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Guess I might as well delete my PI now...

What if, to perform a transfer to a war opponent, the poco has to be shot for a fraction of its HP at a precise time, a notification informing every opponent.

This way the most important PvP force (involved in the war) present at this moment would be the one winning the POCO. Which would allow for both extraction and take over of POCOs during wars. It could also make sure that fights actually happens at POCOs, not at the undock of stations...

The possibility to transfer to war opponent would be in the send surrender offer. So that you can offer money AND POCOs to end a war. If you choose to also give a POCO, the offender needs to win the match at the POCO (meaning being able to deal like 10% of its HP to it), otherwise the offer is cancelled.

If there are multiple POCOs, there are successive timers, with something like 1 hour between each.

To prevent the defender for spamming surrender to its alt corp hoping that it would work one time, there would be a collateral not returned if the surrender offer is invalid.

There is alot to be said for this. Low sec planets are already better than high sec ones due to the better resources.

No standing/security or suspect flag hit will happen.

One interesting side effect of this is it supplies an income stream to high sec PvP corps. Consider:
A high sec industrial corp can easily shoot down an interbus CO and put up their own. But then they open themselves up to war decs. Generally, nothing that industrialist players do is compatible with war. Better to have friends in a PvP corp give you a low tax rate on POCOs they own and defend.

Result: Most all POCOs will be owned by PvP oriented corps or alliances.

So all that's going to happen is a large nullsec entity hits a whole bunch of highsec customs offices and puts up their own pocos setting 60% tax, meaning I pay 70% tax overall.

It then costs me 500 mill to dec them to hit their poco, which I wont bother doing as to make that back from hisec pi will take months.

So basically your giving large null alliances free isk.

GG

Maybe if you hold sov you shouldn't be able to hold highsec pocos?

Any changes to the deployment of POCOs in regards to anchoring time/upgrade time?

I could see a fairly interesting development of people warping in logi + hauler or even using a blockade runner to "ninja drop" a POCO in place where another fleet had done the work of removing the Interbus. It certainly makes for contemplating some interesting tactics on how this would work but the very short timer for anchoring and upgrading a POCO makes it possible and once it is in place, the wardec mechanic makes it all but impossible to remove as you need to wait out the wardec timer.

Nah, why would we do that? Then no one uses them and we don't actually make any isk for them. Unless you're saying you're dumb enough to pay a 70% tax anyway.

Here's what really happens.

You train the skill right away, lowering the NPC portion of the tax to 5%.

Then, we seize the POCOs right away, at least some of them, and set our own tax to something - probably, as it happens, 5%.

Then RvB or someone contests our pocos and in the ongoing monthlong war, they're constantly being destroyed and reinforced, such that everyone who was using them before moves to different systems.

As the person that developed the highsec poco plans...Your fears of Goons taking over all the highsec pocos are completely unfounded. It isn't required or desired.

What you should really be worried about hasn't even been brought up yet.

This was also the issue in my own mind.

Whereas the cargo capacity of the command center is only 500 m3, this makes the alternative "rocket launch" delivery system impractical for any significant PI operation. Thus, any high-sec PI of any real significance must still be done using the POCOs. Any large power block can squeeze this process, and most carebears will react not with wardecs but by stopping PI and going to do something else.

Other power blocks could contest this, but I doubt many high-sec based alliances will. I foresee this bringing wars between nullsec organizations into high-sec more often (which is fine if that's the intention), but not necessary more war BY high-sec entities.

And of course, with nullsec PI per planet much higher than in high-sec, nullsec power blocks can shut-down high-sec PI "just for LOLs" with minimal impact on their fuel production (unless high-sec PI has a bigger share of the market than I think it does).