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By giving null sec the same amount of infinte slots as high sec, that was the final leveling of the playing field.
I never had a problem with null, or wh space, getting 100% refine, or a huge bump in available research / mfg slots.

I do have huge problems with the fact that it will now cost more, with a huge increase in risk, for high sec players, while we KNOW that null sec will be given huge advantages, just like they got with refining efficiency, that high sec can't compete with.

The only reason there is no "viable" null sec industry, outside of the HUGE supercap industry, is that the sov null sec players can make so much more ISK doing other things. Now, if the null sec cartel *Snip* Please refrain from personal attacks. ISD Ezwal. are to be believed, all their high sec mfg alts will be incentivized to head back to null and build right there, since there are big bonuses for doing so, and they can make good coin. Also, if the CSM gets its way, eventually enough people will be economically forced to move to null sec and null sec trade hubs may emerge.

Of course, the typical null sec line member will be paying a slot tax (as I predicted many months ago) directly to the station owners aka the cartel leaders. And in the meantime, the true high sec industrialists will be in very dire straits, as any null sec industrialist can for example, fill his jf with 100,000 DC II's and flood Jita with them at no price that no high sec player can match.

I am really disappointed.

I have no problem with risk, hiring mercenaries, cost etc. These can all be estimated and factored in. And they are the same for everybody (expect for T2 BPOs but that is another topic). But how about the effort I put into the game in the last two years to position myself ahead of competition?

Yes, research and copy slots are currently a scarce resource. This is why setting up a POS in high sec is desirable. I can imagine that with the righ progressive pricing, having your own POS is still an advantage.
In the past, seting up a high sec POS was not easy. Building up the necessary faction standing was tedious and mildly boring. Yet, I did this to have a competitive advantage. And this now flies out of the window. Free POS in high sec for everybody!

I have no problem with adapting to new playgrounds. Yet, I think CCP is about to remove something for which I worked really hard. This appears neither balanced nor fair.

I will just leave this here...

When they stop paying taxes, Concord/crimewatch sets the POS suspect until it starts paying taxes again. Alternatively, you can use your POS salvage deployable to slowly extract all of the materials used in the construction.

Ohhh it's so democratic to delete posts!
Just say the THRUTH! You want to make us buy PLEX for IRL!
And when you deleting this you just proofing this!

My two cents worth on this dev blog: I approve of every change mentioned EXCEPT the BPO "safety" changes.

Why ?

1) It already costs a lot of ISK, and requires a lot of work to keep a POS running, even in high sec.

2) It makes Supply Chain Management, and Scientific Networking skills useless.

3) It makes the Station Manager role too powerful, as it would enable that pilot to simply offline, and unanchor a lab with valuable bpos in it, and make off with it in a couple minutes.

4) If I understood the dev blog correctly, research slots will still be avaliable only in the same stations as they are available now, so that will create congestion in those solar systems, automatically driving the slot prices up at the same time.

5) It is impossible to share the use of bpos between multiple pilots, and keeping them even a little bit safe at the same time.

6) The idea to use copies might work if you had only a couple things you build, but if you build 50 or so things, you would spend a major part of your time making copies, instead of doing something useful, like researching other bpos.

7) If everybody had to have a corp office where research/manufacturing is done, the limited flexibility of the corp/role management system makes it very hard to set up correctly, if you have more than two offices.

8) Any POS lab, or assembly array, found after the change would be almost sure to contain valuables, and as such be a magnet for Wardecs, and theft. Any POS without labs or arrays are pretty useless in high sec, so what would be the point of having one in the first place.

9) Bpos for the above POS modules will become almost useless to high sec indy pilots.

10) The number of bpcs that the servers have to cope with, and keep track of will increase dramatically.


Enough points made, for now, though I am sure there are more.

I cannot stress this enough, although I will refrain from typing the entire sentence in capital letters: "Please,* do not make changes to bpo safety in this way".

*) Insert as many "Please," in the above, as needed to make CCP understand the chaos, frustration, and extra work this will impose on industrialists.

Any comments, thoughts, and feedback to this post is welcome, as always.

I only know 1 player who writes like this: do I mean I now know who you are in game?

Honest question. What form of eve do you envision that supports the current levels of activity and interaction in highsec without highsec?

From the dev blog...


Could you please define "anywhere?" Are POS still limited to available moons, or can we simply create a safe spot and anchor there? There is a problem with all the abandoned POS filling up available moons.

im just going to make a small suggestion that actually editing and hiding ccp dev posts may be flying a bit too close to the sun