Player Features and Ideas Discussion

'Give us something back!'

like the potential to get better refine yields than u get now?
or the lack of queues for researching BP's
or the ability to put a POS anywhere without a standings grind
or the ability to compress ore in high sec?

the whining aside, corp tax on LP wouldnt be bad, even though ive been opposed to it in the past :S

i also believe that trading or selling LP defeats its purpose.

as a reward the corp gives u access to their special armory at reduced prices. Sometimes they'll take an item u own, and make it better for u, or they might tell u how to build one of their special ships.

further access and lowered prices are available if u provide the dog tags and body parts (lol) of their enemies or notorious pirates.

LP's are an attempt to quantify how much they love u in ur butts. i dnt think its meant as a currency.

It will be especially useful for those who want to sell pre-compressed ore to nullsec entities. Mostly the low-end ores to be specific.

Hmm.. everywhere?

Muhahahahaha, that i mah belt and yes dat is mah death star over there to protect it

Wish they would release them finally.. those dev blogs, so we could get an idea.

As it stands right now, they ruined the "owning and using BPOs together through having them locked up" feature. As you cannot lock BPOs on a POS. Would also be horrible to have them locked there while it gets attacked. So there need to be some replacement system asap.

BPO locking was a major, but also very annoying feature, when it came to doing research, invention and production together. So far it was no problem to lock them at any station, even if they had no slots at all, as you could use the POS outside.

We either need a way to secure BPOs at a POS, more stations with production/research capability, or increased numbers of bureaus on stations that offer those services.


All the people that used "suboptimal" stations so far cause they had their POS, are now forced to look for stations that have production/research/copy/invention slots. And i bet there are not enough of those out there for all of them.

They removed the bottleneck of available slots, but created a new bottleneck of a lack of available bureaus for corporations, that suddenly need them, as their "we can use the POS even on suboptimal stations" thing is busted. They moved out of the way, went through lots of effort and maintenance costs, to go out of the way of those stations - and now they get forced to return to them.


I really see a big upcomming problem in available bureaus on such stations after the summer patch - we need more bureau slots at those stations, or more stations that offer those kind of services.

Highsec should be less profitable in comparison to other more "dangerous" places, period.

I don't actually think it is that clear cut as that since trading activities need a large stable market with high demand which by all accounts doesn't exist in null. That is my reason for arguing that each security sector should have something best suited to it, and then for best profit a player would interact with all areas.

I agree with the risk/reward concept but not with the idea that any one are should be better at all things.

Also risk/reward applies to each action, the risk of running a mission in null should have a high isk reward for the bounty. At the other extreme the single run of building a ship or making a trade in hisec has a low reward in terms of return on investment for the isk. You only make loads of isk if you invest loads of isk. Just as a player should make lots of isk very rapidly buy running missions etc in null, the clever investor should still be able to make lots of is in hisec.

in my view so far risk/reward should define the rate at which you can gather wealth in relation to the wealth you invest to do so. An interceptor running exploration in null is very high risk to reward in that sense and good luck to them, but by the same measure a player making a multi-billion trade that will return a low percentage is putting tremendous wealth at risk on the bet that someone else won't beat them to the deal.

The % return on investment in hisec definately should be lower than the more risky areas, but that won't stop someone making 5 bil ISK by investing 100 bil ISK into a 5% return deal in hisec trades