Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Tax ALL income of an NPC corp player by 50%

That'll get 'em out. Sure they'll just make their own 1 man corp and continue playing MMO's solo but at least you could wardec them for their shitposting on EVE-O

Completely agree that something should be done. Wardec immunity should come at a much steeper price than 11% tax on bounties.

Tax refining, tax market transactions, impose gate tolls and docking fees, increase clone and repair costs... NPC corp members shouldn't get an interaction-free ride through EVE.

Just from the point of lore. NPC corps are honoured by the presence of pod pilots within their lines since we have much more freedom to do things they can't.

It's a cheap way to prevent war decs that is true.
Beside that. Where is the problem?

Increase taxes? Idk what can be done to make people leave npc corps.

Individuals revering capsuleer presence is indeed an important element of New Eden but on a grander scale it does little to improve the image of these corporations.

As regards the problem, their needs to be more incentive for people to interact within this game and at present there is little reason to step out of the NPC corporations unless you wish to run a POS, outpost or build a reputation. Everyone should be encouraged to spread their wings.

It's hardly a game-changing issue but I know it's of interest to CCP to encourage player interaction and as such I'm just hoping to catch their attention.

A very high tax on rats and missions would be perfect to get Mission runners out into the world despite most would then go into personal small corps. That's fine.
Yet you cant encourage NPC corp members from mining in any conventional method. Which are their biggest use.
Increasing station refine take % on NPC corps wouldn't work.
Nor market tax on raw ore for npcs.
Any detrimental effect after the act of acquiring the ore can be sidestepped with a alt in a personal corp like a market alt.
Whatever the drawback, it needs to be taken before beam hits rock.

Yet then groups of individuals, or even groups of alts would each make personal corps and so you could only ever wardec 1 at a time.
Which stems from a problem with the ease to create solo corps. Yet would it be bad to make them harder to create?

The simplest solution I think is to just let people under 90 days old fall back into a safe NPC school.
After 90, they fall back into conscription FW with the empire you have highest standing with when not in a player corp. The negative cross empire hate could be temporary as a conscript until you leave. If kicked from a corp and you happen to be deep in what will become a enemy empire, you could have a 24 hour notice to get out or re-corp before FW kicks in.

For those that have been unsubscribed for over 3 months, your safe NPC school time could be reset.

After a change of this sort, everyone currently in the game will get the 90 day NPC school time to sort themselves out.

I think CCP should look at expanding corporation taxes as a whole (i.e. taxes on reprocessing, market transactions, etc. at the corp and/or alliance level). This could then be implemented for NPC corps. I do not think that the bounty tax for NPC corps needs to go higher than ~15%. I also do not think that this is a particularly pressing issue in the grand scheme of things.

if ccp somehow managed to nerf NPC corps. i will create player corp - lets call it "the genlemens lounge"

there will be no talk policy (no chat policy respectively) and players will be strictly encouraged not to engage in social aspect of the game

we will pretend wearing top hats and monocles and we will spend our eve time not talking to each other and generally doing everything solo

in case of wardec we will twist our evil moustaches and quietly judge the warmongers while promptly disbanding the corporation while creating another corporation with the same goals under different name

every spy would inevitably fail

every hatemail would be met with condescending silence

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