Assembly Hall

Crius bring the removal of slots, along with reasons to move among systems to produce stuff. Teams give reasons for people to pull together into hubs. In high sec most production-centric systems have many stations with dozens of available offices. This is not the same for nullsec.

With crius our player-dropped outpost bonuses are changing. Amarr outposts now can be upgraded to give reductions in material efficiency. Due to the cost of upgrading outposts, alliances will likely end up with a few production hubs. Because of the material efficiency bonuses, the Tier 3 and Tier 2 would be Factory and Plant upgrades in whichever order is preferred for that system. This leaves the t1 slot for a possible office upgrade. This bring the number of available slots in an amarr outpost to 26.

26 slots for an expensive production system is simply not enough. Northern associates has 336 corporation. Goonswarm Federation has 288. Brothers of Tangra has 225. PBLRD has 113. Provibloc has countless un-allianced corporations active within their space. Most of these corporation are small groups of players or individual players with a need to utilitze a corp hangar. I know I'm not the only player that uses an alt corp to manage multiple production pilots.

When crius hits and players in nullsec begin producing more goods locally, we're suddenly going to have a lot of reason to converge in a production system, but will be incredibly limited by the number of office slots, and managing blueprints for multiple pilots on the same account is an incredible headache without an office in your production station.

CSM needs to lean on ccp to expand the number of available offices in outposts to accommodate the increase in local production in nullsec. With the limitation of 1 station per system, and a total cost of roughly 80 billion isk to build and upgrade an amarr outpost to t3, these outposts should come with more offices. More offices also gives alliances a way to tax members, which provides another form of bottom-up income stream.

Say, mynna, arent you in the csm, maybe you could......

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