EVE General Discussion

So I'm a small solo player that plays mostly on my own with a few RL friends here and there, I mine mostly and to transport it and add some value I compress it, maybe pop into WH space and find some rare ore, turning the POS off when I'm done, its quite easy to manage, and my friends benifit. There was another topic that addressed compression of ore but it was locked, with concluding citadels wont replace POS. lol yet in December* in the future sometime we wont be able to place down another POS , and an engineering complex, the cheapest of which is 700mil is the only alternative and takes a week to anchor , it seems hardly mobile and 7x more expensive. Do they have compression modules, or am I missing something? Is this basically going to kill off small corps that want to be nomadic and plot down a small POS? end me and my friends way of playing?

*EDIT

Outposts cannot be put down after December, POS aren't going just yet

This is what some of my alts have been doing currently. Hunting for Citadels that have compression that are nearby and simply hauling there and compressing and then hauling the entire load elsewhere. Usually its only a jump or two at most.

Youd be surprised at what regions are empty of citadels, what regions are filled with them *caldari*, and it gives you a bit more intel and lay of the land regarding whos around in that space even as a nomadic tribal player this is a must.

Nope, no cost, no taxes involved. Just show info on any citadels in system and go to services. If a reprocessing module is present and you can dock at it you can store ore and compress free of charge there. Your only concern will be if they make docking rights unavailable to you in the future as for storage of goods there. Im uncertain how fast a public citadel can be made private and Ive seen some Ive used in the past lose the service module, either by taking it out or running out of fuel. But other than these issues dock, compress and haul away.

All just a simple right click away.

The short answer is yes, they are greatly nerfing smaller group, nomadic lifestyles. Most people ignore this given it's not a playstyle a lot of people do. Unless something significantly changes, what you're doing now is going to get significantly more difficult after POSes go away (which is later than december, as was mentioned)

My alt is a solo operative, and yet i can easily afford 700-800 mill. Infact i build all my T2 battleships/battlecruisers and saved atleast 1 bill so far so.

To be honest, any small corp should be able to afford an overhead cost of around 700-800 mill easily. Its not that much. I think the fact that corps can be created with only a couple million isk, gives people the impression that anyone should be able to start a corp if they want to, but in reality, this only creates sh*t corps.

It's not the pricetag as much as the week long unanchoring time that kills nomadic play

This is incorrect. You are confusing a POS with a station. POS is Player Owned Starbase. Stations are the permanent structures in which you can dock, trade, repair, etc.

That is true, Drilling platforms might bring back nomadic game play depending on how they work. If they dont have a week long anchoring process , putting price aside, would allow us to move around a bit more, without being dependent on citadels and engineering complexes.

The issue isnt so much the price tag its how easily its attackable and how hard it is to pick up and move around. This was something CCP intended, you cant have it unless you defend it, but in doing so have nerfed a playstyle quite seriously. Balance is hard and itll never be right regardless of how well thought out imo. It was too easy to dodge things but also it is too easy to attack things, this being a game attacking and fun go hand in hand so its sort of a nature of the beast issue for me.

I have actually been surprised at how many citadels have gone up around high sec and how many have stayed public. And here I thought Penirgman was station busy but Perimeter will give it a go soon enough. I was always worried about the space junk on overviews though but we shall see in the future.

Engineering complexs are supposed to be cheaper but who knows if they will have shorter tear down times. But the way CCP is heading is to make everything destructible and then watch null burn high sec when theres no recourse and then farm out, aka tax heavily, all high sec into oblivion and make it like the null lite renter area.