[quote=Raziphan Rebular][quote=XavierVE]

. If that assumption turns out to be wrong, then we might intervene with a future update.

Regards
Omen

Why don't you work out a deal with them?

You know, emergent content style.... If you've been in there doing it this long, they probably don't mind that much, and consider you an annoyance, particularly if you are avoiding confronting them.

Its possible this could be lucrative for you to continue doing, even if you are paying 10% to the wormhole affiliation.

From one side im glad about that change.
As a owner of 15 colonies i just stopped selling my stocks because i expect to PI material will rise in price until said change of custom offices will be deployed. That will make many other items rise in price in general. ( Most items are made on POSes) --> fuel will be more expensive than now.
Second thing, this is unofficial LOWSEC boost. If PI will go high enough more ppl will start doing it and there will be fights of custom ownership and more ppl in low means piracy will gain too.

From other side im worried bout that change.

This change in Custom offices puts on stake my 800 - 1B / month pure passive income in long term. I worried that ppl who will owners od customs will set tax to 100% just to keep PI materials prices as high as possible for long time.

Also WH players just gain nice opportunity to make billions without risk cuz noone will blow their customs. ( proice will raise dirasticly ). Its kinda unfair but meh...

I have to ask the Wormhole people who think they shouldn't be affected by this change:

Does it make sense that CONCORD has automagically set up facilities in all of these bizarre foreign spaces with which you have no idea where they really are, and could completely unpredictably disappear at any moment?

I like the changes. Become friends with local pirate corp. They don't blow you up and escort you if needed. You do PI in low sec and get out. A small fee per month covers that expense. New friends, New interaction and maby even some hair raising last minute runs out as your pirate friends jam/destroy aggressors while you get your squishy indi ship out.

I like.

So those who belong to an NPC corp cannot extract from planets in low sec, unless someone else has set up a customs office at that planet and allows other corps to use it? If the player can't have roles, then he/she cannot set up a customs office.

The devs have talked about this from day one. There was ALWAYS talk of a space elevator, that controlled resource access, that would be ownable, and fought over. It wasn't implemented first time around, and everyone complained PI was complete carebear bullshit, with nothing competitive in the slightest way. They said from the beginning that reason to fight over resources would set the stage for Dust 514, and this is nothing but a long overdue iteration that has always been talked about and public information.

Devs arent fleecing anyone. They're giving everyone the iteration on PI that has been promised, and begged for a year now, and *GASP* now people are bitching that they've finally done it. It just has a fancy name so people have ignorantly acted like this is some shocker suprise designed to destroy the pain-free activity they've grown accustomed to. This is extremely typical of the forums - players beg for a feature, than moan when they finally get it. Grow up everyone. You have to get off the nipple and onto solid foods eventually.

Eve will always evolve. It will always get more challenging. It will ALWAYS go in the direction of handing more control over to players. Anyone not cool with that fundamental design element, should invest in a different game.