Rena'Thras wrote:Well, I read the first 9 pages. I got here from the Dev blog I saw on the launcher.
As you can tell (or not, is there a post counter?) I tend not to post on these forums. I tend to just play the game. And I like the game. I like industry, production, exploration, cloaky stuff, experimenting with different things, and playing with my small group of buddies.
We all got into PI about a month and a half ago after I did some research and figured out how we could basically make our own POS fuel. This may seem like common knowledge to all of you, but...maybe it's not really, I dunno. Anyway, I mine the ice (because I actually enjoy mining space rocks), we all PI on a set of planets, pull the resources of 4 or so players, and we got a POS to call our own to play with and try to learn something about manufacturing and research (since the NPC stations basically are clogged with jobs 24/7.)
What it sounds like from reading the first 9 pages, and the Dev blog, is that this fun little experiment may be coming to an end. That it ma be where we can't generate PI well enough to really do anything, or will have to deal with huge cutthroat corps far far away setting high tax rates.
As it is, HiSec PI doesn't really make us any money (it's "free", but slow and nothing really sells for much), but it lets us make our own POS fuel so we can stock up and don't have to worry about the market TOO much (for POS fuel - obviously, we're using it for all of our other needs and to sell the things that we're toying with making.) So it's not really worth the time, but at least we can be self-sufficient at minimal loss/no loss.
This idea seems to change that.
And if it does, not only will it take PI out of the hands of small corp players/new players (since it will then be operating at a loss or VERY marginal gain), but it will, in that one fell swoop, also take POSes away from those players, and with it manufacturing and research.
Has this change really been well thought through? It doesn't seem like it...
I mean, I like running Logi in Incursions and all, but I don't like HAVING to make money to buy things - I LIKE setting up supply chains and making things, and using the money for other fun things. :)
Please don't make this game suck, CCP! I like being able to pew pew space rocks and healbot my friends and play with all these fun little systems you've made for us. Don't take that away, please. : ( This is the only bloody sandbox game around, all the others tell you how to play and insist you do it their way. Eve so far allows a lot of choice. This sort of change...seems to take that away.
And for people thinking that small time industrial or "family and friends" corps are swimming in money and can hire a PvP protectorate corp...are you really that clueless? XD