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I am excited you are paying me so much attention!

We closed down the Eldulf office over a year ago. If I'm in the high sec pocket these days its to get to low sec on the other side. I still try and make the odd isk here and there by trying to trade in low sec markets. Servicing my inner smuggler.

The Alliance is now more active in other regions.

In preparation for this expansion I've moved the majority of my PI to .5 in other regions and when the last of the low sec PoCos I need to use get 'sploded I'll move the rest to some .5 (or maybe use the lauch pad for stuff that is smaller in quantity).

None of that changes my basic position about the PoCo change. That is simply this:

-Eve makes people evil
-Low sec is where some of the most evil folks live
-Low sec is much harder to defend
-It is not typical Eve behavior to come together to build something together on low sec
-It is typical Eve behavior to 'splode anything in low sec when folks get bored
-There are more folks in low sec looking for carebear tears than anywhere else in Eve
-The PoCos can't make you enough money in low sec to make someone want to put the isk at risk to build one

I don't claim to know everything but I personally expect this to end up being a bad thing in low sec. Anyways. My opinion, I'm entitled to it.

And I would love to be proven wrong as it would give me hope that something in Eve didn't just bring out the worst in folks.

Issler

I've been reading this thread since the new release and I'm seeing "/signed for removal". Regardless of the reasons at this point, players are beginning to reject the idea outright in a unified fashion. The other effects are yet to come from this change, but please, don't let my predictions (and now this unified rejection) prevent you from taking another hard look at all the material that's been posted thus far.

The rampant ignorance continues. I'm done seeing people comment about not having used/tested/experienced the new feature. We get it, you're on board with the wait and see attitude adopted by the developers who put this feature out. I can only guess (guess means guess) that the team responsible for this change, while noble in intent, has not released a feature of this magnitude before and can't even consider the ramifications. Likewise, there's a group of players that get their jollies off on commenting on the credibility of a forum poster based on publicly available knowledge about said player instead of what can't be displayed on a killboard/forum/bio/corp description: personal experience across many other characters (you know, those things called alts). We don't come to these conclusions lightly.

It's through our combined man-cenutries of playing the game that we derive our concern for something that we all hold dear.

/signed for removal btw.

Much like your posting. Rampant ignorance without a shred of evidence-based argument or reasoned explanation.

POCOs are gonna be great. Player-driven economy, not bots clicking buttons in highsec 23/7.

According to the dev blog, . Well I think someone miss calculated. Before the patch I was paying 23,400 ISK per import and after the patch it has gone to 2,340,000 ISK. In my world that is more like a 10,000% increase. Come on CCP.

at least re-spawn poco when they are not rebuild within a day... (make them easier to kill too if you like)

like this exporting via command center is a pain in the ass!
or give the command center a capacity of more then 500 m3 - or enable planetary launch via spaceport too!

btw: i dont care too much about these changes from a pi poerspective - just pos'es will be much more expansive to maintain - so prices for t2 and stuff will raise a lot... (my guess) pi prices simply will settle at a somewhat higher level...

That's what I'm seeing, too, but I haven't had time to sit down and figure out what's really going on.

Seriously, I carefully exported and imported everything I could before the deployment, and then within a few hours after it came back, I updated my 6 planets, and just that few hours ran me something like 3.5 million. That's somewhere in the range of 100-150 million a week.

That doesn't seem right. I haven't had a chance to break it down yet, and compare with the stated rates, but I will as soon as I get a chance.

That would certainly make CO's a lot more profitable, but it would be a rather radical change to the economy.

Removed. Second post was made by mistake.

Anyone wanting to do PI in lowsec, check out the Faction Warfare areas. Then check the militia killboards for biggest fw corps. They might be willing to make deals for defending/attacking PCO's for isk. Thats why the militias are there, right? :)

The militias are there for LP, killmails, and easy access to pvp. POCOs are used by non-FW players as well. I don't see the militia's getting in on POCO destruction in the long run.

Re-reading it won't make the stupid go away.