"These two changes (new skill and adjusted tax base values) mean that the NPC portion of the tax is going to be less than it is right now."

"These two changes (new skill and adjusted tax base values) mean that the NPC portion of the tax is going to be less than it is right now."

"The NPC tax will continue for hi sec POCOs (as we want low sec POCOs to still be competitive). The tax rate stays the same, at 10% for export and 5% for import. This is then in addition to whatever tax the player owner sets."

I'm looking forward to that adjustment and the new skill, but seriously, I expect to just get locked out of dropping anything at all. I believe that was listed as a feature.

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.

I for one am excited about EVE Online having other games to compete with it - then all these whiny fucktards will finally have some place else to go!

So you're planning to leave us?

I also don't know if my co-workers will be there when I get to my job in the morning, but based on past behaviour and a general understanding of the various incentives involved I can make a good guess.

That said, I'll take your response over "people in npc corp chat said goons have infiltrated CCP and are going to lock out all new players from hisec pocos so the maritanini can buy a Ferrari for his dog".

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

How can it be that, 70 million SP and 5 years later, i am still running missions and mining?

CCP is going nothing to provid anything worth his time, his skill, his money, and suit to his prefered gameplay.

Wormholes are too dangerous and belong only to a special chaste of players.

I for one am excited about EVE Online having other games to compete with it - then all these whiny fucktards will finally have some place else to go!

As a matter of fact, I actually do, since I've made our plans for them. Provided we are able to take and hold the POCOs we want, we'll set a 5% tax rate for blues and neutrals, and a 50-100% tax rate for reds.

And done.

You train your skills up and you'll pay a total of 10% in taxes, which if I'm not mistaken is actually less than you do now.

Why?

While the rage and tears that we'll have the opportunity to hold the POCOs at all is valuable to us, the income stream from collecting the taxes is even more valuable, and we'd hate to drive people away.


Of course if someone else is able to take them from us, you can't necessarily count on them being so benevolent.

EVE has always in one way or another had games to compete with it.

There are games right now that offer the things these"tards" say they want, but they won't go play them, they'd rather sit and be miserable in EVE on the off chance CCP "comes to it's senses" and destroys the winning formula that has allowed it to survive for 10 years....

Nope, Tards gonna Tard, that means that they will try SC after loudly announcing on this forum that they are leaving, find that it doesn't have the same things that EVE has (because the SC DEVs are TELLING people upfront what the game will be like, which is falling on deaf ears), and in a stunning reversal, return to playing EVE Online...but their return will be a whole order of magnitude quieter than their departure.

This is the funniest post today when the subject is about you misunderstanding the POCO issue lol.

Welcome to yet another subject where "null sec people" end up schooling :high sec people" on high sec mechanics. like I've said before, High Sec doesn't teach players anything, not like low, null and wormhole space does.

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.

As a matter of fact, I actually do, since I've made our plans for them. Provided we are able to take and hold the POCOs we want, we'll set a 5% tax rate for blues and neutrals, and a 50-100% tax rate for reds.

And done.

You train your skills up and you'll pay a total of 10% in taxes, which if I'm not mistaken is actually less than you do now.

Why?

While the rage and tears that we'll have the opportunity to hold the POCOs at all is valuable to us, the income stream from collecting the taxes is even more valuable, and we'd hate to drive people away.


Of course if someone else is able to take them from us, you can't necessarily count on them being so benevolent.

There may not have been POCOs in highsec before, but they've been in every other area of space for quite a while. We can anticipate what difference they're going to make by looking at what happened when they were introduced to those other areas.

The sheer number of available planets in highsec will make it nigh on impossible for any one group to control and hold on to more than a figurative handful of them, and most of those will be close to the main trade hubs and routes. I would say that as long as you're more than 5 or 6 jumps away from the hubs and the chokepoints, it'll be business as usual with 99% of the customs offices still being in NPC hands.

So I should fly out to losec and get pod-killed by a pirate because I won't pay million ISK bounties instead... because I don't have the skills to fight yet, don't know how to fit a ship yet, and even if I did, wouldn't have the money or skills to fit a ship properly for PVP?

I'm just trying to figure out what I'm supposed to do here.

I can't survive in a WH because sleepers would kill me.

I can go to null sec if I become a member of an alliance but I can't do anything alone yet so I don't really have a business plan yet, and any plan I did have would have better skilled pilots doing it better than me and I'd also have to travel a longer way to get to a trade hub.

Also they're just as likely to think I'm a spy as new.

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.

And I guess I just won't 'learn' so much about what null people want because until now, they've been in null.

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.

'Cause we all know that's how it would go down. I mean really, who wouldn't bite that hook? You'll be where? You'll be flying ****-for-tanks mining ships? You're gonna pay me to show up? Well yeah, I think I'll be right on over!

Now surely some apologist will be along in a moment crowing "ruined reputations" and how "no one would hire such a merc corp after a few kills." Sure buddy. You go ahead and name a few corps that are still around with such sullied names. Painted so red that they just can't get hired anymore. I'm positive that there's just scads of them lurking in the shadows, hiding in the corners from their prior deeds...

Also, don't ask me how they got tires on a Tornado. Or how they peeled out in space. I'm sure it'll be in a future expansion.

Couple of things:
1) What's the magical number of SP to be able to fight? Can you tell me?
2) What's the magical number of ISK to be able to fight? Can you tell me?
3) If you played EVE Online instead of EVE Singleplayer, you could ask other players how to fit your ships.



Everyone everywhere should just stick to the easy things that they're good at instead of stepping out of the comfort zones and getting better at other, different things. Confirming that the solution to the problem of being bored with what you do is to just keep doing it!

Oh, you think I'm bored with those things? Tragic to have such a misunderstanding of what was being said.

I'm assuming that everyone wants me to leave hisec and go do something else for my own good, and commenting on why I shouldn't do that.

Basically, the rats will kill me. And if they don't, the players will.

I prefer economic competition to combat. Combat sort of... bores me. The hi-sec stuff is very enjoyable.

Then I read a post or two about how excited someone else is to fight and loot and win and all that and I get itchy to get out there and shoot something.

So I know I'll try it someday, and hopefully it'll be a nice break from brainburning economics.