So what happens when the last InterBus Customs offices gets destroyed?

There are still lots of InterBus owned customs offices in Low-Sec for you to shoot...

Now see ---THAT IS A GOOD IDEA.

WHY THE HECK DOESN'T A CORP NEED STANDING TO ANCHOR A POCO LIKE A POS??!

That would fit with all the past lore in game and only make sense and REWARD players for grinding standing. REWARD industrialists for their hard work. Small indy corps would have purpose.

But we can't have that can we (null alliances)....err CCP.

New Acronymn: NSASO

NSA Sociopaths online - secretly spying on your game play - to protect your freedom!

Oh here's another wild idea:

Instead of converting all COs to Interbus and allowing them to be taken over:

Convert by Sec status:

Start with 0.5s and see how that goes. If that works out go to 0.6s. Etc...

Probably recommend never doing 0.9s and 1.0s leaving those in CONCORD hands for newbs to continue using without dealing with "POCO Cartels"

Well articulated response. Thank you so much.

This is yet another BOHICA (Bend OVer Here It Comes Again) moment From CCP to the players of EVE.

This will severely damage the ability of single players and their alts to make ISK in the game by Running PI planets.

I can see one or two big corps, like the Merc corps, sweeping through vast areas of Empire, killing and replacing the POCOS, then taxing the single players out of existence. A 1-person corporation will have ZERO chance of declaring war on one of the bigger corps and taking down or taking back all the POCOs.

This move by CCP effectively Kills one aspect of the snigle player game in EVE. This is moving the game towards big corporations and more fighting. This is NOT a good thing for the single players and small corporations who depend upon PI as a primary source of income.

It is a crying shame that CCP cares so little for the players who truly enjoy ALL aspects of this game other than PvP.

I also have to ask: WHERE IS the CSM? After playing for several years, I am unconvinced that they are effectively representing our opinions. The only other alternative, which is more likely, is that CCP is simply not listening. This seems to be a pattern.

Thanks for NOTHING CCP.

Well, it should be required.

Also, the NPC tax should be converted into a cost of operation for the owner of the POCO.

Instead of PI dude paying X% to NPC AND Y% to the POCO holder, the POCO holder should
pay the NPC cost, and build that into what they in turn charge the PI people to use their
POCO. This way if they set their tax too high and noone uses their POCO's they are on the
hook for the cost, thus preventing(or at least slowing) certain groups from holding HS POCO's
just to set unrealistic taxes with the intent of driving up certain material costs.

You're confusing startup costs with operating costs of which there is none atm for the POCO owner.

No standing required + No operating cost to the POCO owner = Needs fixing

This is the death blow to HS PI. Not impressed.

Also, What is to stop ALL the offices from being blown up on day one and NOT rebuilt, just for kicks?

Do I lose all my stuff stored in an office when it gets blown up? Probably. Sort of defeats the point of storage then.

Waiting to see how this makes sense in the context of the new expansion, I assume there is a point.