Kevin Thoughts
Dopehead Industries
Broken Chains Alliance
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Posted - 2011.10.27 14:17:00 -
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I'm a relatively new player, being on EVE for a few months now. I've recently grown to the point where PI has become possible for me. I enjoy it a lot, even wrote a newbies guide to PI that got reasonable reviews (http://www.kevinsthoughts.com/?p=435).
I have a few concerns:
1) Is the "50% of all PI is done in high-sec" based on solid data or just an educated guess? Because...
2) When this goes live, PI in low-sec and below will be virtually stopped. Without custom offices, importation will not be possible, so grinding out P4 products will simply cease. I would suggest that Concord custom offices only be destroyed when a Corporation upgrades a gantry to a fully functional CO.
3) This is going to be really bad for small corporations focused on PI. I'm figuring to create the P4s needed to simply build a POCO will require 7 characters and something like 28 PI infrastructures spread over 11 planets. Now one player with 3 accounts could do this, but its more likely that a small corporation would currently take on such a task. The hundreds of M ISK needed to set it up is a LOT to us. That's OK, gives us something to look forward to - a reasonable goal. However, there is no way we could defend, or afford to hire mercs to defend, such an infrastructure. I would recommend that (3) levels of COs be established: Concord in High-Sec, Restricted in Low-Sec (Max tariff at 20%, can not block access, can not be attacked), as planned in null-sec and WH space. We CAN afford to build these - we have time - but we could never afford the billion+ ISK to buy that - and I suspect many a medium size corp would think twice about it given the risk. Likewise, we are too new to have the skills to fly reppers much less defend such stations. Was it really the intent to shut down another section of EVE to newer players to entertain older ones?
4) The comment that "little guys should stick to high-sec" was insulting. Been there, did that. Quickly moved to low-sec for yields. Doing so was a great "coming of age" stepping stone for me and in fact resulted in my creation of a 3rd account. Never would have done that if restricted to high-sec.
Overall concerned about the slow decline in pilot numbers I think I see happening. EVE has very few things players a few months old can do successfully. The game needs more of these "semi-new" player areas, not less. As planned, this patch will tell us again "Sorry... unless your a lifer here in a huge corp, this is not for you". |