We actually proposed some ideas to CCP that they asked for .. well about 9 years ago ... here - some of those ideas are a bit out-dated now but does amuse me after so long, good intentions aside, the general plan seems to be remove it all together.

Does 'giving license to X-Sence' mean that drugs BPCs and drugs itself will be available in that corporation LP store too?
If it does not then i don't see any harm to drug manufacturers actually. This change can only make demand bigger thus increasing prices and profits for manufacturers.

... or i'm missing something here?

Good change, if only for finally being able to contract ships with them in.

Any changes planed to synth boosters then? As there will be very little point in using them after this.

Does 'giving license to X-Sence' mean that drugs BPCs and drugs itself will be available in that corporation LP store too?
If it does not then i don't see any harm to drug manufacturers actually. This change can only make demand bigger thus increasing prices and profits for manufacturers.

... or i'm missing something here?

As far as I'm aware, the only change is that drugs will no longer be illegal.

That's it. Manufacturing remains limited to low and below (Hence the license bit in the lore. As you're not part of the one corp that has a license to make them in high, you're not allowed to)

I hope that is the case. I understand that the X-Sense license may be part of a lore tie-in, or even a larger plot (e.g., maybe the new Serpentis cap fleet will knock over an X-Sense station and spur a Jove Directorate response), I just work with words for a living and the failure to phrase it as "X-Sense was granted a license to produce for non-capsuleer markets" just sends alarm bells off in my head. Especially since I can't verify anything myself on Sisi.

This is a niche industry and people are bound to be very protective of their operations. I probably seem whiny and paranoid, but I left a decent alliance on my main to launch this little business again and suddenly there's a sea change happening in 3 weeks.

The silly expensive skills have no bearing on the legality of boosters, so why would they change?

That's it.

This is incredibly disappointing. I've really enjoyed the face to face interaction of my trade and flying around through dangerous space with hundreds of millions to a few billion isk worth of drugs in my hull. It was actual smuggling and drug dealing. The only real issue, in my opinion, being the inconvenience of contracts. People learned to trust the Es and Whizz name because we earned that trust over years of successful dealing.

When our CEO offered constructive input to the CSM for other options on dealing with this, we were ignored. We have competition, we aren't the only booster dealers in the game, and with our considerable experience, one would think our input would be seen as valuable. It's a real shame.



The only thing that's been done is an entire profession will be removed from the game. A corner of the sandbox will be gone. It's like removing rats from anoms, banning scams, or removing industrial ships. (Yes, I realize these are possibly extreme examples.)

Instead of making smuggling more interesting, CCP is just nuking it. It's not even the high sec smuggling that is going away. I seldom went through high sec. We smuggle past gate camps, roaming gangs, and trap orders. Now boosters will just be bought in trade hubs and moved via normal alliance/corp or third party courier services; just like the rest of the market items.

I do not like this change, and I do not like that the people most intimately involved in the profession were ignored while making this decision.

The only thing that's been done is an entire profession will be removed from the game. A corner of the sandbox will be gone. It's like removing rats from anoms, banning scams, or removing industrial ships. (Yes, I realize these are possibly extreme examples.)

That's a common thing in recent CCP changes. They remove feature after feature, giving nothing instead. Or even worse, they deliver crap like daily quests. Remember they removed jump clone installation restriction? No one even asked for it.

When CCP Seagull was in charge, she said that enablers are very needed for EVE, yet they are being treated, and I quote, "like sh*t". She promised to change that and give them more love. But now CCP Fozzie is leading the way and here we go - another bunch of players are claimed unnecessary.

That being said, I support legalization. Boosters already have their built-in drawbacks and with that legality issues they are just simply ignored by most players. But give us something instead! I mean, EVE is a huge universe. Yet, logistics give so little content (other than tedium).

That's a common thing in recent CCP changes. They remove feature after feature, giving nothing instead. Or even worse, they deliver crap like daily quests. Remember they removed jump clone installation restriction? No one even asked for it.

When CCP Seagull was in charge, she said that enablers are very needed for EVE, yet they are being treated, and I quote, "like sh*t". She promised to change that and give them more love. But now CCP Fozzie is leading the way and here we go - another bunch of players are claimed unnecessary.

That being said, I support legalization. Boosters already have their built-in drawbacks and with that legality issues they are just simply ignored by most players. But give us something instead! I mean, EVE is a huge universe. Yet, logistics give so little content (other than tedium).

What's the point of sperging a laundry list of things you disagree with if you're only going to agree with the OP? shoo go away