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Regarding customers, local production can be encouraged through more sensible means. Null was long due to be given a means of perfect refining, but I don't see the point of making perfect refining in empire a time sink in order to achieve that. Newbies spend their initial time and gain experience in empire, another time and effort sink regarding refining is only contribute to their stagnation of seeking further experiences elsewhere.

Seasoned players sometimes do really tend to forget how inaccessible some aspects to getting things done in EVE to young players.

Again, null can be easily given the same production availability and means as the empire.

And I do really disagree with you in empire being more safe. If anything, through a combination of illusion of safety and unpredictability, empire space is more chaotic in comparison to null, especially sov null.

We have solid intel networks, defense mechanisms and a guarantee that no player with blue standings can seek to harm you in null. On the contrary, in the empire, if you are mining, you can be ganked easily. Only thing you can do to prevent that is to seek a backwater system to mine in and slightly fit your hulls to be more tanky to require gankers to bring in more numbers. Same goes for missioners.

Of course I haven't really added the extortion schemes and awoxing to the issues that empire dwellers are facing.

This also explains why parts of this change cannot be objectively encouraging social interactions in empire. Rather, it encourages players to create more alts.

Can anyone really claim that risks inherent in adding POS setups to small time mining outfits in empire (because they will not be able to refine efficiently anymore unless they sink their training time into PERFECTING ALL the ore specific refining skills in addition to the current requirements of attaining perfect faction standings and training baseline refining skills to V) will result in more social interactions? Rather, it will be a hilarious mixture of awoxing, ganking, industrial corporation harrasment and failure on part of new players. Additionally, think about the lack of clear moons in empire that POS setups can be dropped on and the necessity of very high faction standings you need to place a POS in empire space.

This is why I think this change only benefits CCP's wallet. More time spent training time sink skills is more money they make. And they don't even realize that they will be alienating prospective players away from the game by making things difficult in empire.

Really, ask yourselves. Are pushing away new players and forcing existing player base to create even more alts and/or sink more time into very specific skills that have an effect on the greater picture of the New Eden really the best practices that CCP can come up with to increase their revenue?

Lastly, we who live in null sometimes have the tendency to forget that we need new players living in empire, expanding their involvement in EVE for us to thrive as well.

Any suggestions?

oh yes that veldspar and scordite vary valuable so then the gigantic ore site you guys get in your mining systems in null are utterly worthless and all that merc and a morphite just **** rocks

No, it buffs it pretty significantly, bringing faster and better abilities than it ever had before.

Empire is not getting nerfed? True IF You have PERFECT Refining Skills AND PERFECT Standings AND the 4% Refining Implant

So an industry player will have to train Reprocessing to 5, Reprocessing Efficiency to 5 and waste a clone to have the 4% implant (which requires Cybernetics 5 to plug-in BTW) ......... OHHH AND grind missions for XYZ months after training Social to 5 and all the skills required to run missions just to get a 1.2% "buff"

I thought CCP was trying to attract more people to this game.....

How is a maximum refining yield of 72.4% supposed to be attractive to anyone let alone a beginner?
Especially when it will now take months if not years of skill training and mission grinding to be able to get "decent" yield in 1 npc corporations stations.

I also notice the true minimum yield was never stated as the lowest yield quoted was for a character with Reprocessing 5 Reprocessing Efficiency 1 and PERFECT Standings......

"Refine" is better than "Reprocess" if you want to use the same word for each.

You can refine scrap metal. You can refine ore. Both sound fine.

You can reprocess scrap metal. Reprocessing raw ore sounds dumb.

In other words, laziness.

I'm not talking about myself. I'm talking about people. I'm talking about what it is they want out of the game, what their ambitions are.

The odd thing is, you in particular, and your alliance in general, are being the noisiest and least clever supporters of this change. No arguments, just noise. Noise does not make you right. You probably see as clearly as I do how this benefits the nullsec alliances.

This change will lead even further to nullsec stagnation. This change is bad for the game.

I think you greatly misunderstand the nature of bureaucracy!

Highsec bureaucrats would demand union wages for the reprocessors, strict environmental regulations to ensure healthy populations, as well as high taxes to pay for the "safety".

Nullsec is more second world, where you can pay sweatshop wages, mangle the environment in the name of efficiency, and other scorched earth policies.

Highsec vs Nullsec ins't like Germany vs Columbia. It is much more akin to the U.S. vs China, where both sides have plenty of technology and resources, they just have very different guidelines on how to uitlize it!

Someone has never been to nullsec.

Also, LOL SECOND WORLD, GSF is paying 200% peacetime srp. Real second world.