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Will we see the members of these teams moving through space in their ships as they travel from one location to the next?

Well, I'm going to admit to being a skeptic.

I think this system can and will be exploited by the alliances, simply because they wield the largest coordinated industry investment, and thus can control the auctions.

A noob industrialist on his/her own isn't going to stand a chance of affecting the outcome of an auction. Nor will a small industrial corp. Nor will any random and uncoordinated number of high-sec industrialists, most of whom will be bidding against each other, to pull the teams to different systems.

So, I see the best teams ending up in the systems used by the alliance industrialists - and pretty much staying there. Due to the scale of alliance manufacturing, they also happen to be the ones who are most likely to benefit from the gains from the teams, thus they are the most likely to be able to absorb the cost of outbidding everyone else.

Now, this result, in of itself, is neither good nor bad, but I do think it is going to end up quickly converging "teams" to a mostly static number of systems. Ie. my true skepticism is about whether or not this system will actually be "dynamic".

Perhaps there should be a degree of randomness in the process?

Say, a bid improves the chances of a team ending up in a given system, but the highest bid does not make it a certainty. For example, if the bids are 90M ISK for Jita, 9M ISK for Dodixie, and 1M ISK for Rens, there would be a 90% chance of the team endiing up in Jita, 9% chance in Dodixie, and 1% chance in Rens.

The guys with the most ISK to bid still have the advantage, but at least the guys with less ISK still have a chance, too.

Hard pressed to find a better example of someone who has jumped to conclusions without actually reading all the information. With a little over 4,000 teams available at any one time, they will not all be controlled by big alliances. While I don't doubt goonswarm, PL, or some other group getting it in their mind to 'buy up ALL the teams', or at least all the ones giving bonuses to certain areas, a few industrious individuals could very quickly make this an incredibly expensive and fruitless strategy, by selectively bidding up teams to the point where said buyout group would be shelling out too much for each team.

Provided that CCP doesn't do something stupid, like allowing the minimum bid on teams to be increased by 0.01 isk, I think this system will work out well.

so how do the teams get from there home system to their destination, e.g. a wormhole?
does any player needs to actually ship them there (which would be cool as the could get killed or taken and put to another system/task) or do they magically spawn in system?

which is pretty stupid needing them to escort or transport would lead to some content.

also, CCP should add a FAQ to the first post of the discussion where they add questions with the dev answers. many don't have the time to read the entire thread to see if their questions have already been asked and aswered ...

what if these inferno drugs actually were a producable item, and teams would flock to the one providing them with them?

like, they are hired for system xy, but if i want to take part in "exploiting" them, i have to have x amount per job in my hangar.

Uh … the people "receiving" the drugs aren't necessarily doing so voluntarily. The teams won't be flocking to the folks who offer the lowest price on Inferno, they'll be strong-armed, coerced or straight hoodwinked into working for the highest bidder. Then they work hard for a month. Then they die.

leave things a lone ccp why change stuff that worked for years

When we (me and corp people) saw the name of the Dev Blog 'Teams' we hoped, well, we were almost certain, that we would be able to have serveral pilot's assisting each other on manufacturing/researching.


Maybe Offtopic:
I think it would be cool if we would be able to help each other making something. Research a BPO with serveral pilot's, to speed up the research time.

A system where you help making 1 capital ship. Everyone chooses a part they make, and everyone can see how long it will take to see what parts are needed. How much from the parts are already done ect ect.

Ontopic:

For what I understand, slots get more expensive, the more people are using them in 1 system.
The big systems will probably have most of the teams, because they have more people/iskies.

I'm afraid the slot prices in the systems with the teams will be higher, making the teams useless. But I probably didn't understand the Dev Blog this well.

Summer will show what it will look like :)

The NPC team idea is a good one, but it will be offset by price changes so it is very possible that the net effect will be zero. It would be more interesting if these teams could be replaced by players.

Wouldn't it be awesome to have, say for example, a new booster line (Inferno Industry boosters?) and implants that would allow you to essentially "copy yourself" into a jump clone made specifically to do industry jobs?

Let me explain: Say instead of an NPC team, players were given the ability to use jump clones to impart similar or better bonuses vs. NPC laborer to do industry jobs through the use of booster consumables and implants. Then a player would "install" his jump clone to do the industry job and then clone jump into another jump clone to do other stuff (PvP, mining, hauling, etc).

Players in the same corporation or alliance would also be able to "install" their jump clones to augment or add various bonuses to the industry job. This could be done after the initial installation of the job.

Jump clones that were on boosters to enhance bonuses would suffer various penalties after a period of time or after the completion of the job, or the clones would simply "die" and be biomassed for extreme cases - like building a Titan. Jobs that are located at POSs or outposts that get destroyed would also result in the loss of the installed clones.

For small corporations and alliances, NPC teams would still be available at either a slightly lower bonus or slightly higher cost.

This idea would require perhaps some change or addition to the lore, in that, you would have to say a capsuleer would be "copying himself" for a period of time, instead of only being incarnated in one clone at any given time. And there could be various implants that would allow this to happen, at least temporarily. There may be a "carrying" penalty that follows the player through clone jumps to sustain the "copy" of himself that is doing the industry job.

I think this would be a great idea, although I'm not sure how easy it would be to code.