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Rek Esket
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2011.11.28 05:23:00 -
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Thanks for listening to feedback and making these things worth using. |
Rek Esket
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2011.11.28 09:46:00 -
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El 1974 wrote:I don't think POCOs are a bad idea as such (at least not in 0.0), but I'm not convinced it will suit lowsec in its current form. Rushing this feature into the live game is bad, while they could choose for a much more gradual approach (test it in 0.0). Anyway, too late to do anything about it now. We will see in a few days how it works out.
They could simply change it so players couldn't claim low sec away from Interbus, but what would that do? They've already made it clear that taxable PI is a direction that they want to go, so the only thing removing POCOs from low sec achieves is limits the options of players to control their system and monetize it.
These things have entirely predictable reinforcement timers, so I don't think you'll see them blown up as often as you suspect. Nothing brings the wolves out to feed like a pending reinforcement timer. |
Rek Esket
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2011.12.01 18:47:00 -
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gargars wrote:So you now say this was deliberate, yet the insane tax increase was never mentioned to us in advance? Not in the blog certainly and not even in the patch notes. Both state:
"All high security Customs Offices are transferred to CONCORD who will charge doubled import and export taxes"
Where did you tell us in advance that by 'doubled' you mean 'multiplied by 100'?
Nowhere. And why not?
Hoping it would slide under the radar somehow with people giddy over the true good changes in the expansion? I think this is going to go very badly for you. Cool new things people get used to fast, fail things like this that effect people's 'wallet' directly tend to not fade away.
They did tell us about it, that wiki article he linked was updated at least a week before the expansion went live. It is hardly CCP's fault that you couldn't understand the implications. |
Rek Esket
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2011.12.01 19:04:00 -
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ZaBob wrote:You CERTAINLY did not communicate this factor up front.
The second greatest thing about Wiki articles is that they have a history. |
Rek Esket
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2011.12.01 19:48:00 -
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Nekopyat wrote:Which conflicts horribly with the original stated idea that PI was supposed to be a low barrier thing that any new player can jump into and make a profit...
Now, unless you have a gang of players in low/null, it is a waste of ISK.
We have two mutually exclusive elements here....
The tax is your only tangible expense for extraction/production once the colony is set up, so as long as you're selling for more than the tax the only thing you're potentially 'wasting' is your time. |
Rek Esket
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2011.12.01 19:56:00 -
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Long John Silver wrote:One day, CCP will wake up to the fact that the bulk of their income comes from the relatively silent majority of players who are engaged in 'small enterprises', and start throwing us some fish too.
What do you think the whole PI system is?
It has always been, and continues to be, a great way to make money for 'small enterprise' people. |
Rek Esket
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2011.12.01 20:11:00 -
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Long John Silver wrote:Rek Esket wrote:Long John Silver wrote:One day, CCP will wake up to the fact that the bulk of their income comes from the relatively silent majority of players who are engaged in 'small enterprises', and start throwing us some fish too. What do you think the whole PI system is? It has always been, and continues to be, a great way to make money for 'small enterprise' people. Yes, it WAS. And yes, we'll still be able to make a bit of isk out of it, but not as much as you guys now. Cos now it's gonna be yet another isk making machine for null alliances like you Goonies who are the only ones who will be able to make POCO work profitably: ie: undercutting everyone else.
It's hardly worth the time and effort to produce in nullsec and export to Jita, which by itself has its own isk investment, if I'm just going to price under your production cost.
I'll personally stick to high volume markets and just match your prices. |
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