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Posted - 2009.09.20 09:30:00 -
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 Originally by: Tippia
NPC corp taxes will affect two things: mission rewards and bounties, and, even then, only when they exceed 100k ISK. That's it. It will make f-all difference to new players reaching for that new ship and new set of modules because the vast majority of their earnings come from other sources and it will be quite a while before their NPC ISK payouts exceed 100k.
I believe your conclusion is incorrect, Tip, because your assumptions are off. You get mission rewards of over 100k from missions on the newb Epic Arc. They'd be taxed. I'm pretty sure you get mission rewards of over 100k from L2 missions. Hardly "veteran" level activity.
While this tax wouldn't force anyone to quit a newbcorp, it would encourage people who don't know better to accept their first random invite from a mobcorp, which could be even more discouraging an experience than having your "hard-earned" leeched off. It would lead to newbcorps being populated with mining, market and industry alts even more so than is currently the case, and unfortunate newbs being decanted unnecessarily out of what is generally a supportive environment that does the job of the "Rookie channel" far better than that utterly inadequate medium could hope to.
For what gain? There are already plenty of 'mom-and-pop' corps out there for the sharks to wardec, if they could be bothered. The soloers who feel that the tax can't be borne will just train skills (for a day?), drop into the shoal of new one-man corps and lose any remnant social interaction they had. They won't chat to anyone to add to buddy lists and maybe think about setting up corp with later, and they'll just corphop to avoid 'decs.
As has been said, it's not a big chunk of change out of L4s, but it will push the balance for L2s and L3s much further towards salvaging. Unless CCP feels that board tears are worth more than in-game tears, or can't find any ways in-game to encourage PvP, so is doing this so the griefers get their rocks off in the forums as a substitute, this change isn't going to change much except the number of figures after the decimal point in every calculation.
How much does it cost to wardec a 3-corp alliance? Or an 8-corp one? |