Sir Bonkers
Caldari Innovations and Research
Telcondar Sean Intergalactic Fan Syndicate
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Posted - 2011.06.08 13:25:00 -
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I have been thinking about this for a while. And in order for the average Eve player to "care" about what goes on the surface of a planet will mean you will have to make a noticeable dent in the player's wallet. Taking over someone's Robotics PI planets are not going to really do that. I mean, what's keeping them from nuking their own command center and moving to another planet. All in all you would be out an hour or less. So I think more valuable things are coming for PI. Here are some of my ideas:
1.) Labs. Everyone knows there are queues up the pooper for copying & ME research at almost any NPC station in hisec and lowsec. So it could make sense for CCP to make a new PI structure for research with the caveat that your BPO has to live on the planet. Now, when someone hires mercs, you will need to do anything in your power to protect it because you might loose a potentially valuable BPO.
2.) Faction POSes. As you may or may not know, faction towers for POSes are no longer able to be acquired. CCP did this with no warning and no explanation to this day. The BPCs no longer drop in exploration sites and plexes like they used to. That is why Faction Large Control Towers are going for billions of ISK when they used to be 1b or less. Planets could be gearing up to make those with some sort of massive factory on the planet itself. Again, if your factory gets attacked, you could be out a lot of stuff for making those faction towers.
3.) Sov upgrades. You like doing those sanctums in your thanatos? Well, CCP could easily make Military V not obtainable without first securing all the planets in the system.
If any or all of those are put into Eve, that will make the average Eve player care a lot about what happens with the console monkeys.
Also, rumors are that Dust514 will be free to own and free to play and driven by micro-transactions for vanity items. If that is the case, then even with the PS3 exclusivity, I think Dust might actually have a chance of being a hit.
(All of the above is 100% speculation from someone who has been a CCP customer for many years.)
Cool story bro. 
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