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So what happens when the last InterBus Customs offices gets destroyed?

In your aka the particularly ugly case of an alliance that is devoted to make the gameplay experience for all people of this game worse and unenjoyable: Yes, definitely heaven forbid. Your attitude alone proves all the negative sentiments against your alliance/coalition.

but most of those people are barely human they're things like highseccers and test

There are still lots of InterBus owned customs offices in Low-Sec for you to shoot...

We'd make so much less isk off of that than we would by simply running a 5% tax rate.


I fail to see why this surprises anyone.

From what I can tell, the options for a solo/small corp doing PI are as follows:

-> Use the "rocket launch" system and accept fewer m3 of goods per launch and about 20x more launches for the same amount of material put into space (plus the added time limit between launches)

-> Continue as normal and hope that the large alliance du jour does not place an inhibitive tax (which is certainly possible if the alliance wants to profit from high-sec PI, but as so many things in EVE, is not guaranteed)

-> Ask the controlling alliance nicely to work with you on PI (results will vary)

-> Join the controlling alliance, but obviously this ends you status as "solo/small corp"

-> Or, as always, simply terminate PI activities (which will profit everyone else still doing PI by lowering overall supply)

This seems to boil down to many other potential game changes in EvE: If you shift the mechanics to make larger and larger group action more and more favored in risk vs. reward, you will certainly get larger groups in your player base, because players will either join larger entities to survive and continue their chosen gameplay, or stop such gameplay / leave the game when their preferred method of play becomes too impractical.

Thus, after this change, I'd predict that the player base will, in fact, look more like what CCP is hoping for, although perhaps not as large as they would hope for.

All your base are belong to us....

The problem with one custom office per planet - is it allows a monopoly of the planet by Big Alliances. Now if a player had several custom offices to choose from, there would be actual competition like in a real economy.

Tthe new proposed changes is the ability of the controlling Big Alliance (and don't fool yourself, the more valuable custom offices like Lava planets will be taken over within weeks by the Big Alliances) - imports can be shut down completely except those they choose to include, and ridiculous rates can be charged for exports (although hi-sec players can avoid this by making PI an even more laborious grind by simply bypassing the customs altogether - but given just how unpleasant PI is already, who's going to want to grind even more - given you can no longer import??)

This pretty much is a handover of more power to the Big Players/Alliances in the game - and fails to recognize the number of players who play EVE as a sand box who have alts in hi-sec specifically to avoid the nul-sec gameplay or the power so many of the already rich players have in Eve.

Another side-effect will be the cost of maintaining small POS's in hi-sec by smaller corporations will go up considerably - as PI fuel supplies will be MONOPOLIZED by the BIG ALLIANCES.

This change is a one-sided change - does not benefit all players in Eve. It benefits by a LION'S SHARE the big power players. It leaves small solo players and small corporations OUT IN THE COLD.

Hi-sec is where all new players start off. IT ISN'T A FUKKKING SAND BOX IF ALL THEY CAN DO IS WHAT SOME BIG ALLIANCE FORCES THEM TO DO WHEN THEY START PLAYING EVE - IS IT?

MORONS.

Who cares about those hotdogs stands in space, start posting what really matters: ships balancing, warp changes, those deployables you showed us on stream and all joicy things not yet revealed.