Science & Industry

Customs office could use a little work.

I was trying to make a submission during the time CCP was asking for input on structures, seems like I miss that window.

Here is the spill. So I started having problems with the customs office after the update that allow players to own their own customs offices. While living in a C3 wormhole doing PI as my main income on 2 accounts, I was gone from EVE for a few months. When I came back I did not have access the custom offices that were in the wormhole because they were all owned by players. I tried reaching out to the members of the Corp that owned the customs offices but no luck. I did a little research on each player of the corp and it seem the corp was inactive. I had to pack up and leave that wormhole. I’ve been trying to find another activity for my main income but for over 4 or 5 months I’ve come back to PI, went wormhole hunting found another C3. I checked to see if I have access to the player owned customs offices by placing an item in the customs office. I was able to place Items in the customs office so I assume I had access. After spending millions with my setup I did another test to see if I can take PI Items from the planet through the customs office and to my surprise I had no access. I wasted millions of ISK setting up. At this point I was really frustrated with PI. It would be nice if CCP could go back to the old way but I am afraid that might not be possible.

Well problem 1 for me is that there should be an indicator letting players know if they have access to a customs office. One way I can think of is to not allow players to put items in customs offices if they don't have access. Pretty much the same message I received when I tried to take items from a planet through the customs office. That should be the same message or similar if I tried to right click access customs office or access customs office.

Problem 2. If a corporation becomes inactive and you are requesting access you are just out of luck. A suggestion I may give is to implement a player owned customs office fee that is due every month. A small fee, something like 1,000,000.00 ISK or 500,000.00 ISK monthly. As how corporations rent offices, corporation would have to pay a fee for each customs office they own and have to pay those bills manually, and can do so from anywhere. If the fee is not paid multiple emails are sent to the corp prompting to make a payment. If the payment is not met the customs office should grant access to everyone with the old tax of 17% or even something like 20%.


Thinking about it some more, why don’t you give the owners of the custom offices something to compete with. Give launchpad the additional capability to launch cans into space. The cans may be half the size of the actual launchpad. The tax or fee for using the launchpad may be something like %20 or even %25. In doing so the owners of the customs office would have to compete to give a better tax rate.

My fellow EVE players your negative and positive opinions and comments are welcomed

Thank you for your time,
Entent Waine

Yes that is an option

How long will one BC take to blow up a POCO?

It would take around 4.16 hours according to this post: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2029951#post2029951

I did'nt set up a base so it wasn't like I spent time moving out.

Thank you Tau Cabalander.