It's really quite cheap to create your own one man corporation. Also, the "little" guy is adviced to use CONCORD's customs offices in High-Sec.

Regards
Omen

CONCORD (or someone) demands that all Customs Offices are always visible on the Overview per default no matter who owns them.

Yes, we don't incentivize taking Customs Offices down, other than if you want the spot or want to refuse the current owner access. We want it to be a political feature more than a mechanical one.

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.

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? 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.

I so wish I could double-like this post.



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).

Tax rate is available to you while you are in system but you can see them all on the overview so you don't need to actually fly up to each one. I will cite technical complexity as the reason it isn't initially available to everyone / everywhere but I can also see an argument for exploration as being part of the PI gameplay anyway.

Re comments about not responding, give us some time, today has been a particularly rough day at CCP. We did have a meeting this morning to discuss the many ideas and comments in this thread and some points are being acting on already so hang tight.

Further, make command center storage space increase with upgrades, to 5k m3 or so.

Also, the "little" guy is adviced to use CONCORD's customs offices in High-Sec.

Regards
Omen

2. Can you make them deployable by all Blockade Runners? The Customs Gantry (9600m3) doesnt fit into Prowler nor Crane.

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? 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.

let's see: high sec profits * 1.5 (50% increase) * 0.85 (detract 15% tariffs) / (0.90 (high sec profits - high sec tariffs) equals about 1.4, so there's easily 40% more profit in low sec at the taxes you suggest. even upping those taxes to 40% would still give you profits on a level to high sec. Of course, this does not calculate the difference in risk.

Edit: yay, #1000!

SOOOO MUCH ******* AFK ISK coming in the game, every idiot can pay 3 acc with isk from PI... and CCP earns? what?

I am truly sorry for all the CCP employees that are going to lose their jobs.

However, judging by CCP Omen's responses in this thread, he is totally clueless about this game and how people play it.

I was just wondering if he is still going to have a job within CCP, and if so why ?

this thread is full of tears *rofl*

this game is a MMO - MASSIVE Multiplayer Online game: You are NOT suppose to play ths game all allone...
You SHOULD interact with other ppl, join corps, join allys....
So stop ******* crying because you cant get rich anymore doing PI ALL ALLONE, having a POS ALL ALLONE, you are NOT suppose to...

Just stop PI then if its to complicatet, to expensive because of those LOLTAXES or JOIN A CORP OR ALLY ...
And nothing is wrong on big blobs...real life is full of big blobs : USA, RUSSIAN, EUROS....its normal

CCP has to fire ppl because of mistakes and PI in is actuall way its fail - SOOOO MUCH ******* AFK ISK coming in the game, every idiot can pay 3 acc with isk from PI... and CCP earns? what?


Just stop crying, be constructive like allot ppl are in this thread and eat what comes or do something different.

PI is not the main part of eve...

dear Via Shivon,

PI is main part of eve, everything in your T2 ship and T2 module is build from materials produced in PI. Without PI you shiny T2,T3 wouldn't evere exist. Enjoy time flying T1 ship with T1 fit, if you think that PI isn't main part of EVE. Think twice before you raise your voice.

Thank you

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Sad stuff aside, I've been (sadly) following this thread for entirely too long. I'm still seeing a lot of the same information being posted. If you are considering posting, please tie your comments back to something that's been said previously if you haven't got something altogether different to say. It will make it easier for the information to be digested by the people that actually need to hear what the players have to say.

Damn, you guys need to take a long hard look at your selves... Calling for people to be fired because they have the desency to try and answer some questions?! That's real scummy.

How many games have you played where the developers are this active on the forums and let you know way ahead of time what they have planed?