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I love how the biggest argument for this is that some magic ninja will come along setting up PCOs everywhere with a 9% tax, while everything else is getting ignored. I doubt most alliances will allow neuts to use their PCOs and any that do you can be damn sure tax will be a lot higher than 9%. And the argument "market prices" doesnt really work. The alliances WANT to control the market pries. If they are producing the PI at 0% tax while everyone else is paying 50% tax, they control the region market.

You are taking away a system that works well enough from every casual player and smal alliance that ventures out of highsec. There is NO way this is going to work out well for anyone except big alliances, and even they will have a small problem. What happens when during the night, a group pops into your systems and reinforces ALL of your PCOs. they will now all pop out of reinforced mode at the same time, and theres no way you could coordinate a defence for all of them in < 24 hours. If their defense isnt massively high, and you dont allow turrets with them, it will happen.

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Also please note that the less people an alliance has do PI on its planet, the slower the drain of the resources on the plane is, so why would an alliance allow anyone but their own?
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That refers to the current existing CO (owned by NPCs), not the later player built ones. So, come deployment day, all those get deleted and their contents relocated.

Then buy them off of the market like most people will do 5 minutes after the become available in the LP stores, build them in any station with a factory slot, haul and drop it into place.

There are already lists of components out there tor construction. If you do the math you won't be spending "billions" to cover your 10 planets.

From that point on you can produce 100% tax free goods, while everyone in high sec (or using someone elses CO in low sec as will be extremely common) will be losing 10% off the top.

Well worth the investment on 10 planets... even more worthwhile if you run more.

Absolutely NO tie-up to sovereignty whatsoever. Make it like poses, put them up where you will, nothing to do with sov.

You can introduce discounts to costs for sov-holders or whatever, but please please please do not restrict building of the offices. We have enough unused empty sovereignty space already.

I love the suggestion for courier contracts directly to Customs Offices... great suggestion!

This is kind of a waist of time. Most people who do PI farm mulitple planets and run Ninja-PI so they will have to switch to Can Launches cuz no way Im going to pay someone else for my hard work. The the other thing is just one CO will be so cost prohibitive that it will not be worth the effort. Plus 99% of the time with respect to low sec there is only one player sucking stuff of the planet ( I have yet to see another person on one of the planets I farm), so it would take years to recoup the investment of the CO. Plus after about 4 months the planet will become sucked dry and you will be left with a useless Customs office.

In the average system there are 6 to 10 planets, so what will happen to the planets without CO, only Can launches will be available?

Who ever came up with this idea must not know anything about running a real PI operation in Low Sec. High sec is a non issue and well in null there is no point since the Guild will probably own the area and why charge themselves for PI transfers. All you really are doing is adding to the already bored gate campers agenda by giving them more things to shoot at, please don't do this its such a waist of resources use the programming time to fix stuff that is broken.

Very Respectfully

VA

I havent decided yet whether this is good or bad. The fact that its still restricted to officers of a player corp instead of individuals was a massive letdown already.

Why not take this opportunity and refine the corp roles at the same time, introduce more of them or better UI etc. Corp roles is still one of the big things that need fixing.

Most likely this change will screw over more people than it will make happy.

There are a few obvious things you guys need to do before releasing this change:
1. Make sure enough BPC for the CO's are available when the current CO's disappear. There are thousands and thousands of planets in use and replacing all those CO's WON'T happen quickly. Alternatively, leave the current CO's in place for 3-6 months or until someone replaces it by anchoring a player owned one. Another idea is to issue 1 free BPC to each corp or each player or each alliance (which ever gives the optimal #).
2. PI prices are going to go through the roof (probably already have). Have you thought through what this means to the market, PoS fuels prices, 0.0 alliance finances, etc.? I bet you don't even have a vague clue and you REALLY should or at least be prepared to do something if it all goes pear shaped (see Market Discussions thread for clues).
3. You've created yet another asset that only giant blobs can reliably defend. Is this really what you want? Perhaps you should weight the HP such that disabling it isn't too hard, but destroying it is hard, COSTLY, and only worth it for strategic reasons.
4. You've created yet another item that will be spammed all across space and doesn't require any kind of maintenance. Do we really need more space trash? I think unused facilities should be easily trashed by a small gang or taken over instead of destroyed.

Hmm that will effectily be a big nerf to lowsec, since it would be impossible to defend a POS farm, especially 23/7. The cost for some PCO will probably eat up the profit of weeks and if one of them gets blown up it is probably more profitable to mine Veldspar in a newbie-ship.

No I am not crying, but I predict a very sharp price increase in POS fuels will be the result, the ones who will cry will not be the masochists who do PI, but the POS owners who needs the materials.

This is just complete and utter crap. PI already sux. It sucks to set up, it sucks to maintain. Now we want to add yet another structure to shoot at too.. On top of that its going to be a race to get to the plasma planets first.

Whoopee.. I am so excited..

Is the lag fixed yet?

How about walking in stations? (Also useless)

Can my dread out DPS a BS yet?

Are Supers still the win button?

Yea lets screw with PI first.. good plan..