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Over the short haul, yes. Over the long haul? Probably not.

It will depend on how safe high-sec POSes continue to be. But since the CCP devs seem hell-bent driven to force high-sec players into PVP situations, this will probably drive most of them to use the NPC stations, even with lower efficiency, when POSes come under frequent attack by PVP corps/alliances.

CCP has repeatedly tried, and failed, to entice high-sec players to take more risks and engage in PVP. But, the highest priority of high-sec players has always been "safety" - this is why they stay in high-sec. No reason to expect this player behavior to change.

I've been watching a similar safety-vs-efficiency trade-off with high-sec mining. Retrievers/Mackinaws and Covetors/Hulks are still the most commonly used mining ships, but Procurer/Skiff usage has definitely been on a steady rise, as ganking continues to spread.

Will we be able to select several single run bpc's to run multiple invention/manufacturing jobs at once?

You can tell that to a player who didn't have contacts with a person who (practically) monopolized Nighthawk and Invu field production for years (among many other things). The fact is I know those who own pretty impressive collections of T2 BPOs and I know how they operate. If I'm certain of one thing it's that you, as a simple player that does not own a T2 BPO, are definitively unable to control the prices or compete with those players if they choose to do so - and they have been in the past on several occasions.

Yes, it would make easier for a MANUFACTURER to get into T2 production, but at a cost of driving INVENTORS out of the business and out of the game.

T2 BPOs can not be obtained any more - the way to obtain them was removed from the game many years ago. The game now functions on a different mechanics - invention. And all industrial players apart from a lucky (or wealthy) few are playing the game by these currently active rules and mechanics. The investment is several months of gameplay, skill training, planning, organisational efforts, forming corporations and ultimately paying for a subscription in order to master a field like Invention that relies on game mechanics that have been active for several years just to be kicked out of the market by a handful of players that are still milking the mechanics that was discontinued all those years in the past and are not part of the current mechanics whatsoever. That is certainly not a wise business decision.

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Plus one year and you would have an extremely high barrier to entry for new players. And vastly diminished profit margins.

The point has nothing to do with being touchable or not — it has to do with intent. Again, just because you're not using it does not mean it's “abandoned”. It is abandoned if you have no intention of using it, which cannot be demonstrated just by a its current state of (non)usage.

It already is. If you're not willing to fight for your POS, you will lose it. That's the whole point of wardecs, after all. That's also why actual willingness to defend the POS, or lack thereof, is a valid measure of abandonment, whereas just sitting offline is not. One is a state with no meaning; the other is a show of intent.

Conversely, if you want that POS spot, you have to be willing to fight for it. The mechanics for doing so are already in place and no-one has been able to articulate any reason why these mechanics need to be displaced that doesn't boil down to sheer laziness and impatience, neither of which are good reasons for a change (quite the opposite). Or, to reverse your question, why should you be able to get rid of a POS without a wardec?

And blocking people's access to moons is no intent?

Heh... the production capacity is not an issue. It haven't been in the past either. But I can see where your assumption comes from. The base of your logic is that a player has a T2 BPO and that the volume is not enough to fill or control the market. But, I'm talking about a single player here with 20+ accounts and dozens of T2 BPOs of the same type. Put several players like that in an entity (like a corporation or alliance) and you'll get market control (yes, those are actual persons and not some hypothetical situation... and no, I'm not naming them). I was there while it was happening and I can assure you that they HAD control over the market in the past and they will have it again if the opportunity like what is going to happen in the summer expansion arrives.

And yeah... good luck obtaining enough T2 BPOs by buying them to even think of competing on the market. And even if you had enough ISK to do that, do you really think that you'd be simply able to go to the Buy Orders section of the forum and just ask for it and be flooded with offers? Market control is not something an individual is willing to sell - for any amount of ISK. Especially if it's centered around a game mechanics that have been removed for years.

Additionally, your argument is still missing the fact that the majority of industrial players play by one rules for years and the handful of players are milking the game mechanics that was discontinued a long time ago).

So you want it to be a press button recieve bacon situation?

That no matter how over-produced a specific T2 item is, it should always be profitable to produce for the new player and even more profitable to produce for the experienced player?

How is that ever going to work in a free market sandbox?

Doesn't that go totally against everything EVE is about?

What you need is for CCP to keep up with the continuous rebalancing effort, so that more and more T2 products become usefull and all T2 prices are set by the inventors.

It can be. Thus: not abandoned.
The point is that you can't tell simply from the state of them sitting in space. As luck would have it, we already have a mechanic to determine such intent and there's no real reason to bypass or obsolete those mechanics.

…well, apart from the whole “becomes a target for immediate destruction” bit, sure.

You already can. Just wardec and go to town.

…and their production capacity is not nearly enough to push out inventors from the market. They're not assumptions — they're a matter of recorded fact. Again, if it's worth inventing, inventors control the market and there is nothing the BPO holders can do about it any more. Those days are long gone. The summer expansion does not change this in any way.

If by “milking” you mean “make far less ISK than if they could produce at high volume” then yes. It's not a particularly intuitive interpretation of the word, though. No, I'm not missing it. I'm saying that it is pretty much irrelevant on the scale of things — most BPO holders these days still haven't paid off their initial investment, and likely never will unless they can find a seller to take on the debt.