Edward Olmops
Sirius Fleet
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Posted - 2013.10.19 09:08:00 -
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Let us leave Goonswarm out of the equation for a second.
Why should I be taking down an Interbus CO?
Obvious reason: they charge me 10% tax. I can set that to 0% if I own a POCO. Fine.
But taxing other people? Well.
This NPC-tax-thing is wholly different than in Lowsec/Nullsec. In nullsec and lowsec, Interbus charges 17% tax.
If I blow up a CO and put a POCO there, charge only 10% or even less - that is WIN:WIN.
Hapless industrialists who are too meek to kill or defend a POCO (not that there are that many in 0.0) will flock to my POCO and willingly pay the lower tax.
But in highsec? Interbus charges 10%-skill, my POCO charges 10%-skill+X. Unless I set 0% tax rate (which makes the whole taxing business somewhat pointless), all industrialists on the planets suddenly have an incentive TO ABANDON THEIR COLONIES and settle elsewhere.
TL;DR:. the NPC portion of the tax may keep lowsec POCOs in the competition, but POCOs can't compete with Interbus and are thus completely pointless except for own PI!
That is ofc unless:
a) ALL Interbus COs have been killed
b) there are some planets that are so much better than others (ressources or position) that people tolerate higher taxes
c) the "zero risk-max profit"-HS people are too lazy to move away
Now there are over 9000 (:-D REALLY) planets in highsec. Each CO takes like 15,000,000 hits before it explodes. No capitals allowed.
If GSF wants to kill all of em, the whole alliance will surely disband, because nearly half of them will be bored to death by doing so.
My guess is that we will continue to see many Interbus COs throughout highsec for a long time (there are plenty in 0.0 and lowsec and it is years since they have been introduced).
But in HS, players will PREFER Interbus offices. So POCOs will be irrelevant outside of a small portion of planets.
For everyone doing PI outside these places - rejoice! Your NPC taxes will be lowered to 40% of the current NPC tax.
P4 goods will drop in value, although this maybe somewhat compensated by goons et al. buying POS guns to fend off siphon units in their former afk-empires. |