Oh oh look!
Another FU to alpha isk generation! I mean at this point what is next, remove battleship skills? Go back to mono racial alphas? Remove all T2 weapons cause obviously belt ratting is too easy for bots right?
Damn CCP you used to have the right to say HTFU, now you are really taking it deep from the canine consumers.
Yep. It seems soâŚ
If they wonât thrash lowsec and WHs next iâd be suprised.
We need NPC docking and storage taxes
I wish the result of this would be lots of little markets everywhere with people using the markets that they have the best standing for, but I doubt it will ever be the case.
Yeah, I donât see that happening. Given the ease of transportation, a megahub is a natural development.
But hey, maybe in this new CHAOS ERA the Triglavian invasion will result in the creation of some more lowsec breaking up the main mass of contiguous highsec (after the additional tax funding proves inadequate to mount a full defense, of course).
True if the 4 main high sec areas have at least 1 low sec between them a lot of players would refuse to cross the low sec and find a new trade hub instead.
It wouldnât even take all that much. Break the HS/HS connections by making most of Sinq Liaison lowsec, as well as Niarja and a few more systems in Metropolis.
Donât get me wrong, Iâd love to have lowsec separating the nations, and even more Iâd adore a system allowing for further destabilizing space and widening the lowsec gulfs through new FW mechanics and frontline mechanics, etc etcâŚ
⌠but Iâm not entirely sure itâd have any real effect. If youâre competent enough to use the markets properly as is, youâve got enough JF, DST and BR capabilities across your accounts that itâll matter sod all for those of us who know what weâre doing⌠and the ones that donât are dying in droves to code, miniluv, PIRAT, etc etc anyway.
It might slightly reinvigorate Rens, Hek and Dodixie as clever people start profiting from the smaller supply lines of region/nation specific material availability and price differences, but Iâm not sure enough people would be affected that itâd really make that much difference.
I love the idea and want to see it for so many reasons, itâs just⌠I just have my doubts itâll really affect anyone who matters.
Edit: It is also something thatâd have to be watched carefully, because that kind of thing could potentially depopulate some areas as highsec bears moves to Caldari space and stays there permanently. I want to see it, but I think we need a lot more data on such a venture.
I thought about this, but is that the majority of customers? Because if itâs not, and the majority of people in high-sec wonât be moving things via JF and BR⌠the sellers will go where the buyers are, in time. And I think, with a bit of incentivization, the system can be pushed a bit more firmly in that directionâespecially if the null empires are encouraged to help spread things out.
Fairânuff. Geopo⌠errr⌠is it still âgeoâ politics in a star cluster? Whatever, stellarpolitics will have its say though, and when you look at the map youâll find that the reason Jita and Amarr are the main tradehubs doesnât stop being a reason if you introduce lowsec separations. You might be right, but I suspect it also has the potential to just worsen the disparity between nations in terms of capsuleer trade.
⌠or not. Frankly impossible to tell at this point. Sounds like itâd be an amazing experience figuring it out though. Iâm all for it.
Iâve been using âcosmopoliticalâ.
And no, the underlying reasons donât go away completely. But those underlying reasons can be disrupted. Right now, the ISK generation in HS has mirrored where the trade hubs are. If CCP takes steps to blow up Jita and encourage a decentralized model, the HS activity will spread out, too.
So, your idea to improve the game is to make it more expensive for people to trade everything, more expensive for alphas/newbies to get started, and likely driving all player-owned markets with the exception of the big cartels out of business. Your definition of âimprovementâ needs a little work, methinks.
Just to toss out an idea, what about a Triglavian buffer instead of a lowsec one?
Do it but rework asset safety. Make it an expensive fee to retrieve.
Any kind of space that means thereâs purely HS connections would be an improvement.
when will changes take effect, they havenât put this into Updates timeline yet?
There is a purge coming folksâŚ
CCP is going to burn most of the NPC markets and let players to fight over the markets. This will create hyper competition which will drop the prices. The taxes are there to act as a brake/relief if they got the maths wrong.
Turning HS into a safe version of NS is CCPâs last card to play and itâs a good one. Coming this fall/winter(?).
Taxation is theft. Is the goal now to hinder more Market PVP? Seems like youâre trying to bottle-neck this game into just blob warfare and nothing else. Think you guys need to start working on a HOMEWORLD clone or something and stop trying to turn EvE into a blob simulator.
Taxation is the price of living in a societyâŚdonât like that then head somewhere else and live free.