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Considering how many losec custom houses are still interbus I cannot see this making a huge difference anywhere except for a few industrial planets near hubs. Barren and temperate planets near Jita may be become quite a point of contention.

QUESTION: Will this new skill reduce the tax on my losec planets as well ?

From the patch notes:
"All Concord operated Customs Offices in Hi-Sec are now controlled by InterBus. Interbus stations have a tax rate of 17%."

Are you ******* kidding me?

You do? How cute.

Anyway, my guess is that since it can be assumed that most people are not prepared to pay money to be pushed around and forced into playing the game in a certain way, the player base will shrink accordingly. Or rather, what will probably happen is a shift in demographics: Those who have been playing EVE for it's open ended complexity and - until fairly recently - true sandbox nature, will leave and be replaced by a - possibly younger - segment attracted to a hyper aggressive arcade style game that EVE is evolving into.

My prediction is that CCP's drive to (aquire and retain subscribers) maximize evenue by

1) dumbing down (no cliché, is it?) game mechanics and ironing out (flat-lining) the learning curve to offer instant frictionless gratification

2) imposing cooporative playstyle in order to establish social tie-in, i.e. you can not succeed unless you socialise and once you do, you can not leave, because you will be letting your mates down that can then not succeed (very crafty)

...will end up killing the product.

The game is steadily losing some of the unique - and vital - qualities that has led it to be one of only a very small number of MMORPGs (the only one, even?) with long term commercial and overall creative success. The ongoing changes to hyperbole aggression and herd people into still fewer and larger organisations will effectively take the RP out of MMORPG. EVE will be left with MMOG... G for grinding... and die. Shinier than ever.

EVE is dying. I called it. Maybe it is alright.

ok player owned high sec POCO'S.

I haven't logged on since the release but I am excited. it will be interesting to see how this players out.

I've rad that many players are worried about null sec alliances muscling their way into high sec and messing with their finely crafted isk making machines. Well It happens anyways! deal with it!

one way I was thinking that ccp could use to mitigate the damage that these large alliances will inflict on high sec through POCO ownership would be to make the system work similar to current high sec POS anchoring. I.E. require fuel in the form of star base charters and/or the corp must have an appropriate standing with the systems' ruling faction!

Also if you can trade POCO's make the same restrictions apply to the trading receiver, IE they must have the correct faction standing etc.

This will still mean some systems 0.8 sec and higher will be devoid of "outside influence" and provide a modicum of protection against the older and more established player entities.

of course they will also be very expensive to operate 17% tax but then again you pay for protection.

That is all.

once someone gets the Customs Code Expertise skill to 5 then they will get 8.5% tax on an interbus co so unless the poco's are charging no more than 3.4% then they aren't worth moving to (don't forget the 5% npc tax with lv 5 cce).

im assuming by poco you meant interbus co (poco is player owned custom office not the npc owned ones...alot of people say poco when they mean interbus co) and if you dont train the skill that reduces npc tax then yes there are only a handful of PI chains worth bothering with on an interbus co.

(tell) me about your favorite place to do PI

"The NPC tax will continue for hi sec POCOs (as we want low sec POCOs to still be competitive). The tax rate stays the same, at 10% for export and 5% for import. This is then in addition to whatever tax the player owner sets."

Why is there a 10% NPC tax now on POCO's in wormholes?

that's a bug then i think as it's supposed to be on the NPC portion of tax

maybe report it as such?

Well PI is certainly in doubt for me. I have extensive PI operations which I needed to buy new ships for my corporation, explore etc.
Some group has set up all the POCOs in my area and set the tax rate to equal to the direct launch method.

Obviously:
1. Launch pads are now largely irrelevant as there is no cost savings and general storage will provide me with greater storage and much lower CPU load.
2. Funding some other person is just a method of scooping a huge amount of cash from small players to big corporations. Guess what: big corporations need a steady influx of small players (as does EVE in general) and this will only create a drag on overall Eve population recruitment.

On point 2, I would guess that the number of players joining eve and leaving eve is roughly equal... or it was... The effect of this is, of course, moderated by the fact that PI is not all that common among new players.

Overall I would classify this as a poorly thought out dumb move. I would suggest balancing it somehow.