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Think about it as a line cost more than a 'tax'. Since the money is vanishing to thin air, not going to an entity. So doing jobs actually costs isk. you have to pay 'workers', buy materials, etc. The more congested the facility is, the more it costs to add an extra 'worker'.

Once you put it in that kind of mindset, it stops being unreasonable that a POS has to pay costs also.

Is there a timeline for the additional Blogs? I have no idea why it is taking so long on such a key item like industry. At this rate the last Blog will come out..what? a week before release?

We are not children in need of comfort. Release the info already!

Research is one of the most labour intensive things you can do, most of the work would be done by lab techs running reactions, producing reports on results, rerunning reactions to get correlated results and repeatable processes etc etc. It isn't unreasonable to model this work as a cost when people run up shitloads more jobs. Likewise with manufacturing as output is scaled up so are support costs. I have no problem with these changes.

I'm still not supportive of null being buffed to be better in every way. It makes for a very 'nilla choice. make profit? move to null. Scratch a living as you don't have time to devote to worshipping the overblown egos of the few in charge? Tough. That may be a bit tongue in cheek but the point stands. It simply doesn't make sense that the best industry would be in the most chaotic and volatile regions. I still believe that s more people are forced to null things will become much more dull. Right now if I need to move something I use cheap and cheerful tech 1 haulers. Things get more dangerous? I'll fly the BR I trained for and rarely even be seen.
Need moon goo? someone needs to move it to high sec. In future? no need just build inside the secure null bubbles of sov.

I would much rather see the controlled sections of null that have been stable for a long time start to have more NPC stations set up. after all these companies would want profit, therefore would move into the new markets. By this means the number of factory/research/copy lines would increase in null which is the point of the changes according to those who live in null. If industry is to be viable in null let it at least be on a level playing field. As systems become more populated with NPC stations the region becomes more stable, starts having mission agents etc etc. Only it is sov controlled, not concord controlled. Pockets of sov controlled hisec start to appear in null which would directly model such expansion as in America into the wild west that we are told null is ( or at least should be).

I cannot see how moving anything and everything of increased value into one section of space can be good. Having read the arguments put forward I can see the reasons why null sec needs more industry capability but this should come through NPC stations being built at planets alongside the player owned POS etc. This would then push areas of null into competitive states with hisec/losec but would have the risk/reward advantage of having more resources available (in some cases resources that hisec simply does not have which I would also change). Pos's would still be viable in the same way as in hisec to increase availability of slots etc but would again be more advantageous than in hi/losec as they are already bonused for null operation.

In short I would much rather change to model the whole of industry in every sec status region but with resources available on a risk/reward basis as we currently have. That way in hisec you need to work harder/smarter/ for your money but can still compete if you are a skilled S&I bod. Losec would be the fulcrum of the balance. Reasonable resources but with the risk that comes with it. Losec would be the best returns on resources if you control space well enough to provide security for the region. The more secure the region (i.e. the longer it is held and is below some measurable level of risk) the more NPC's come and build stations. Perhaps they should be invited in by the SOV owners so that they get a say in the services provided and where. You own the region? you get to ick and choose who does business with you. Take control of the region? you get to tell the corps there to change services if you choose.

I think I know which one you would pick as most likely

Where the hell the rest of the Blogs?...jeez

So bottom line, goons will control any high profit product, and leave the dregs for high sec .
Good to know.

Yeah, congrats.
Well played on how you designed these changes to explicitly benefit the cartels.

In general, I like the changes. This coming from a high sec industrialist.

But...in regards to a POS

1. I'd like to see some type of anchor-able secure container, maybe a new blueprint container (without the stacking issues), that allows a locked blueprint to be installed to labs/assembly lines and returned to the container in a locked state once the job is delivered. A means of bpo security at the pos.

2. Materials that are consumed by assembly lines should be fed from an anchored corporate hanger. No one likes the click fest of moving materials to all of the different assembly lines.

Yes the pos thing is to allow the alliances that can no longer handle living in null sec to be able to Wardec in high sec.

Can't get high sec people to null sec? Bring the null sec to the high sec people!

I always envisioned BP not being physically moved but more akin to DRM (DIgital Rights Mangement) scheme hence the existing status of remote from office, POS work

In regards to your second point, that actually would remove "game play" one of the principles touted in the announcement. Additionally the ease will come at a price, some corporations actually budget materials to each array. So say with your suggestion member A goes a little (probably alot) overboard in producing ammo members B and C can't do their work in drones and small ships (or whatever). The existing method prevents that, requires more management but honestly that is kind of the point in operating a POS.

That why you have different hanger divisions and division access with corp roles and titles. Do corporations give out the rent factory slot rule to a significant number of their membership?