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Just like the Tobin Tax, it sounds like a good idea, but will have counter-intuitive effects. The siphon unit overall reduces supply, which drives up costs (especially if it outstrips demand). Blocs have the most capacity to absorb and capitalize on such changes, especially if they outsource their moon mining (make it someone elses problem).

Most of the siplhon unit's cost will be reflected in consumer prices of T2- not that it's necessarily a bad thing in itself, I just don't think this is going to affect Blocs and rebalance things as much as people intuit.

How will this generate any sort of pvp when you have no idea **** is actually happening?

Ever been roofied? It will be like that

To see to cry to the alliances of 0.0 is absolutely delicious.

This is awesome. Good job CCP. About time.

All the people crying about this calling it "horribly unbalanced" lol @ you. Moons are inheriently horribly unbalanced, worried about your SRP? I'm just happy more of you will be forced into the belts to earn a crust so I can kill you :)

Ill be putting 100's of these things up as soon as physically possible, good game.

I doubt there'll be anything worth stealing. Siphons around worthwhile moons will get killed, siphons at bad moons will just give you 1000 m3 of atmospheric gases or something even less useful. Wooo.

The more I think about this, the more it seems that the real problem is the automatic moon mining itself. While a mining POS does has a role as something worth fighting over and as a location for large battles, the AFK nature is bad, along with the API tools that promote it. So, maybe something like moving moon minerals to mining anomalies and creating a proper nullsec POS-based industry to replace mining POS as strategic targets would be better? Of course, you'd also have to entirely rebalance null industry to give the necessary capacity, and then remove all jump mechanics to stop an entity simply jumping supplies from Jita to bypass an industrial interdiction campaign... so yeah, back to the siphon then!

Although i like the idea of this siphon unit, this firs iteration is a little underwhelming and i don't like the fact that it is yet another passive activity being added to eve. That said, i'm sure some people will have fun with it. minuscule output won't be worth the time for me personally.

There should be a second version (tech 2 maybe) where the yield it massively increased by players on grid. For example, transferring energy to the t2 siphon could allow you to fill it up in one hour. However, when you deploy the tech 2 version, the POS owner receives a notification.

This would reward players for active participation, increase activity in space and draw fights away from gates.

Concerned that the false API tracking thing is going to completely break existing API tools that people rely on. So we'll see how the false reporting works in reality when people are emptying/shuffling silos etc.

Expecting T2 prices to go crazy. If these are spammed that's already 20% supply lost from the game and if it turns people off running the reaction chains then that's additional supply gone from the system. Add market manipulation and it's going to be a pretty crazy ride. Time will tell I guess..

I don't see this affecting large entities that don't base their ship doctrines on t2 ships. Expect T1 and T3 ships to become the norm.

Reading is hard right?

Aww... Don't say that, you'll upset N3 and PL.