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The proposed changes look interesting and I have only one objection:

I think the broker fee for NPC stations would be to high.

There should be incentive to build an maintain citadels even in highsec - I see that.
If one would try to create a market hub - free docking for everyone, with taxes on selling - I very much like that.
BUT. There is a much greater risk in using that hub. The structure can be put down, the market can be closed on the whim of the owner. Or specially You or I can be suddenly excluded.

That needs to be balanced. Ok.

But 5 - 6 % broker fee? This would be more than the margin on many items.

If anyone can make a Citadel in or near Jita work, even 0.1 % as a broker fee would make them very very rich.
There is no need to cut off the NPC station hugging margins trader from their profits.

I think that there is absolutely no need to make the NPC station broker fee higher.

Thx - missed that. We will face interesting tradeoffs in rigging choices.

I'm sorry CCP, but the 7.5% - 8.5% base taxes and fees are a terrible idea. As a trader, there's no way i'm going to use a citadel for trading, between the taxes/fees, risk of the citadel being destroyed, risk of being locked out, etc... What this will do is cause people who trade passively to find new professions, some will turn to mission running, others to wormholes, most will choose a profession that brings new isk into the economy (bounties, sleeper loot, etc...) rather than circulating the existing isk.

Secondly, the 5m per clone jump is a bit extreme, I could see 1m as alliances tend to jump clone a lot. Have it scale somehow depending on how recently you jumped, or how many clones you have, or how far you're jumping.

I don't think the solution to inflation in eve is by increasing isk sinks, I believe reducing the faucets would be better, reduce bounties and mission payouts, increase lp and loot, reduce the buy price of npc buy orders (sleeper loot, etc...)

Situation:

I'm putting my 3 month sell order in citadel


Owner rises sell tax to 100%. Buys my stuff, gets his isk back with the tax.

me -> no items, no isk.

owner -> items and isk.


Until you install the means to prevent that fraud, I will stay away from any investments in player-owned market places.

The new tax rates are a massive ISK sink. Will there be a new ISK fountain to compensate? Or is inflation really that bad?

That would be why the citadel owner is only able to adjust the broker fee, which is paid when you place the order.

What you describe would only apply if the citadel owner could adjust the transaction tax, which they cannot in these proposals.

GSF used to be the good guys, fighting the evil empire, now they are the bad guys. If the CFC opened up a 0% tax citadel in or around Jita, and kept it that way for months, then jacked the taxes up to just under the NPC orders, while simultaneously deccing all other competitors citadels, while potentially a smart play, this just lets people have too much power.

When AegisSov Hit, many players threw up their hands and said, Sov isn't worth it, let's go to LowSec. They were and are right in lots of ways; the isk is terrible, there's risk and maintenance, and there's no fights. People are going to be similarly affected when just keeping supplied is too much of a hassle. On paper this may be an attempt to add more sinks while also de-centralizing the market, which while both potentially good things, you could just as easily alter faucets (big need to do this) or add more NPC stations in key spots that would become sub-hubs.

I am sorry but this game play is forced, and in a bad way. You want to enable players and small groups, and these changes do the opposite.

Per character, per jump. Moving around is a key part of the game now due to how far and between content is. The faster and easier it is to get to content, the better experiences players have, and the more the wheels of the economy are greased, which in turn is more content for people. It will add up a lot faster than you think, and is just another straw on an increasingly burdened back.

Everyone of these proposed changes is harmful to players and small entities.

So it is not good because it doesn't allow players instant gratification and means their choices have consequences... I guess I can't blame you as it seems to be the path eve has been following lately.

Not my fault if you live to far away from content maybe try dropping a few blues