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my questions got lost in the middle of this thread
re posting them again in the hopes CCP responds:

Questions to CCP:

- what was the motivation for the upgrade step, why not include the materials of the upgrade in the construction step and then is just a simple anchor and online? Is that a way to avoid online ninja tactics?

- Will you provide 5 runs BPCs in concord store for a discount like the capital modules?

- This customs offices shields regenerate?

- Its possible to have a second and third version of this structure with more and less raw HP (for more / less money and materials of course) so people can have a choice to choose having in account their corp wallets size vs risk / defense capabilities -> (small, medium, large)

- Why not allow, In low sec, multiple customs offices (max 3 for planet) and let the market / concurrency / prices decide how this possibility plays out?

- Will people attacking the costumer office in low sec gain aggression and drop in standings?

- If the custom office is only anchor, not upgraded, can I still shoot it and reinforce it?

- Can downgrade the customs offices and un-anchor it?

- The customs offices will need stront?

I'm wondering why we can't have this:

http://i.imgur.com/SBnBA.png

Rather than the current planned:

http://content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/2690/2899/Configure.PNG

Also, +1 for option to allow corp access to PI products in the PCO. A 350,000 m3 corp hanger?

And +1 to allowing contracts to/from PCOs (which could be a work around it corp access / corp hanger not feasible).

Sorry, this is FAIL !
EPIC FAIL !

Think of the economical impact!
Prices of PI stuff aren't high enough already??
And as said in the latest Price Indices report,
ice product prices and PI product prices are negatively correlated!
In other words, ice products will get cheap, bottom prices, and PI stuff expensive.
Btw, PI stuff isn't all for POS fuel, but also for T2 production. I don't wanna think about the price risings there...

The BPO only available through CONCORD LP shops or Faction Warfare...
Another FAIL !!
Who gets CONCORD LPs? Those who do incursions.
PI is for industrials !! They don't run incursions !!! And they don't do faction warfare either !!
Industrials don't / can't fly combat ships !! So how do you want us to defend our custom offices ??!!

Oh! And another thing...
PI in hisec is already very time consuming, due to low resources on those hisec planets, and now you're going to double import/export taxes ??!!

Thanks alot! But this change will break PI even more, if not completely !!!

Hey Cail, you know we'll need ten of these damnable structures in our hole and we won't benefit in any way, shape or form from having them? The only thing that will happen is our PI will be screwed while we try and get these over priced pieces of crap in there.

My main char is part of a large 0.0 alliance so i know what the game is about smartarse!

Also I do my PI in 0.0 NPC space, so no player holds sov, as i understand it you cannot do PI in someone elses sov space!

As for "interacting", you should try working 18 planets in a hostile system......there is plenty of "interaction"!

Why should I loose out to the Alliance that makes it's home in the same system, they have their chances to kill me, they do not own the system but under the new system as far as PI goes they might as well!

And I think what is uncalled for is to get people to invest heavily, say maybe a Jumpfreighter, then risk your investment to do an activity that CCP said is for everybody, just to have the door slamed in your face in favor of the biggest blob that resides in your area.....thats just bollocks

@ War Kitten, I already alreay have a 4 man corp doing the PI, clue was the "18 planets" bit and my previous post on the subject, the point is i will not be able to run a CO in the system i'm in because it will be blown up buy the locals who will put up their own and so stop me from participating in part of a game i pay to play!

Get ready to defend your wormhole!

PI is important to us as a source of POS fuel and income (excess sold in Empire). The changes give you a temporary degree of ownership of planets in your wh system.


When are changes scheduled to be introduced?

I assume planetary industrial modules will continue to function but not be accessible until Corp owned customs put in place.

Key to successful defence is the timers on access wormholes to our system unless the aggressor logs off in system. It would take a lot of time and effort on behalf of an aggressor to take down all our customs offices.

Small is beautiful. C1 wh would seem to be the most easily defended.

Jeff

Here are the four things PI really needs:

1. Click-fest has to go. It's really quite simple. GET RID OF MANUAL ROUTING! A simple "up-the-chain" routing system would be fine.
   • Plop down extractor and tell it what to do.
   • Attach basic factory to it and it should DEFAULT to converting whatever the extractor is pulling.
   • Any attached Advanced factories should pull what they need from the Basics AUTOMATICALLY.
   • Any attached High-Tech factories should pull what they need from the Advanceds AUTOMATICALLY.
   • Any overflow/excess should DEFAULT to AND from any attached storage facility AUTOMATICALLY.


2. Storage Facilities (spaceports especially) should be ENORMOUS! They should be capable of storing freighter sized loads.


3. Colonies should be creatable as Private (for a single character) or Corporate (for a corporation). Access to corporate customs offices controls and storage should be just like access to corporate hangars (accessible by anyone that has access granted to them by the corp). This is a no-brainer and should already be implemented.


4. Link upgrades have to go. They serve no purpose other than to eat power and CPU and add nothing of benefit. This power and CPU drain mechanic could easily be included into the links themselves AUTOMATICALLY depending on their length and load.

These are the things I want to see fixed in PI. Anything else is just a waste of time.

Not at all enthusiastic about this for lowsec.

Given that lowsec is 'still' considered the domain of the empires with gate guns and stations, how do players suddenly have the ability to place customs offices in sovereign territory?

Ok, the big problem from my point is that there is vast numbers of bored low sec inhabitants who have sucessfully killed anyone else in their region. This will give them somthing else to destroy (even if taxes are set to 0 I would imagine) and then wonder why their space is so empty.

It really is a great idea in theory, just not for space that really can't be controlled. Null Sec yes, Low Sec definitely not.

I can't comment on Wormholes as I have little experience with them. I would expect the opportunities for random destruction of someone elses customs offices, once again just for the hell of it, would be good (in addition to legitimate takeover tactics).

This.

I realise you're on a tight budget but I would like to emphasise that allowing different tax rates would make this a much more interesting mechanic. If possible, ask one of your programmers how long it would take to do please :D



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The relative low value of most CO won't matter compared to the relative high value of hilarious carebear tears.

My point is that just because a sandcastle is cheap or unimportant, doesn't mean people won't go disproportionate lengths to kick it over. Especially when everyone and their mother has a supercap, which makes reinforcing them a matter of minutes with only a few supers.

You should consider making the COs immune to doomsdays and fighter bombers. That would at least increase the effort of kicking them over a little.