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Well, he has a point there.. Everybody should be able to anchor a POS imho, but those with good standings towards the local empire factions or even the NPC corp next door (ehrm.. moon) should benefit from that standing, for example in the way of greatly reduced fuel costs compared to those without said standing. So maybe allow every capsuleer and their clone army to anchor a POS wherever they want, but double default fuel costs and introduce fuel consumtion relative to system sec+standings so that we get the same fuel consumptions for ppl with good standings as we now have.

I think this way the standing grinders remain happy, the ones making their entry into the POS hassle are happy too, but need to pay for it, and the industrialists that make fuel will be even more excited ;)

The number of quests is actually not terribly important to my point. I was discussing the misuse of the terms themepark and sandbox. Quantity is irrelevant, though "one or two weeks" of terrible coma-inducing boredom is still a bore, and I'm glad people will no longer be forced to suffer through it. Even if you only had to run a single quest to be able to deploy a POS, that would still not be a sandbox-like feature. Sandbox games move away from reliance on scripted content such as quests.

First and foremost it's a game mechanic and provides an ISK sink. Period. If you desperately need an in-lore answer, instead of licking your way up the Empire's asses, you can now bribe them to allow a POS in any space.

There's your answer.

You're paying the workers. And for the IP licensing costs to be able to make things, because people have pushed through changes on Empire patent law. And if you don't pay, they'll seize all your ISK, stored in the central banking systems.

There, lore reasons. Happy?

And if you want more research done at the same time, you need more workers and more equipment, which is expensive since you don't really have the room for it. If you add more slots, you have more room, and the costs go down. Kinda like if you have more people working, you also need to rent more chairs, managers, janitors, etc.

Although I like the announcement that Industry gets an overhaul, which it nedded pretty badly, I am somewhat confused about CCP's masterplan to whip any player who wishes to do some things efficiently into sov nulsec!

This is just a plain bad idea.
We know that CCP just loves nulsec and wants as many players as possible to go there.

BUT

Very few players live in Nulsec because of ****** game mechanics! Poor POS Management, awoxers, afk cloaky neuts,

Now industrial slots in Hisec will become absirdly expensive while Mittens sweethearts will be able to use outpost slots for far less?
Will all the hordes of nulsec industrialists be able to satisfy demand of Hisec?

NO!

Simply put: there are too few ibdustrialists in nulsec. And, as GSF and Mittens officially **** on prodders and miners, this change will have a tremendous impact on EVE ingame economics.

Unfortunately, CCP Management fails to understand that as Nulsec residents are simply a minority of eve players and that the majority of Industry and prodding takes place in Hisec and that this has been successfully so for many years, CCP executives do everything they can to nerf Hisec, the home of the majority of EVE players in a way that hopefully a few thousand industrialists will look at the changes, evaluate them and then throw their BPOs in the trash, quit their accounts and leave EVE for the elder scrolls online.

Ice has become a limited resource, thx to mechanic changes, Fuel prices raised a bit as icemining outside hisec became so profitable that the demand on the market could still b fulfilled.

Now every newbie plaer will be able to put a pos anywhere he likes. Why shouldn't there be any standing needed? At least some effort or at least someone elses effort (POS standing service) was needed to have a POS.
Corps payed rent for offices at stations (ISK DRAIN, good against inflation) so thexy could do research and produciton independently from the limitd availability of slots at stations. People used to laugh at other people who accidentally or deliberately stored their bPos inside a POS.

Why do you change this before putting POS management right?

Why do you want to punish poeple who have spent BILLIONS of ISK in BPOs research time and caring and refuelling of POSses?
In order to get better defense capabilities, will we be able to get starbase defense management as a starter skill? With no number of controllable pos modules perhaps?

Game development in EVE lacks a clear transparent und publicly advertised goal!

On the one hand, CCP removes effort/skill requirements for some things so that new player might have easier access (i.E. T1 industrial revamp and other examples). On the other hand highly specialized chars (time intensive skillings) are hit by the nerf hammer as the activites they trained for years now will be far profitable.

Does CCP wants us all to sit in Nulsec, permagrinding anos for faction and officer loot, making billions of isk? Like all the bot ratters in deklein?

Why does CCP wants to increase the income of all these nulsec RMT, that make hundreds of thousands of

Scaling costs will apply to all, just think of it as overhead on machine refits/repairs/scaling up plant lines etc.

No. I'm thinking of it as a tax on manufacturing, additional to the existing cost I already incur running a POS and one I cannot escape even with several highly skilled characters. It implies I have to run around all over the place to find the lowest (temporary) manufacturing cost. That might be different to the place where I can get the lowest research cost. All of my stuff gets spread around. I can no longer have a "base of operations" if I care about my costs (which I do). I have to manage it all and it's going to be a gigantic pain in the butt.

I was just making an example case for why, but it stands to reason that the more you push the factory the more it'll cost in maintenance overheads. Would you rather this be a tax for simplicity or shipping more fuel blocks which as you say contain all the goodies required for maintenance etc...and as far as I know stations are almost always manned in some way or another. We just don't list crew as it would over-complicate things. A fully automated system will fail at some piont no matter how good it is. The more complexthe system, the more failures. Squishy humans will always be required to a degree

I'm new to POS management and will be setting one up just as soon as I can so I'm thinking CCP expect this will balance out...and less profit is better than no profit so many people will consider quitting then just carry on as is and accept it.. Also I would expect that your POS would still manufacture the same amount after the release as it does now without incurring costs. I *think* the change is that if you stack more jobs onto a lab than its optimal rating it will incur the stacking costs per extra job. This is yet to be made clear in a future blog though.

As a side note I only just earned the standings required to stand up a POS but am not concerned about the time this has taken due to the other benefits from having done so. I have no issue with dropping the standings requirement but would like to see it have some impact in some way on the whole S&I area to benefit those who have gone through the grind.