Hello friends,
As you are probably aware, with the recent changes to structures released by CCP, it has become impractical for a small to mid sized group such as ours to anymore run a structure in high sec.
To keep a market online, it would now require us to defend it once every 24 to 48 hours, and due to the cost and effort that goes into organising a defence against a large entity such as Pandemic Horde, we cannot anymore reasonably manage this.
We were looking at using the 15 minute fitting invulnerability and GTFO module to give us an opportunity to implement a new strategy, which could have allowed us to continue to anchor structures and offer us a good opportunity of winning a couple of the defensive timers meaning we could remain viable, but CCP has also now decided to scrap both of these proposals.
Unfortunately there are now no gaps for a smaller sized entity to exist in the high sec market ecosystem, which in my opinion is a shame as there is a lot of possible content to be created by giving smaller entities some tools to fight back against the larger alliances in high sec.
CCP has stated that they are open to ideas regarding the balance in high sec, and so hopefully this situation may once again change in the future, and If so, then Planet V Trade will once again return to provide a neutral free trade option to the traders of New Eden.