http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=2351

Lessons learned

- Shooting at stationary structures is boring
-See: Starbase warfare, Dominion sov warfare. Even the good fights that do happen around such objectives could be improved by having better objectives.
- Shooting at things with hitpoints scales very efficiently with fleet size, which encourages lag-producing behavior

-Having to spend significant amounts of effort defeating an enemy which isn't even fighting back is really boring
- See: Starbase warfare, Dominion sov warfare. See in particular how long it took to clear IT Alliance's ownership out of Delve, as a recent example

- Waking up every morning and having to clean up the mess made while you were asleep is boring
- See: station ping-pong pre-sov, repairing station services. Having to do something tedious every day before you can actually play the game is not cool

- Doing something just "because it would be cool/neat/awesome" is always a bad idea and will come back to bite you later
- See: Jump bridges, cyno jammers, Sov 4, AoE doomsdays, titans in general, supercarrier boost... Note that we should still obviously strive to make everything cool/neat/awesome, but when we start off with an awesome idea rather than an actual problem we want to fix or a feature that has a clear, functional and necessary goal, it generally requires painful fixes further down the road

- Cost is a useful variable to tune but an unwise thing to rely on to enforce scarcity or balance - players will always be richer than you think
- See: outposts, titans, supercarriers

- Making something tedious will not stop players doing it if it's very clearly the best option. They'll do it, and they'll hate it
- See: everything involving starbases. As a counterpoint though, things like the one-per-corp-per-system-per-day starbase rule demonstrate that if something doesn't make a big difference but is sufficiently awkward to do, then any theoretical "exploit" scenarios tend to fall out of favor quickly as they're just not worth the effort.

- People like to do one-stop shopping, and will "go to Jita" for everything unless doing so is comparatively very inconvenient
- See: moon mineral distribution, high-strength booster resource distribution, neither of which achieved much in the way of the nullsec-to-nullsec trade that they hoped to encourage

Return amounts were talked about in a previous post.

1) If you're not large enough or don't have enough friends to be able to respond to something 24 hours in advance, you got problems.
2) Structure shoots are a bad concept, but really it has the same EHP as a small tower, it doesnt have any defenses, and it doesn't take long to reinforce at all, even with like 10-15 people. If/when they decide to change how sov structures work in terms of killing them, then yeah you can change this structure to that system, but since they have not yet thought of something this will work in the interim.
3) PI is fine for what it is, you just have no idea what you are talking about.
4) I'M NOT EMOTIONAL YOU ARE A DUMB PET.

Oh I know the answer to this one - no you cannot name them (sorry).

Also, popping my dev post cherry.

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.

I hope everyone likes these changes also likes flying T1. Because T2 and T3 will become a lot more expensive.

1. I don't know why so many people think high sec PI is going to be very fruitful with a doubled tax. I blame CCP sympathizers. They don't actually know how economies work and just act like yes-men for CCP. High sec PI is already a fairly crappy chore for very little output, and continuing PI in high sec will remain an only slightly fruitful task.

2. The taxes WILL be too high. Such is the nature of any large corporation/alliance; put as much pressure on a niche as possible to exploit the market in your favor. Goonswarm is trying to do that with ice belts as we speak. Now, instead of just ice belt ganking, we're going to see a lot of POCO's we can't access or get taxed heavily on because the major alliances are going to hog them up so they can manipulate the PI market to their benefit.

3. You must be crazy to think a 500m3 launch is going to solve this problem. If they made it a 5000m3 launch, I could maybe understand. But 500? No, I'm just going to ditch my PI and find some other way to make my ISK.

4. What small PI corp is going to be able to maintain and defend that POCO? When a larger corporation decides they want the moon your small corp's POS is sitting at, what happens to that POS? It gets destroyed. The same will happen to your POCO. All you will have accomplished is wasting time, ISK, and materials to get it up and running. What incentive would people have to use your POCO when they can either hire a mercenary to blast it to bits for probably a pretty cheap fee, or just blow it up themselves? A small corp, PI or otherwise, is typically going to run during one or two time zones. It won't last very long.

You missed a lot of meaningful things said in this thread. But most of them are from the people who oppose this being implemented. All I have seen so far from the people who like this idea(I've read at least 200 posts) is a bunch of bull about how people are going to work together, or how alliances and corporations will be reasonable with the taxes and standings, just a bunch of unrealistic bull****.

This is EvE. If they aren't being paid, you aren't getting laid.

Currently: Nothing.

You will have to defend your customs office with space ships, (beside the reinforcement). From comments to the blog, we realize there is a worry that all customs offices will be griefed all the time. I promise we will keep an eye on this, but our hope is that a new type of players/corporations can emerge that are paid to protect customs office etc.

Sooo... let me see if I get it:
No one can have Sov in a WH. However, you can now block (or at lest severely restrict) access to the planets in a WH using structures... HMMM.
Also, give big alliances another easy way to make money... HMMM.
I can see absolutely no way those changes will backfire massively, none at all, no sir.

4) Using FW and Incursion LP for BPC purchase prevents characters with less than 18 months of experience from earning them (ability to fly Macherial/Nightmare/High-End BS),

but our hope is that a new type of players/corporations can emerge that are paid to protect customs office etc.

Sooo... let me see if I get it:
No one can have Sov in a WH. However, you can now block (or at lest severely restrict) access to the planets in a WH using structures... HMMM.
Also, give big alliances another easy way to make money... HMMM.
I can see absolutely no way those changes will backfire massively, none at all, no sir.

Time to revisit the viceroy idea perhaps

1. I don't know why so many people think high sec PI is going to be very fruitful with a doubled tax. I blame CCP sympathizers. They don't actually know how economies work and just act like yes-men for CCP. High sec PI is already a fairly crappy chore for very little output, and continuing PI in high sec will remain an only slightly fruitful task.

2. The taxes WILL be too high. Such is the nature of any large corporation/alliance; put as much pressure on a niche as possible to exploit the market in your favor. Goonswarm is trying to do that with ice belts as we speak. Now, instead of just ice belt ganking, we're going to see a lot of POCO's we can't access or get taxed heavily on because the major alliances are going to hog them up so they can manipulate the PI market to their benefit.

3. You must be crazy to think a 500m3 launch is going to solve this problem. If they made it a 5000m3 launch, I could maybe understand. But 500? No, I'm just going to ditch my PI and find some other way to make my ISK.

4. What small PI corp is going to be able to maintain and defend that POCO? When a larger corporation decides they want the moon your small corp's POS is sitting at, what happens to that POS? It gets destroyed. The same will happen to your POCO. All you will have accomplished is wasting time, ISK, and materials to get it up and running. What incentive would people have to use your POCO when they can either hire a mercenary to blast it to bits for probably a pretty cheap fee, or just blow it up themselves? A small corp, PI or otherwise, is typically going to run during one or two time zones. It won't last very long.

You missed a lot of meaningful things said in this thread. But most of them are from the people who oppose this being implemented. All I have seen so far from the people who like this idea(I've read at least 200 posts) is a bunch of bull about how people are going to work together, or how alliances and corporations will be reasonable with the taxes and standings, just a bunch of unrealistic bull****.

This is EvE. If they aren't being paid, you aren't getting laid.

With the BPC only comming from the FW & Concord LP stores, we're going to need some serious time to get the supply chain filled with enough units to meet the early demand.

Omen...nobody in Wspace will operate for neutrals.

Before this, you can still "severely restrict" access by sticking a CC down and nuking all the resources on the planet if you want. Or you can gank the hauler. Or any number of other things.

The problem with a HP-only target is that you can drop a bob on the CO, reinforce it in 5 minutes, and move on. Plus, the HP is large enough to discourage small gang activity.