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Before this mess in implemented, or in 2015?

I think I like most of what is in the blog!

Have to give it a bit more time to process tho, more detail will be available when the next blog arrives.

Any ETA on that one?

Yes they did, and the PoCo system (and the market activity fueled by them) is thriving.

CCP has already stated they will address the issues of abandoned POS removal, and if they aren't abandoned they need to be maintained (and cost accordingly). So how many greifer corps (as you so inaccurately put it) get off on maintaining a network that would need to include literally 100's of POS's to be an effective blockade?

Lastly, why on earth would blanketing dozens of systems with POS's affect manufacturing in stations other than the trade hub one wit? Unless you choose to manufacture at a POS simply move a couple of jumps to a less expensive system and manufacture there in an NPC station.

This is one of your further stretches my friend.

Ferrying your BPCs in your shuttle a few jumps to what? manufacture at 14% of cost? 10%? Even 4%?

This is going to drive manufacturing out of the hubs. There are only so many moons in the trade hub systems. The biggest of those systems, Jita, is going to be off limits. I'm guessing that the POS slots in Amarr will become even more hotly contested, raising the effective price of those further.

So, slightly revised: the net effect will be the creation of walled cities. The central system will be largely taken up by king-of-the-hill alliances and coalitions, with lesser but still significant powers taking up adjacent and nearby systems. Then, the "wall," or ring, defined by the balance between cost-to-manufacture and cost-to-freight. This general system will replicate itself fractally across New Eden, scaling with the size of the central hub. Outside of those will be essentially random, low-volume noise with the occasional superhighway cutting through to get goods from one major hub to another.

It has the potential to diversify the landscape somewhat, and the systems around the biggest rings may see a lot of PVP activity, which will decrease rapidly as you approach the central hub (except for indy gankers in pipes, of course--but even they might find themselves policed if they interfere with a major alliance's logistics).

we don't like to think of it as an attack. it's just ensuring that the efforts of the 'casual player' are directed towards a greater purpose. think of it simply as organising players into stratas, with 'casual highseccers' working as a team under the direction of project leaders associated with some of the larger non-highsec bodies of players. we'll be targeting players who are not currently working within this structure for reassignment to more productive duties towards a common goal.

Um.....look at my corp history. I have done all these things, and yeah, I do play a lot of Eve, or done it one time or another. So yeah, I can comment on the impact of these changes.

oh, and an aside, I am OK with venturing into low sec (FW zones, plus through the old PL staging area) to pick up BPC's. I always accepted that risk since I shut down my POS. But now the cost of copying is going way way up, and the risk remains the same.

Your track record of being wrong about almost everything you comment on suggests otherwise, as does your insistence on assigning intentions where none exist and your obvious confusion about even very basic mechanics and behaviours, which is the real source of the imagined problems you keep envisioning.

Indeed, just keep in mind that any benefit in time that a T2 BPO owner is likely to see will be far more beneficial to the Invention specialist, considering all the different steps that are required in Invention and the scale on which it is usually done.

Sure, but you always mention (INSERT ECONOMIC ACTIVITY HERE) in the present tense.

If you had said, "at one time in my storied eve experience I had copied capital BPOs in lowsec," repeated for every single eve economic activity, especially the ones that are being changed at the time, I'd be more inclined to believe you, but expecting me to believe that you do every single one of these activities all at once stretches your credibility pretty far.

I have a couple of questions and comments about the changes, but over all the look really good.

Firstly how do you intend to address invention and the to make it less clunky without totally breaking it with these changes. In the current pos system if I can't run jobs remotely from a station I need to go to a POS to run the jobs which locks down a toon to the system as the cycle times are only 1.25 hours, do you intend to streamline this?

Secondly I think that a hard cap of 14% is faaaar to low, the fee's as they stand right now are a joke compared to the cost of fueling a pos per slot. The current prices even at 500% its almost equal the cost per hour to run a job in a reasonably fit pos.

Lastly while we're changing copying times I'd like to see T2 BPO copy times remain where they are, if they become more viable then invention you will likely see that system in its current state fizzle out really really quickly. People who got lucky in the T2 BPO lottery already have piles of money, there is absolutely no need to line their pockets even more (imo they should all be done away with to make it fair but oh the rivers that would be cried if you did that).