Jita Park Speakers Corner

We find the CCP proposed POCO changes to be quite acceptable. I do not use that statement lightly.

All highsec pocos will still charge a 10% NPC tax that players will not be able to avoid. Player owned pocos cannot set the tax rate to 0% and avoid taxes all together. The player set tax rate is added on top of the 10% NPC tax - as described in the dev blog.

"The NPC tax will continue for hi sec POCOs (as we want low sec POCOs to still be competitive). The tax rate stays the same, at 10% for export and 5% for import. This is then in addition to whatever tax the player owner sets."

This has the effect of only ever increasing the highsec PI tax rate. Combined with the destruction of interbus pocos creating a massive interuption in highsec PI supply this essentially makes highsec PI less profitable for the average players.

Certain cartels will however be able to seize control of the important planets and be protected behind a 500mil wardec shield - thus limiting the ability of lower income players to challenge them because of that barrier. I also have no problem with players only getting NPC aggression for shooting the Interbus POCOs - as those will take forever to clear out of highsec, and there is no precedent for NPC aggression causing suspect flagging.