So.

Starbases are either immune to, or have owner-set, taxes, so that's 10% reduced job installation cost right off the bat.

WORKFORCE COSTS, ie job installation costs, are paid at starbases. This is not a "tax", it's the cost of labor, which goes up in busy systems as you'd expect.

TAXES, the additional 1.1x multiplier to your workforce costs, are not paid at starbases.

[quote=Qorinn Eselle]The economic logic behind the installation cost calculation eludes me. Making the installation cost for a manufacturing job correlate directly to the sell price of the completed item in a given region doesn't make much sense.

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Counting facilities at a starbase is somewhat computationally expensive right now, as we don't keep track of which structures are associated with each control tower in the DB. The "obvious solution" (ie what you've described, and what's in the original design) requires us to do some legwork to track that properly, which as I alluded to earlier is not particularly conceptually complex but requires a reasonable amount of work that we may or may not have time to do.

waiiiit you mean theres still humans operating the machinery ? I though that most of the work would be automated. And if I am amarr, can i put slaves in the line ? they dont cost anything !

NPC corp taxes at a POS makes no sense at all. Simply set the tax to the owning corp's tax rate. Or better yet, have specific tax rates that can be set by personnel with the relevant roles.

This will allow manufacturing corps to tax their members at a reasonable rate, or for solo players with lots of alts to simply set it to 0 and maximize their gains.

Not when you mine the Ice yourself ! Kappa

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Keeping this in mind, how about this: Scale costs based on the total number of manufacturing/research POS modules (whichever is appropriate for the type of RAM activity you're doing) owned by your corporation (alliance?) in the system, regardless of what control tower they are at. This is not a perfect approximation, but it gets pretty close, and it should be a lot cheaper to calculate, if I'm understanding the way Eve works internally. You don't have to do it constantly, either, if it's too expensive; the calculations could occur at downtime or even less frequently. You can handwave the delay by saying "it takes time for people to immigrate to the control tower and man the facilities" or some such.

calculate once at downtime, use that value for the next day

Edit: or save current number of modules with counter > 1 after incrementing counters, so no need to run the summarizing query every time a job is installed. Would even allow to statically display the current bonus directly in the industry UI (ofc decrement in case a module goes offline).

Pretty much what Eyjog said at Fanfest (watched on stream) was that industry was too prosperous and stable in EVE, so they wanted to shake things up. I **** you not.