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Really looking for and awaiting the Dev response to how this will be changed WRT player feedback in this thread.

the POS fuel changes came out roughly 24hrs ago and we've already seen that get fixed into something that is simpler but doesn't nerf faction towers to S***

waiting for the same sort of common sense here? PLS?

I hope you're right on this one. I could feel the changes sneaking up on me from behind, and the Nex is all out of vaseline.

I have to agree.

However, as I understand this is to allow players more scope and interaction to develop and integrate the PI aspect more into EVE However CCP appear to have totally forgotten about the Wspace communities
Factual example: - a small Corp of say 5 or 6 running a POS in Wspace(A full Tower mind not one of the Mickey Mouse ones) who have been skilful and hardy enough to setup shop in a WH (Which allegedly is what EVE and its renowned sand box is all about).this Corp who's PI is predominantly focused on providing fuel Items for their Tower. (Not all some have to be produced or bought elsewhere (from any excesses produced) due to the planetary types in said WH).
Point :- After the massive layout of costs to ensure that the POCO’s can be produced if they in fact can make them before they run out of fuel reserves.
Where do CCP expect WSpacer’s to get passing trade from to collect revenue from in the WH.
The only passing Pilots are there to shoot stuff either them or the Sleepers (which is just as it should be) that’s fine and accepted by all They sure are not going to get ANY of them to be interested in PI.
So the WSpacer’s will never get any benefit from a POCO’s in Wspace. I am talking about the deeper communities here. So in effect thePOCO’s are totally pointless and fruitless in WSpace.

A possibility could be that they should be Concorde deployed and owned but capable of being disabled by a reasonable concerted attack giving a bounty to those attacking it as Concorde cannot reach Wspace. That way the WSpacer’s can be still impacted upon by the PVP groups but not driven out business by CCP’s way of switching all CO’s off in the blink of an eye then saying go to it and it forces the resident Corp to devote some time in repairing them and brining them back on line to continue their PI. The resident Corp can also get the chance to fight back either during the onslaught
Or if the group decide to log out stay there for more opportune moments which already happens the PVP can occur on any given time or day keeping everyone on their toes however, the balance is that when the WH closes they too have to scan a new exit to replenish supplies to continue or withdraw and their scanning ships can be a risk much more of an exciting scenario when everyone gets a fair share of the risk and gain.

I still believe the change as currently planned is way wrong for low sec. Low sec COs need to stay some variation of NPC controlled otherwise all they are is a the new roaming pirate gank hobby and little guy PI in low sec is over. Done like dinner.

Issler

Who's going to run everything? ONLY the most powerful PC Organizations!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :( Cutting the rest of us out . Thanx CCP

Just to chime in and mentioning that this thread isn't forgotten or abandoned by the devs.

Then maybe you can explain why you're making POS fuel management easier while simultaneously making PI for making said POS fuel horribly complicated and bad for all the POS-owners out there? I'm all for more things being player controlled, but this idea doesn't bring anything good to the game.

A recurring theme in the classes EVE-University has regarding nulsec and sov mechanics (with guest lecturers from the big nulsec alliances) is that attacking structures is boring as all hell. Why add another boring structure with another boring reinforcement timer? I really want to know the reason for this. It makes no sense right now.

Most of the feedback in the POS fuel thread is balance issues - and basically just tweaking some numbers. This is a much more complex issue. So depending on how much they have to rework or reconsider, you're not going to get immediate answers.

(Although it would be nice if the BPOs could be seeded a month or so ahead of any planned change-over, at a minimum.)

Without wading through 80 pages of posts. #1 as a w space pi guy, no guns no way. These things are way to expensive and way to vunerable. #2 needs to be in high sec, the cash flow from certain planets would mean epic pew pew from magor corps and alliances. It's very hard to play station games when the station is out of reach. It could make high sec warfare fun again.

Can we be given a follow up blog on this?