EVE General Discussion

So in order to set up one of the new customs offices, one must invest 100m for a sitting fragile duck that can be blown to bits with a handful of ships.



Wouldn't.... 20m be a more reasonable cost? Why something so basic has to be that expensive and that fragile too. There really isn't a point in increasing their HP, they will still blow up it will just take longer, but the cost makes a massive difference.

When you need 600m to set up PI in low/null without NPC offices, you're just ****** as they might be blown up the next day.

Higher opportunity costs = higher profits.

It takes 5 seconds to anchor and 30 seconds to upgrade/online btw. Surprisingly fast.

its not when you factor in the bounty of taxes made during its short little life

With a fleet of 30 bombers it takes 3 hours to pop one

With 5 dreads it'll take an hour.

Same as a small POS hitpoints wise.



Return to the smart things to do in regards to you're situation: If you dont own/hold the space, or have the numbers/activity to defend you're space against people whom may come in to destroy your'e **** - you dont deserve/have the right to call the place your'e own. Not CCP's problem.


If the people coming to toy with you are big blobs with too much time on their hands - Befriend their enemy's and Neutrals of equal or bigger sized blobs. Batphone them whenever you're getting hit by the blob, give them as much info as possible on ship types (Hint, they'll only come if the enemy is fielding carriers/dreads/moms/titans, everythign else they dont give a crap so dont bother) Just remember - if they come - they dont give a crap about you, and if you run out with roses and wine to thank them for driving off whoemver they'd probably try to kill you just for the lulz. Its all about killmails to them, and Caps are very juicy killmails indeed.

There are going to be how many customs offices in eve after people get setup?

I think you'll find the funparade ends very quickly with people wanting to pop them untll the entire system/surrounding areas are being re-occupied/taken over. Unless structure grinding somehow made it into the "more fun than the pub on friday night" cateogry by dressing up as a woman and so far being undiscoverd for the horror it truly is?

you do know you can still use the launch option to shoot things into space right?

If POCOs keep getting blown up, then PI goods and materials prices will rise. They will keep rising until planting a POCO is worthwhile.

Nuff said, regardless of whether they are hard or easy to kill, expensive or cheap to setup, the market WILL reach an equilibrium point where it is profitable to set them up.

Arguing that POCOs are somehow unprofitable is a bit pointless imo. It takes some time for the markets to adjust to the changes so for the short term, yes they may be unprofitable but it will fix itself with time.

Noob.

bpc + manufacturing + upgrade = 140M

Only 100m?