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Nyla Skin wrote:

XavierVE wrote:

CCP Omen wrote:

Raziphan Rebular wrote:

Ya I'm just a guy and I'm not part of some alliance, just a small corporation but I do my PI in lowsec, it's not great to have the Devs tell me 'tough *****' go do PI in highsec. I'm taking the risk here shouldn't I get some sort of reward? Instead I'm getting shoved out of Lowsec so that larger corporations that have massive resources can control everything. PI was great because it was accessible to all, now it's just another resource for alliances to fight over.

That's not our intention, if you are a small corp you are very much the focus of this. But honestly, what if a large alliance takes control of a CO and charge you 9% tax? Isn't that fine? they provide the service, you pay for it and it's cheaper than highsec? Our assumption is that Alliances or any corp will want to make money off their CO in low-sec. If that assumption turns out to be wrong, then we might intervene with a future update.

Regards
Omen

I don't mean to be rude, though it may sound rude to ask... but do you play the game? In what age and era do 0.0 alliances do anything to "provide services" to those who aren't on their blue-lists? They will simply blow up the low-sec CO's they haven't set standings on in order to grief everyone who hasn't signed up to the biggest bluefest in EVE's history. No null entity will care about making a 9% tax profit off of these things, they will simply want them gone so they can corner the market on POS fuel production. Like the Russians or the Goons give a horse's ass about a small isk profit on low-sec CO's when they control tech moons. They will simply destroy to grief.

The state of 0.0 is so shite right now that Goons are camping Gallente ice fields out of pure bluefest boredom. It's not a matter of 0.0 alliances becoming even richer by monopolizing their nearby low sec CO's, it is that they will simply destroy them and replace them with nothing. And even if your scenario were true, no, that isn't "fine." Why are you trying to design a mechanic that simply allows the rich to get richer?

Nothing in this change helps small entities, and that you would say "if you are a small corp you are very much the focus of this" almost sounds like a complete troll. You designed yet another HP-grind that will only benefit the blobfest while giving the average capsuleer even less incentive to dip their toe out of high sec.

I so wish I could double-like this post.

CCP Omen wrote:

You have some cool ideas but why do you assume the larger corporation won't tolerate you? Do people hate money all of a sudden? Question

On a serious note, do you actually think they are more likely to disallow you? We are operating under the assumption that most PCO owners will allow "neutral" at least for the extra dough.

If they indeed don't allow you, I would bet there will be wormholes that operate free for all COs for profit. At least that's what we hope.

Now its official, you have no idea whatsoever how eve works. Just the kind of person who I want to be in charge of making gameplay changes. Not.

The alliances don't care for peanuts when they are making 1000000x more money by other means which you so graciously awarded them with. They MAY care that the planet provides pos fuels to the enemy, and will therefore take down the office, put their own up and set tax to 100%. Or more propably just take it down if they dont need it. They deny resources to non-blue entities, period.

This change, like every one for the past 1,5 years or so (Ive lost count) directly benefits large alliances ONLY, since it gives them yet another mechanic they can use to oppress the weak.

Can all of CCP take a month off and just PLAY the game? Maybe you would get some revelations. It would certainly be an improvement in the quality of patches (not making them that is).