Thinking about rejoining the game soon and just wanted get up to speed on some things .
I see The Initiative are hitting Poco in high sec and have taken out Black Flag structures and towers.
Is this a planned take over of Poco or just an attack on omega and friends, there doesn’t seem to be much resistance to these attacks.
Why does that surprise you? The Omega & Friends POCO Cartel was simply untouchable because whoever dared to wardec them instantly got steamrolled by Blackflag… The very moment a bigger fish is in the water, all that crumbles. I don’t know anything about INITs motives or if that is a longer campaign, problem is that the Cartel will instantly re-establish their POCOs as soon as the INIT pressure is gone. All goes back to the insanely stupid highsec war declaration mechanics.
Is it true that 
left?
Well, the Init CSM member was proud to defend and uphold the Siege Green Change that eliminated hull timers on Medium Structures because they wanted more structure bashing content and less bored line members. Going from 2 timers to 1. But I guess the multi-day wait for 1 timer was too boring for the line members, and they’re too blue to find things to shoot out in nullsec.
Edit: and let’s not forget that this change was going to be slam dunk for nullsec engagement that CCP was going to show the numbers off in a retrospective segment on their Twitch stream but at the very last minute it was canceled with no reason given.
This change was the final straw for me, and I am highly amused that they cancelled this discussion on Twitch, because it would have shown what a stupid change it was. More worrying was the CCP developer that completely igmored all the people saying it was a stupid decision.
As for these POCO’s I hope INIT go for it, because they do have pretty good all TZ coverage, it will certainly shake things up a lot.
Me likes this a lot…
Their holding corp is Holy Gallente Empire for the new poco
Well they could lose and they probably would have. Better to not come at all, you can always make an excuse about most members having a day off, being drunk or whatever.
By the way, passing around Amarr, lowsec, highsec, there’s pocos at 15%-20% ahahah it amuzed me, made me wanna rage bash a few even tough I am not doing any PI at all
Maybe we need a corp to bash high sec Poco that go above 15% .in high sec
Unless they buy a Poco permit 
You know I’m down to those things
What do you think?
The INIT POCO war did not age well.
Easy to destroy them, INIT will need to become a highsec alliance to keep them. That is all I will say.
Why was it Frat that destroyed their pocos? Are they under contract with Black flag, or are the nullsec corps just trying to one-up each other?
Why was it a specific corp in frat indeed :). In any event, the Pocos are back where they belong.
It took INIT a few weeks to get 100 pocos. It took BF a few days to get them back. 
BF are clearly OP
I think to break the Poco empire requires a different approach, both Bjorn and Int have tried the direct assault and failed.
Mined you, people seem to have fun doing it and Bee seemed to have a 2nd attempt planned until , well we know what happened there.
Mind you , just to correct my typo will out deleting my mistake 
Spot the miner
Even if one would raze all the POCOs, it doesn’t matter at all. The moment they leave, the POCO empire is re-installed within a week.
The only solution that would work long-time is to make POCOs fuel-dependent like every other corp-owned-profit-generating structure that is anchored in space. They must be refueled every some weeks, just very little amounts, so no big costs apply, but the effort of refueling them again and again could only be undertaken long-term by a local group that actually lives there with active members. Anyone trying to create some “holding corp” with many hundred or a thousand POCOs that are protected by some huge fleet that can travel anywhere if one comes under attack would despair over the insane amount of fuel-runs they had to do every day.
CCP should hire you as lead game designer.