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Not sure if anyone has brought this up but do you realize that industry guys are getting "crew members" before the pvp space ship guys?!?

so you can't buy them all to work in your WH system?

double post, sorry

Put a delay between the end of the auction for a team and when that team becomes available for use in the winning system. Have the team loaded aboard NPC haulers (which already exist; remember those NPC docking & undocking you see?) Have the NPC haulers travel to the winning system. Give incentive to shoot NPC haulers. Allow players to interdict teams from systems (shoot the NPC haulers).

Edit: I suppose that cargo scanners would need to reveal the NPC hauler contents, too (by team name).

MDD

Make them be collected by players. Players that collect them automatically have a suspect/criminal flag. Oh yeah - make them 2500m3.

I'm not sure how that could be made workable. It isn't like the team is going to do anything but try to make their way to the winning system, so how capturing them from the wreck would be useful eludes me.

MDD

I fear that teams may be unbalancing because of how easy it is to over-produce.

Wait for a great team for a particular item to show up and snipe the bidding to put it into a quiet production spot.
(or simply wait to see where they end up and then go there) Then flood the system with jobs (note you are still being charged relatively cheaply because the costs lag somewhat). Overproduce the item and sell your stocks off for a year or so.
Leave desolation in that system behind you as costs are now high and without the great team, there is no point to running jobs there

You should be able to make good coin off your stocks at a price where everyone else is losing isk (at least until the next roll of the die produces another great team)

Not your posts?

Seriously though, let's take a look at RL for a second.

60 years ago the UK was a manufacturer, it made things. Then ~economics~ happened and the manufacturing got shut and moved where the labour was cheap. Now China's economy is growing in the next 5-10 years it's like manufacturing will move again.

10 years ago everyone was talking about shutting down their call centres and moving them to India for cheaper labour. Now all the outsourced call centres are in the philippines. NOW they are moving back because the lower cost isn't worth the hassle they get from their customers.

In central Europe, three well known car manufacturers that directly compete with each other have teamed up because they can pool their resources to produce their goods dirt cheap, and then simply compete on the market.

For years now the American government has been funneling money into it's uncompetitive industries to keep them afloat. If you produce in empire space you've chosen to produce somewhere where the government believes in free trade (at least for capsuleers). If nullsec "governments" want to funnel money into making their production competitive then so be it.

There is a famous saying which is capital knows no boundries. Money goes where it is best to invest, and when there is somewhere better it moves.

In EVE there are no restrictions on moving your capital around on a daily basis, or at least very little costs. Don't you think for one second that if companies were able to up sticks and move in a day they wouldn't do it more often if it suited them.

I suspect in practice what will happen is everyone will start clumped together with the teams concetrated, and slowly one by one people will move somewhere cheaper. Eventually those ones will become tens, hundreds and you get what happened in China, a mad rush to move all your production there. Eventually you help the economy by providing paying jobs and you need to compete more, pay more for both staff and local materials. Eventually one person says "Hey, we could save money by moving here you know..." and the whole thing happens again.

As long as you don't have to up sticks and move every month or so I can't see how it's any different from real life, albeit it's more crudley implemented here for reasons of complexity.

Let's pretend you are in the room with Steve Jobs and Sergey Brin in 2006.

Steve: Sergey, let's not compete for each others workers. It'll drive up costs for both of us!
Sergey: That's a great idea Steve! Let's not allow normal market forces affect the cost for our workers.
Steve: Not just our workers, our agreement will likely cause sticky wages for all Silicon Valley workers.

...

Market forces affect the cost of labor in real life. GM, Chrysler and Ford really do have to worry about how much labor costs the others. If GM changed their contract with the UAW, it was very likely that Chrysler and Ford would have to meet the demands of the new labor agreement themselves. It's debatable whether adding this level of reality to a video game is desirable, but it is realistic.

I assumed "Team Up" meant 'hey players, you should work together, especially because this is an MMO.'

I was wrong.

I'm very confused how adding an extra algorithm to industry tasks = "team work"
You had a chance to increase player interaction, to increase the benefits of player interaction, to decrease the huge lack of an EVE-DUST connection, and you thought this was good enough?

I am so confused.

I wonder what the CSM said would happen, but we'll never know because CCP NDA's anything that comes within 1 AU of the CSM.