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^This!

When you're running a large scale industrial operation, you need to know your costs ahead of time. Not have them vary day to day, hour by hour. This was the advantage of the POS. Now using a POS puts us in a disadvantage anyway you put it. Even if cost scaling stays stable enough not to affect anything, we either have to put in a lot more effort and risk by placing BPOs at the POS, or we have to put in less risk but still more effort and headache by having to copy items we want to build first. Why do I mention 'risk' for station copying? Because of the possibility that variable copy costs in station will no longer make it profitable to manufacture that item.

Overall, it's making it really easy for an individual to get into Industry, so more solo pilots who never want to put in much effort or interact with anyone will be able to do industry casually, almost anywhere, anytime. This comes at the expense of established industrialists though.

i look forward to crushing all of the ~industrialists~ who are unable to adapt to even small changes

the weaselior division of Goonswarm Incorporated will soon be dominating all of your old markets

Overall most the changes are "positive" even generous.

BUT POS compression arrays do NOT address the main hauling issues of miners in hi sec. You have already hauled ore from belt - whether to refine at station or POS or to sell or to compress. Hauling from belts or ore/ice anomalies to first unload is the primary miner's transportation issue everywhere a Rorqual is not practical.

So POS Compression is clearly aimed primarily at ore traders and WH where they haul out raw ore. From what I gather compression is for corps without access to someone with decent refining skills (which should be rare in POS owning corp). Otherwise refining would be a better more direct solution given the new high efficiency POS refining structures being introduced and that both compression and refining are instant. Miners themselves only benefit when for some reason its worth hauling a second time from a POS before refining and freighters cannot make enough runs. IF CCP wants to change that equation they might want to reintroduce the concept that POS with limited power must "slow cook" ore to refine it. Then if compression was <5 minutes to activate (crude gravitational implosion/space folding) and refining took 30 minutes (the old 4 hours for very limited amount was ridiculous), there would be real choices to make.


I also note ore refine skills are ALREADY required to get 100% refine at quite few high sec stations and most low sec. 35% base refine is not uncommon and I have seen 25% in high sec. I haven't surveyed low sec as well but 50% base actually seems uncommon.





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Is there a plan to raise bunches Empire NPC stations up to the 50% standard? Just on the theory Empire factions had been wealthy and establishing stations much longer than player corp particularly in high sec. Probably should have higher chance of lower yield as security drops off and size of NPC corp owning station drops. ( I assume that faction boost

Yes, but I addressed the other issues with it in the same post you quoted. It's either more effort/headache/risk or more effort/headache/no risk to BPO but risk to profit. It sucks either way.

I'm sure this will look perfect in your RL resume when you are applying to job, pls update your linkedin with your new skills like crushing and goon industrialist.

where the hell these ppl come from ?

After having invested time and actual RL money training a few characters to be able to run a HS lab without penalizing myself not being in the same corp as my friends i think there should be some reward for grinding these standings.

Hey, ISD dudes. How's it going? Naw, I didn't need anything -- just making small talk. Your day been going okay?

This would be the perfect opportunity to put more weight on corporation standings by using it to reduce taxes for jobs by a not insignificant level. Though faction standing should not be as powerful as corporation standing, merely more universal. Maybe split the maximum tax reduction to 75%/25% corp/faction standing. Faction standing could still be applied to POS lines making the grind still useful.

What is being handed to them that isn't being handed out everywhere else?

If it isn't that obvious for you till now, with countless rebuffs to every aspect in game I don't see reason to write wall of text describing what are they.