Apollo Amdonen
Holy Amarrian Order of Clarity
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Posted - 2015.03.27 16:50:44 -
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Here are an issue that needs clarifying. In dev blog it is mentioned that POCO are GÇ£glorified storage containersGÇ¥ well they are far from that. They are tax collection tools, with the ability to move stuff in and out of planet and they do have some storage capability. However they are not very good as they are, they do their job but they could do it so much better. Anyhow they are awesome conflict drivers as they are now. One ball / planet and possession of that ball makes profit possible.
The single tax based on standings is very limiting. Lets say you want to give a folks low tax percentage that is currently tied to +10 standing, then again you don't want to give them blue standing for you corp otherwise. So tax should not be only a standing issue, there should be also other ways to set tax rates for alliances, corps or even down to individual pilots. There should also be ability to have a different tax for taking stuff out from the plant to that of putting goods back in and ability to set the tax based on the tier of PI.
Ex. lets say that PI tax has been set to 5%. That could be ok for someone who is doing Tier 1 or Tier 2 production on single planet and selling those as they are. 5% tax could be quite acceptable. But if you want to do tier 3 or tier 4 production the 5% tax becomes unbearable. If you make Tier one on your main harvesting planets, take that out, and have factory planets to produce those to Tier 3 and finally have hi-tech factory planet for tier 4 stuff you are looking a totally different gross tax percentage. T1 up 5%, TI down to first factory planet another 5% take stuff up again 5% stuff it to high tech planet and take up again another 10%. Even if you just would do from T1 to T4 in single planet that TAX rate would just be outrageous with 5% tax. So in economic matter more simple is not always better.
Other way would be ability to get some tax kickbacks etc. for producing higher tier stuff, but that system could be more complicated and maybe open for exploits.
Good, clear but powerful interface would be needed for setting the tax rates.
Also currently you don't know what pocos tax rate you are adjusting if you are it is done from out of system.
What is really the view on POCOs? Dev blog does not say much about them.
Apollo
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