EVE General Discussion

Soon, all lowsec, 0.0 and W-space customs offices will be removed, and have to be rebuilt by players, with only 1 customs office per planet. What effect do you think this will have on non-highsec PI? I believe that these customs offices will not function as sources of tax revenue, as was presumably intended, but rather will be spammed onto planets and set to 100% tax rate to monopolize and control non-highsec PI, and prevent any PI competition and resource depletion on planets. If I'm wrong, please explain.

if thy customs office offends thee, blow it up.

and there's yer answer

That's an answer for medium-size or better corps with the capability to do so. Thus all smaller corps and individuals will be totally shut out of non-highsec PI if what I'm predicting is true. Is that the consensus then?

is it?

if the office goes boom do your installations on the surface vanish too?
or can you continue to do PI until you are ready to move product, then you call in the mercs, pop the high tax office, build yours, move your swag and do it again next week?

I mean there's a whole lot of planets in null, nobody is going to be able to watch them all 24/7

Honestly, i couldn't imagine anyone trying, i know if i was in a fleet responsible for going to over 200 sytems and checking EVERY FREAKIN PLANET, i would self-destruct rightt here on the spot.

i eman, even in LOW-SEC i've seen systems that never get more then 1 or 2 players a week traveling trhough, what OP fails to realize is that while there are alot of players in EvE, EvE is a BIG harsh cold place, and alot fo space is abandoned and ahs been for eyars, and will continue to eb abandoned for years. This isnt due to the lack of anything of quality, no, there are plenty fo ssytems with enough value to support a small low-sec alliance, it's just that they are eitehr out fo the way or there just arent enough players in the area to make occupation possible.

TL;DR OP, fly around a bit, regardless of how small your corp is, i guaranteee you can find a nice little system somewhere where no oen will ever look for you or your precious PI.

well geeze, it only takes 3 guys to kill a cold POS, it takes forever, but I doubt a customs office will be as tough a nut to crack as a tower, but then again I have not heard anything about the process for killing one.

I'd hazard a guess that it will be comparatively easy to do, but it will probably take some time

Tedious-but-easy solo plan: have a bunch of low/null planets that are near highsec, route produced materials to the CC (as produced as you can get them, to reduce volumes), launch into space. CC launches can be done remotely, thankfully, and the launches last for four days (and don't spawn until you warp to them). Run around in a suitable ship and ferry the launches to a highsec factory planet.

With that backup in mind, I feel pretty good about the offices. People who can exert any control of any space, or rent such control, will feel even better about them. Since they'll be so easy to reinforce, maybe there will be smaller battles about them?

Trying to see the scenario where collecting taxes is better than just setting to 100% to prevent any depletion, then running all your own alts & corp members & their alts on those nearly-depletion-free planets.

There will be people ransoming customs offices. People with cap blobs. Those will then try to dominate certain planets or resources within systems, constellations and maybe even whole regions.

I for one welcome this new method of extortion. Investments were already made when they were viable.

In nosec, popping customs offices will hopefully become a favoured pastime of bored sub-blob fleets.

I have posted in the dev blog thread. I think it is a TERRIBLE idea for low sec. CO popping will become the new griefer pirate slow time hobby. It will drive every small corp out of PI in low sec. If I have POS in low sec at least I can "gun her up" to make popping the POS something you can't do on a whim.

Also the tax rate in high sec seems random and high.

I think the idea in null makes sense and will be a good thing, More stuff to own and fight over for folks that expect that in null.

So I vote "really bad idea CCP!"

I would prefer low sec POSs are owned by the pirate faction NPC in the systems so to use them you have to work on your npc pirate standing or increase the size of the rockets you can launch from a planet and add the ability to drop material to the planet so you could still do PI in low sec regardless of the CO owners but still have to take on the risks when you launch and drop (more targets for pirates! Woot!)

Issler