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Player Owned Customs Offices: Math, Markets and Design Problems

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bilingi
Grandeur Illusions
#321 - 2011-12-17 06:10:29 UTC
hahah actually theres about 200 of us from eve On Stwor right now... and thats just people i know from various corps. Probably wont unsub as i have like 6 months left but theres no real reason to log on to eve presently.
Jack Dant
The Gentlemen of Low Moral Fibre
#322 - 2011-12-17 12:16:20 UTC
pmchem wrote:
I kind of miss the controversy and panic of 8 pages ago.

GSF is taxing its POCOs to pay for their install and defense and things are working quite well so far. Any special news from highsec or lowsec?

So far, they've been a good driver of conflict in lowsec. Dreads have died reinforcing them, carriers have died repairing them, and random people completely unrelated to attackers or defenders have shown up for timers expecting fights and gotten them.

Most lowsec POCOs are taxed at 8-10%, so the motivation to go to lowsec is the same as it was pre-patch: more resources per planet. A few are taxed at very high levels to bait fights, but I'm not sure that's actually working.

What I have noticed in the last week or so is a big increase in the number of people using lowsec POCOs, so profitability is more predictable now. Still, the ROI is a bit too long, and the income too low, and most interbus COs are still in place.

If that trend continues, the devs might want to lower resource depletion drastically, so more people can use the same planet and so the income becomes more concentrated on a few POCOs.

What happens in lowsec, stays in lowsec, lowering the barrier to entry to lowsec PVP: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=476644&#post476644
pmchem
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#323 - 2011-12-18 20:29:35 UTC
I like that people unrelated to the POCO reinforcement or defense are just showing up for fights. It's like a mini PVP arena.

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Jack Dant
The Gentlemen of Low Moral Fibre
#324 - 2011-12-18 23:34:02 UTC
The timer is visible to anyone who has POCOs on brackets and is in system. In busy systems, that's a lot of people who know of a time and place a fight might go down. Makes me wonder whether making towers (and their timers) visible system wide would be a good idea.

What happens in lowsec, stays in lowsec, lowering the barrier to entry to lowsec PVP: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=476644&#post476644