleship. (Sig radius on a large tower is 6000m, 4000m on a medium 2000m on a small.) So having the POCO with a sig radius of 300m for a "large" variant, 200m for a "medium variant" and 100m for a "small variant" might mean that smaller POCOs would be harder to destroy by XL weapons.

Since the POCOs have no visible shield bubble, it makes sense for their sig radius to be smaller then their full fledged POS tower brethren.

Also opens up the idea of (2) new POS e-war modules:

1) Tracking Disruptor Battery - Doesn't currently exist, would need to function like existing TD modules.

2) An anti-target painter - When applied to an enemy ship, that ship's electronics sees every other signature radius as 20% smaller.

its going to be rare you fight over a planet thingy.

mostly as there will not be many put up in low sec, why bother do pi in high sec save 80mil/planet and have no risk.
in 0.0 there wont be ops to defend them as its far more important to do anything else than fight over a pointless structure that has no meaning, also in 0.0 80 mil is what 2h ratting at most people will just put up another. also have to remember the roaming gang that did ref it prob wont come back anyhow as they just did it to be anoying while passing through space that had no real targets in.

fight over planet things..lol, your a ccp alt right?

wow
that's a good job

i suggest you to put a link on the 1st page, on spitfire post, it will be way easier this way , as no one wil find it on a 60 pages thread after this post will also be lost with the new comments ^^

Thank you for keeping the notes you're taking updated!

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A few notes/comments on ideas that have been mentioned frequently already:

Indestructible POCOs, switching owners upon attack: HORRIBLE idea!!!
It has been suggester quite a few times that POCOs shouldn't be destructible but change ownership (like outposts). They need to be destructible! Give us some more uses for the actual PI materials (which aren't used for fuel) instead of just POSs themselves! The demand is desperately needed, and it needs to be an ongoing demand, not just 1 time till the good planets have a POCO that just switches owners upon attack.
Switching ownership would also mean no need for an investment for whoever wants it, they just need to shoot at it for a couple of minutes, come back after a day or so and shoot some more and voilà: free income. This would no longer be a political or even economical decision as CCP has said they want it to be, but just a free-for-all "attack here for profit". THEN we'd surely have alliances and big corps taking over every POCO they can find or just come across, there is no downside, no commitment/investment required!
I understand the motivation of this suggestion, but it isn't thought out. Actually even less than the current mechanic proposed/planned by CCP. For all that is sacred please consider the consequences and side effects of something like this! The mechanic is bad for Outposts which cost a hell of a lot more ISK and it will be a disaster for POCOs!

Keep current COs until players replace them:
The idea is, that the current COs stay up until players show up to replace them. What I haven't seen is any real incentive to actually do so. Since there won't be near enough POCOs available via market and/or contracts to place near all the planets which are currently used for PI in "not-high-sec", there needs to be a grace period. It also needs to encourage the replacement of the Concord-COs over time, the best incentive would be to slowly but steadily increase the tax rate, like 5% per week or something. Also, don't limit it in this case to 100%, make it increase every week until it is finally replaced. This would allow the supply to come up with enough of those things over time to satisfy demand.

edit: only saw just now, also already proposed basically in this form in post #1238 by Ingvar Angst.

Tax as % of transferred goods instead of fixed ISK rate:
I really also love this idea. Some things need to be considered and implemented though for this to work! There needs to be a corp hangar in addition to personal hangars for the owning corp. Not like a normal station hangar with all the divisions, but have a drop-down box in the options allow the selection of one division the hangar is supposed to act like (for allowing access and stuff). The capacity also needs to be at least that of a normal hangar to avoid nightmare-logistics...
Also there needs to be a constant counter keeping score of the transported goods by any individual using it ('customer'). Otherwise the tax could be circumvented by just transferring smaller amounts, where there is never any tax payable (similar to reprocessing modules piece by piece or in bulk). Take this example: Someone produces P4s on a planet with a 5% tax. He wants to transfer 24 items, where he'd pay 1 item as tax, but instead he only transfers 8 three times, avoiding the taxes completely. The system needs to know how many of any specific item was transferred in which direction to know what exactly to take. If it wasn't done per exact type I could just have a couple of cheaper items of the same tier just for transfering when I know the tax is due (transfer 19 integrity response drones, then 1 Organic Mortar applicator). This is of course an extreme example with the only item group that is worth a significant amount by itself, and will be much less problematic with P0-P3.
Yes, this would put a strain on the database as these entries would have to be kept for any individual character per exact item per POCO! It's a lot of data, and any entry older than a moth or so should probably be just removed.
Another, simpler way would be to keep the ISK tax for P4 items like it is (or would be) now, but switch to the item-based tax for all other imports/exports.
Please note though: It WILL make factory planets a nightmare to restock, since you have to include the tax in what you want to transfer!

Size of planetary launches:
A flat size increase has been requested many times, or a tie-in to the command center skill, but how about creating a new skill for it (Launch Vehicle Operation?), which adds 1k m³ (or just doubles it) per level over the default 500 m³. This would allow players to actively choose this as a viable alternative to POCOs if they owner turns out be just screwing around with the tax and/or access all the time. Might also have another skill to reduce the cost of a launch and/or decrease launch intervals. Maybe even one more skill allowing for imports via some sort of launch canister

POCOs on Kill Mails:
Also a much asked question (and answered on page 60 by CCP Nullarbor that they will produce kill mails). I don't like the idea, but it depends in the end if CCP is true to their statement that they don't want to incentivize killing these for the hell of it but for political/economical reasons. If someone wants to put up their own POCO, stop someone from doing PI on certain planet(s) or just plainly influence the general market they will do so. There doesn't need to be an additional incentive for people to shoot stuff just to pad their kill board.
"Hey, there isn't anyone to shoot around, but since we have a fleet let's reinforce a couple POCOs, maybe if we are bored tomorrow again we can kill them and have at least something on our kill board!"

Well, my opinions on the current suggestions. Discuss!

Part 3 you can add what you put in Part 4 : LOWSEC changes also perfect for blobs and large groups.

Anyway just have to look at likes/dislikes answers to see who wants it and who doesnt, imo you'll please 10 K players and uppset the rest

Oh, indeed, i would have first say that the way this was brought to us is very interesting ("we are GONNA DO", this was not "what if we do ?").
So, again, instead of putting all energy and people to finalize what your customers (we are players, but first we are customers) are waiting for YEARS you come with another "will do" ... cant do else than compare it with http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=2672

If this were to be done, it should only be done if the pre-requisite skill is Command Center Upgrades LVL 5

your wrong about this. have shot many old tcu's/ihub's of alliances that havnt lived in our space for over a year. why are they still there? because people hate shooting things that dont shoot back and are of no importance. tcu/ihub is offline in a system, anchour your own, the old ones just sit there until there is a total lack of targets and a bored fc.(they dont get cleared in the 30day space clean up thingy)
a new alliance moving into an area will concentract on sov structures not planety things at first, why? cos they are not important.
in a few years yourll find lots of older alliances planet things dotted about and will only do soemthing if the tax is high and you can really be botherd removing it and replacing it. grunt work not an alliance lvl job imo