Greygal
Agony Unleashed
Agony Empire
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Posted - 2011.10.23 07:07:00 -
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Oh please, for the sake of myself and every other corp/alliance leader, don't give us yet another thing we have to mess around with roles on!
While I actually DO agree that planetary customs offices should be available to be anchored for corporations, ALSO PERMIT them to be anchored as PERSONAL. Like we do with GSCs...
I'm already flooded with members asking if they can have "roles" to do the customs offices for themselves, and the last thing I want to do is give everyone the same roles that affect our POSs, roles limited to only the very most trusted members.
Besides the security issue (and the hair-pulling I'll do with this), frankly, there's no way my corporation can purchase, anchor, and manage POCOs for right around 90 different planets that my various members are using for PI in wormhole and NPC null sec space. While my members are capable of paying for POCOs for their "own" planets, they sure don't want to pay for a structure that they can't take with them should they move to another corporation. I don't need more of my members spawning off into single-player corps just because they want to anchor a structure...
Planetary Interaction when it was first released was quite specifically intended to be something *anyone* can do, with or without corp support. I do like the idea that we'll be able to collect miniscule taxes, I like the idea of something that has to be built and managed by the players of Eve. I like that they can be attacked! But cutting out the individuality of PI is not thought out well at all. Fortunately, there is a simple way to both create another corporate asset AND at the same time maintain the individual mini-businesses currently enjoyed by many single players: Let POCOs be anchorable BOTH corporate AND personal. Let it be up to the individual OR the corporation to manage POCOs.
While you are at it, please rethink the build cost. I find it odd that something that has the hit points of about a small pos is estimatedly nearly three times the cost of a small pos, without any defensive capabilities.
I do like that it's available through FW because I think it's a nice boost to FW stores. Might have to roll an alt into a FW corp :)
Edit: Written while I was still Director of Sephray Industries, Inc.
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