Hi all,

I've been running a big (high sec) PI operation for a year now.

I'm using all 9 toons (3 accounts) managing 46 planets to manufacture mainly robotics and some other stuff

Yesterday I paid over 6 mil ISK for something that used to cost me around 500k ???
WTH were you thinking CCP?

I made over 1,5 bil per a month and I'm not going to spent 500 mil of that every month on stupid tax
I'm really considering giving up on PI =(

This is plain ****

Was going to keep Eve subbed while I played another mmo, but with the changes to PI, I won't be.

Thanks CCP for making this decision easier and saving me $45 a month.

Bald move CCP.
This is gonna have a bad effect in eve guaranteed. specially in regions where these planet stuff aint that good or worth to buy custom office. I cant blaim anyone not wanting to buy it....its a huge investment that will only return the investment 2 years down the line..
bad bad move

in-+fla-+tion [in-fley-shuhn] noun
1. Economics . a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency ( opposed to deflation).

Derp. No, it's not inflation. It's price increases. Hey are you American by any chance?

I know its going to be painful to people who have gotten used to a certain level of risk-free profit but really this is exactly the kind of thing Eve Online needs to become dynamic again. Risk/reward for outfits willing to take the step of moving their operations to lowsec.

For the record its highly likely my corporation will be operating zero % (or extremely low rate) customs offices in lowsec (for everyone friends, neutrals, enemies) to represent our roleplay ideology as free trade anarchists.

We love the idea of encouraging settlement in lowsec and are happy for any small outfits / individuals making use of the facilties for free (tiny tax rates)

Having the hisec tax set high gives us a better chance to persuade people to make the jump.
Hence this is a good change.

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.

I'm just glad I went and brought a shed load of P4 products the second CCP released information about POCO's.

Checking the prices at Jita just before DT and I have already doubled my isk :)
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...Please take off the blinkers and realise this is a multiplayer game and the game dynamics go further than your own narrow self interest...

you are my hero .... not

Excuse me.
Take a breath and consider.

I've told you in the post above that my corp intends to put up these offices for low or non existant tax rates. We want to do that because we want to attract trade to lowsec. We're not asking you (or other loners) to put up offices and take responsibility for protecting them.

This change is CCP giving us (in star fraction) a tool to encourage activity in lowsec systems where we operate. Please take off the blinkers and realise this is a multiplayer game and the game dynamics go further than your own narrow self interest Ingvar Angst.

(and in future address me with a civil tongue when I post respectfully on an issue like this)

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.

you are my hero .... not

Planets and POCOs need to be very economically important to Eve players for people to fight over them... in DUST 514. These tax changes are way overdue and will be a good thing for the game long-term.

Taxes were always there, now people actually notice them. Adjust your spreadsheets.

Would you say that billions of ISK sitting in people's bank accounts doing nothing is part of the economy? Or do rising prices cause people to spend more thus expanding the money supply? Oh dear oh dear. I DO understand the situation very well. Money idling in someone's wallet is not part of the economy, just like money in unsubbed accounts is not part of the economy. But when people have an excuse to shove more ISK into the system, you will see fireworks. And yes it is inflation.

Planets and POCOs need to be very economically important to Eve players for people to fight over them... in DUST 514. These tax changes are way overdue and will be a good thing for the game long-term.

Taxes were always there, now people actually notice them. Adjust your spreadsheets.

+1 CCP to the taxes and whole new approach. Plus love the tears. Build your own stuff if you don't like the taxes.

Please, close your mouth... you're leaking stupid on the carpet.