Hello people, Team Game of Drones is having a look at the Citadel structures services (reprocessing, clones, market, compression, offices) and we would like to make a few changes that will impact NPC taxes. The goal of such changes is to give more flexibility for Citadel owners to make a profit when charging their services to the public, while making sure they are profitable enough to compete versus NPC station services.

• Contracts: while Contracts will not be available in Citadels for the first release, the transaction's tax and borker's fee will also go up by the same amount than markets as mentioned above.

Please remember those are still work in progress changes (especially the market broker's fee tax amount), so please use constructive feedback in your replies.

If XL citadels are allowed in high sec, this is a good change, as it would open up huge amounts of new gameplay options.

So the general drift is some people will in future have to ask permission from others to be able to play Eve competitively? I'm thinking small groups and solo players who also can't set up a market in a medium citadel. Good luck with that if that is your intention. Or have I missed something?

5m everytime you want to jump clone


This discourages PVP (by adding cost to jump from an implanted lowsec clone to a clean null clone, or increasing the jump cost from a 'staging' system to a 'safer' system), increases the cost of moving cyno alts around (capital movement is already a bit burdensome, ok?), makes market trading more expensive and defeats low scale arbitage trade (hub clones), and I know you want to do away with training clones but it adds an additional cost to use training clones. Bad change. Didn't you just remove clone costs to encourage PVP?

No contracts
What? Why stage somewhere if you can't easily outfit your alliance with ships?

The 5m per jump does seem to be rather high - I'm sure the intention is not to cover the entire Clone Bay cost with merely 5 or so pilots.

Why not make it something like 1m to start with and see how it goes?

Why not, perhaps, introduce something 'more unique' to Citadels that actually encourages their use - like allow the jumping of clones within the same Citadel?

You could even go as far as allowing the actual 'unplugging' of implants without losing them, perhaps even for a more significant cost (perhaps limiting that unplugging to Slots 1-5)?