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If you want to speed up adoption of POCOs, you should really look into a way of allowing a POCO owner to impact the availability of resources on a planet. If I can only attract a couple of people to my planet, it's hardly worth it to stand up an office, even at the current tax rates. Lower taxes aren't the sexiest reason to move PI operations to another planet. Also, if I somehow attracted a large number of people, it actually devalues the planet, as resources get depleted more quickly.

If I can upgrade the planet, just as someone with Sov can upgrade a system, I have another way of attracting people to it. If someone does a planetary scan and sees that the planet has huge patches of white, they're much more likely to drop an office on it. It also keeps the value of the planet higher for longer as more people flock to it. There are plenty of logical ways to implement this - deploy ground survey teams, launch high res satellites, send demolitions drones, etc.

As a command center owner, I'd also be much more likely to want mercs to attack my neighbors if the planet got too crowded (Dust 514). And as a POCO owner, I'd want to wipe out command centers as well, if some ninja corp was trying to get away with launch containers to avoid my POCO.

Oh, and this would need to apply to lowsec as well as null.

This new tax rate will be the death of all the small industrialist corp !!!

Why ?

because once again, you are favorising the big entities of Eve, such as alliances or corps in alliances. They will continue to make isk very easily, since it (the new tax rate), will not interfere in their ISK making process because they can set the tax to 0%. However, all the young industrialist corps or avatars who are trying to start something (a small business) can't do anything about it, other than pay ridicoulously high taxes or die.

because again, in my case, i try to run a medium POS in low sec, the only reaction i can make is not cost efficiency, but i produce a little part of the POS fuel i need and this make, i can save around 10-20M/month on the fuel cost. so it make my POS can run in the black ( a very little but it's something and i play) but these new taxes will raise prices of fuel and therefore the cost of operation will also increase thus combine with the customs taxes, this results in the arrest of my POS because it becomes a money pit, and death of my hope to start a small industry production vessel or other ...

again because in hight sec space you don't have the same harvest rate than in low sec or in 0.0, so big entities still have no problem for their lot of isk making against risk, while small corporations will have no risk, ok, but will cost more despite lower yields.

Now what can I do against that? nothing ? not really, I can go suck some dicks to expect to have a system that I'll have to rent to a large entity, but of course as I am a small corporation, I could not pay .. . and if I can not do anything except die in my corner. which also means the end of my subscription to eve, I think ... execpt...

This is a good change. Gives people more to fight over.

I guess they would get a similar tear free result had they left the tax rate alone and just ninja patched high sec planets to slowly become less productive over a month or two. They would just think everyone had depleted the high sec planets.

This is the revolt and supply drop I was talking about. We are going to end up with a big gap in P1s. Without further incentivising low-sec, we're going to have some serious supply issues. High sec doesn't have near the resources to sustain the current demand.

I support this change. It adds much more complexity and nuance to an otherwise risk-free, boring activity. PI was easy money for far too long and the ability to fight over access to planets fits in with the theme of the game. The POCO system has a low barrier of entry and is a way to encourage highsec players to venture into lowsec and experience the life of nullsec dwellers who have to deal with structure mechanics everyday. Don't let all of the whiners and complainers get their way.

I believe you've just proven that you have no understanding of economics, pirates or nullsec.

Please, leave the PI market in disgust, it will only serve to prove the effectiveness of my PI investments.

(BTW, noobships flying through pirate haven - sounds like a mission for Skye)

Personally I see no big deal here. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together should be able to make isk out the yin yang with PI if your willing to put a little patiennce into it. As for my experience with the chages, in less that 24 hours me and my corp mate had all six interbus sites destroyed, new corp owned ones put up to cut taxes out all together in our WH.

As for the prices, well I am loving how they have jumped over 4k per unit on the stuff I produce over night. So please yes quit PI throw in the towell, and sit on the fourms and whine while I grow rich in EvE. Heaven forbid you do anything constructive like make your own centers in low sec, talk with similar corps about building and protecting some to use in low sec, NPC null, WH etc. I always forget this is EvE online instead of actually geting off your rear to work around a problem or go around it... lets just flood the forum with tears as usual.

if your pos only runs in the black because you mine your own fuel its losing money you idiot

if you're going to make economic forecasts you should avoid making it clear you're that stupendously dumb

You do realize that once the prices stop fluctuating and the market has adjusted to the new tax rate, that you will be making at least as much profit as you did before... with the option to make a much higher profit margin if you ever decide "you want" to venture into Low Sec.

Amazingly we heard very similar arguments when PI was first introduced to take over from NPC supplies, that Null Sec having vastly superior resources at their disposal would dominate the market, that nobody would do PI in Low sec because it was too dangerous.

Predictably, it was blind unreasoning panic talking.

Same old, same old...