ask 'em on twitter?

e: they actually talk about stats on twitter, or they used to? is that still a thing ccp does?

How about one of your devs run a SQL command and give us a snapshot of what the High Sec Custom Offices overall taxes were for the month of Sept, so the community understands the size of the pie being discussed.

I imagine you have already run that command several times already, given you have been fooling with the tax rates and you would not mess with them without knowing the hard numbers behind it.

So why can't you simply publicize the numbers?

Because their ruse will be ruffled.

CCP stopped giving us meaningful numbers, now we are like mushrooms, covered in manure and left to grow in the dark.

I can assure you of one thing. It is over 9000.

ask 'em on twitter?

e: they actually talk about stats on twitter, or they used to? is that still a thing ccp does?

ask 'em on twitter?

e: they actually talk about stats on twitter, or they used to? is that still a thing ccp does?

Came for a Dinsdale Piranha post

Left disappointed when RMT/Goons were not mentioned

I dunno, maybe it's me, but when I read that post I kept getting the feeling that he was barely restraining himself from typing something snide about CCP, null sec, goons or null sec (not a typo there, Dinsdale hates null sec twho times).

I just imagine a "not" conspiracy/hate filled post was hard for him to crank out. Somehow, his sig ("Most people viewed Orwell's writings as a warning. The harper regime and the goons treat them as a guidebook.") tells me everything i need to know about the guy behind the keyboard.

The conspiracy post is pending; either they give him numbers for him to fit his conspiracy to, or the conspiracy becomes not giving him the numbers.

1 is a hard number. It's also got sharp pointy edges.


Anyway, Eve needs some Sharknado's.

Because while a small percent of the player bases fuse the forums, and even fewer read Twitter.

I would never give those numbers out tbh. It is open game. Go figure it out its not so hard.

How do you know? I'd like to see the link that states this.

Because while a small percent of the player bases fuse the forums, and even fewer read Twitter.

Malbrick did a lot of leg work, far more than I could.
And his range was very very large, from 100 billion/month to 2 TRILLION/month, in taxes.

It would be very useful, and dead easy for CCP to simply give the community an aggregate value of the taxes for all of high sec.
And as far as you suggesting it is an open game, it is impossible for an individual to nail that number down, especially since one can only estimate how many players utilize a planet, let alone for every planet in high sec.

CCP is the ONLY one who has the current value of the taxes.

Heres a titbit for the 'ohnoes gewns will take everything' crowd

We as an alliance have been concentrating on gathering POCOs in lowsec for the best part of two and a half years, spending massive amounts on gantrys and upgrades, not to mention capital fuel to grind the structures and titan bridges to defend them when they got attacked. Want to know what percentage we managed to get after all that effort and expenditure? Less than 10% and bear in mind this is in lowsec where its way easier to actually project the forces required while still being able to protect them.

Yes Goons are larger than us by an order of magnitude but bear in mind theyre operating in an environment where they cant leverage those numbers anywhere near as well as they can in nullsec. I know goons love to **** with people for lolz and dont really care about money but for the amount of work theyd have to put in in a location they dont normally operate in beyond the gank squads the return compared to something like ramping up freighter ganking or ice interdicting is miniscule.

Note I'm not saying they wont take any at all, obviously thats a dumb idea, just that people are massively overreacting because of one entity that would have to make the biggest logistical effort in the history of EVE for returns which can be best described as miniscule.

And thats something I just dont see happening.

Malbrick did a lot of leg work, far more than I could.
And his range was very very large, from 100 billion/month to 2 TRILLION/month, in taxes.

It would be very useful, and dead easy for CCP to simply give the community an aggregate value of the taxes for all of high sec.
And as far as you suggesting it is an open game, it is impossible for an individual to nail that number down, especially since one can only estimate how many players utilize a planet, let alone for every planet in high sec.

CCP is the ONLY one who has the current value of the taxes.

You know, a smart person wouldn't be going "Waaagh grr gewns will take ALL highsec planets and leave us with nothing ohhno!"

Said smart person would be thinking "Hmm, what items are bottlenecks for important PI products. Now how many of those planets are out there? Would it be possible to cartel those?"

After that, the smart person would start screwing with the market for the best return on investment when Rubicon drops, and wouldn't be posting conspiracy theories on the forums.

oi! get back to bumping miners

Yes Ma'am sorry ma'am, my thinking muscle keeps flexing and it hurts!

Keep forgetting us gankers are all dimwitted sociopathic thralls of James 315, psychotically getting our jollies by destroying poor innocent miners who just want to be left alone to play the game like they want. It's a sandbox damnit!


I'll go out tonight and gank five Mackinaws in penance.

If it would stop Dinsdales rabidly paranoid posting about how Rubicon is nothing more than "yet another" stab at the heart of High Sec, I'd send CCP a whiole years worth of Rum to post the numbers he wants. Of course any numbers they give out would only serve as confirmation of his biases no matter what they actually prove, so I'll just keep my rum to myself.

Sorry, but a number that may be the 1 trillion ISK / month range, or higher, well, that is not miniscule.
Of course, it could be 500 M/ month. It could be 2 trillion / month.

Now, I am sure the null sec cartels have a decent estimate of the value of the PI before they ramp up their campaign

That's right. Keep shooting the messenger.

I love how the null sec zealots message is "high sec is paranoid, shut up", then when the latest removal of a high sec income source is successful, the message becomes "well, of course it was removed, you deserved to lose it"

That's right. Keep shooting the messenger.

I love how the null sec zealots message is "high sec is paranoid, shut up", then when the latest removal of a high sec income source is successful, the message becomes "well, of course it was removed, you deserved to lose it"