So you're saying 8 years of operating a hisec POS with 2.5 trillion ISK worth (that's 2500 billion) of BPOs, you're suddenly expecting me to put said 2.5 trillion ISK into a paper space container and not locked down in my hangar?

I like the changes but that part is just flabbergastingly stupid

I would also like to hear how you are going to fix T1 module manufacturing, which has been moribund for years.

You don't still expect new players to jump right into T2 module manufacturing or ship building, do you?

T2 profits will crash with a better interface. Prices might not, depending on the slot fees, but profits will.

But again, that's the main problem: what counts as GÇ£inactiveGÇ¥ or as GÇ£abandonedGÇ¥? Just being offline isn't enough GÇö there are plenty of legitimate reasons for leaving a tower offline.

If there's a wish to remove the grind part on properly abandoned POSes, then the idea of a hacking deployable linked earlier is a far more equitable solution since it only works on towers no-one actually cares about. Either way, removing the waiting period to anything less than the time it takes using a wardec is just a disaster waiting to happen since you have now invalidated a large point of wardecs.

Allow Starbases to be anchored anywhere in high-security space and without standing requirements (minus some protected solar systems, like Jita or new player starting systems of course).

If offline pos spam is a concern, this is an elegant solution.

Because it clearly isn't sufficient right now. Have you ever gone out and looked at the number of offline POS in highsec?

Why can't offline = abandoned?

Why should you be able to lower defensive shields without consequence?

A POS is in space, and if you don't take care of it then it should be at great risk.

Not true. You have already told us that putting it offline is a valid strategy when the POS is not required. It is a valid strategy because it is SAFE to do so in highsec.

Why are you adding cost scaling onto POSes? You already pay for fuel. There is literally zero lore or other fantasized reason to put cost scaling on POSes. I OWN THE POS and I OWN THE ASSEMBLY ARRAY.

Have fuel use scale with active slots.

In my opinion, it is an un-fun mechanic that adds nothing to gameplay. It also hinders players from becoming industrialists.

Plus, a POS will (probably) no longer be essential for industry.

Starbases will have reduced tax cost next to NPC station, and mobile labs / assembly array will have more efficient ME / PE lines.

My chief complaint:

I have about 25,000 blueprints and blueprint copies and more than a half-dozen POSes. The only reason I can deal with such a quagmire is because of stations and containers.

Currently, in order to produce a specific item, all I have to do is go to a certain station, open a certain container, and move some of its contents to the station floor.

Under this new system, judging by the way you phrase it ("like other materials"), I would need to do one of two things:

1. Let all my blueprints pile up in various POS arrays, and thus have to scroll through at least hundreds of items every time I start a job.

2. Store all my blueprints in nice organized containers as I do now, and thus every time I start a job be forced to go to every one of my POSes, individually open every single POS array I'm using, scroll to the right container, and remove a simple handful of blueprints each time.

#2 would be a lot more clicks, a lot of downtime as I warp between POSes, and in general a lot of annoyance. Even if the S&I interface is revamped to where I don't need to click the exact same 8 spots on my screen 10 times for every character I own, the amount of time wasted by clunky game mechanics would still increase significantly.

Long story short, when you work on your filtering mechanisms, please keep in mind that many of us manage more than a single POS and definitely more than just a handful of arrays, cycle through several dozen blueprint types rather than only producing Megathrons, and in general go to extremes that you, Developers, may not expect.

yeah, everyone knows venezuela has been using the metric system for ninety-nine years. jeez, read a book, victoria

Since we're focusing on risk vs reward I'm assuming wormhole industry is going to be absolutely fantastic.

Looking forward to the figures dev blog.

The only way they will know is when they suddenly don't get perfect refine, and they lose half their mission loot, and they find out that building a Nestor from a BPC they ground LP for just shot up 200 M in cost, and that the cost of their T1 Raven Navy Issue just shot up 10 or 14% in price to buy, plus using an NPC station to build their ammo just went up a 1000 fold in cost, and they have to buy from the market instead.