Deadwood. All DEVs should be forced too watch Deadwood 10 Times. And apparantly some a few times more. Then they they would finally understand how humans act. From the Lawless start (where you can make it ritch) to some kind of civilized situation (where gains are less). This is what people do and want in reallife. And CCP has the bad habit of not respecting this. Their latest decission tries to go into the trend. Which government privatizes its custom services and let companies determine tax-rates in a monopoly situation (since there is only 1 per planet)?? Even if they get their cut, the resulting decreased trade and hence economic dowfall and general unhappiness of the populaiton would make them vulnerable. It's just not realistic.

How long would it take for some Nullsec Alliance to realize there is free money there. Just shoot everything up, put your own stuff in place and see the money come. After all, high-seccers are the civilized part of space. They don't fight as good nor do they want too. Cilivized people have the law and the army for that. So the only serious counter-reaction would be from another serious Null-sec Alliance. And so War comes to HighSec. Which idiot government allows that??

Perhaps DEV salaries should be linked to the tax income of planets, then they would think twice about doing stupid stuff

How is it possible to pay lower taxes when the original taxes are still being collected on top of whatever tax rate the POCO owner institutes?

Well, we'll see. You don't know what's going to happen either.

I've only been around less than a month, am I a bittervet already? Isn't it important to know what is going on in the game? Did you know that newbie doesn't equal uninformed?

Well, we'll see. You don't know what's going to happen either.

There have never been POCOs in high-sec before. There is no past behavior to judge from. But, understand the various incentives is another thing.

Are the people who get POCOs going to be griefers who just want to collect hi-sec tears by shutting us off, or do they have a profit motive to have good ferried through their POCO?

Once someone owns it I'll feel better.

I don't have the skills to fight yet,
don't know how to fit a ship yet,
even if I did, wouldn't have the money
or skills

Or maybe I should stick to what I'm good at, non-combative mining, industrial production, moving goods around, and other hi-sec pursuits like PI.

I actually AM new, my plan is to train a money-maker and then get a second character to do all the combat stuff without ruining my original character's money making abilities. You know, 'cuz some days, you do feel like blowing stuff up. 6 high-sec PI planets is enough to pay for a plex per character if you do it right..

I only run missions to get my standings up. And for the challenge. But that's more because I'm terrible at fighting.

I believe I may end up skilling up to get a Blockade Runner or whatever it is. That sounds like fun. Well, not the skill part, the running blockades part.

I actually AM new, my plan is to train a money-maker and then get a second character to do all the combat stuff without ruining my original character's money making abilities. You know, 'cuz some days, you do feel like blowing stuff up. 6 high-sec PI planets is enough to pay for a plex per character if you do it right.

I'm not limiting myself so much as simply running with a particular corp right now, and doing the sort of money-making type things to get good at that before extending into the next branch of operations. EVE is a big game.

No, this about being able to continue playing even though I have no more real life money to throw at a game. So we can appreciate the content that an additional player can bring or we can be all high and mighty about paying for subscriptions that don't need to be paid for. I suppose that choice is yours.

Comments like this, by anyone else but a CSM member, would get the poster banned.

Then don't sell PLEX in game for ISK. Solved.

Since they do, I'm going to get me one. :D

Dang, I'm such a greedy bastard.

I could do it through a number of ways but I'm doing it by providing a product that people want to buy for ISK.

I could do it by pirating, or begging, or ripping people off in any number of legal game ways.

Why is it so bad to you?

Sounds like he's expressing a wish to kill more than half (some estimate) of the player base of EVE.

By the way, isn't there a term for this kind of behaviour? It's the tip of my tongueGǪ some word that appears often when Dinsdale is around. Hmm.

So, while I'm not a forum mod, I bet it's in the clear.

The thing that makes high sec what it is, is CONCORD. That doesn't have to change. It can still be that and have a great many things that are shaped by players. All types of game-play can and should be PVP. The things that high seccers do should change things in their systems. Mining should deplete resources, Mission running should change relationships with factions, changing standings with factions should change options available. Etc...

Perhaps the corporation with the highest standings at a station would have special access to certain station amenities. They get the cream of the crop missions, locations of the newest belts etc... There should be reasons to compete for resources. and being high sec, and eve there should be options of competing for who can rat/mine/mission run the best, or, just wardec them and have at it. The main point is that everything you do should change New Eden, whether small or large doesn't matter as much as that it does.

Everything in eve should be cooperation or competition. Or better yet, both.

So since 99% of players are high-sec players, do we really want to mess around with it?

I can imagine a world where null-sec is the place to be, but it really isn't for the casual player or the new player who can't really survive the rats yet.

All I need to go to lo-sec is a nice frigate, but I'd rather not lose my pod, or I would have gone already..