Incursions still make a ton of money and my proposed change would only slightly alter the end result and mostly just shift the income further from pure ISK to ISK you get by selling LP stuff.

If you want a POS in high or low sec you pay a tax to that faction.

Bounty wars - all players can accept a bounty but must pay a % of the payout upon accepting.
This allows them to freely claim this bounty without sec loss or criminal flag, however, only one person can claim the payout, unless they fleet up, in which case the payout is split. Those who have accepted the bounty but do not get the kill will not get their isk back.

Better insurance coverage for faction, pirate, and t2 ships to cover roughly half the value of the ship.
This will be used primarily by high sec dwellers that most likely won't lose their ship.
Most people don't bother insuring these ships cause you're in the same boat if you lose them.
Trust me, there would be more money spent on insuring these ships than would be payed out.

Right.. because Incursion haven't already been nerfed, missions are getting more effective and thus dangerous AIs and don't already have mediocre ISK/hr ratio compared to other thing, Nullsec doesn't really use thousand to generate their income, and Faction Warfare isn't even on the list because it generates more ISK per person in a day, than you can make with a Corp in a C6 Wormhole in 2 weeks.

FTFY nerfing highsec income will hurt PvP

If they did this they would have to remove the isk requirement attached to lp items.

Basically, there's no logical way to change the way lp is currently without having to reevaluate the missions and items themselves.

Honestly, if you factor the items required, isk required, and determined a value on the time spent attaining lp, then buying and selling lp items as they are now is actually a loss to the player involved.Hell, just the other day I was looking at lp implants on the market that were selling for less isk than they required on the lp store, let alone factoring the value of the lp for the item.

Buying lp items in high sec through high sec mission is a loss to those players. It's only really profitable to those in low sec running lvl 5 missions. So changing it would be more of a hit to them than high sec mission runners.

If you change a part of bounties into loots --> You screw miners (that's why NPC loot got the nerfbat multiple times)

If you change a part of bounties into LP --> LP conversation will drop (that's what happened with the agent changes, which also increased the ammount of LP generated)

If you change a part of bounties into tags --> Either a price-drop for faction-items, or an ISK faucet because tags will be sold to NPC's.


What we need is a more reliable sort of ISK - Sink, something you really WANT to buy from an NPC, and which will be consumed after that. Combat boosters are an awesome Idea, if you could just buy them for ISK (they are not allowed to compete with the existing boosters ! - just some kind of entry-drug which boosts specific stats)

The idea of shortening insurance is also pretty good. Another Idea could be to sell neural remaps for ISK ( price increases by 10 times each time ) - or to add expensive clones with special attributes, or special benefits. You could open up nex-store for ISK vanity items (cheaper versions of allready existing stuff, maybe a broken monocle for the poor guys? :D) etc.etc.etc...

Honestly, the mission payout in isk is nothing. No one, and I do mean NO ONE does missions for the mission payout. So converting it into lp is almost meaningless.

Now, a neural remap that can be perform say.... once every 3 months and is 500 mil would be a massive isk dump that would be used quite often by anyone who could afford it....
This would not only create an isk dump but would also reduce market costs for items because players would buy that remap over that ship, meaning more goodies for sale and reduced prices.
It's pretty mush a win win, or worst case it's an isk dump that gives players more neural remaps, which we all want

Considering the diagram that was shown said "Bounties" were the biggest faucet and I used to make more off bounties then mission rewards at L4 missions in High Sec together they are probably the biggest.

Unless belt/anom bounties are about 70-80% of the "bounties" in total. In which case missions would be a close second.

My thought was not actually an insurance, but rather a tax for having a POS in high sec, and less so a tax in low sec.(low sec would be cheaper).
This would help to add a negative aspect of having a POS in high sec where it is safe from capital assaults.
If a POS is constructed properly, they can be almost unstoppable in high sec... So, a monthly/weekly tax sounds fair for this luxury. It's similarto being in an NPC corp.

This is a very tiny amount on the scale of things