Bullcrap. There's no added risk/reward with these PCOs at all. It's nothing but added expenses. People won't waste their time in lowsec defending these useless structures... if they can't keep one up they'll simply stop wasting their time with PI. It's even more useless in wormhole space... I don't know what the hell Nullabor was thinking even including them in wormholes. All they are are added, useless expenses, wasted isk. With these dumbassed tax rates we'll be setting them to 0% in hole in order to keep from screwing over corp and alliance folks and pretty much shutting the door on any of those mythical ninja-WH-PI people I hear of. Even a 1% tax at the new figures is more than what was being paid prior, so it's not worth having one at all when your own allies are going to be the only ones affected.

This is one change that if it went away wouldn't be missed, aside from the blowhards and griefers that is.

Replacing the customs offices with your own simply incurs a what... 160M or so isk hit right away that will take many months (pre-patch levels) to recoup in savings from a 0% tax rate. You take the blow all at once, then have to look at this damnable object that's nothing more than an isk sucking worthless piece of crap floating in your wormhole. They add nothing to the experience of Eve at all from a wormhole perspective, and denigrate it for the lesser spaces outside wormholes.

I disagree, Jade.

True, PI could have used more player generated conflict but I still think the best approach would have been to make that conflict on the planets instead of coating PI with completely different mechanics and game play. The core PI mechanics still consists of simplistic clicking and moving dots around and does in no way match the engaging game play that was presented at the fan fest prior to PIs introduction.

Further, that CCP has to so strongly manipulate the market to make POCOs a viable game play speak tons about how little POCOs add to the game by themselves. As example, CCP has not needed to increase construction prices of all tier 1 and 2 battlecruisers for people to become interested in buying a tier 3. And synth booster production? Well, that game play element has been completely sacrificed for the sake of POCOs.

While the increased PI costs can mostly be directed to increased prices for the final products, there is no way people will buy these boosters at all now. I find it really hard to support introduction of new game mechanics when they come at the direct cost of others when there are so many other things CCP could have been improving upon.

Finally, the POCO mechanics support the "numbers=win" and "nap feast" game play types that tire many people in zero sec. I am a firm opponent of promoting these game play types any more than necessary.