Danny Centauri wrote:How about we stop going round in circles discussing hardware and load and come up with an actually innovative solution GÇô here are just a few ideas.
1) Make tax and broker fees apply on a system by system basis, with the top market hubs having the highest rates of tax. This encourages players to establish secondary market hubs, most likely in the systems adjacent to market hubs in the same region which can then be reinforced on their own nodes.
2) Create a tax to enter market hubs, and where necessary create bypasses so you can go around the system GÇô IGÇÖm not 100% sure but I think this may be a problem in Amarr some destinations you have to travel through.
3) Create actual queue system for jumping into hubs and inform players of their position in the queue to manage their expectations, this can include estimated time to enter the system and the ability to cancel and remove themselves from the queue.
4) Add shipping functionality from NPC corporations at trade hubs, this would allow goods purchased in Jita to be moved 1 jump in any direction outside of Jita at a set fee per cubic meter. This reduces the need to enter the system and therefore the jump load.
These features can tie in nicely with the EVE storyline, with the universe on the brink of war creating new war machines they need funding. The best way to do this is through taxation and where better to tax than your primary economic hot spots for the biggest gains. Also tax relief in low trade volume areas can be explained through government tax breaks to encourage growth and later fund war. All of these additional ISK sinks also help the EVE economy as weGÇÖve heard plenty about there being too many ISK faucets and not enough sinks.
I agree with the sentiment.
I heartily endorse 1).
No. 2) is problematic, but I'd be
okay with it.
No. 3) I think is too difficult for not enough gain.
No. 4) I am dead set against. NO. NEVER.
But adjusting taxes UP depending on how much is traded in any given station is a very good idea. It also makes perfect sense.
And it should encourage much more spread out trading, with proper traders having to do a bit more than just 0.01 isking in one station all the time if they want good profits.