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So we have gone from RABBLE RABBLE Goons gonna take over all of highsec. To they have a wardec shield because of the cost. Developing now into they are going to take all the plasmas!

None of the above is accurate. But hey keep theorycrafting guys a couple posters in here got really close to the truth.

So glad you agree.

I think he forgot to switch the character displayed.

Ah, well. PI was good while it lasted.

Вся́кому о́вощу своё вре́мя.

I have an Two ideas......

1. Instead of introducing POCO's in high sec, just introduce CCP's new skill to lower the tax rate for import and export; instantly making it a skill book worth buying and training to 5.

2. Instead of modifying the tax base of the goods every two years, program the tax base to be the average buy price of the goods for each region for the preceding month or week. CCP employes programers does it not? Therefor let them program the tax base of each individual manufactured good and base material to reflect what they are actually being bought for in each region in real time, as opposed to every two years.

Implementing 1 and 2 would be a much improved plan rather than the current corrupt and adversely influenced scheme however if CCP doesn't have any programmers who are up to the task of real time tax scales on the goods and materials, at least just introduce idea number 1 and get rid of the player owned POCO idea.

(NOTE THAT THE PROPOSED (OR ALREADY DECIDED) TAX BASE IS WAY TOO HIGH FOR WHAT MOST GOODS ARE GOING FOR NOW!)

Would not the organizational and leadership effort required, to create and sustain a competitive coalition of players, each of whom is able to spend only one hour/day in-Game, greater than the effort required when each player can spend six or ten hours in-Game? I wonder whether such a coalition is possible, even in principle. Its leaders would have to be super-human.

There is a fundamental Game-design problem here: if CCP want money from low-intensity players, CCP have to make low-intensity play viable.

Of course, if CCP want only money from high-intensity players, ...

First things first, i think rubicons brings a lot of great features, thanks again CCP.

Now my feedback to one where i believe sincerly that the game experience for players gets damaged. According to the thread i am obviously talking about POCO's

Why do I believe that the changes will damage the gaming experience for a big community?

POCO's are a form of bottleneck - you do need them if you want to do PI, similar to research Agents if you want to do Datacore research or mission agents if you want to do missions. You can not evade them, you do need them.

Giving away POCO's in highsec is (speaking metaphorically) like giving controll of mission agents to player corporations where the corps can decide who is allowed to accept missions from them, and how big the payout will be.

the consequence: Obviously this will impair the accessibility of game content (doing missions) for some (many) players. The same way POCO's will impair the accessibility to PI for some (many) players.

now why is this "bad"?

actually it is not, depending from which side you look at this. For highsec carebears it is, because they do not want this form of player controlled bottlenecks since it will deny them some of the playing content and thus it damages their gaming experience

Now from my point of view highsec is for those people who want to enjoy the game in a rather safe environment and simultaneously being able to experience most gaming content safly. PI is from my point of view such a basic content that I want to experience without player interferrence - at least not in highsec.

For lowsec or nullsec the POCO's are perfectly fine in that sense. There you get and there you want player contest on the pew pew scale.

this makes POCO's in high rather bad!

make it personal not just cooperate

Thank you for pointing out an important distinction I had not properly considered, between low-intensity players -- who spend only limited hours in-Game -- and low-real-world-wealth players -- who spend only limited real-world money on the Game.

For me, buying ISK would break the Game-world. I can see, though, that CCP want very much to milk players willing to spend more real-world money than merely for subscriptions. Reducing in-Game income for low-intensity players will tempt them to buy ISK with real-world money.

Those like me, who both are low-intensity and do not buy ISK with real-world money, are probably a peculiar, tiny minority CCP would not notice disappearing.

That's why CCP doesn't like me, I pay cash for yearly subs on my accts and have been since the first month. Plex for game time how revolting - isn't that a microtransaction? ISK I scratch out is spent for ships, modules, and T2 materials I can't research or mission. My subs are up in March and I doubt I'll be resubbing. There have been many of these little inconveniences thrown at the casual/solo player over the years but this one, for lack of a better word, is just disrespectful. It's too bad I really enjoyed the challenge of EVE. Hey it's their game and they can make it whatever they want it to be. There's another Space game on the horizon, maybe they'll give better hugs,